Project ID: 518 Project name: Fair Tamil Mangoes – Analyze the mango chain to enable the import of Fairtrade mangoes from Tamil Nadu‚ India Coach: Paul van Haperen Commissioner: Resilience Foundation Date: April 2009 Gabriele Cassani Manager Bram Timmerman Secretary Mulatu Wakjira Controller Simon Duesseldorf Team Member Vincenzo Perrini Team Member Dal Prasad Pudasainy Team Member Wageningen UR Resilience Foundation 2 This report (product) is produced by students of Wageningen University
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Retail super-giant Wal-Mart has fought its way to becoming the world’s largest company. Wal-Mart’s legendary supply chain technology has allowed them to break the three-day barrier that some economists in the eighties felt that it was unbreakable. In other words‚ Wal-Mart is often able to replenish items on the Wal-Mart shelf in less than three days – not from the central warehouse to the shelf‚ but from the manufacturer to the shelf. With quick and reliable 2-day turn around‚ Wal-Mart is able to
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struggled and died to secure this fundamental freedom. Yet we have a system where the winner can lose (qtd. in “Pros and Cons of the Electoral College System” 25). This specific scenario has occurred multiple times in the most significant election in the United States. In fact‚ in the history of presidential elections‚ the loser of the popular vote has won
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Supply chain behaviour A fundamental question in supply chain management is: ‘How should supply chains be managed when operations compete in different ways in different markets?’ One answer‚ proposed by Professor Marshall Fisher of Wharton Business School‚ is to organize the supply chains serving those individual markets in different ways. He points out that many companies have seemingly similar products which‚ in fact‚ compete in different ways. Shoe manufacturers may produce classics which change
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abuses in their supply chains yesterday as a Guardian investigation revealed that 40 Bulgarians found by the authorities to be illegally employed and exploited by a gangmaster in Cornwall were picking and packing vegetables destined for Tesco and Morrisons. The Bulgarians said they were forced to "live like pigs on scraps"‚ scavenging vegetables from the fields when their Latvian gangmaster withheld their pay for 34 days. They were sent to work through a subcontracting chain at Southern England
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Case studies Abstract This paper reviews the use of case study research in operations management for theory development and testing. It draws on the literature on case research in a number of disciplines and uses examples drawn from operations management research. It provides guidelines and a roadmap for operations management researchers wishing to design‚ develop and conduct case-based research. Case research in operations management 195 Introduction Case research has consistently been one
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Purchasing and Supply Chain Management The Purchasing Process Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Purchasing and Supply Chain Management‚ 3e Monczka/Trent/Handfield Thomson Learning Copyright 2005 1 Chapter Overview This chapter address the following topics and ideas associated with achieving world class efficiency and effectiveness: Purchasing objectives Purchasing’s responsibilities The purchasing process and role of eprocurement. Types of purchases Improving the purchasing process
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The Triple-A Supply Chain Key ideas from the Harvard Business Review article By Hau L. Lee The Idea in Brief The holy grails of supply chain management are high speed and low cost--or are they? Though necessary‚ they aren’t sufficient to give companies a sustainable competitive advantage over rivals. Consider these disturbing statistics: Though U.S. supply chains became significantly faster and cheaper between 1980 and 2000‚ product markdowns owing to excess inventory jumped from 10% to 30% of total
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Inventory Turns Annual cost of goods sold (company info) average finished goods inventory (15) 5. Percentage of safety stock Average safety stock (16) total inventory (12) 6. Purchase operating expense dollars as a percent of supply chain purchase dollars Purch operating expense dollars (21) supply chain purchase dollars (2) 7. Purchase order cycle time (in days for purchasing department and excludes supplier lead time) Average amount of time (in days) elapsed from point of intention
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Executive Summary In this executive summary‚ i will introduce the ideas and details of Apple Inc’s supply chain in its current state. We will examine Apple’s strategy of being consumer based and evaluate the current state of business and some of the partnerships it has formed to remain one of the dominating forces in this industry. This report will cover a brief overview of the company‚ its current assortment of products it offers‚ future opportunities and threats that Apple may face‚ its current
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