hamburger fast food chain‚ operating in 119 countries. The company began in 1940 and is headquartered in Illinois. As one of the most powerful brands in the world‚ their signature golden arches are a symbol recognized immediately by most. Our group chose to do our report on McDonald’s because it is one of the most well-known corporations worldwide‚ and was listed as number three on Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 List for 2012. This was recently announced at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference
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Marks & Spencer Resources‚ Capabilities & Competitive Advantage Compiled for Paull Robathan. Author: Kerry Sheehan Monday‚ 02 February 2004 1EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the period up until the mid 1990’s M&S had a market leading share of the clothing market. They used their resources and subsequent capabilities to exploit their differences from the competitors and create competitive advantage by: *Empowering suppliers/manufacturers with design responsibility *Closely managing supplier relationships
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SCM – some definitions • Supply chain management (SCM) The coordination of all supply activities of an organization from its suppliers and partners to its customers. • Upstream supply chain Transactions between an organization and its suppliers and intermediaries‚ equivalent to buy-side e-commerce. • Downstream supply chain Transactions between an organization and its customers and intermediaries‚ equivalent to sell-side e-commerce. Members of the supply chain (a) simplified view (b) including
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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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Starbucks Supply chain; Challenges & opportunities Introduction: Starbuck is the largest coffeehouse company in the world‚ with over 1600 stores in 50 countries. The efficiency of the supply chain management is one of the keys of the success of this company‚ yet some issues has been emerging due essentially to a rapid growth during the last years. So what are those issues‚ and what are the alternatives solution and opportunities. Issues: • The supply process is a complicated
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The Benetton supply chain One of the best known examples of how an organization can use its supply chain to achieve a competitive advantage is the Benetton Group. Founded by the Benetton family in the 1960s‚ the company is now one of the largest garment retailers‚ with stores which bear its name located in almost all parts of the world. Part of the reason for its success has been the way it has organized both the supply side and the demand side of its supply chain. Although Benetton does manufacture
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clothing considered as ‘unique’ -that won’t be in the shop for more than 2 or 3 weeks. On short‚ as well the title of this paper states: ‘Responsive‚ High speed‚ Affordable fashion’. Stores are managed as small business‚ vertical communication and supply chain‚ so each manager knows exactly the demand and specific request‚ model and colour. This is a way of increasing efficiency‚ loyalty and customers satisfaction. Unlike the competitors‚ Zara spends a low percent of its sales on advertising‚ but
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Integration Integration of the supply chain management is very important nowadays. There are three parts‚ risk and security management‚ performance measurement and green supply chain. Information technology‚ shared information and logistic are playing important role for integration the supply chain. (Wisner‚ 2009) In 2006‚ Home Depot did not focus their supply chain said Mark Holifield senior vice president of Home Depot. They pointed out that warehouse management was not the top of their improvement
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Zara is the flagship chain store of Inditex Group owned by Spanish tycoon Amancio Ortega. Zara is the most internationalized of Inditex’s chains. The group is headquartered in A Coruna‚ Spain‚ where the first Zara store opened in 1975. As of August 2009‚ there are more than 1‚500 Zara stores around the world. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores‚ compared with a six-month industry average‚ and launches around 10‚000 new designs each year. Zara
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INTM 543 PURCHASING IKEA SUPPLY CHAIN November 2012 1. INTRODUCTION Ikea is a Swedish international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture. It was founded in 1947 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad‚ who currently is one of the richest people in the world. He borrowed some money for his parents and create a small local furniture store‚ 65 years later Ikea is one of the leading home furnishing companies in the world with its vision to ‘’create a better
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