The reading on sustainable supply chain management (Ram Nidumolu‚ C.K. Prahalad‚ and M.R. Rangaswami‚ 2009; B. Ageron‚ A. Gunasekaran‚ A. Spalanzani‚ 2012) shows that the sustainable business development has received a great deal of attention from governments and both profit and non-for-profit organizations to environmental‚ social and corporate responsibility. It is vital for companies to take seriously thinking about manufacturing and service sustainability‚ and underscore the importance of sustainability
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Supply chain and operations management Name: transtechwriters@gmail.com or facebook - transtechwiters Course Professor’s name University name City‚ State Date of submission Executive summary Purpose The purpose of this executive summary is to provide an outlay of the entire paper. This executive summary provides a brief view of all the details which have been highlighted. Methodology The methodology applied for data collection is both primary and secondary methods
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Dell’s Supply Chain Management The term supply chain management (SCM) was initially used in wholesaling and retailing to denote the integration of logistics and physical distribution functions with the goal of reducing delivery lead times. Manufacturers and service providers have used the same term to describe integration and partnership efforts with first- and second- tier suppliers to reduce cost and improve quality and delivery timing. Terms such as integrated purchasing strategy
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: PUSH AND PULL BASED CHAINS INTRODUCTION Fierce competition in today’s global markets‚ the introduction of products with shorter life cycles‚ and the heightened expectations of customers have forced business enterprises to invest in‚ and focus attention on‚ their supply chains. This‚ together with continuing advances in communications and transportation technologies (e.g.‚ mobile communication‚ Internet‚ and overnight delivery)‚ has motivated the continuous evolution of
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Supply Chain Management Mahindra & Mahindra has a separate logistics chain‚ Mahindra Logistics Limited (MLL)‚ for all it subsidiaries among which Auto Industry forms a large part of the supply chain business. It remains an area of considerable focus for Mahindra Logistics because of the challenges faced by auto manufacturers‚ suppliers and distributors. Automotive Logistics With integrated logistics operations across the country the solutions provided by Mahindra can be broadly classified
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1. INTRODUCTION OF POTATO CHIPS: Potato chips also called as potato crisps were invented in the year 1853 by Native American George Crum. The story behind the invention goes like this. George was employed as a chef at an elegant resort in Saratoga Springs‚ New York. One dinner guest felt George’s French fries too thick for his liking and rejected the order. In order to rile the guest Crum decided to make fries too thin and crisp. But seeing the browned‚ paper thin fries the guest
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Variable | Capabilities | Valuable? | Rare? | Difficult to Imitate? | Transferability? | Marketing Strategy | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Supply Chain Management | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Internalizing Sales Force | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Editing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Printing | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Selling | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Question 1 : Apply the VRIO Framework of Harlequin in series romance fiction The primary issue facing Harlequin is
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considering the chain of activities a firm performs to deliver value to its customers. The value chain model divides the generic value-adding activities of an organization into primary and secondary activities. An advantage or disadvantage can occur within any of the five primary or four secondary activities. Together‚ these activities constitute the value chain of any firm. The model can be used to examine the development of competitive advantage. By identifying the potential value to the company
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The Value Chain All of the functions of a company—such as production‚ marketing‚ product development‚ service‚ information systems‚ materials management‚ and human resources—have a role in lowering the cost structure and increasing the perceived value of products through differentiation. As the first step in examining this concept‚ consider the value chain‚ which is illustrated in Figure 3.5.11 The term value chain refers to the idea that a company is a chain of activities that transforms inputs
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Initial idea: Offer affordable sports equipment for children Products: − Used (second-hand) products − Surplus equipment from manufacturers and retailers Current situation (December 2007): − Demand has been growing steadily over the last years − The products are distributed to the U.S. customers through a single (and small) warehouse in St. Louis − The warehouse is leased on a year-to-year basis − The current network design‚ in particular the distribution network and warehouse
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