Chapter 1 Understanding the Supply Chain True/False 1. A supply chain includes only the organizations directly involved in supplying components needed for manufacturing. Answer: False Difficulty: Moderate 2. A supply chain consists of all parties involved‚ directly or indirectly‚ in fulfilling a customer request. Answer: True Difficulty: Moderate 3. A supply chain could be more accurately described as a supply network or supply web.
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OPIM 321 Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Game Team: Pichonkun Team Members: Joel Tang‚ Keh Jing Ren‚ Luo Dachuan Strategies Employed Breakeven Analysis Factory | Warehouse | Customer | Cost | | | Sale? | Calopeia (Mail) | Calopeia | Calopeia | a.1000+1500/150+150+150 | = | 1310 | | | | Same Continent | b.1000+1500/150+150+200 | = | 1360 | | | | Fardo | c.1000+1500/150+150+400 | = | 1560 | No sale | Calopeia (Truck assuming Q=200) | Calopeia | Calopeia |
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Customer Offer Fresh and Fast: Quality: • Fast production and delivery on leading styles • Limited quantities for each style (scarcity) • Medium raw material‚ poor knit‚ grand look • Highly fashionable items at low price Offers Cost: Flexibility • Low monetary cost • Low time cost • Limited variety and choices • Customer’s participation in determining the next batch ZARA’S PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE TYPICAL PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE • Sales decreases as the product moves
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L M Thapar School of Management MBA (Manufacturing) Midterm Examination Quality Management Date of Examination: 16th Mar. 2009 Max. Marks: 40 Time: 9.00am to 11.00am Duration: 2.00 Hr. Part A Answer any 20 questions from the following. Marks 20*0.5 = 10 1) If Cpk =
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Delivering the Goods – Godrej Consumer Products Story Godrej Consumer Products supply-chain has adopted replenishment philosophy like first nature – a story that has many takeaways for Indian consumer goods companies. And the man in the thick of the action is rakesh Sinha‚ Chief operating offi cer (Marketing & operations)‚ GCPL. Aanand Pandey reports. If you are an FMCG supply-chain buff‚ then Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) is where the action is at the moment. The reason: Godrej group has
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Project Delays Delays during material purchase and supply are widespread in most projects around the world. Some of the delay happens at the time of purchasing of material for the project that is the period which is before the start of project as well as during actual execution of project is under way. Project schedules are consistently dynamic and uncertain. Several controllable and uncontrollable factors can adversely affect the project schedule and cause delays. These delays definitely create
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ACADEMIA BARILLA- HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE STUDIES Parma‚ Italy - January 31‚ 2007 - Harvard Business School has selected Academia Barilla for an in-depth look into its business in the prestigious annals of Harvard Business School’s business case studies. Less than three years after its founding‚ Academia Barilla is one of the few Italian companies to ever get chronicled by Harvard. The Harvard Business School business case study for Academia Barilla recounts the last 10 years of the development
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its own business models‚ its strategic relevance to improve the bottom line of their business. The collected data deal encompasses all the three element of SCM: Demand‚ Supply and the Inventory management. The data includes but is not limited to the innovative measure taken by these industry leaders to cut cost in all three major area of SCM‚ Supply‚ Demand and Inventory management‚ the percentage cost allocation of these three into their total business operation and the industrial landscape comparison
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perspective of Barilla and an independent distributor. What kind of products might such a program is best suited for? The pasta supply chain suffered high inventory levels at each segment of the supply chain; stock-outs at the distributor’s level and the customer’s demand variability magnified the problem. Availability of demand information at store levels is hard to get. A JITD system utilizes a vendor-controlled inventory scheme to combat a distribution problem of Barilla SpA. It eliminates
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ACI’s retail arm Swapno is probably among the biggest ever marketing failures in the marketing history of Bangladesh. The only comparable event (in terms of investment and withdrawal) that comes in my mind is the launching and withdrawal of Rothmans of BATB. ACI spent huge money on infrastructure and branding and created a lot of buzz but awfully failed to attract traffic and generate fat. The reasons for this less than expected performance fall in two categories– operational issues and theoretical
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