SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT Homework #1 (Due – April 18‚ 2013) Electronic Submission MS Word MSc ECOM/ICOM assignment submission system File name: hw1 and your HKU ID (e.g. hw1_1234567) Please limit the answer to 1 page for each (sub)question (60%) Case: Dell Inc.: Improving the Flexibility of the Desktop PC Supply Chain (Textbook‚ pp.179-187) 1. a) Why does L5 incur higher manufacturing and logistics costs than L6? What are some of the costs that are incurred in L5 but not
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Petlaca Fatima – chapter 16KK International Burch University Teoman Duman MANAGING RETAILING‚ WHOLESALING‚ AND LOGISTICS Retailing Retailing includes all the activities involved in selling goods or services directly to final consumers for personal‚ nonbusiness use. A retailer or retail store is any business enterprise whose sales volume comes primarily from retailing. Types of Retailers Consumers today can shop for goods and services in a wide
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND RISK MANAGEMENT Global supply chain enables companies to expand beyond their domestic markets and expand globally .International supply chain could be viewed as an extension of the domestic supply chain if managed well .There are several forces which determines the success of international supply chain. Global market forces involves pressures and opportunities created by the foreign companies and customers .Overseas business sometimes is a defensive mechanism
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Minor Logistics Operations Presentatie titel MIRBSLM114OP N.J. Osentoski-Monsma & A. Nielsen-de Vries Lecturers Logistics Room D2.173 osenj@hr.nl / vriad@hr.nl Rotterdam‚ 00 januari 2007 6-1 Corporate strategy Business strategy Operations Strategy Mission Objectives (cost‚ quality‚ flexibility‚ delivery) Functional strategies in marketing‚ finance‚ engineering‚ human resources‚ and information systems Strategic Decisions (process‚ quality system‚ capacity‚ and
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The Influence On Internet and Logistics In the 21st century‚ the internet has become a part of everyday life. Not only for social purposes‚ but for business purposes‚ too! In this paper we will be discussing how the internet has influenced the logistics world; when it comes to online retailing‚ on-demand software‚ and e-procurement. The first influence on logistics and the internet is online retailing. When looking at online retailing‚ we will also be looking at in-store retailing for they
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The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is the largest agency within the Department of Defense’s (DoD) with more than 26‚000 civilian and military personnel throughout the world (Defense Logistics Agency). DLA‚ Provides support as well as technical and logistic services to the Army‚ Air Force‚ Navy‚ Marine Corps and several federal agencies. A large number of DLA’s employees are culturally‚ racially‚ and ethnically diversified. However‚ inequities at the DoD with regard to race and ethnicity still occur
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issues with the distributors and the way they managed business since they used smaller dealers as a bridge so they can sell the product instead by giving better choices to the final costumer. Logistics channels handle the physical flow of goods or service. Is the problem discussed in Handy Andy’s logistics channel? Why or why not? Not really‚ because the factory distributors are the ones that need to provide the goods to the final costumer in any case and few complaints regarding to this aspect
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Jenkins’ Ear was the first case that the Royal Navy attempted to provide the overseas naval base with naval stores from North America directly. Therefore‚ her voyage and the views concerned with the Astrea explicate that the navy’s view about the naval logistics in the 1730s and 1740s and how the navy exploited naval stores production in Colonial America resulting from the naval stores policy in the eighteenth century. The construction and the repair of much number of ships required large quantities of
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Logistics and supply chain management are not new ideas. From the building of the pyramids to the relief of hunger in Africa‚ the principles underpinning the effective flow of materials and information to meet the requirements of customers have altered little. Throughout the history of mankind wars have been won and lost through logistics strengths and capabilities – or the lack of them. It has been argued that the defeat of the British in the American War of Independence can largely be attributed
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her students to go to the Logistics Companies in Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) to make a research of their profiles. It was like a “thunder and lightning in the middle of a sunny day that strikes us.” At first we thought that it is only one of her jokes but we later realized that she’s serious when she told us that we really need to complete the activity as a final requirement in her subject and to make us know and distinguish different Freight Forwarding and Logistics Companies regarding their
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