Case Study: Global Supply Chain Management and Strategic Sourcing Assignment 1 Due: October 13‚ 2013 at 11:59pm Marks: 20 Sounds like a supply chain problem Metrovox is a German electronics manufacturer that designs‚ develops and manufactures a range of products for the entertainment and home electronics sector. Management has recently focused on two related products‚ Bugabyte and Terabyte Lite. The Bugabyte is a video and audio player with a flash drive. The company has invested heavily in
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Zara: Case questions 1. Coordination of a supply chain is always important. However‚ such efforts are usually initiated by certain parties. For the global apparel industry‚ would it be more suitable for downstream or upstream parties to be the driver of the coordination? Motivate your answer with the use of two important characteristics of the apparel industry. 2. Clearly Zara has a strong relationship with all parties within the supply chain. a) Which of the following retailer-supplier relationships
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customers faster than the competition will improve a company’s competitive position. To remain competitive‚ companies must seek new solutions to important Supply Chain Management issues such as modal analysis‚ supply chain management‚ load planning‚ route planning and distribution network design. Companies must face corporate challenges that impact Supply Chain Management such as reengineering globalisation and outsourcing. Why is it so important for companies to get products to their customers
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OF BUSINESS LOGISTICS‚ Vol.24‚ No.2‚ 2003 37 STRATEGIC SUPPLY CHAIN MAPPING APPROACHES by John T. Gardner SUNY Brockport and Martha C. Cooper The Ohio State University Visualizing‚ tracking‚ and managing supply chains all become more complicated as firms pursue outsourcing strategies and as firms’ supply and delivery systems become increasingly global. The authors suggest that not only is there a need to visualize the supply chain‚ there needs to be a well-established process for building the
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3.2 Supply chain industry A company’s supply chain is its central nervous system for how it creates and distributes a product. The industry is made up of the key players who participate in this process‚ including manufacturers‚ wholesalers or distributors‚ retailers and transportation companies. There are three main areas of a company’s supply chain. They include: (Refer to the Picture below) * Procurement or the “buying” process. This includes the purchasing of the raw materials needed to
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Map the Supply Chain MKT 421 `May 6‚ 2015 Mr. Ahmer Allauddin Map the Supply Chain The supply chain coordination is a very important process in the “A supply chain is the network of all the individuals‚ organizations‚ resources‚ activities and technology involved in the creation and sale of a product‚ from the delivery of source materials from the supplier to the manufacturer‚ through to its eventual delivery to the end user” (Whatis.com‚ 2015). The supply chain coordination is a very important
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for sales in major retail stores. There are six ‘style seasons’ during a year but Miliken has an 18 week lead time and that prevents it from timely resupplying the more popular designs at the retail stores. This would not do because by the time Miliken is able to resupply the more popular designs‚ two or more style seasons would have already gone by and the supplies manufactured would be out of season. The company would have also missed the two or three style seasons that have already gone by. The
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kw=view-vbs5lhapz2dw&rc=ref-27080427 SUPPLY CHAİN Today‚ increasing competitive requirements‚ firms try to increase market share‚ also they always want decrease their costs. They have to communicate their product for custom‚in right time and right place so they need to get raw material in the minimum cost with suppliers.This system of organization is supply chain. Also‚ if the firms want exist competitive market‚ they must establish supply chain managment in their firms.Supply managment
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for channel design | | 4 | Sales force organogram | | 5 | Forecasting‚ Target Setting & Evaluation of sales and distribution systems. | | 6 | Reference | | List of Figures Sr No | Figure | Page No | 1 | Generic flow of products from manufacturers to customers | | 2 | Sales force Organogram | | Executive Summary LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd.‚ a wholly owned subsidiary of LG Electronics‚ South Korea was established in January 1997 in India. It is one of the most formidable
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sell and deliver goods and services to a first tier supplier. An automobile company could have a second tier supplier that would supply materials or parts to another company which would then supply materials or parts to another company which would then supply them to the manufacturer. A real world example of a second-tier supplier is “Wisconsin Aluminium” which supplies aluminium fuel filter housing to Mechanical Devices Company. Mechanical Devices uses the fuel filter housing on an engine component
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