ILLUSTRATIVE REAL WORLD CASES REAL WORLD CASE 1: HOW DELL IS MANAGING ITS SUPPLY CHAIN http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/2519/2580469/images/Realworldcase1.html The Problem Michael Dell started his business as a student from his university dorm by using a mail-order approach to selling PCs. This changed the manner in which PCs were sold. The customer did not have to come to a store to buy a computer‚ and Dell was able to customize the computer to the specifications of the customer. The
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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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What it means to be a Automotive Technician Vehicles are very crucial in the modern world for example such as Los Angeles because Los Angeles is a car culture city. There are people paying so much I for just one vehicle because people either like to show off‚ or just love having their dream car. By vehicles being used constantly in the world means that people are going to end up encountering problems with their vehicle which is where a automotive technician would step in and help
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company that I am going to be doing is Clarington Honda or otherwise known by its legal name as Clayton Automotive Group. This auto retailer is located in Bowmanville‚ Ontario at 29 Spicer Square. Their mailing address is the same location as their shop. The owner of the 8 retailer is Mike Clayton. He is the manager of Clarington Honda specifically in the Administrative Services Customer Service area. Clarington Honda has a total of 18 employees currently working at their location. This company’s
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SWOT Analysis Strengths The main strength of the Geely Automotive Holdings‚ Ltd. is their focused research and development initiatives. They invest roughly “10% of their annual sales revenue (which is significant when compared to Toyota’s 5% investment)” in research and development and focus much of their company’s efforts on their Geely Automobile Research School and the Geely Engine Research School (Dess‚ Lumpkin‚ and Eisner‚ 2010). These schools allow them to make improvements pertaining to
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Public Opinion and Stifling Debate (2007) * The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics (2008) * Requiem For A Species: Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change (2010) ------------------------------------------------- [edit] Summary of Text What is Affluenza? * An explanation of the created term affluenza * It outlines how some Australians are only satisfied when their pay exceeds the average * Australia is a rich society yet people don’t know what it takes to
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average inventory is one-half of the order quantity. The number of orders placed per year varies inversely with order quantity. When we consider stockout costs‚ an additional inventory (safety stock)‚ is held to trade-off costs of poor customer service or costs for expediting shipments from unreliable suppliers. In the lean systems chapter‚ we see order quantities (lot sizes) that are much smaller than the “ideal” suggested by the EOQ model. As a result‚ lean systems average inventory is also much
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Name: Yashasvi ram v.s Case Study The root problem in this case is that the company here has the decentralized autonomy of the business units‚ but there is a lack of coordination between operating groups. To compensate this‚ Al was appointed as CIO to coordinate different I/T approaches of the business units and to advise the executive committee on the strategic aspect of I/T. But another problem here apart from the
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Mabel Medina July 1‚ 2012 English 513 Kelly Understand The Alchemist Summary In “Part One” of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho‚ is so far about a boy named Santiago starting out his quest in the search of his Personal Legend. Santiago is a shepherd who likes to travel and enjoys being around his sheep. Although he travels all over‚ there was a certain village the shepherd boy enjoyed going to sell his sheep’s wool because he liked the merchant’s daughter. The author describes Santiago recall
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Case Study #1 - Sunspot‚ Inc 1. What are the most likely benefits of forming strategic supply alliances with Sunspot’s key suppliers? A strategic alliance between Sunspot and its key suppliers will result in a relationship based on trust. It’s key for both parties to develop and manage this “institutional” trust or the alliance will fail. Trust will facilitate communication which will lead to less errors and higher quality‚ faster development times‚ and lower costs. Synergies created by
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