Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains‚ 10e (Krajewski et al.) Chapter 10 Supply Chain Design 1) The purpose of supply chain management is to synchronize a firm’s processes with those of its suppliers and customers. Answer: TRUE Reference: Introduction Difficulty: Easy Keywords: supply chain management 2) Supply chain management tries to match the flow of materials‚ services and information with demand. Answer: TRUE Reference: Introduction Difficulty: Easy Keywords:
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European Journal of Marketing 29‚1 40 Received September 1993 Revised May 1994 Marketing in a postmodern world A. Fuat Fırat Arizona State University West‚ Phoenix‚ Arizona‚ USA‚ Nikhilesh Dholakia University of Rhode Island‚ Kingston‚ Rhode Island‚ USA‚ and Alladi Venkatesh Graduate School of Management‚ University of California at Irvine‚ Irvine‚ California‚ USA This article begins with the premiss that we are in the midst of an epochal transformation from the modern to the postmodern
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1. How can Design for logistic concepts be used to control logistic cost and make the supply chain more efficient? Design for logistics is a series of concepts in the field of supply chain management involving product and design approaches that help to control logistics costs and increase customer service levels. The concepts include the three key components‚ Economic packaging and transportation‚ Concurrent and parallel processing‚ and Standardization. Economic packaging and transportation
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(IMC) Swain‚ W. N. (2004‚ March). Perceptions of IMC after a decade of development: Who ’s at the wheel‚ and how can we measure success? Journal of Advertising Research‚ 44(1)‚ 46- Warkentin‚ M. Bapna‚ R.‚ & Sugumaran‚ V. (2000). The role of mass customization in enhancing supply chain relationships in B2C e-commerce markets
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How Oracle CPQ Cloud is Transforming the Sales Cycle? Oracle CPQ Cloud is an enterprise-grade CPQ (Configure Price Quote) solution for today’s fast growing enterprises. This blog post aims to provide an overview on CPQ and how the CPQ solutions are applied in the sales cycle. Further‚ we will also explore the process of opportunity-to-quote-to-order process. CPQ Overview Basically‚ CPQ stands for Configure‚ Price and Quote and is predominantly a sales solution designed to assist enterprises with
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Primavera® P6™ Project Management Reference Manual Copyright © Primavera 1999 - 2007. All rights reserved. While reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of this document‚ Primavera assumes no liability resulting from any omission or inaccuracies in this document or from use of the information obtained herein. Primavera reserves the right to make changes to any products described herein to improve reliability‚ function‚ or design‚ and reserves the right to revise this document
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SIM336 (Off Campus) Strategic Management - January 2013 - Sunderland Business School Individual Assignment Case Study – ‘The Comeback of Caterpillar‚ 1985-2001’ in De Wit & Meyer (2004:755-772) Submission Date: Monday 7th January 2013 Word Count: 3‚000 words Introduction: This individual assignment will be assessed by means of a 3‚000 word report. The assignment has been designed to allow you to develop and use your knowledge and skills in understanding key strategic
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based on experience; in the cases‚ it can be found in the exchange of experiences between the most experienced professionals and the less experienced professionals during each project. The perceived form of learning was ‘deliberate’ (Mintzberg and Lampel‚ 1999)‚ i.e.‚ planned and formulated by leaders in light of the inductive role of Petrobras. Based on Scarbrough et al. (2004)‚ it is possible to state that large part of learning occurs through the projects created for Petrobras because it was possible
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must establish a system that can manage the information as an asset. In this paper researched five articles detailing best practices in ensuring quality‚ speed‚ and flexibility in organization. Those practices are: Total quality management‚ mass customization‚ theory of constraints‚ kaizen (continuous improvement)‚ and reengineering. I also researched five articles detailing best practices in managing information as an asset. Those practices are: knowledge management‚ innovation management‚ risk management
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