4.3.5 Strategies to match product uncertainty As described in the previous sections uncertainty can have a huge impact on supply chain processes and its performance. Lee brought Fishers and his findings together and developed a framework that provides four strategies which considers uncertainties on demand and supply side (Lee‚ 2002): Figure 1: Product uncertainty (Source: Lee‚ 2002) For products with low demand and low supply uncertainties companies should focus on improving the efficiency
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00 to Room B408[2] TEMSAL GLOBAL’S PRODUCT STRATEGY Temsa Global is an automative company with factories in Adana‚ Adapazarı‚ Egypt. It produces buses‚ minibuses‚ and light trucks in its factories in Turkey. The company started out its business as a licensor of Mitsubishi products in 1984‚ when it could manufacture only the licensed products. Since 2001‚ Temsa Global has gradually developed design capabilities to support the shift in its producy strategy. In 2009‚ Temsa R&D and Technology INC
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Veronica Mars is a show about a young woman and her ability to help her father‚ Detective Mars‚ solve cases. In this case‚ she is trying to figure out who killed the dean of her school‚ and will stop at nothing until she does so. Her strong female force and her outside-of-the-norm characteristics prove that not all television series involving cops can be ruled as the same‚ despite the opinion of Stuart Kaminsky in his article “The History and Conventions of the Police Tale”. Although certain concepts
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this case of Ikea‚ they adopted the cost leadership strategy and product differentiation to their business model. In order to maintain cost leadership in the market‚ internal production efficiencies must be greater than that of competitors. Under Ikea’s strategy‚ suppliers are usually located in low-cost nations‚ with close proximity to raw-materials and reliable access to distribution channels. These suppliers produce highly standardized products intended for the global market‚ which size provides
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The planet Mars is the fourth farthest planet from the sun. Mars is very similar to our planet‚ but it also contains some different attributes that make it unique. In the past years‚ Mars has increasingly been in the limelight for astronomers as they continue to study the fascinating qualities of Mars‚ more specifically looking to see if life exists on the planet. Although Mars is very close to Earth‚ there is a great amount of unknown history from the planet. Mars was named by the Romans after
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Why is Mars red or matter afact why do we need to know about mars. Mars is red because in the acticle www.spaceanswers.com states that “iron rusting rocks and soil on the surface of mars contained a dust composed mostly of iron and small amounts of other elements such as chlorine and sulfur. The rocks and soil were eroded by wind and the dust was blown across the surface by ancient volcanoes.” Mars is really weird because the iron oxide forms a rust dust that floats in the atmosphere and sits as
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is to locate evidence of current of past life underground and to test the ability of Mars to sustain life. Using the research conducted in past‚ current‚ and future Mars missions‚ this mission proposes three questions about Mars that correlate to the Mars Exploration Program (MEP) science goals and guide the mission. 1. Is there a possibility that life is inhabiting below the surface of Mars? 2. Does Mars “have fossils‚ which would lead to the assumption of past life or is this process only
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Social Impacts of Human Mars Travel For years‚ many scientists have considered Mars to be the next great frontier for human exploration. Following the successes of unmanned Mars rover missions‚ human travel to Mars is closer and closer to becoming a reality. These rapid advancements create a wide variety of new challenges for astronauts to overcome. When planning a manned mission to Mars‚ it is necessary to consider the social impacts of this situation on the astronauts’ interactions with each
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Mars One is sending a rocket with four people in it to Mars in 2022. The mission to Mars takes six months of travel! The trip to Mars is extremely dangerous because one wrong move can easily result in death‚ the rocket will be more than one hundred billion dollars‚ and there are robots that will be picking up information for Mars One. Cosmic radiation doesn’t allow a trip back to earth. It consists of photons (energy about 2.78 Kelvin). On top of those are higher energy particles that are being
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do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid." There are many people who would love to go to Mars. However‚ going to Mars may not be the best idea. NASA should not send a manned mission to Mars. There will be many astronauts who die on the trip to Mars. Also‚ the cost for the trip is very high. NASA should not send a manned mission to Mars because there is a chance that many of the astronauts will die. Mary Bowerman on the usatoday.com website said "An MIT analysis of the Mars one claim that humans
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