Strategic Sourcing Strategic sourcing is an institutional procurement process that continuously improves and re-evaluates the purchasing activities of a company. In a production environment‚ it is often considered one component of supply chain management The following are the steps involved in the Strategic Sourcing : 1. Assessment of a company’s current spend (what is bought where?) 2. Assessment of the supply market (who offers what?) 3. Total cost analyses (how much does it cost to
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IKEA’S GLOBAL SOURCING CHALLANGE: INDIAN RUGS AND CHILD LABOUR Barner‚ IKEA’s business area manager for carpets‚ must decide how to handle the child labor issue. She learned that a German television would soon air a documentary showing children working at looms at Rangan Exports‚ one of IKEA’s major suppliers. Moreover‚ the producer invited IKEA to send a representative to take part in a live discussion. The first question is whether to recommend that IKEA participate in the program or decline
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Introduction Toyota Motor Corporation is one of the largest and most diversified auto manufacturers in the world today with supply chains and production systems that span across over 70 nations with sourcing‚ procurement and quality management systems unified to their manufacturing centers. The high enormous complexity within these operations have made it essential for Toyota to create the most advanced supply chain management systems globally‚ the Toyota Production System (TPS) (Dyer
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The Product Launch After coming out of the joint venture with KEL‚ HMCL planned to introduce its own two-wheelers in the market. In October 1999‚ in a major strategic initiative‚ HMCL established HMSI. The company made an initial investment of Rs 3 bn to establish a plant with an annual production capacity of 200‚000 units... Activa Launched in 2001‚ Honda Activa was the first scooter model of HMSI for the Indian market. A 102 cc scooter‚ Activa was specially designed keeping in view the
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Exploring Creative Product Promotion Here is some additional information to help you with your assignment work. This first part on Place is hopefully a reminder! Marketing Mix - Place What determines where a business should locate? * There must be customers passing or easily attracted to the place. * There must be affordable business premises available for rent or to buy. * No competitors nearby. * Permission must be granted. All restaurants and shops need permission to operate
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11/02/2013 IKEA’S global sourcing challenge: Indian rugs and child labor 1. How should Marianne Barner respond to the invitation for IKEA to have a representative appear on the upcoming broadcast of the German video program? Marianne Barner is the business area manager for carpets in IKEA faced with the decision of cutting off one of the company’s major suppliers of Indian Rugs. According to Barner‚ “German-produced program planned to take a confrontational and
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CAPTIVES VS. OUTSOURCING The insurance sourcing choice INSURANCE SOURCING CHOICE – CAPTIVES vs. OUTSOURCING Table of Contents Insurance sourcing- Market and journey so far .................................................................................................................... 4 Why the shift from Captive to a third party supplier? .......................................................................................................... 4 How are the third party suppliers doing in
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The Brewing Industry Analysis Authors: Brent Gilani‚ Chelsea Seele‚ Mesa Rangel‚ Teddy Argerter‚ and Zane Hyland Title Page Table of Contents 2 What we’re doing 3 Our Target Market 3 Our Competition 4-11 Our Market Size 12 Law of the Industry 13-14 Ecological Factors 15 Technological Factors 16 Economical Factors 17 The Boomin’ Beer Brewin’ Industry 18-19 Beer is Attractive 20-21 Bibliography 22-23 Table of Contents What we’re doing: Imagine
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1) Crowdsourcing is obtaining a needed service from a large group of people‚ in which mainly comes from the online community. With the service coming mainly from the online community the process can happen both on or offline. The idea of crowdsourcing combines the efforts of part time workers and volunteers to gather small portions of information‚ which ultimately adds up to a large result in the end. 2) Disadvantages of crowdsourcing compared to traditional employees would be the reliability of
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1. The main reasons of Toyota’s recall issues Lately‚ people most concerned about the recall event which happened on the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers‚ Toyota. This event affect all over the world including China‚ USA‚ Europe. The incident makes the corporate brand image dropped and also loss the consumer confidence. Why this event did occur? During the research and analysis‚ the major cause of Toyota’s recall is the quality issues. For example the accelerator pedal problem‚ many different
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