Flipkart‚is an electronic commerce company that was established by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal in 2007 and now it is India’s largest online retailers with sales of 1 billion$ for year 2013-14. With a strong focus on customer service‚ it has developed an efficient supply chain which focuses on maximising customer satisfaction. The objective is to provide a memorable online shopping experience to their customers so that they come back again and again using innovative services like Cash on Delivery
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European‚ and international automobile operations. Ford 2000 also called for a complete reengineering of several key company processes including Order to Delivery (OTD) and Ford Production System (FPS). One of the primary strategic goals of Ford 2000 was to decrease OTD from 60+ days to less than 15. To help overcome information constraints in Ford’s new global approach‚ they launched a company-wide Intranet in mid-1996. In addition‚ Ford further expanded upon that system to include business-to-business
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Table of Contents Introduction Supply Chain Management is the process of planning‚ implementing‚ and controlling the operations of supply chain with the purpose to satisfy customer requirements as efficiently as possible. Supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials‚ work-in-process inventory‚ and finished goods from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption. It is a cross functional approach to managing the movement of raw materials into an organization and the movement
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. SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION Supply Chain Management revolve around efficient integration between suppliers‚ manufacturers‚ warehouses‚ and stores. The challenge is on how to coordinate all the activities‚ in order to: * Improve performance * Reduce cost * Increase service level * Reduce Bullwhip effect * Better utilise resources * Respond effectively to changes in market places Not merely coordinating production‚ transportation and inventory‚ but also integrate front
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The Coffee Supply Chain In the past 60 years the export of coffee has changed dramatically. In postwar Brazil coffee was about 90% of all exports‚ today coffee only makes up 10% of all exports. (Reference 1) Yet‚ coffee will always be a very important and influential export for Brazil and many of the neighboring countries. Brazil and neighboring countries make up part of what is known as the coffee belt. (Image Link) (Image Link) In the past 60 years the percentage of coffee as an export for
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interconnectivity and interoperability for efficiency and increased productivity. To have a competitive edge‚ companies‚ especially SMEs need to be aware of standards and the advantage of implementing standards. In today’s competitive and globalised environment‚ standards have become increasingly important in enhancing trade and productivity. The productivity boost that SIP(s bring gives an added edge to companies. Standardisation has a major impact on our lives as standards provide the fundamentals for our
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1. Zara is a Spanish clothing retailer which has 1700 stores in all over 78 countries. 2. Zara has continually maintained its mission to provide fast‚ affordable‚ and fashionable items. 3. Zara’s supply chain has undergone tremendous changes in order to sustain its competitive advantage in today’s market. 4. Zara holds 6 days worth of inventory‚ while H&M holds 52 days‚ and Spanish retailer Cortefiel holds 94 days of inventory. 5. Launched approximately 11‚000 new items per year
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requires transporters and shippers to make efforts to protect the environment in their logistics activities. Fujitsu‚ which has been active in green logistics for some time‚ is expanding environmental load reduction activities across the entire supply chain‚ setting a tough industry-leading target of reducing transport-related CO 2 emissions by 30% from fiscal 2000 levels by the end of fiscal 2010. This paper introduces Fujitsu activities toward this goal with a focus on “reducing CO 2 emissions
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led Unichema to a fundamental improvement. Having determined that achieving efficiencies depended on the plant becoming more customer driven and less production driven‚ Unichema tried to support changes that drove a customer orientation within the company. The biggest change affected the areas of production‚ logistics‚ sales‚ and customer service. In the new system‚ the logistics department assumed a coordinating role between the customer and production. Logistics assumed the role of providing customer
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The purpose of the Supply Chain Operations Audit is to help you find the answer to this crucial question. The Audit is divided into five main sections: Strategy‚ Organisation‚ Process‚ Information and Performance. The Supply Chain Audit Part 1 – Strategy Objective: To determine if the enterprise has a clear strategy tuned to business expectations and focused on profitably servicing customer requirements. Scope: How the enterprise’s supply chain strategy reflects its business goals and external
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