1. The success of Galanz is mainly the result of adopting different competitive strategy and operations strategy under different internal and external situation. From the perspective of competitive strategy‚ first Mr. Liang took the overall cost leadership strategy. As he well understood the competitive edge of his company was offering cheap labor and cheap land‚ he offered a very low price to the customers. By doing that‚ Galanz beat the competitors away as they could not make big profit and
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Resilient Supply Chain Introduction In the recent years many disasters and catastrophic events such as hurricane Mitch‚ tsunamis‚ SARS‚ terrorist attacks and earthquakes have shown that we live in world with increasing uncertainty. These events can cause major disruptions in the supply chain. Although similar events have occurred‚ since the terrorist attacks of September 11 of 2001 the firms began to reassess the benefits of commonly accepted strategies for sourcing‚ transportation‚ demand
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Louis Zecchino Case Study 1 I don’t feel that the fixed price contract agreed upon by Florida Retailing Company was the best way to procure ACME’s computer system. The reason for this is because with the agreement‚ 50% was being paid up front‚ where that could still probably be acceptable in a revised agreement‚ however‚ the other 50 % was being pad upon delivery. ACME received full payment without any guarantee that the computer system would be what as expected out of the system. This then hurt
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Chapter 5: FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS AT HEWLETT-PACKARD Alternative work arrangements‚ which allow employees to have greater control of their time and how they fulfil their obligations‚ are associated with greater productivity and employee satisfaction. Employees who need to satisfy various specific needs and seek answers to the work-life issues are the people who are more likely to be motivated by alternative work arrangements. Among the common reasons is the recognition of the difficulties that
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Introduction According to Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat‚ supply chain management has become a source of competitive advantage and profit in a flat world. He has quoted Wal-Mart’s ability of moving 2.3 billion general merchandise cartons a year down its supply chain into its stores as an example of creating value. Global supply chains that draw parts and producers from every corner of the world‚ from the best producers at the lowest price‚ are the way how to beat
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smi8239X_ch01_001-026.qxd 2/27/07 11:22 PM Page 1 CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Supply Chain Management 1.1 WHAT IS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT? Fierce competition in today’s global markets‚ the introduction of products with shorter life cycles‚ and the heightened expectations of customers have forced business enterprises to invest in‚ and focus attention on‚ their supply chains. This‚ together with continuing advances in communications and transportation technologies (e.g.‚ mobile communication‚
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framework of sustainable supply chain management: moving toward new theory Craig R. Carter and Dale S. Rogers University of Nevada‚ College of Business Administration‚ Reno‚ Nevada‚ USA Abstract Purpose – The authors perform a large-scale literature review and use conceptual theory building to introduce the concept of sustainability to the field of supply chain management and demonstrate the relationships among environmental‚ social‚ and economic performance within a supply chain management context
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Q1a. What is Demand Chain Challenges ? At present‚ there appear to be four main challenges to progress in transforming Demand Chains and making them faster‚ leaner and better: Linking Demand and Supply Chains Demand Chain Information Systems Demand Chain Process Re-Engineering\ Demand chain budget segmentation‚ targeting and optimization Linking demand and supply chains The core problem from the supply chain perspective is getting good demand plans and forecasts from the people driving demand: marketing
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Supply Chain and Value Chain Supply chain is a network of distribution and facilities options that performs the function of procurement of materials‚ conversion of these materials into intermediate and finished goods and the supply of these finished goods to the ultimate consumers‚ for e.g. for a single product‚ supply chain consists of flow of raw material from vendors‚ transformation into finished goods i.e. interflow of materials‚ transportation to distribution centers and supply activities for
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White Paper on transport Roadmap to a single euRopean tRanspoRt aRea — towaRds a competitive and ResouRce-eFFicient tRanspoRt system this illustrated brochure comPrises the text of the euroPean commission’s White PaPer ‘roadmaP to a single euroPean transPort area — toWards a comPetitive and resource -efficient transPort system’ (com(2011) 144 final of 28 march 2011) and a foreWord by vice -President siim K allas‚ commissioner for transPort. Europe Direct is a service to
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