Supply Chain Management of McDonalds McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants‚ serving more than 58 million customers daily.[4] In addition to its signature restaurant chain‚ McDonald’s Corporation held a minority interest in Pret A Manger until 2008‚ was a major investor in the Chipotle Mexican Grill until 2006‚[5] and owned the restaurant chain Boston Market until 2007. A McDonald’s restaurant is operated by either a franchisee‚ an affiliate
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International Supply Chain Education Alliance Certificate Diploma in Supply Chain Management (CDSCM) Approved by IISB (ISCEA International Standard Board) Introduction Global economic and demographic changes are fast evolving innovative methods of attracting customers while creating new supply chain challenges for manufacturers. Certificate Diploma in Supply Chain Management (CDSCM) course offered by ISCEA trains its participants to follow customers’ needs and grow their businesses. Only
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for examination 1. Which of the following statements is correct? A. Recent trends such as lean manufacturing and offshoring decrease the level of risk in the supply chain. B. Accurate forecasting techniques solve most supply chain problems. C. Many retailers observe that inventory levels fluctuate considerably across a supply chain. D. In general‚ the total inventory costs are higher than the total transportation costs in the overall logistics costs for a country. 2. There can be many reasons
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ndex 1. What has caused the so-called Inventory/Service "Crisis"? 1 2. What are the important "drivers" of safety stock? 2 3. Recommend quantitative target inventory levels for the six European options‚ assuming a weekly periodic review replenishment. 4 4. Assuming a 20% gross margin for each printer‚ sea transportation costs of $1 per printer and air transportation costs of $10 per printer (air shipment lead-time is three days)‚ evaluate the various alternatives available to Brent Cartier
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Q1. Consider the supply chain involved when a customer purchases a book at a bookstore. Identify the cycles in this supply chain and the location of the push/pull boundary. When a customer purchases a book from the book store‚ a complete supply chain cycle which involves procurement‚ manufacturing‚ distribution‚ replenishment and customer delivery takes place. The different supply chain cycles are quite separated in this case because each cycle occurs at the interface between two successive stages
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Supply Chain Management Network Design and Facility Location Classical Theories von Thunen Agricultural activity occurs in a “limitless plain of equal fertility” with a city in the middle Theorized that: City price = origin price + transport costs Transport costs = f {weight & distance} As a result Products having high weight/value ratio should be produced near the city (see next slide) Other Contributions Land values decrease as move from city More intense land utilization near
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Supply Chain Management 1.6 EXAMPLES OF SUPPLY CHAIN Oleh : Astrid Toleransia Helida G 1106153694 UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA DEPOK 2012 Gateway : A Direct Sales Manufacturer 1. Why did Gateway have multiple production facilities in the US ? Because Gateway has a strategy that avoid carrying any finished-good inventory at the retail stores and simply use the stores for customer to try the PCs and obtain help in deciding on the right configuration to purchase.
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1 How can postponement of product differentiation be used to improve supply chain profitability? Postponement‚ also known as "delayed differentiation‚" is a supply chain strategy that delays product differentiation at a point closer to the customer. This involves designing and developing standard or generic configurable products that can be customized quickly and inexpensively once actual consumer demand is known. Postponement also entails the implementation of specific inventory strategies to deploy
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effective? 1. (40%) Bullwhip a) (10%) Why bullwhip occurs in a supply chain? b) (15%) Does that contradict with the risk pooling in terms of variability? Explain. c) (15%) Can the bullwhip be alleviated if the number of levels for the supply chain is reduced (e.g. eliminate the distributors)? If so‚ why don’t we just keep the supply chain as flat as possible (i.e. reduce the number of the levels required in the supply chain as much as possible)? 2. (60%) Case: “The Great Inventory Correction”
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Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains‚ 10e (Krajewski et al.) Chapter 14 Forecasting 1) The repeated observations of demand for a product or service in their order of occurrence form a pattern known as a time series. Answer: TRUE Reference: Demand Patterns Difficulty: Easy Keywords: time series‚ repeated observations 2) One of the basic time series patterns is random. Answer: TRUE Reference: Demand Patterns Difficulty: Easy Keywords: time series‚ pattern‚ random
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