SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY – KANIKA GUPTA EPGDIM 2011-13 SUPPLY CHAIN OF HINDUSTAN PENCILS Hindustan Pencils Limited is the largest primary school stationary manufacturing company in India. They were established in 1958 & have mastered the art of making high quality stationary products. With the latest machinery set up‚ today our state of the art manufacturing units daily produce 5.6 million pencils‚1.2 million sharpeners‚ 2.3 million erasers
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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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1. Cisco Systems went from a “push” to a “pull” approach to its supply chain after the dot-com debacle. How are these two approaches different? Does it depend on the state of the economy which one should be used? Why? Before the dot-com debacle Cisco Systems used “push” approach – a lot of inventory was made‚ and it was based on best-guess forecasts. This approach was not bad when economy was strong and there was huge demand and there was no need to predict precisely the inventory. When during the
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Supply Chain Management SUPPLY CHAIN ASSIGNMENT ON SUBMITTED TO- MS HARLEEN SAHNI SUBMTTED BY- ANKKIT RAJ McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants‚ serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States‚ the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald and in 1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production
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Chapter 1_The Concepts of Supply Chain Management 1 The Concepts of Supply Chain Management Content 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Definition of a Supply Chain 1.3 Decision Phases in a Supply Chain 1.4 Process View of a Supply Chain 1.5 The Importance of Supply Chain Flows 1.6 Tutorial Questions Learning Objectives After reading this chapter‚ you will be able to: • • • • • • • 1.1 Describe a supply chain and define supply chain management. Define the different organizations that
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ARROW@DIT Articles School of Management 1-1-2010 (Le)agility in Humanitarian Aid Supply Chains Kirstin Scholten Dublin Institute of Technology‚ kirstinusa@yahoo.com Pamela Sharkey Scott Dublin Institute of Technology Brian Fynes Smurfit School of Business‚ University College Dublin Recommended Citation Scholten‚ K.‚ Sharkey Scott‚ P.‚ Fynes‚ B. Le)agility in humanitarian aid (NGO) supply International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management Volume: 40 Issue: 8/9 2010
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1. INTRODUCTION Supply management is a complex function that’s critical to business success‚ responsible for delivering efficient costs‚ high quality‚ fast delivery and continuous innovation throughout companies’ entire supply chains. The strategic contribution of supply management is measured not only in savings made‚ but also in increased shareholder value (Niezen‚ Weller & Deringer‚ 2007). Nike and Adidas are two global companies try to improve their competitive advantage through strategically
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I) Give an example for each one of the four types of supply chain‚ and then determine which type your company is adopting. 1. Integrated Make to Stock In this model‚ supplier make products in advance of demand and holds them in finished goods inventory‚ satisfying demand from that inventory as orders come in. The customer has little direct involvement in deciding the product features. In this environment‚ suppliers manufacture the goods and sell from the finished goods inventory and so this strategy
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http://www.slideshare.net/himadrisingha/barilla-spa-a-case-on-supply-chain-integration http://www.scribd.com/doc/22320494/Barilla-SpA http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~liush/MOIT/Barilla%20Case%20Study.pdf http://www.scribd.com/doc/7325445/Barilla-SpA-Case-Solution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgBY5wn0aE The Barilla SpA (Harvard Case) Qian Wang Tsai-Lan Huang Xiaoqing Ge February 2‚ 2000 Summary The JITD initiative at Barrila drew a lot of internal and external objections which
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brands‚ however some of their steps from the “supplier of raw materials to the end-customer” in this case these steps are designing‚ manufacturing‚ distribution and retailing not always same. “All stages in chain must include consideration of the final customer; moreover each operation in chain should be satisfying its own customer.” Benetton First was Benetton‚ created by Luciano Benetton during the time‚ when knitted clothes were expensive in or handmade by old people in boring colours. Once when
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