Chapter 10 Supply chain Strategy Review and Discussion Questions 1. What recent changes have caused supply chain management to gain importance? 2. With so much productive capacity and room for expansion in the United States‚ why would a company based in the United States choose to purchase items from foreign firm? Discuss the pros and cons. The use of foreign firms can provide a U.S. firm more alternatives in selecting a supplier. The pros are more choices‚ potentially reduced
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a) Customer based segmentation b) Product lines based Segmentation Strategy to optimize supply chain performance of Alpha Systems‚ Inc. (ASI) 1. Procurement – ASI can categorize the procurement requirements based on the customer based segmentation. Achieving procurement according to the strategic importance and service standards will yield to higher reliability of deliveries to the superior valued customers. Further‚ procurement can focus on mass-market consumer channels customer segment by
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To: Chief Executive Officer‚ Mercury International‚ Ltd. From: () CC: () Date: 11/4/2012 Re: Supply Chain Recommendations Our team organizational strategy will base on Mercury’s new vision of Operational Excellence and organization will support a vision of high automation with smaller quantity administrative personnel. Mercury’s new focus will be keyed on minimizing labor cost and yet increasing production by the use of automated mechanics. The
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Solution SCM Ch1 2 Documents Upload (/upload.html) Login (/login.html? back=http%3A%2F%2Fdocslide.net%2Fdocuments%2Fsolution-scm-ch12.html) / Docslide (/) / Documents (/category/documents.html) / Solution SCM Ch1 2 Assignment 1 Supply Chain Management Topic: Understanding the Supply Chain Submitted by: Submitted to: Md. Faisal Hossain Md. Md. Akram Hossain EMBA Spring Semester 2013 Assistant Professor ID: 61120-13-017 MIS‚ University of Dhaka Date: 23-01-2013 Department of Management Information Systems Gateway
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cost of goods sold (company info) average finished goods inventory (15) 5. Percentage of safety stock Average safety stock (16) total inventory (12) 6. Purchase operating expense dollars as a percent of supply chain purchase dollars Purch operating expense dollars (21) supply chain purchase dollars (2) 7. Purchase order cycle time (in days for purchasing department and excludes supplier lead time) Average amount of time (in days) elapsed from point of intention to place order to receipt
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Executive Summary Unichema was a subsidiary of Unilever. It produced over half a million tons of oleochemicals yearly for customers worldwide. The oleochemical products produced by Unichema had a large application area-in polymers‚ cosmetics‚ rubber‚ textiles‚ leather‚ paper and lubricants. Customer demands and market pressures were forcing Unichema to become more competitive and more responsive to customer requirement such as lower prices‚ shorter lead times on deliveries‚ precise timing for deliveries
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Ahmad Umair Abid Shamaion Sammuel 851213-5552 851107-6138 820908-8353 Master Thesis 4FE02E‚ 15 hp ___________________________________________________________________________ School of Management & Economics Department of Logistics & Supply Chain Management Master Thesis Authors: Bilal‚ Umair & Shamaoun II Master Thesis III ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Working with this thesis has been a very interesting and educational experience. Since‚ we have applied our theoretical knowledge
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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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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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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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