SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT Homework #1 (Due – April 18‚ 2013) Electronic Submission MS Word MSc ECOM/ICOM assignment submission system File name: hw1 and your HKU ID (e.g. hw1_1234567) Please limit the answer to 1 page for each (sub)question (60%) Case: Dell Inc.: Improving the Flexibility of the Desktop PC Supply Chain (Textbook‚ pp.179-187) 1. a) Why does L5 incur higher manufacturing and logistics costs than L6? What are some of the costs that are incurred in L5 but not
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ginning‚ and yarn spinning‚ to production of fabrics‚ garments‚ and accessories‚ and all the way to retailing. In addition‚ despite operating in a traditional industry‚ Esquel implemented a series of supporting IT (Information Technology) and supply chain management applications to improve operational efficiencies. Under Marjorie Yang’s leadership‚ a strong corporate culture has been established‚ with uncompromising emphasis on ethical business practices‚ creativity‚ and continual improvement. Finally
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McDonald’s Supply Chain Supply chain management‚ or SCM‚ is concerned with managing the inputs of goods or services for final users from acquiring the raw materials through the end of the product’s useful life. The inputs of goods or services include a wide variety of activities not only in a single department in a company but also from different departments and outside the company; they are cross-functional activities that contain increasingly complex networks supply chains in the business
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FACULTY OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SEMESTER 2‚ 2014 LOGT2003 Purchasing and Supply Chain Management GROUP ASSIGNMENT Name of Student ID Number Batch No. 1 Wong Sin Huey D130011A LM13-A 2 Ong Lim Ru Cheng D130053A LM13-B 3 Tee Chea Ping D130213B LM13-B 4 Tan Siew Yi D130250B LM13-B 5 Beh Hwee Kun D130336B LM13-B Introduction BHK Trading the nation ’s partner in the domestic paddy and rice industry‚ BHK Trading and its group of companies are involved in the procurement and processing of paddy as
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Variable | Capabilities | Valuable? | Rare? | Difficult to Imitate? | Transferability? | Marketing Strategy | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Supply Chain Management | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Internalizing Sales Force | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Editing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Printing | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Selling | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Question 1 : Apply the VRIO Framework of Harlequin in series romance fiction The primary issue facing Harlequin is
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Because of lack of communications among different facilities and disorganization in terms of supply chain processes optimization‚ transportation and logistics minimizations‚ Diebold integrates a new SCM system into the overall operational processes to generate savings. Here is a quote from Diebold Director of Global Logistics on the challenges that the company was facing "we lacked a transportation management system‚" He acknowledges." Sure‚ I could tell you how much I paid a transportation provider
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Case Write-Up: LEGO Group-An Outsourcing Journey Q1 LEGO’s main expectations and learnings from the relationship with Flextronics LEGO’s main expectation was to optimize its global supply chain by saving cost and reducing production complexity from the cooperation with Flextronics. However‚ the contract between those two lasted for only 3 years. In the end‚ LEGO re-took control of plants in Czech Republic‚ Hungary and opened a new site in Mexico Lessens LEGO received from this unsuccessful
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INTERNATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT – BSB20123-7 Written Examination Stimulus Material Case Study – IKEA About IKEA Since its 1943 founding in Sweden‚ IKEA has offered home furnishings and accessories of good design and function at low prices so the majority of the people can afford them. IKEA’s vision is to: “Create a better everyday life for the many people” Its business idea is "To offer a wide range of well designed‚ functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people
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Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Assessment 1 Nessa’s Bar Report Course Code: BS1D75 Student Number: 08154619‚ 09046100‚ 09030883‚ 09046577‚ 09047735 Contents Page • 1.1.1 Problem – Poor Organisation on Purchasing and Supply……….. • 1.1.2 Solution - Poor Organisation………………………………………. • 1.2.1 Problem - Purchasing Policy Procedures…………………………. • 1.2.1 Solutions - Purchasing Policy Procedures………………………… • 1.3.1 Problem - Poor Management………………………………………. • 1.3.2Solution
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Zara Case Analysis Operations Management MBM1110 Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Outstanding Operational strategies .......................................................................................
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