Presented By: Abhishek Mandvakar Ankur Kejriwal Hari Mohan Nikhil Abraham Prabhat Singh Vinay Singh BMW’S New Plant In May 2005 at Leipzig area ‚Germany Gerhard Schroder‚ Germany Chancellor opened Plant with Helmut Panke‚the Chairman of Company. BMW invested € 1.3 billion. Manufacture BMW 3-Series car’s. Max annual capacity: 650 cars/day Expected to create 5500 jobs in that area. 2 The ceremonial process of signing the Plant Establishment Contract. 3 BMW History
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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 inventory
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2.3. Components of Supply Chain Supply chain management consists of four typical components. Close Partnerships For a supply chain to function‚ chain members must treated each other equally. Members tend to form strong partnerships in order to maximize production. Partnerships usually extend to an agreement between two firms‚ but in supply chain managements‚ multiple firms agree to partnerships. These partners "manage the total flow of goods from the supplier[s] to the ultimate
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Summary: The case discusses about the operation of the world’s largest convenience store chain Seven-Eleven in Japan‚ and the way it became Japan’s top leading super market chain. Seven–Eleven started its operation in Japan in November 1973 under an area licensing agreement between Ito-Yokado Co.‚ Ltd.‚ and The Southland Corporation. With more than 15‚500 stores worldwide‚ Seven-Eleven Japan Co.‚ Ltd (SEJ) franchises 6‚900 stores in Japan and most of the remaining stores located in North America
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Retail super-giant Wal-Mart has fought its way to becoming the world’s largest company. Wal-Mart’s legendary supply chain technology has allowed them to break the three-day barrier that some economists in the eighties felt that it was unbreakable. In other words‚ Wal-Mart is often able to replenish items on the Wal-Mart shelf in less than three days – not from the central warehouse to the shelf‚ but from the manufacturer to the shelf. With quick and reliable 2-day turn around‚ Wal-Mart is able to
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VIRTUAL SUPPLY CHAIN Amazon.com EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report will show the meaning of e-commerce and e-business and how they intertwined with each other as exchange is done. It will also identify the different types of e-commerce especially business- to- business and business-to-consumers. It will also aim to identify the policy used by Amazon.com in managing their
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Apple Inc’s supply chain Apple Inc is the company that create a great innovation product development such as ipod ‚ iphone ‚ ipad ‚ Macbook . Apple’s products have been accepted about modern design‚ high quality and technology. Behind the success‚ Apple has a best supply chain management. The beginning of their supply chain start with the research and development product to make sure that can be making and have special things to surprise their customer. The products produce from a various sources
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* Supply Chain Management In IBM: * Early 1990’s: decentralized geographic and functional departments * Mid-late 1990’s: Distribution and logistics functions centralized into a global organization with world-wide responsibility * Early 2000’s: merger of Customer Fulfillment‚ Procurement‚ Manufacturing‚ and Global Logistics/Distribution functions into a new global Integrated Supply Chain function * Result: cost savings of $5.6B in 2002 and $7B in 2003 * A Case study
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Global Supply Chain Global Supply Chain Moderator: Panelists: Janice H. Hammond‚ Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing‚ Director of Faculty Planning William K.L. Fung‚ Group Managing Director‚ Li & Fung Ltd. Willy C. Shih‚ Professor of Management Practice‚ Technology and Operations Management Unit Marjorie M.T. Yang‚ Chairman‚ Esquel Group matter how large the order. But it then took The Limited three weeks to get the items from their distribution center to their stores. Mr. Fung
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Executive summary The e-Technology guide aims to analyse the practice of Green Supply Chain Management (GrSCM) adopted by different companies in the face of increasing impacts of business operations on environment. The guide will start with introducing the reasoning behind the decision of implementing GrSCM and discussing about GrSCM’s current and future development directions. More details regarding to the definition of GrSCM and in-depth analyses about its structure will be also elaborated. Besides
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