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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QUALITY ASSURANCE - is a part of quality management focused in providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled. There are internal and external audits: Internal Audit – may be performed by dedicated auditors from finance or quality departments or by personal engage by the manager responsible for the results of the process. External Audit – may be performed by costumers or regulators or by independent third parties. MEASUREMENT It tells us whether there has been a change in performance
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Sometimes when efforts are made to remedy a problem or an issue‚ the efforts made not only fail to improve things‚ but they also end up making things worse. Stated in the article Workplace Diversity Policies ‘don’t help’ – and ‘make men feel threatened’‚ programs implemented for the purpose of increasing and promoting diversity in work environments have been found in recent studies to have been less than effective. The main reason being insinuated in the article that is causing the attempts at diversifying
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Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education Business Administration Discipline BAN5413 -- Supply Chain & Logistics Module 2010 – 2011 (1st Semester) Assignment 1.0 Introduction The objectives of this assignment are for students: - collating information of real firms and associating them with what have learnt in the lectures; and - applying the knowledge learnt in lectures to analyse the case‚ to identify issues/problems and/or to formulate solutions/recommendations
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SUMMER PROJECT REPORT ON INBOUND & OUTBOUND LOGISTICS AND FOOD SECURITY MANAGEMENT AT KOHINOOR FOODS LIMITED In Partial Fulfillment of Award of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Global Business Management & Research) BY Gaurav Prakash ROLL NO.: 186 UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF Dr. P. Sivakumar (Associate Dean) PGDM (GB) Entrepreneurship and Management Processes International New Delhi- 74 August 2014 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The experience of working in Kohinoor
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Petlaca Fatima – chapter 16KK International Burch University Teoman Duman MANAGING RETAILING‚ WHOLESALING‚ AND LOGISTICS Retailing Retailing includes all the activities involved in selling goods or services directly to final consumers for personal‚ nonbusiness use. A retailer or retail store is any business enterprise whose sales volume comes primarily from retailing. Types of Retailers Consumers today can shop for goods and services in a wide
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Situation: Customer calls to our helpline are currently answered by an assistant who asks the customer if they are calling to report a new problem or to check the status of a previously reported issue. If the customer is calling about a previously reported issue‚ the assistant asks the customer for the Incident ID #. The assistant then places the customer on hold‚ calls a customer service representative‚ advises the representative of the reason for the call (new problem or Incident ID #)‚ and transfers
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Keith Westler Professor Allen English 100 25 April 2014 I’m a Writer When I first made the decision to go back to school I had two overwhelming fears. The first was my fear of public speaking‚ the other‚ and most prominent one‚ was the fact that I would have to write essays‚ research papers‚ and the like. I didn’t even accomplish this successfully over twenty years ago in high school‚ let alone at a college level! I made the decision that neither writing‚ nor any other obstacle‚ was going to
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I have a long way to go in order to become a successful writer. When a person writes something‚ they should have something to say. It seems that you really won’t have anything to say unless you actually analyze your surroundings‚ and honestly the amount of things we have to observe is endless. A weakness that I have improved on throughout the semester is organization of my writing. A lot of the times I would know what to say…but just not how to say it in my writing. When you specifically talked
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND RISK MANAGEMENT Global supply chain enables companies to expand beyond their domestic markets and expand globally .International supply chain could be viewed as an extension of the domestic supply chain if managed well .There are several forces which determines the success of international supply chain. Global market forces involves pressures and opportunities created by the foreign companies and customers .Overseas business sometimes is a defensive mechanism
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