hamburger fast food chain‚ operating in 119 countries. The company began in 1940 and is headquartered in Illinois. As one of the most powerful brands in the world‚ their signature golden arches are a symbol recognized immediately by most. Our group chose to do our report on McDonald’s because it is one of the most well-known corporations worldwide‚ and was listed as number three on Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 List for 2012. This was recently announced at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference
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Transportation Research Part E 39 (2003) 95–121 www.elsevier.com/locate/tre Adopting new technologies for supply chain management Kirk A. Patterson a‚ Curtis M. Grimm b‚ Thomas M. Corsi a c‚* c Department of Operational Sciences‚ Graduate School of Engineering and Management‚ Air Force Institute of Technology‚ USA b Robert H. Smith School of Business‚ University of Maryland‚ College Park‚ MD 20742‚ USA Supply Chain Management Center‚ Robert H. Smith School of Business‚ University of Maryland
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Introduction All business is both customers for some other businesses ’ product and services‚ and suppliers of products and services to their own customers or other business. So no operation‚ or part of operation‚ can be seen as existing in isolation. Every operation is part of a network of suppliers and customers. In this age of international market and competition‚ a company ’s competitiveness rests on its ability to provide desired goods and services. Supply chain management is one of the hot
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Introduction: IKEA is a privately held‚ international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks‚ appliances and home accessories. The company is the world ’s largest furniture retailer. It was founded in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden. As of October 2010‚ the chain has 313 stores in 38 countries‚ most of them in Europe‚ North America‚ Asia and Australia. The word IKEA was an acronym of his name and address: Ingvar Kamprad and Elmtaryd
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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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......... 7 II. Supply chain management...................................................................................... 8 2.1 Concept of Supply Chain Management.......................................................... 8 2.2 Elements of the Supply Chain......................................................................... 9 2.3 Three levels of Supply Chain Management.....................................................11 2.4 Supply Chain Management Technology…….......
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In the article‚ “Chrysler Averts a Parts Crisis‚” by Jeffrey Ball‚ in the Wall Street Journal‚ readers get a small glimpse of how major businesses utilize just-in-time systems and how they may be impacted during a national crisis such as September 11th. Just-in-time is getting the right quantity of goods to the right place exactly at the right time. The goal is to get products at a certain place not too early and not too late‚ instead‚ just-in-time.(1) Just-in-time systems is an inventory strategy
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Mondays writing Homework What do you need to do? 1. Think yourself in designing a product that you would like to produce. Your goal is that you will open your own business and you are in need to write your business plan right from the scratch. It could be manufacturing goods or a pure service or both. Anything that you like. The product could be a small healthy cookie‚ a balanced diet for campus students or for employees in a large office restaurant‚ or a small leisure time activity‚ a game‚ a
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strategy in the logistic and supply chain management. This report divides the distribution strategies into four parts to analyse it comprehensively. There are centralized and decentralized decision-making management strategy‚ cross-docking strategy‚ postponement strategy and outsourcing strategy. Firstly‚ it introduces the centralized and decentralized decision-making management for distribution. It is mainly focus on the comparison of two kinds of the decision-making management and their advantages and
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Supply Chain Strategies Integrated Supply Chain Management BUS631 Matthew Keogh This paper shall discuss the concept of supply chain strategies of Hewlett-Packard organization. Strategic planning and modeling (SPaM) is the Hewlett-Packard (HP) supply chain planning‚ analysis‚ and modeling system. “Hewlett-Packard ’s strategic planning and modeling (SPaM) team refined an approach using true optimization coupled with scenario analysis‚ selectively focused on the most
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