The Incident Command System (ICS) was first developed and introduced in the 1970’s when a string of catastrophic fires were springing up in California. The destruction of property created by the fires produced skyrocketed in the millions causing many people to be seriously injured or perish during the event. The individuals who were assigned to investigate the cause of these fires in California studied the case histories and discovered that response efforts to battle such catastrophes could be
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The Topic of interest in this essay is “Supply Chain” Definition: A supply chain is a network of suppliers‚ manufacturer and distributors which helps in transformation of raw materials into valuable products and delivering them to the customers at right price‚ right place and right time. The concept of supply chain applies not only to the physical products but also to services. In the case of services‚ suppliers become service supporter‚ manufacturer becomes service creator and the distributors
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The Value Chain All of the functions of a company—such as production‚ marketing‚ product development‚ service‚ information systems‚ materials management‚ and human resources—have a role in lowering the cost structure and increasing the perceived value of products through differentiation. As the first step in examining this concept‚ consider the value chain‚ which is illustrated in Figure 3.5.11 The term value chain refers to the idea that a company is a chain of activities that transforms inputs
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Value Chain Analysis “Value chain analysis (VCA) is a process where a firm identifies its primary and support activities that add value to its final product and then analyze these activities to reduce costs or increase differentiation.” The concept comes from business management and was first described and popularized by Michael Porter in Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance 1985 The activity of a diamond cutter can illustrate the difference between cost and
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Executive Summary Value chain management has become more and more important in industry in past decades. This report provides an insight view of value chain in automotive industry and then examine leadership role of engineer in value chain management. Furthermore‚ the report will analyse why engineer is so important in management of value chain. Analysis of value chain Automotive industry plays an important pillar role in the economic development of all countries. This is because the development
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distribution channel is the specific chain of businesses or intermediaries through which products or services flow till these arrive the end customer. This encompasses wholesalers‚ retailers‚ distributors or the internet or web-based. Channels can be classified into direct and indirect channels. A direct channel enables the customer to purchase the products from the manufacturer‚ and an indirect channel enables the customer to purchase the items from wholesaler or retailer. A distribution channel is a
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http://www.slideshare.net/himadrisingha/barilla-spa-a-case-on-supply-chain-integration http://www.scribd.com/doc/22320494/Barilla-SpA http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~liush/MOIT/Barilla%20Case%20Study.pdf http://www.scribd.com/doc/7325445/Barilla-SpA-Case-Solution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgBY5wn0aE The Barilla SpA (Harvard Case) Qian Wang Tsai-Lan Huang Xiaoqing Ge February 2‚ 2000 Summary The JITD initiative at Barrila drew a lot of internal and external objections which
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Map the Supply Chain MKT 421 `May 6‚ 2015 Mr. Ahmer Allauddin Map the Supply Chain The supply chain coordination is a very important process in the “A supply chain is the network of all the individuals‚ organizations‚ resources‚ activities and technology involved in the creation and sale of a product‚ from the delivery of source materials from the supplier to the manufacturer‚ through to its eventual delivery to the end user” (Whatis.com‚ 2015). The supply chain coordination is a very important
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chart of the flows of product‚ information‚ and financial settlements between Miliken‚ apparel shops design & manufacture apparel‚ department store chain headquarters & distribution centers‚ and the retail stores. As you can see‚ there is two way communication between each part of the supply chain that is next to one another but not up or down the chain‚ for example; the retails stores and the department headquarters communicate but the retail stores do not communicate with Miliken or the apparel
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Value Chain Can be understand how goods and services move through an organization and value is added to them. We can see above the horizontal line activity center they´re called support activities. Below the horizontal line are primary activities. Inbound Logistics which have to do with the getting raw materials into the company. Raw materials are not only one of the company´s success factors‚ its largest input. Suits&Co doesn´t use the fabric of domestic manufacture – because they don´t
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