Case Study #3: A Pain in the (Supply) Chain Highlights This case is about the bullwhip effect and supply chain coordination Read “A pain in the (supply) chain” in the course pack and the supply chain integration (bullwhip effect) chapter in the textbook. To meet the target of 9% sales growth‚ Exceso Corporation (the manufacturer) starts an aggressive promotion (sharp discount in the price) to its retailers‚ despite the obvious downside of doing so. Please read the case carefully and
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2012PGP097 Vineet Jain 2012PGP061 IRCTC-CATERING SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS AND SUGGESTIONS FINAL REPORT Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 The Mission of IRCTC 3 The Business activities of IRCTC includes 3 OBJECTIVES OF CATERING POLICY 4 DESIRED SERVICE OFFERING 4 SERVICE QUALITY DIMENSIONS 4 MAJOR QUALITY INITIATEVES BY IRCTC 5 IRCTC CATERING PROFILE 5 Food products catered by IRCTC: 6 THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF IRCTC CATERING SERVICE 7 CURRENT STATUS AND CAPACITY OF IRCTC
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Supply Chain Management Network Design and Facility Location Classical Theories von Thunen Agricultural activity occurs in a “limitless plain of equal fertility” with a city in the middle Theorized that: City price = origin price + transport costs Transport costs = f {weight & distance} As a result Products having high weight/value ratio should be produced near the city (see next slide) Other Contributions Land values decrease as move from city More intense land utilization near
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Question: How does Operations and Supply Chain Mgmt enhance company profitability? 1. Content 2. Charts and Graphs 3. Evidence to support your position 4. Examples that highlight your conclusion Table of Contents: I. Executive Summary…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 II. Operations Management and Profitability………………………………………………………………………………….3 III. Supply Chain Management and Profitability……………………………………………………………………………….5 IV. Examples/Case Studies………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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The accelerated rate of change in the telecommunications arena is always a topic close to the hearts of all stakeholders in the industry. Analyzing the different dynamics at play in the sector has never been so interesting. The former monopoly environment has been dragged kicking and screaming into an era of almost Adam Smith-like demand and supply‚ something that it was certainly a long way from even a few years ago. So‚ what has changed on both the demand and supply sides of the equation?
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ndex 1. What has caused the so-called Inventory/Service "Crisis"? 1 2. What are the important "drivers" of safety stock? 2 3. Recommend quantitative target inventory levels for the six European options‚ assuming a weekly periodic review replenishment. 4 4. Assuming a 20% gross margin for each printer‚ sea transportation costs of $1 per printer and air transportation costs of $10 per printer (air shipment lead-time is three days)‚ evaluate the various alternatives available to Brent Cartier
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Provide a summary of the case; Then draw a map of all the supply chain components from beginning to end... like my diagrams in lecture 0 & 1 2. Do a SWOT analysis on what you’ve 3. What would you change? 4. Why? Then present all this in a class discussion. Ultimately I want you to incorporate this into David Taylor’s Case Analysis Structure (see Moodle Doc). Why was the QR approach significant in improving the company supply chain performance? Implementation of a Quick Response (QR) system
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1 How can 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
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that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you’ve got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.” What this quote is saying is that anything that you want to accomplish will have obstacles and you have to have the will to overcome them. I‚ too‚ have set goals for myself and had to face obstacles to complete them. People have to face many obstacles in their lives such as losing friends due to excessive
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announced that Apple Inc. would have an almost entirely new board of directors‚ an aggressive advertising campaign and an alliance with Microsoft. Apple Inc. also managed its business largely on a geographic basis. Jobs had an innovative style of management since he returned to Apple Inc.‚ he made ideas on how to turn the company’s performance around. He consistently pushed for new‚ innovative ideas and products and also enforced several structural changes‚ including ridding the company of unprofitable
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