The Importance of Supply Chain Management Supply chain management (SCM) is very important and effective to all companies. David Simchi-Levi‚ Philip Kaminsky‚ and Edith Simchi-Levi defines supply chain management as “a set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate suppliers‚ manufacturers‚ warehouses‚ and stores‚ so that merchandise is produced and distributed at the right quantities‚ to the right locations‚ and at the right time‚ in order to minimize systemwide costs while satisfying service
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The reading on sustainable supply chain management (Ram Nidumolu‚ C.K. Prahalad‚ and M.R. Rangaswami‚ 2009; B. Ageron‚ A. Gunasekaran‚ A. Spalanzani‚ 2012) shows that the sustainable business development has received a great deal of attention from governments and both profit and non-for-profit organizations to environmental‚ social and corporate responsibility. It is vital for companies to take seriously thinking about manufacturing and service sustainability‚ and underscore the importance of sustainability
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hi-tech supply chain managers are being tasked to manage risks to their supply chains in their increasingly competitive and innovative environments. This study proposes risk mitigation methodologies relevant to the hi-tech industry. The proposed risk methodologies are based on analysis of the supply-chain characteristics inherent to the hi-tech industry‚ vulnerabilities in the upstream and downstream hi-tech supply chain and successful steps taken by hi-tech firms in response to supply chain disruptions
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goal of the supply chain‚ sometimes referred to as the value chain‚ is to create value. In an end-customers’ context‚ value is the measure of desire for a product and its related services (1) customer relationship management‚ (2) customer service management‚ (3) demand management‚ (4) order fulfilment‚ (5) manufacturing flow management‚ (6) supplier relationship management‚ (7) product development and commercialization‚ and (8) returns management. actually frame the supply chain business model
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MKT B370 Operations Management SPECIMEN EXAMINATION PAPER Important Note: This specimen examination paper serves solely as an illustration of the types of questions which may be contained in the examination. Students should not construe these questions as the actual examination questions nor part of the actual examination paper. In addition‚ this specimen examination paper does not purport to represent the complete scope or coverage of the course and the distribution of the topics to be examined
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Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR): Information about (SCC) Developed by Supply Chain Council (SCC) SCC: Independent‚ not-for-profit corporation organized in 1996 by: Global management-consulting firm‚ Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM) and Market research firm‚ Advanced Manufacturing Research (AMR) in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. Started with 69 voluntary companies; now close to 1000 members. SCC Objective: To develop a standard supply-chain process reference model enabling effective
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International Logistics Written Assignment Logistics and Supply Chain Management Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary 3 2.0 Introduction and Background 4 3.0 Literature Review 5 4.0 Recommendations 8 Reference List 10 1.0 Executive Summary The globalisation of markets has increased customer demand and product differentiation. Higher quality products and shorter delivery times are essential for maintaining customer satisfaction
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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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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY IN INTERNATIONAL FIRM- IBM Bragança‚ 2014 Contents Introduction 3 Products and services 4 Products and services characteristics influence the logistic/supply chain strategy 5 Key customers and location: 7 Key suppliers and location 7 Distribution channels used 9 Manufacturing facilities and location 11 Warehouses facilities and location 11 Modes of transportation used 12 Figure to represent the entire supply chain 13 Other characteristics of international operations
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4-3 Short Paper: The Boeing Company A supply chain is a series of integrated processes within and across a company that produce a product or service to meet the demands of a consumer (Krajewski‚ et. al.‚ 2013). Every company has a specific supply chain design and this design is implemented to meet the company’s competitive priorities. Supply chain management refers to the coordination of the company’s processes with those of customers and suppliers to match the flow of services‚ materials‚ and
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