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    should be judged according to five criteria: relevance‚ accuracy‚ timeliness‚ clarity‚ and visibility. Deficiencies in any of these areas will weaken the decisionmaking process. Ensuring the quality of information is critical for effective supply chain management. Unfortunately‚ the complexity of the task intimidates many companies into settling for inefficiencies and inaccuracies. As a result‚ decisions are based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that can be ambiguous‚ imprecise or even incorrect

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    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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    FINAL Assignment Supply Chain Management of NIKE Inc. Table of Contents 1- Company Overview 2- Raw Material (i) Amazon BIOME Leather Sourcing Policy (ii) NIKE Animal Skin Policy (iii) NIKE MSI (Materials Sustainability Index) (iv) How Scores are calculated in NIKE MSI 3- Competitive Advantage with respect to raw material Sustainability 4- Waste 5- Suppliers 6- Supplier Practices with respect to sustainability (i) RSL Program (ii) NIKE Water Program (iii) NIKE Energy

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    for examination 1. Which of the following statements is correct? A. Recent trends such as lean manufacturing and offshoring decrease the level of risk in the supply chain. B. Accurate forecasting techniques solve most supply chain problems. C. Many retailers observe that inventory levels fluctuate considerably across a supply chain. D. In general‚ the total inventory costs are higher than the total transportation costs in the overall logistics costs for a country. 2. There can be many reasons

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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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    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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    Q1. Consider the supply chain involved when a customer purchases a book at a bookstore. Identify the cycles in this supply chain and the location of the push/pull boundary. When a customer purchases a book from the book store‚ a complete supply chain cycle which involves procurement‚ manufacturing‚ distribution‚ replenishment and customer delivery takes place. The different supply chain cycles are quite separated in this case because each cycle occurs at the interface between two successive stages

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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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    Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains‚ 10e (Krajewski et al.) Chapter 14 Forecasting 1) The repeated observations of demand for a product or service in their order of occurrence form a pattern known as a time series. Answer: TRUE Reference: Demand Patterns Difficulty: Easy Keywords: time series‚ repeated observations 2) One of the basic time series patterns is random. Answer: TRUE Reference: Demand Patterns Difficulty: Easy Keywords: time series‚ pattern‚ random

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    being made in other countries even though it was destined for a U.S. company. Technology has been a major force in the change of the marketplace. Social media has become an increasing role in business organizations and eventually will influence supply chains because they have a strong impact on the customers demand. The new CEO of SAB‚ Susan Weber‚ will have to embrace the new technology and keep up with it because it will be key to success. A good technique to organizational consolidation is collaborating

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