Case Write-Up: LEGO Group-An Outsourcing Journey Q1 LEGO’s main expectations and learnings from the relationship with Flextronics LEGO’s main expectation was to optimize its global supply chain by saving cost and reducing production complexity from the cooperation with Flextronics. However‚ the contract between those two lasted for only 3 years. In the end‚ LEGO re-took control of plants in Czech Republic‚ Hungary and opened a new site in Mexico Lessens LEGO received from this unsuccessful
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Level 6 Global Supply Chain Presentation Briefing Notes Some General Points of Guidance You do not need to conduct in depth analysis using the equations we have looked at in supply chain planning or in global supply chain design You can consider the different variables which are used in these equations‚ which impact on supply chain planning and network design Part of the task is to manage the level of content in the time period you have. In your future careers you will be asked to present on
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Chapter 4 Supply Chain Study Guide Sustainable Sourcing Green Purchasing Practice aimed at ensuring that purchased products or materials meet environmental objectives of the organization Waste reduction‚ hazardous material elimination‚ recycling‚ manufacturing and material reuse Globally recognized Institute for Supply management- “making environmentally conscious decisions throughout the purchasing process‚ beginning with product and process design‚ and throughout product disposal” Sustainability
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trends of supply chain management in the pharmaceutical industry. Basically supply chain management touches every function of the business such as: marketing‚ sourcing‚ manufacturing‚ logistics‚ inventory management‚ information technology‚ and customer relations. The main purpose of supply chain is to satisfy customer needs and to generate business profits‚ but for pharmaceutical industry supply chain management is way more complex than that. The key drivers for a pharmaceutical supply chain excellence
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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 Management Solution for Hindustan Unilever : Case Study Existing Situation With nearly 1000 products‚ HLL distributes them nationally through a network of four warehouses‚ more than 40 agents‚ 7‚500 wholesalers and a number of large institutional customers. HLL‚ in its endeavor to move from the existing push-based planning system to a pull-based system‚ wanted to build a Supply Chain Management (SCM) solution that would ensure informed decisions are made during procurement‚ manufacturing
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2. Case: Evolution of the Xbox supply chain a. What supply chain changes did Microsoft make between the Xbox and the Xbox 360? What was the motivation for these changes? First Microsoft restructured its supply chain after learning from its experiences with the Xbox. Microsoft Xbox had already established a huge presence in the videogame market‚ but by the time Xbox 360 was rolled out‚ it had lost a substantial amount of money. "One analyst estimated that from the time of Xbox launch to the time
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logistics? (pg 3) 2. What is possession utility? (pg 3) 3. What is place utility? (pg 3) 4. What are the types of economic utility? (pg 3) 5. What is the systems approach? (pg 9) 6. What is physical distribution? (pg 10) CH 5 7. What year did the supply chain management concept emerge? (pg 79) 8. What is the supply chain definition? (pg 79) 9. What are the three main supply chain models? (pg 80) 10. What traits should contemporary supply chain have? (pg
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FACULTY OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SEMESTER 2‚ 2014 LOGT2003 Purchasing and Supply Chain Management GROUP ASSIGNMENT Name of Student ID Number Batch No. 1 Wong Sin Huey D130011A LM13-A 2 Ong Lim Ru Cheng D130053A LM13-B 3 Tee Chea Ping D130213B LM13-B 4 Tan Siew Yi D130250B LM13-B 5 Beh Hwee Kun D130336B LM13-B Introduction BHK Trading the nation ’s partner in the domestic paddy and rice industry‚ BHK Trading and its group of companies are involved in the procurement and processing of paddy as
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Presented by Vaibhav S. Shah INDEX SR NO. DETAILS OF CONTENT PAGE NO. 1 Organization Details 4 2 Vision‚Mission‚Philosophy 5 3 Plant Locations 6 4 Product Line 7 5 Competitors 15 6 Raw Material Required 16 7 Manufacturing Process 17 8 Promotion Strategy 23 9 Distribution Details 24 10 Customer Detail 26 11 Supply Chain Management 27 12 References 30 Organization Detail Name: Nirma Limited‚ Inception of Nirma Nirma is one of the most recognizable Indian brands.
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