SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION UNDER SALES EFFORT FREE RIDING By DAHAI XING Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Beijing‚ China 2004 Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY July‚ 2012 COPYRIGHT c By DAHAI XING July‚ 2012 SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION UNDER SALES EFFORT FREE RIDING Dissertation Approved: Dr. Tieming
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(Heizer/Render) Chapter 11 Supply Chain Management Section 1 The Supply Chain’s Strategic Importance 1) Even though a firm may have a low cost strategy‚ supply-chain strategy can select suppliers primarily on response or differentiation. Answer: FALSE 2) The supply chain for a brewery would include raw ingredients such as hops and barley but not the manufactured goods such as bottles and cans. Answer: FALSE 3) When using the low-cost strategy for supply chain management‚ a firm should
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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 to address the inventory and service problem
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SCM – some definitions • Supply chain management (SCM) The coordination of all supply activities of an organization from its suppliers and partners to its customers. • Upstream supply chain Transactions between an organization and its suppliers and intermediaries‚ equivalent to buy-side e-commerce. • Downstream supply chain Transactions between an organization and its customers and intermediaries‚ equivalent to sell-side e-commerce. Members of the supply chain (a) simplified view (b) including
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that are not faced by Dell? How should Ford deal with these challenges? 3. If you are Teri Takai‚ what would you recommend to senior executives? Tow what degree should Ford emulate Dell’s business model? Herman Miller: Innovation by Design? (Supply Chain Strategy) 1. What are the main elements of Herman Miller’s history‚ design philospophy‚ and corporate values? How have they influenced the company’s success? 2. What led Miller SQA to develop a new business model to serve its market? What is
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT- ITS POLICY GUIDELINES IN ARNOLD PALMER HOSPITAL Arnold Palmer Hospital‚ one of the nation’s top hospitals dedicated to serving women and children‚ is a large business with over 2‚000 employees working in a 431-bed facility totaling 676‚000 square feet in Orlando‚ Florida. Like many other hospitals‚ and other companies‚ Arnold Palmer Hospital had been a long-time member of a large buying group‚ one servicing 900 members. But the group did have a few limitations. For example
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Chapter 10 Supply chain Strategy Review and Discussion Questions 1. What recent changes have caused supply chain management to gain importance? 2. With so much productive capacity and room for expansion in the United States‚ why would a company based in the United States choose to purchase items from foreign firm? Discuss the pros and cons. The use of foreign firms can provide a U.S. firm more alternatives in selecting a supplier. The pros are more choices‚ potentially reduced
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expands market area for firm C. Time utility : 1. logistics creates time utility by having goods and services available when demanded 2. this is accomplished through inventory management‚ transportation management‚ and strategic location of goods and services D. Possession utility : 1. created primarily through the basic marketing activities related to the promotion of products and services 2. however‚ possession utility does not occur without logistics support II. Economic Impacts of Logistics
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Right to the core | Official CIPS Magazine – Supply Management Page 1 of 9 The purchasing and supply website Right to the core 27 May 2010 | Richard Brass Tyrannical‚ secretive - and a huge success. Richard Brass investigates how Apple devised the ultimate supply chain In each of the past two years‚ AMR Research has named Apple’s supply chain the best in the world. Its operation‚ the supply chain consultancy says‚ marks “an epic shift away from the 20th-century production-efficiency mentality
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Supply Chain Management 1.6 EXAMPLES OF SUPPLY CHAIN Oleh : Astrid Toleransia Helida G 1106153694 UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA DEPOK 2012 Gateway : A Direct Sales Manufacturer 1. Why did Gateway have multiple production facilities in the US ? Because Gateway has a strategy that avoid carrying any finished-good inventory at the retail stores and simply use the stores for customer to try the PCs and obtain help in deciding on the right configuration to purchase.
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