Exercise Lecture 1 – Chapter 2 Inventory Management 1. A drugstore sells bandages for $5 per box. The monthly demand for this product has a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 30. The store adopts a continuous review policy in which the order quantity equals the average demand for one month and the reorder point equals 43 boxes. The lead time for an order is one week‚ where each month contains exactly four weeks. a. What is the cycle service level for this product
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Global Auto Industry The main problem of the global auto industry is the declining market in developed nations. Increased competition between domestic auto companies and foreign auto companies has caused an oversaturation of the market with minimal potential buyers. Before the recession‚ banks were giving out loans to people who could not afford them. Once the housing bubble burst‚ crumbling markets around the world‚ banks were forced to become more selective about potential borrowers. The economic
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Supply Chain Management (ENGM078) Sainsbury’s Supply Chain Strategies Arghavan Keivani 6150405 March 2011 A brief introduction to Sainsbury’s and its background J Sainsbury plc (Sainsbury’s) was founded in 1869 and is considered as a top UK-based food retailer having around 150‚000 employees. It drives a chain consist of 500 supermarkets and 290 smaller format stores through the country which offer groceries‚ electricals‚ clothing‚ homewares‚ DVD rentals and financial services. There
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INDIAN AUTO INDUSTRY …. the way forward Presentation bySunil Kakkar General Manager (SupplyChain) Maruti Suzuki India Ltd Indian auto industry : Among the top 10 in world Two Wheelers Small Cars Commercial Vehicles 2nd 3rd 5th Automobile Industry – A Global Hub • • • • • 15 manufacturers of passenger cars and multi-utility vehicles‚ 9 manufacturers of commercial vehicles‚ 16 manufacturers two/ three wheelers‚ 14 manufacturers tractors‚ 5 manufacturers of engines. Key drivers for the
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Company’s FDI destination‚ it focuses on two countries‚ namely China and Japan. China is the largest developing country in the world which has been experiencing rapid economic growth for a long time‚ while Japan is a country famous for its manufacturing industry products‚ ABC Company can only choose one country to invest in. In order to make the right choice‚ both FDI destinations are analyzed
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INTRODUCTION A supply chain is a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials‚ transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products‚ and the distribution of these finished products to customers. Supply chains exist in both service and manufacturing organizations‚ although the complexity of the chain may vary greatly from industry to industry and firm to firm. Supply chain management‚ then‚ is the active management of supply chain
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Information Systems in Supply Chain Management ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Chao Hsuan‚ Liu (41845491) ABSTRACT Information systems (IS) for the supply chain management have become critical tools for synchronizing information among the customers and suppliers of a supply chain (McLaren et al.‚ 2004). Moreover‚ the supply chain concept has become a concern because of global competition and increasing customer demand. Thus
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Supply chain can be defined as "a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials; transformation of these material into intermediate and finished products; and distribution of these finished products to customers‚ (Wikipedia. 2006)‚ the flow of resources into and out of the enterprise ’s collective operations. (Ichnet‚ 2006)‚ or‚ all of the elements in the process that enables the delivery of a product to a customer beginning with the customer
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Risks in Global Supply Chain Project Thesis Submitted by Kashif Shabab Submitted to Professor Dr. Jan-Philipp Büchler Summer Semester 2011 / 2012 Table of contents 1 Introduction 6 2 Global Supply Chain 7 2.1 Supply chain management: schools of thought............................................................8 2.1.1 The functional chain awareness school……………
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Value Chain Vs. Supply Chain Value Chain versus Supply Chain Value chain is a systematic approach to examine the development of competitive advantage and it consists of a series of activities that create and build value. In addition‚ it categorizes the generic value-adding activities of an organisation. The supply Chain key areas of concerns are forecasting‚ purchasing‚ production planning‚ warehousing and distribution; In addition‚ manufacturing of the product and its distribution. Additionally
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