Supply Chain Management: Assignment K Line Ship management (KLSM) is a ship management company located in Singapore and involved in the technical management of a fleet of 30 container and tanker ships. It is a fully owned subsidiary company of K Line in Japan and all the ships managed by KLSM are owned by its parent company in Japan. Technical management activities include provision on crew members to man the ships‚ implementing and maintaining safety and quality management systems on board
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1. Given some of the problems with Sippican’s cost system‚ should executives abandon overhead assignment to product entirely and adopt a contribution margin approach? Why or why not? The overhead spending is greater than the direct labour costs or the direct material costs for all three product lines- Valves‚ Pumps and Flow Controllers (Exhibit 2). Overheads are simply charged at 185% constant for three diverse products. The fact that there is huge variance in the number of units produced per
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Question 2: Should Merloni replace its network of regional warehouses with transit points? if so‚ what contigency plans and support systems are necessary to support the new logistics network? if not‚ what changes‚ if any‚ would you recommend Merloni make to its distribution system? Answer 2: The company should go for selective Cross docking. Cross docking should be done for retail outlets which have had low inventory costs as well as low backlog cost in the past. It should also be done for comparatively
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of other companies‚ software development‚ the advent of the Internet‚ and more competition. 3. How can a small business like a local sandwich shop or bicycle shop benefit from supply chain management? All businesses including small ones can adopt SCM in piecemeal fashion to suit their needs. Small businesses can still develop supplier alliances‚ use the Internet to find supplies‚ and find ways to endear themselves to their customers 4. How do the firm’s customers benefit from supply chain management
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improvements in the RMGI too. Supply time refers to the time required for supplying ordered garment products after the export order has received. Using modern fast and effective machinery can reduce time taken to deliver the order. The implementation of SCM had been beneficial as this helped in improving the communication channels‚ production and services of the companies. Considering the important role of apparel manufacturers within the global chain‚ we conducted a research on the Bangladesh garments
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Edward Deming Quality is “uniformity and dependability” Focus on SPC and statistical tools “14 Points” for management PDCA method‚ plan‚ do‚ check‚ act Joseph Juran Quality is “fitness for use” Pareto Principle Cost of Quality General management approach as well as statistics Kaizen: Japanese term for continuous improvement. A step-by-step improvement of business processes. DMAIC‚ define‚ measure‚ analysis‚ improve‚ control Shingo’s argument: SQC methods do not prevent defects Defects
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Birla Institute of Technology & Science‚ Pilani Distance Learning Programmes Division Second Semester 2008-2009 Comprehensive Examination (EC-2 Regular) Course No. Course Title Nature of Exam Weightage Duration Date of Exam Note: 1. 2. 3. 4. : QMJ ZG621 : SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT : Open Book : 60% : 3 Hours : 05/04/2009 (AN) No. of Pages =2 No. of Questions = 5 Please follow all the Instructions to Candidates given on the cover page of the answer book. All parts of a question should be answered
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M21EKM Supply Chain Management NISSAN Cogent Group B Panjai Sangkeaw (5349708) Grigor Dimitrov (5947308) Nuksit Jarusiripipat (5943997) Pannag (5403723) Guanyun Yang (5028456) Liu Yang (5912317) PANJAI SANGKEAW (5349708) Product Development • Creating new product or improving: – Cost – Quality – Performance – Time (Bhuiyan 2011 and Primo and Amundson 2001 ) • Achieve business goals – Entering new markets – Selling more to existing customer – Winning business from competitors (Chron 2014) Product
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Canon has employed Hong Kong as there logistics hub because Hong Kong has excellent transportation facilities and the geographical advantages to the factories in mainland China. We classified the inventory module into the following characteristics Spare parts inventory: Canon keep lot of spare parts that only has a few percentage to be damage such as solar cell‚ ink-jet roller‚ PCB etc ‚ it is because Canon understand after sales services is essential to retain the customers and keeping the
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ERP‚ MRP‚ Make-to-Order‚ and Make-to-Stock Adriana Castillo New Mexico State University BCIS 502 Steven T. Leask‚ PhD March‚ 13‚ 2013 Enterprise Resource Planning includes a function called Material Requirement Planning. This function schedules the needed components for production. These schedules are related the production planning process‚ which could be Make-to-Order or Make-to-Stock. Enterprise Resource Planning is a software used in business to organize it‚ keep communication between
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