designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks‚ appliances and home accessories. The company is the world ’s largest furniture retailer. It was founded in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden. As of October 2010‚ the chain has 313 stores in 38 countries‚ most of them in Europe‚ North America‚ Asia and Australia. The word IKEA was an acronym of his name and address: Ingvar Kamprad and Elmtaryd‚ Agunnaryd--the name of his farm and the name of the village it was located
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"Supply chain management is the flow of goods‚ services‚ and information from the initial sources of materials and services to the delivery of products and activities occur in the same organization or in other organizations"(Horngren695). This approach enables Regal Marine (R.M) to be highly effective‚ efficient‚ and profitable. More over supply chain management effectively manage your supply chain by synchronizing the demand for your products with your production capabilities‚ optimizing your resource
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Q1. What is the virtual supply chain? Virtual supply chain (VSC)‚ which has been actively implemented by Amazon.com‚ is a supply chain integrating several different businesses in the sequence of delivering a product or service to the final customer. Since online retailers themselves do not manufacture any product‚ the cooperation with actual manufacturers is very important for customer service. It makes suppliers‚ manufacturers‚ distributors and warehousing agents of different tiers work as one
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Supply chain improvement Increasingly important in supply chain practice are attempts to improve supply chain performance. These are usually attempts to understand the complexity of supply chain processes; others focus on coordinating activities throughout the chain. • The SCOR model The Supply Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR) is a broad‚ but highly structured and systematic‚ framework to supply chain improvement that has been developed by the Supply Chain Council (SCC)‚ a global non-profit
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Kalra (2010 p. 2) “A supply chain consists of all parties involved‚ directly or indirectly‚ in fulfilling a customers request”. The parties extend from the suppliers of your suppliers to the customers of your customers at every stage of the supply chain (Supply Chain Management‚ UoL‚ Lecture note week 1). The successful management of the value adding activities of these parties to satisfy the customer’s demand and‚ make profit while at it‚ is the sole objective of supply chain management (Chopra
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2. Supply Chain Map……………………………….. 4 3. The Supply Chain………………………………… 5 3.1 Figure 1…………………………………………. 5 4. References………………………………………….. 7 1. Introduction This report shows you Apple’s iPhone supply chain. It will point out some areas that could be improved and will explain why Apple could have chosen this route for their supply chain. 2. Supply Chain Map 3. The Supply Chain The supply chain
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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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Supply Chain Management Introduction This paper identifies an existing supply chain management process within an organization. It describes the flow of materials to the organization‚ the organization ’s function‚ and the customer base that organization serves. The supply chain practice will be compared with other supply chain process. An analysis will be provided based on research and cost-benefit and the recommended changes. The paper has taken a supply chain process exists in the Minneapolis
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PERSONAL GOALS AMINA BHAIDANI HCS/301 SEPTEMBER 14‚2011 DR HAROLD VAN ALSTYNE PERSONAL GOALS Goal - The terminal point of race. The end toward which effort is directed. AIM. The score resulting from such an act (Webster 1972 ). Personal - Of related to. Belonging to a person ‚private ‚ directed to a single person . (Webster 1972 ) therefore personal goal to my understanding is aim of a person himself or herself. Aim of the person. My personal goal I would like to divide into
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challenging. I have chosen the second path to go for. My future goal is to expand the Hospitality firm into the field of Hospitality management and Property Management in the United States‚ Australia‚ Hong Kong . Within the next four years‚ I see myself as an entrepreneur of a large company. In order to accomplish this goal‚ however‚ I must deepen my knowledge of international business and economic issues. Also I need to have a professional certification which will be recognized all over the world
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