MSc (Eng) in Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management (IELM6046) 1st Semester – 2013/2014 Year Session 1 – Room LE9 – 7:00 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. Introduction & Objectives of Supply Management (September 3‚ 2013) (Class B) Dr. Stephen W. K. Ng (stephenng@ipshk.org) 1 MSc. in IELM – Supply Management (IELM 6046) – 2013‐2014 Copyright @ QuST 2013 Prof. Stephen W. K. Ng – HKU When we wake up in the morning
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: PUSH AND PULL BASED CHAINS INTRODUCTION Fierce competition in today’s global markets‚ the introduction of products with shorter life cycles‚ and the heightened expectations of customers have forced business enterprises to invest in‚ and focus attention on‚ their supply chains. This‚ together with continuing advances in communications and transportation technologies (e.g.‚ mobile communication‚ Internet‚ and overnight delivery)‚ has motivated the continuous evolution of
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and conventional markets are demanding higher quality yields at lower cost unfortunately in a shorter time. Consequently‚ food processing firms have been required to reorganize their food processing activities and readjust their global marketing and supply strategies. Nestle has moved fromvertically integrated‚ centralized‚ single site processing facilities to geographically spread networks of resources. Pursuant to acquire technological experience and asset swiftly‚ or to attain a local existence in
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weeks). In operations management‚ coordinating activities to come together is one thing; another aspect is finding how long this will take is another. In project management‚ the planning‚ directing and controlling resources to meet the technical‚ cost‚ and time constraints of a project are crucial to success! Some of the tools used to determine these constraints include networking and determining the critical path of a project‚ which is the sequence of activities that forms the longest chain in terms
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Supply Chain Management of Fruits and Vegetables - A Case Study N T Sudarshan Naidu Abstract India is witnessing rapid changes in retailing with urbanization‚ increase in disposable income‚ changing lifestyle‚ preferences and eating habits of its population. India with diverse agro-climatic conditions offers both opportunities and challenges in retailing of fruits and vegetables. Concentration of production with small and medium farmers in remote areas without proper infrastructure facilities and
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explain the three ways to decrease process throughput time. 1) Perform activities in parallel a. A serial approach results in the throughput time for the entire process being the sum of individual steps plus transport and waiting time between steps. Using a parallel approach can reduce throughput time by as much as 80 percent and produces a better result. 2) Change the sequence of activities b. Altering the sequence of activities can make the process more efficient. 3)
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Supply Chain Management Case Study Report: Sport Obermeyer Q #1. Where would you place production? Although the article argues that they intended to place about half of its all production to China‚ I would personally shift more than half of its production toward Hong Kong if you are talking about the current market. I’m not quite sure if it’s about population of skiers/snowborders‚ but apprently a number of ski resorts went out of business in the past decade and we are faced with the
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Unit-4 Secondary objectives of materials management: secondary objectives are limited in number or in scope as primary objectives. Since they represent the materials management contribution to the achievement of primary objectives of some other departments‚ they can vary widely from industry to industry. 1. Reciprocal relations: when a company deliberately buys as much as possible from its own customers it is said to practice reciprocity. 2. New materials and products: engineering and manufacturing
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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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What is operations management? Operations management defined Operations management is the activity of managing the resources which are devoted to the production and delivery of products and services. 1 The consultancy services market – % of world revenues of 40 largest consultancy firms Financial 6 Organizational design 11 Marketing / sales 2 Operations and process management 31 Benefits / actuarial 16 Corporate strategy 17 IT strategy 17 The operations function is fashionable
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