Supply Chain Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry Dick Carlsson Södra Cell International AB‚ SE-351 89 Växjö‚ Sweden Sophie D’Amours FOR@C‚ CIRRELT‚ Université Laval‚ G1K 7P4‚ Québec‚ Canada Alain Martel FOR@C‚ CIRRELT‚ Université Laval‚ G1K 7P4‚ Québec‚ Canada Mikael Rönnqvist The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration‚ NO-5045 Bergen‚ Norway October 2006 Working Paper DT-2006-AM-3 Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks‚ Logistics and Transportation
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Supply Chain Management Introduction To Flipkart • Founder-Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal • Background- IIT Delhi and ex- Amazon • Year-2007 • Investment-4 lacs • Headquarters- Bangalore • Human Capital- 13000 employees • Current Valuation- 5$ Billion • Investors- Tiger Global‚ Accel Partners and South Africa‘s Naspers Product Portfolio • Books • Movies • Music • Games • Mobiles • Cameras • Computers • Healthcare and Personal Products • Home appliances and electronics • Stationary • Perfumes
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3.2 Supply chain industry A company’s supply chain is its central nervous system for how it creates and distributes a product. The industry is made up of the key players who participate in this process‚ including manufacturers‚ wholesalers or distributors‚ retailers and transportation companies. There are three main areas of a company’s supply chain. They include: (Refer to the Picture below) * Procurement or the “buying” process. This includes the purchasing of the raw materials needed to
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OF BUSINESS LOGISTICS‚ Vol.24‚ No.2‚ 2003 37 STRATEGIC SUPPLY CHAIN MAPPING APPROACHES by John T. Gardner SUNY Brockport and Martha C. Cooper The Ohio State University Visualizing‚ tracking‚ and managing supply chains all become more complicated as firms pursue outsourcing strategies and as firms’ supply and delivery systems become increasingly global. The authors suggest that not only is there a need to visualize the supply chain‚ there needs to be a well-established process for building the
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globalization and localization of environmental problems. Multiple business operations are responsible for most of these problems. Hence‚ the need for green supply chain management arises. Basically‚ this type of supply chain management addresses the impact of the supply chain processes of a particular organization on the environment. Green supply chain management has been defined in a lot of ways but the simplest and most prominent one among all would be to define it as “the usage of environmentally inputs
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BSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BSC LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Programme Overview The BSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management programme offered by the School of Business at SIM University (UniSIM) aims to develop human capital and talent to meet the needs of the industry. This is the first undergraduate programme dedicated to the study of logistics and supply chain management to be offered by a Singapore university. Partnering with the Singapore
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availability of the right product‚ in the right quantity‚ and the right condition‚ at the right place‚ at the right time‚ for the right customer at the right cost‚ is which definition of logistics? a. Seven Rs b. Council of Logistics Management c. Society of Logistic Engineers d. supply chain logistics ANSWER: a‚ Page 37 inside Table 2.1 11. Logistics is the process of anticipating customer needs and wants; acquiring the capital‚ materials‚ people‚ technologies‚ and information necessary to meet
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seasons would have already gone by and the supplies manufactured would be out of season. The company would have also missed the two or three style seasons that have already gone by. The only way to resolve this issue is to reduce the lead time by 15 weeks to being only 3 weeks lead time. To the left is a chart of the flows of product‚ information‚ and financial settlements between Miliken‚ apparel shops design & manufacture apparel‚ department store chain headquarters & distribution centers‚ and
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that would supply materials or parts to another company which would then supply materials or parts to another company which would then supply them to the manufacturer. A real world example of a second-tier supplier is “Wisconsin Aluminium” which supplies aluminium fuel filter housing to Mechanical Devices Company. Mechanical Devices uses the fuel filter housing on an engine component that they produce for Caterpillar Inc. Therefore‚ Wisconsin Aluminium is a second-tier supplier. b). Second
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The Burning Issue Meat is a major foodstuff in most western counties. Customers want they could purchase safe and fresh meat and this demand carries quite hard requirements to the meat supply chain management. In June‚ 2008‚ Australian supermarket giant Woolworth‚ has been exposed that provide contaminated lambs to their customers (www.recalls.gov.au). Woolworths now has a shopping centre in almost every metropolitan and regional centre of Australia and offer food to millions of customers
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