Purchasing exam Vraag 1 Statement: Purchasing is purely a tactic activity in an organization. a. True. b. False. Vraag 2 Which of the following phrases fits to the logistic expression: integral chain method? a. The client’s purchasing activity is the input for purchasing from my suppliers. b. All parts work for the end customer. c. All parts of the supply chain work for the end product d. Chain is only strong as its weakest part. Vraag 3 What is the goal of purchasing strategy? a.
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shopping experience. PunchOut allows a buyer to access Motionindustries.com‚ be automatically logged in‚ search the catalog and build a shopping cart—then return that cart as a pending purchase order to the buyer’s procurement system. Orders are then issued from the buyer’s procurement system and may be sent via EDI‚ CXML‚ Email or any other method that Motion Industries receives orders. There are three key elements to the PunchOut shopping experience: Customer Dashboard. This is the first page
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Mars Incorporated: On-line procurement Shelly Rungta Li Zhang Chih-Chang Chen (josh) Team Datamonsters Executive Summary: Mars is one of the world’s largest privately owned businesses with annual purchasing of $4 billion. The company is now running an online auction to induce competition and reduce the sourcing cost. In this case‚ the objective is to buy packages from multiple suppliers at the minimum possible cost. There are 12 different SKUs to be fulfilled from 7 different suppliers
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On a recent afternoon at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton‚ Calif.‚ students sat at picnic tables and bit into McDonald’s cheeseburgers‚ Subway sandwiches and Quiznos flatbreads. They didn’t have to travel far to get their fast-food fix for lunch. In fact‚ they didn’t even have to leave campus. The burgers and sandwiches were available right inside their school cafeteria. As they try to keep pace with student taste‚ lunchrooms across the country have given up meatloaf and mashed potatoes
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(2010)). 1. How should a reverse auction fit into the overall procurement strategy? 1.1 When to use reverse auction To begin with‚ it should be known that reverse auctions are not suitable or appropriate for all different types of procurement strategies. In other words‚ the pitfalls of reverse auctions are numerous but limiting reverse auctions’ uses to some certain circumstances can be worthwhile. Normally‚ a company’s procurement strategy should depend on the following two dimensions: *
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The Value Chain From Competitive Advantage‚ by Michael Porter Every firm is a collection of activities that are performed to design‚ produce‚ market‚ deliver‚ and support its product. All these activities can be represented using a value chain. A firm’s value chain and the way it performs individual activities are a reflection of its history‚ its strategy‚ its approach to implementing its strategy‚ and the underlying economics of the activities themselves. The relevant level for constructing a value
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hallenges to Global Logistics Adapting the Council of Logistics Management definition of logistics‚ “Global logistics plan‚ controls‚ and manages the movement and storage of goods‚ services‚ and related information as it moves across international boundaries from raw material provider to consumer also considering the handling of return goods and containers. While there are some that would argue that there is not much difference between domestic and international logistics‚ there are some substantial
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Content Executive Summary……………………………………………………2 1. Introduction……………………………………………………….….3 2. Production line……………………………………….………………3 3. Managerial challenges of LWT……………………………………..5 4. Job shop………………………………………………………………5 5. Managerial challenges of LWT…………………………………….7 6. Recommendation……………………………………………………8 8. Conclusion……………………………………………………………9 7. References…………………………………………………..………10 Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to analyze and research two types of manufacturing processes
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P * Procurement Definition: A basic definition for the procurement is “the way the building is realised” and “involves assembling and organising the skills and services of a team of construction professionals”. (the Construction Round Table‚ 1995). More precisely‚ the construction industry describes procurement as “a system that establishes the roles and relationships which make up a project organisation”; hence the overall organisation and communication structure for the management‚ administration
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PROJ410 Midterm Exam Study Guide YOU MAY WANT TO PRINT THIS GUIDE. 1. The Midterm Exam is open book‚ open notes. The maximum time that you can spend in the exam is two hours. If you have not clicked the Submit for Grade button by then‚ you will be automatically exited from the exam. In the Midterm Exam environment‚ the Windows clipboard is disabled‚ and so you still will not be able to copy exam questions or answers to or from other applications. 2. You should click the Save Answers button in
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