IB- Supply Chain Management 1. Practical phenomenon Purchasing function is getting more and more important and this position is more or less cross-function job. For big organization‚ however‚ the trend of purchasing function is centralized or central-led‚ which means headquarter performs as central purchaser. In this business cycle‚ agencies perform as important entities. For example‚ Macintosh (www.macintosh.nl) group is facing the problem of changing the organization. During a few years development
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Different modes of transportation: * Water * Railroad * Pipeline * Airline What is the best mode of transporation? (Consider the following): * Noise‚ congestion‚ global warming‚ up- and downstream‚ air pollution‚ accidents * Speed‚ flexibility‚ safety Example: Germany in the 50’s (making coal/steel)‚ what would be the best mode of transportation? * Railroads What is the idea behind “Truckload”? * You need to utilize the cargo of a truck‚ in simple words fill it
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY – KANIKA GUPTA EPGDIM 2011-13 SUPPLY CHAIN OF HINDUSTAN PENCILS Hindustan Pencils Limited is the largest primary school stationary manufacturing company in India. They were established in 1958 & have mastered the art of making high quality stationary products. With the latest machinery set up‚ today our state of the art manufacturing units daily produce 5.6 million pencils‚1.2 million sharpeners‚ 2.3 million erasers
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January 2006 The 11 Greatest Supply Chain Disasters Introduction Many of us rightly take pride in the growing recognition role of supply chain both within companies and in the public markets. An increasing number of companies cite supply chain initiatives and prowess in annual reports and meetings with financial analysts. But of course the opposite effect must then also occur – supply chain snafus are increasingly cited by CEOs and CFOs to explain poor financial performance. Which
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Supply Chain Management- Paint Industry By: Purvi Mehta Abstract The purpose of this paper is to outline the importance and benefits‚ paint industry can achieve through supply chain integration. These benefits are primarily in the area of achieving superior customer service and operating with lower working capital. A three level framework for achieving the integration has been proposed which is in the form of structural integration‚ process integration and performance integration. The paper also
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acquisition process. (need to advertisement‚but competitive is very differcult) l. Ensure supply continuity. (if competitive bidding‚ price high‚ supplier will leave) 4. When compared with single sourcing‚ multiple sourcing -> (lower risk)has the advantage of: dual and cross also double supplier‚ -dual is 2 different supplier to support same product. Cross is the supplier supply A‚ also need to supply B at the same time. m. spreading risk. n. volume leveraging. o. lower
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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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flexibility and cost. Then following discussion of how Toyota uses techniques in operation management to achieve the five objectives. Based on analysis‚ some suggestions for this firm will shows in the conclusion. FIVE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES IN TOYOTA As most successful car manufacturer in the world‚ Toyota is a few automobile companies that able to be stockless production system by its unique operational management systems‚ the most famous Toyota Production System (TPS) and Just-In-Time (JIT). Further
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Benedettini‚ O.‚ Clegg‚ B.‚ & Kafouros‚ M. (2009). Guest editorial: The myths of manufacturing. Operations Management Research‚ 2(1-4)‚ 28-32. http://journals.ohiolink.edu.ezproxy.libraries.wright.edu:2048/ejc/article.cgi?issn=19369735&issue=v2i1-4&article=28_getmom Week 2 1. Chopra & Meindl Chapters4‚ 10 2. Fisher‚ M. L. (1997). What is the right supply chain for your product? Harvard Business Review‚ 75(2)‚ 105-116. http://ezproxy.libraries.wright.edu:2048/login?url=http://search
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SUPPY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT In the globalizing world as for the changing demands of customers are flexible manufacturing and supply chain issues are increasingly important in recent times. Supply chain management‚ from the stage of procurement of goods and services‚ production and up to reach the final consumer‚ covering the whole process is a set of a ring. From the perspective of business processes‚ supply chain‚ includes many areas such as; sales process‚ production‚ inventory management‚ procurement
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