Aligning Incentives in Supply Chains On April 16‚ 2001‚ the world’s largest network-equipment maker‚ Cisco‚ shocked its investors when it told them that it would soon scrap around $2.5 billion of surplus raw materials. This would go down as one of the largest inventory write-offs in U.S. business history and gave Cisco a net loss of $2.69 billion for the month of May alone. A supply chain works well if its companies’ incentives are aligned-that is‚ if the risks‚ costs‚ and rewards of doing business
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The Race for Supply Chain Advantage The ability for a company to excel in supply chain management is a vital characteristic that can widely separate one company from another. Successful companies have used a variation of certain practices that embody the attributes necessary to be known as a leader in terms of competitive advantage. A recent study conducted by McKinsey and Company has revealed that there are only six supply chain practices that matter most to company performance. These practices
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Fall 11 The Food Industry MGT 440 Research paper about the supply chain management in the food industry Alexane COLOMBET 08 Automne Sources 1 – “The cold chain and its logistics” DR. Jean Paul Rodrigue http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch5en/appl5en/ch5a5en.html 2- “Inventory control”‚ Columbus IT http://www.columbusit.com/citp-hq---food/food/inventory-control.aspx 3- “How to Manage food inventory” http://www.ehow.com/how_6511166_manage-food-inventory
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(Heizer/Render) Chapter 11 Supply Chain Management Section 1 The Supply Chain’s Strategic Importance 1) Even though a firm may have a low cost strategy‚ supply-chain strategy can select suppliers primarily on response or differentiation. Answer: FALSE 2) The supply chain for a brewery would include raw ingredients such as hops and barley but not the manufactured goods such as bottles and cans. Answer: FALSE 3) When using the low-cost strategy for supply chain management‚ a firm should
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Key Players • R. Foley Vinton‚ CEO Exceso • Andrea Valdini‚ analyst • Martin Wu‚ Head of Sales • Alice Dias‚ Midwest Regional Manager Flemings ValuMart • Wendell‚ intern from business school • Fred‚ manager of sales Summary Exceso is a manufacturer of gizmos with ClickZipPlus as the flagship of the company. Internal Factors: • Their Objective Control System (set by CEO Foley) fosters unrealistic sales goals of 9% sales growth per year which was based on raw data which is causing a stress
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL; previously Apple Computer‚ Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics‚ computer software‚ and personal computers. The company’s best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers‚ the iPod‚ the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software; Aperture‚ a professional
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Copyright © 2000-2013 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple‚ the Apple logo‚ iTunes‚ and the iTunes logo are trademarks of Apple Inc.‚ registered in the U.S. and other countries. MPEG Layer-3 audio coding technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and THOMSON multimedia. CD‚ DVD‚ Blu-ray Disc‚ and music and video-related data from Gracenote‚ Inc.‚ copyright © 2000 to present Gracenote. Gracenote Software‚ copyright © 2000 to present Gracenote. One or more patents owned by Gracenote apply to this
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Operational Risks in Global Supply Chain Project Thesis Submitted by Kashif Shabab Submitted to Professor Dr. Jan-Philipp Büchler Summer Semester 2011 / 2012 Table of contents 1 Introduction 6 2 Global Supply Chain 7 2.1 Supply chain management: schools of thought............................................................8 2.1.1 The functional chain awareness
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Cyber-Security in the Supply Chain PROC 5000 GRAD FA 2013 Procurement and Acquisition Professor Claude Wiedower Table of Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1 The Problem with Cyber-Security Collaboration………………………………………………………………………2 Cyber-Security Training in the Workplace………………………………………………………………………………..3 Abstract The essence of global supply chains require that businesses large and small‚ exchange information of a precarious nature
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The Triple-A Supply Chain Key ideas from the Harvard Business Review article By Hau L. Lee The Idea in Brief The holy grails of supply chain management are high speed and low cost--or are they? Though necessary‚ they aren’t sufficient to give companies a sustainable competitive advantage over rivals. Consider these disturbing statistics: Though U.S. supply chains became significantly faster and cheaper between 1980 and 2000‚ product markdowns owing to excess inventory jumped from 10% to 30% of total
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