other expenses. 2. Seven-Eleven’s supply chain strategy in Japan can be described as attempting to micro-match supply and demand using rapid replenishment. What are some risks associated its supply choice? The risks with this supply choice are high cost of transportation which includes gas‚ vehicle‚ staff‚ also the cost of receiving continues incomes of products at the store‚ the risk of having obsolete inventory and lack of extra space. 3. What has Seven-Eleven done in its choice of facility
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Case: 7-Eleven Japan Co. Table of Contents Question 1: 3 Question 2: 3 Question 3: 4 Question 4: 4 Question 5: 4 Question 6: 4 Question 7: 6 Question 1: A convenience store chain attempts to be responsive and provide customers what they need‚ when they need it‚ where they need it. What are some different ways that a convenience store supply chain can be responsive? What are some risks in each case? A convenience store can be more responsive by doing exactly what Seven-Eleven
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Information System Management CISS 390 October 1‚ 2014 7-Eleven is global company and is the world’s largest convenience retail chain which purpose and mission to make lifecycle an easier process for their customers by being where they need them to be whenever they need them to be. Which consists of sales associates‚ franchisees and manager‚ fresh sandwich makers to doughnuts bakers‚ to daily delivery driver to department heads. All associated of 7-Eleven are to ensure that they meet their store customer’s
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CENTER FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts 7-ELEVEN Japan Co.‚ Ltd.: Reinventing the Retail Business Model Kei Nagayama and Peter Weill January 2004 CISR WP No. 338 and MIT Sloan WP No. 4485-04 2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. Research Article: a completed research article drawing on one or more CISR research projects that presents management frameworks‚ findings and recommendations
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2) Seven-Eleven’s supply chain strategy in Japan can be described as attempting to micro-match supply and demand using rapid replenishment. What are some risks associated with this choice? One risk would be more transport visits that will increase transport costs and decrease efficiency. And there is opportunity cost risk‚ where supply and demand will not match (for example: a group visit) which results in not being able to afford wide demand fluctuation. 3) What has Seven-Eleven done
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Uncertainty: because the product is new‚ demand is uncertain c) Provide high level of service quality Risk associated: high cost: staff‚ training high Implied Demand Uncertainty: customer expectation becomes high over time 2. For Seven-Eleven Japan‚ when trying to micro-match supply and demand using rapid replenishment‚ they can face the following risks: High cost of transportation: this choice require frequent delivery and a large number of trucks visiting a store per day‚ since each
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managers are currently facing. Japan‚ the home country of tech giants Sony‚ Panasonic‚ and Sharp‚ has faced several talent recruitment challenges that have overturned the country’s reputation of excellence to a reputation that “is no longer considered to be on the cutting edge of cool.” The appeal to work in Japan and for a Japanese firm isn’t appealing for any longer for several reasons. For a country with companies that “were next to Western firms in popularity”‚ Japan now has a smaller economy
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When considering a distribution network design for 7-Eleven in the United States one must consider the measures that influence the structure of that network. These measures are: response time‚ product variety‚ product availability‚ customer experience‚ time to market‚ order visibility‚ and returnability. The latter three are of less relevance when consider the function of a convenience store chain. A chain like 7-Eleven aims to provide it’s customers with a small variety of essential items (motor
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Seven Practices of Successful Organizations Jeffrey Pfeffer ffectively management of people can produce substantially enhanced economic performance. A plethora of terms have been used to describe such management practices: high commitment‚ high performance‚ high involvement‚ and so forth. I use these terms interchangeably‚ as they all tap similar ideas about how to obtain profits through people. I extract from the various studies‚ related literature‚ and personal observation and experience a set
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Determinants of retail store choice: An empirical analysis by Dr. Namrata Sandhu sandhunamrata@gmail.com Dilpreet Singh mail.dilpreet@gmail.com and Richa Dhall asmi2ice@gmail.com Abstract Purpose of research: The current study makes an attempt to establish the most important determinants of retail store choice. Methodology: A well drafted and pretested questionnaire was conveniently administered to 200 respondents in Tricity (Chandigarh‚ Mohali‚ Panchkula). The data was collected
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