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 map
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to acheive their vision the top organization management also focuses on new and innovative measurement techniques to identify how the value of product and services are delivered by its employees to customer to generate customer satisfaction and loyalty which ultimately impact the profitability and growth. The Authors use diagram to determine the service-profit chain relationship with each other. Starting from the right to left customer loyalty is the important factor to maximize the profitability
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Confirming Pages P A R T T H R E E Supply Chain Logistics Design One of the two primary responsibilities of a firm’s logistics management‚ as established in Chapters 1 and 2‚ is to participate in supply chain logistics design. Part 3 contains three chapters devoted to various logistics design issues. Chapter 12 establishes the global perspective of today’s business operations. Few firms enjoy the simplicity of conducting business within a single nation. The complexity of globalization
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Introduction Hallenstein Glasson Holdings Limited (HLG) is the one of the leading apparel retailers in New Zealand‚ listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. The company provides good quality products and has been a successful as well as an innovative business. This report makes an analysis of the financial information in the 2013 annual report for HLG. It looks at the quality of earnings through performance and solvency measurements. The strengths and weaknesses of the company are then summarized and the
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SWOT-Analysis of Tencent Holdings Limited Table of cContent 1 Introduction In March 2010 McKinsey published an article dealing with the obsession of the Internet of the Chinese population by concluding the following statement „People in the country’s 60 largest cities spend 70 percent of their leisure time online. Seismic changes in the consumer market are likely as a result.“1 China’s Internet population increased at the end of 2012 to a total number of 564 million
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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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Tutorial 8 Sourcing & Purchasing Decisions Part A MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. One advantage of outsourcing is that it: a. gives the company a high degree of control over its operations. b. increases the company’s access to state-of-the-art products and processes. c. protects the company’s proprietary designs and processes. d. encourages the development of the company’s core competencies. 2. Which of these is an indirect cost associated with insourcing?
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Faster response to changing business needs through end-to-end visibility into supply chain operations This implementation won the award for innovation by the US Supply Chain Council (SCC) SCC‚ a renowned global nonprofit organization‚ has established the supply chain world’s most widely accepted framework for evaluating and comparing supply chain activities and their performance - the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR®) model. SITUATION Lack of consistent metrics‚ & reporting rules
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Initial idea: Offer affordable sports equipment for children Products: − Used (second-hand) products − Surplus equipment from manufacturers and retailers Current situation (December 2007): − Demand has been growing steadily over the last years − The products are distributed to the U.S. customers through a single (and small) warehouse in St. Louis − The warehouse is leased on a year-to-year basis − The current network design‚ in particular the distribution network and warehouse
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