turbulent markets‚ supply chain vulnerability has become an issue of significance for many companies. As supply chains become more complex as a result of global sourcing and the continued trend to ‘leaning-down’‚ supply chain risk increases. The challenge to business today is to manage and mitigate that risk through creating more resilient supply chains. Supply chain managers strive to achieve the ideals of fully integrated efficient and effective supply chains‚ capable of creating
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1. What are Crocs core competencies? * Highly flexible supply chain * Innovative and proprietary material: crosslite * Innovative product development * Efficient manufacturing processes that allows the company to produce more than 250 styles of shoes * Global Marketing & Distribution; the company is selling its products in 125 countries 2. How do they exploit these competencies in the future? Consider the following alternatives: a. Further integration into
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Resilient Supply Chain Introduction In the recent years many disasters and catastrophic events such as hurricane Mitch‚ tsunamis‚ SARS‚ terrorist attacks and earthquakes have shown that we live in world with increasing uncertainty. These events can cause major disruptions in the supply chain. Although similar events have occurred‚ since the terrorist attacks of September 11 of 2001 the firms began to reassess the benefits of commonly accepted strategies for sourcing‚ transportation‚ demand
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Int. J. Production Economics 89 (2004) 353–361 Supply chain management survey of Swedish manufacturing firms Jan Olhager*‚ Erik Selldin Department of Production Economics‚ Linkoping Institute of Technology‚ SE-581 83 Linkoping‚ Sweden . . Received 15 April 2002; accepted 16 January 2003 Abstract Supply chain management practices and principles are evolving and changing rapidly‚ e.g. through modern information and communication technologies. These changes affect the ways
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agile supply chain on a worldwide scale. The agile supply chain There is now widespread recognition of the role that supply chain management can play in enabling organisations to compete in volatile markets. However‚ experience suggests that there are significant barriers both within the company and between its upstream and downstream partners in achieving the required level of responsiveness across the chain as a whole. Continuous change is a phenomenon with which the supply chains have had
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Zara is the flagship chain store of Inditex Group owned by Spanish tycoon Amancio Ortega. Zara is the most internationalized of Inditex’s chains. The group is headquartered in A Coruna‚ Spain‚ where the first Zara store opened in 1975. As of August 2009‚ there are more than 1‚500 Zara stores around the world. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores‚ compared with a six-month industry average‚ and launches around 10‚000 new designs each year. Zara
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR SMALL AND RURAL SUPPLIERS AND MANUFACTURERS Christy Geiger Joel Honeyman Frank Dooley Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute North Dakota State University Fargo‚ ND 58105 March 1997 Disclaimer The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors‚ who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the information presented herein. This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation‚
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“The Evolution of Supply Chain Management in Retail Sector of Tesco and Analytical Study for the Period of 2005-2011” Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 Introduction Supply chain as a whole can be seen as the flow of water in a river: organizations located closer to the original source of supply are described as being ’upstream ’‚ while those located closer to the end customer are ’downstream ’. The flow of the whole river is being concerned. In other words‚ supply chain is a network‚ which
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Question 1 1.1 As the world’s largest retailer with net sales of almost $419 billion for the fiscal year 2011‚ Wal-Mart is considered a “best-in-class” company for its supply chain management practices. These practices are a key competitive advantage that have enabled Wal-Mart to achieve leadership in the retail industry through a focus on increasing operational efficiency and on customer needs Wal-Mart’s corporate website calls “logistics” and “distribution” the heart of its operation‚ one that
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The Benetton supply chain One of the best known examples of how an organization can use its supply chain to achieve a competitive advantage is the Benetton Group. Founded by the Benetton family in the 1960s‚ the company is now one of the largest garment retailers‚ with stores which bear its name located in almost all parts of the world. Part of the reason for its success has been the way it has organized both the supply side and the demand side of its supply chain. Although Benetton does manufacture
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