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What tools are applicable internally. What tools are applicable externally with vendors. Identify and explain what tools are applicable externally with vendors.
What types of supply chain tools help a company collect data? How does contract bidding improve a company's financial outcome?
Compute the mean, range, and standard deviation of the data set.
A strong supply management program will use a nine step process to meet its obligations to the firm.
Explain the importance of developing metrics and KPIs in logistics and supply chain operations. What metrics indicate and how they can benefit an organization.
Discuss how various constraints - such as information technology (IT), limited capacity, technology, and capital - affect the company's supply chain.
Compute the buy-back price b such that Ryan orders 400 units.
What are the key challenges in maintaining a relationship like the one between LEGO and Flextronics?
Outline a plan for hiring and retaining competent, motivated employees for your business. Include at least two references outside the textbook.
Should employers be allowed to read employee e-mail, inspect their Facebook pages or blogs, or access files located on a personal computer at work?
Explain a new export country, and describe the country's challenges and advantages. Suggest recommendations for implementing the transportation plan.
Finally, the last article "Supply Chain Operational Risk Mitigation: A Collaborative Approach", by Chen, Sohal, and Prajogo (2013).
Describe how quality control processes can be used to improve your selected company's supply chain performance.
Explain the operational components of plan, source, make and deliver. Describe potential sourcing strategies.
Share any careers that you have come across that your classmates may be interested in based on their strengths and weaknesses.
What are four key attributes of supply chain management and how do they impact logistics?
Describe in detail the logistics and supply chain management system of your firm. Begin with the inputs of material or resources in a service firm.
Need assistance analyzing Case 21 NEP (pg 514): The Art and Science of Purchasing Coal in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management book 3rd edition.
The next article "Knowledge Sharing in Collaborative Supply Chains: Twin Effects of Trust and Power", by Cai et al.
Create a supply chain diagram of the Texas In-N-Out Burger supply chain. The diagram should include the end consumer and also the direct suppliers.
Transportation and Logistics; the future of Supply Chain Management.
How might sharing resources contributions in forward logistics and reverse logistics contribute to overall cost reduction.
What are the merits of outsourcing the performance of certain value chain activities as opposed to performing them in-house?
Discuss the importance of collaboration in the developing of supply chain inventory strategies. Provide an example.
Describe how you would implement the recommendations developed in the case study. Propose changes to the supplier contract in order for the supply chain.