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What are the reasons for growing the importance of supply chain management? Explain.
In 2003, Wal-Mart of Bentonville, Arkansas announced its vision for an RFID-enabled transparent supply chain.
Where are the raw materials are used to make Pampers diapers? In other words, how do they arrive at the manufacturing side of the supply chain
What are the advantages of basing a supplier's overall evaluation on its lowest performance on one of the five dimensions
Find five different articles from Google and these articles have to related to the supply chain management.
An insecticide distributor has a demand for 15,000 bags of insecticides per year. This company operates 300 days per year
Briefly describe the importance of a Project Charter.
Give with brief explanations, five benefits of e-commerce and provide three drawbacks that would probably cause prospective users to be a bit sceptical about us
Provide an overview of supply chain management of Nike and how it relates to the value chain.
Pretend you are the purchasing manager for Chipotle. How would you evaluate suppliers of salsa ingredients and who would you choose and why?
Explain your current understanding about the field of supply chain and operations management. Please provide the following structure for discussion:
What is the relationship between the competitive forces model and the value chain model?
Customers and suppliers. Pick a real process. The process could be as simple as drilling a hole or as complex as an organization
Peach Computer Company needs a facility in order to expand its business. It held a meeting with the project team and key stakeholders
Briefly describe why supply chain management is vital to the wholesale and retail industry
Assume your company is considering whether to outsource a non-core function to a domestic supplier.
An organization that specializes in wearable technologies is re-structuring the global supply chain network to implement SAP as the new ERP system
Your organization recently conducted an inventory of the supplies on hand for your manufacturing facility.
Analyze FedEx's supply chain from both product and service standpoints.
A manufacturer purchases 6000 cases of a certain component for $100 per case from two suppliers: Supplier A and Supplier B.
Summarize 3 examples of how value chain helps companies become more competitive. You are presenting these to the administrative team from the production
Health economists use demand and supply theory to discuss the "Health Insurance Exchange" created by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
What is intermodal transportation? What is intermodal transportation?
I do think that the increase in rail and intermodal transportation is going to change a lot about how supply chains are managed in the future.
The current supply chain organizations I can think of being familiar with is the military and my current contract company L-3 Technologies.