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It requires application of concepts learned to build a strategic marketing plan for a new product or service that is ready to "go to market".
Describe the types of information technology mechanisms that have been used to involve the customer in the supply chain.
Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of international operations.
What type of supply chain does Clif Bar & Company have? Efficient, responsive, or a combination of both? How can you tell?
In 2010, Toyota recalled over five million vehicles worldwide. Discuss the impacts on the supply chain as a result of this recall.
I need help understanding how setting supply chain standards throughout the industry will improve supply chain management.
What are the customers of this company/industry? Do they sell to distributors, wholesalers, retailers?
Using the Wilson Soccer Ball product, extend the Extended Enterprise Supply Chain (EESC) all the way back (upstream) to the RAW materials needed
As a manager, if you have to design an IT system for supply chain purposes using a cross-functional team, who would you include on your team and why?
Consider the strategic implications of how an organization produces and interacts with its partners, customers, and suppliers.
How does effective supply chain management relate to competitive advantage?
A mode of transportation and its impact on the supply chain, even a mode of transportation and it advantages and disadvantages.
Think of a way to mitigate or lessen the sum of these impacts. List your idea and support it with your logic.
Global food supply chains consist of many processes. Bananas, for example, are grown on farms in South or Central America.
Four automobiles have entered Bubba's Repair Shop for various types of work, ranging from a transmission overhaul to a brake job.
Describe the key impacts of information on supply chain performance in terms of responsiveness and efficiency with reference to the logistics industry.
Follow by identifying some suggestions for Maria and Janet for improving its supply chain information flow.
Find and briefly discuss three local companies that you believe exhibit high quality. Please provide rationale for your selections.
Why is managing an international supply chain more challenging than managing a domestic supply chain? (Please briefly explain at least five reasons).
Explain the various ways in which supply chain management (SCM) can have a profound strategic impact on companies and the broader economy.
Explain the relationships among international supply chains, inventory carrying costs, transportation costs, etc. How does this influence the practice of JIT?
Explain the basic trade-off between responsiveness and efficiency for each of these three major drivers of supply chain performance - inventory.
You are Executive Director of a non-profit agency and are at risk of losing a program because of the requirements of the funding sources.
Examine and explain in detail operations and supply chain strategy from a secular standard compared to a biblical standard and the effect of each standard.
Define a way to revamp or reinvent a business using supply chain technologies.