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What can you do to ensure you have the skills necessary to succeed in face-to-face interactions?
Enterprise systems integrate the functional systems such as accounting, finance, marketing, and operations.
Employing Porter's Five Forces model, analyze the industry niche of care for thementally retarded. What specific conclusions can be drawn from your analysis?
In early 2001, the global IT business slowdown and the dotcom bust altered the situation. Reportedly, Cisco failed to foresee.
Determine the product lead time by developing a time line from the initiation of a purchase order to product delivery.
Describe the type of information that needs to be exhcnaged between the partners in each pair of partners.
Identify at least two issues that exist in the supply chain, and recommend changes to address the issues.
Describe the essential components of a typical supply chain management process and define the components using examples.
Does either company seem to be gaining the upper hand in the logistics field? What strengths and weakness does each have?
Discuss the potential for a reverse logistics model to optimize the supply chain in terms of product life cycle.
If the company is completely vertically integrated, is it still important that it has good Supply Chain Management? Why?
Assuming that Staples determines the order size that minimize its own cost, what is the total holding and ordering costs in the supply chain?
Identify an existing supply chain management processes within any company.
The obstacles to good supply chain management are described in course materials and other resource. Do you see any other obstacles to supply chain management?
Discuss the importance of identifying the best suppliers by explaining the impact of source selection on supply chain performance.
Compare and contrast both the build-to-stock to a build-to-order supply chain models. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
Identify how reselling, selling via outlet, salvaging, reconditioning, refurbishing, and remanufacturing can help that company optimize its reverse logistics
Highlight key elements of return management or reverse logistics channel for the automotive industry – how are they different than other industries?
How reselling, selling via outlet, salvaging, reconditioning, refurbishing, and remanufacturing can help that company optimize reverse logistics supply chain
Explain how Johnson can optimize its reverse logistics channel. Is there any opportunity to provide competitive advantage through reverse logistics
It's now buzzed over to Canbide and is the topic of debate at the weekly analysts' meeting. What is your definition of Supply Chain Management?
What is the value of contractual flexibility in managing outsourced supply chains?