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Show how the following events change the discount rate applicable to an expansion of an existing restaurant chain.
Prepare your case summary, including your thoughts and comments and state any business problem that the enterprise needs to resolve.
How many gallons of product X,Y, and Z should be produced to maximize the revenue
Set up and list the linear program that can maximize the revenue for this case.
Discuss the two or three most important benefits to centralized purchasing authority? Justify your choice Discuss the two most important benefits to decentralized purchasing authority.
What is the difference between a gray box and a black box approach to early supplier involvement? Under what circumstances might each approach be appropriate - Describe the different types of integ
How important is labor and human rights in today's supply chain environment? Why is it important? What are the implications for fair trade, sourcing overseas and policy adoption is a global sourcing
Provide the estimated lead time to process a policy through the entire system. Also provide the actual processing time for a policy. Explain the reason for the difference.
It will need new power chargers, new products by suppliers such as iHome whose products have built in slots for charging etc. How does Apple benefit from such a change? How does it benefit suppliers
How should a shipper decide whether or not to use slow steaming as part of a supply chain strategy?
A more reliable trucking firm promises delivery exactly in six days, but for a 5 % higher cost. What analysis should the manufacturer decide whether or not to switch?
An article describing Volkswagen's success suggests that standardizing around 60 % of the components in the platforms for medium sized and small sized cars globally decreased costs by 20 %. Explain
Describe at least one recommendation to improve supply chain performance and reasons why it might decrease costs while improving quality.
How can two weeks of sales enable a better order ? What should the supplier be concerned about in deciding whether to accept this offer ?
Provide the corresponding transport costs, in transit inventory costs and cycle stock costs per day across the supply chain and provide the corresponding transport costs, in transit inventory costs
Instead of using Hickman's pallets Target should provide them with Pallets so that there isn't any error while changing the pallet and keep extra cases in trucks so that in case any specific store n
Think about your own community. Draw a map that indicates each retail location and its type. Are similar types together? Are there any outliers? What are the most popular spots and are they surrounded
A company requires a component at the rate of 750 components per week for its assembly operations. The component can be manufactured in the company's workshop at a rate of 3000 units per week.
What changes would you make to the model in part (a) so that we can determine the optimal locations of the plants as well as the optimal demand allocation
Find out the demand at each vendor and total demand for the system and compute how much and to whom an incentive should be offered so that the vendors relocate to the optimal locations from the syste
Combining two warehouses into one is most beneficial when the demands at the two warehouses are negatively correlated." True or False? Explain your reasoning.
Supply chains are generally of two types: physically efficient supply chains, and market responsive supply chains. What type of supply chain would be suitable for a functional product? Why?
How should Lego respond to these actions of hackers and should Lego discourage open source development? Based on your research, what would you recommend to Lego. Justify your position.
Write the hardware and software requirement for solution. Describe how this implementation will meet high availability requirement and mitigate outages which were discussed.
Write the minimum requirements for implementation of cluster? Give a basic cost analysis for solution (implementation) which you are recommending.