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How would you advise Jim on adopting EOBRs? What would be your tactics to retain the current driver pool using the new technology?
What is procurement? What is its relevance to logistics? Discuss the benefits and potential challenges of using electronic procurement cards.
Identify the top 10 logistics performers. Prepare an executive summary highlighting the key findings from the LPI.
What is the cost per unit shipped for each of the warehouses and highlight the warehouse with the best performance for 2018 and for 2019?
Explain how your chosen company's current logistics and/or supply chain management practices supports each of the four dimensions of customer service.
What are at least two reasons to vertically integrate and be your own supply chain, and what is at least one disadvantage?
Why Companies adopted Lean Thinking and JIT model? Discuss major types of Waste, companies must keep in mind during production.
Explain the role of demand forecasting in a supply chain. Identify the components of a forecast. Compare qualitative and quantitative forecasting techniques.
Define Third party logistics firms? Discuss its working procedure? Explain the motivational factors for going internationally?
Identify three types of supply chain risks (one slide). Develop an action plan to mitigate the risks (two to three slides).
Analyze the importance of the Internet and social media (to Nike) and compare today's marketplace to a future marketplace advantage.
How did the AD/AS equilibrium change over time? Support your claims by referring to your AD/AS model.
Describe the company's information management system. Describe how the IMS helps coordinate between supply-chain partners.
What three things you learned from that readings? One news article about supply chain w/hyperlink.
How do you plan to mitigate the supply-driven imbalance? How do you plan to mitigate the demand-driven imbalance?
Define blockchain and its possible uses in logistics and then outline some potential benefits and drawbacks in supply chain management.
Identify a moral and ethical challenge facing a global supply chain operation that you have experienced, heard, or read about in the news, including the challen
Distinguish between possession, form, time, and place utility. How does logistics contribute to time and place utility?
What was the root cause of the back up? To determine root cause, ask yourself what caused the stated problem i.e. Lack of drivers and trucks.
Do you have a wide range of tactics to persuade others? Do you help develop others' abilities through feedback and guidance?
What they finally uncover is a moral dilemma of epic proportions. Do you break the law and take a daughter away from her real mother?
What are the primary strengths of the team? What are its potential weaknesses? How positive is the management team about the team's potential?
How many truck driving positions remain unfilled right now? What regions of the US will see a surging need for Logistics employees?
What is main source of consumer enlightenment? What is one major impact of rising energy costs with respect to sourcing?
Describe the opportunities and challenges of global sourcing and understand how globalization impacts supply management.