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Identify the locations of the factories and warehouses. Analyze the economic and political factors that can impact their transportation and warehousing network.
Analyze how the IMS helps coordinate between supply chain partners. Analyze how the IMS helps to monitor orders and inventory levels and satisfy customers.
What are the key objectives of the municipal recycling process and how could they be measured?
Describe differences in the transportation and logistics functions of reverse logistics. Base the differences on each category, transportation, and logistics.
What were the risks to Boeing from outsourcing some of their core competencies? In what ways is Apple avoiding similar risks to their supply chain?
Describe your city's traffic in some detail and then choose the appropriate network(s). Or Discuss the Northern Distribution Network and its challenges.
Analyze why Dell's supply chain strategy is successful. Analyze how Dell has changed its supply chain to satisfy its customers.
Create an executive summary explaining to your staff the significant of stocking, placing timely orders, and provide a step by step method on what to do.
Which transportation means do you think is the most efficient in term of cost and time taken for travel and do you think any one mode could eliminate the other?
How can you look to implement this into your job or academic career? How can you implement one of the strategies into your personal life?
Describe characteristics of an effective supply chain. Apply economic order quantity (EOQ) model to manage inventory. Discuss the basic warehousing activities.
What are the operational strategies for managing supply chain risks/disruptions? Evaluate Nissan on each of these.
Analyze the system engineering process. What are the principles of system engineering and how do these principles tie into the logistics support system?
Discuss how can sustainable practices be implemented when the processes of care become more complicated with the introduction of new drugs and technologies.
To what extent do you believe a supply chain can be redesigned to compensate for poor product design or poor product quality?
Discuss the system engineering process. What are the principles of system engineering and how do these principles tie into the logistics support system?
What are future challenges in transportation and logistics? How will these challenges impact achieving green logistics in the Retail sector?
Using this model, what are the main qualities that should be adopted for transportation in the United States to improve logistics for retailers selling online?
Why is a robust supply chain not necessarily a resilient supply chain? Provide an example to back up your research.
How would you as a retail logistics manager overcome some of the challenges that you may face?
What are the various driving forces leading to greater use of KPIs in the logistics environment? Provide an example of at least two that you have identified.
Define what type of performance measures will be used to monitor the risks or when the customer's expectations change (one to two slides).
Describe and analyze how the CRS Report for Security views border and transportation security.
Perform research using the library and professional organizations (APICS, Center for Supply Chain Management, CSCMP) and Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
How the phenomenon of time based competition has affected supply chain management? What is a Leagile Supply Chain and what are its advantages?