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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?
Create an integration essay addressing the concepts related to reverse logistics and/or OEM reverse logistics.
Identifying the adjectives that describe potential supply chain segments then implementing them throughout the company.
Select 2 or 3 companies and compare them to Amazon. What services do these companies provide? What promises do they make about availability?
Discuss the financial benefits of chatbots. Discuss how IBM Watson will reach 1 billion people by 2018 and what the implications of that are.
What role do you feel that VR/AR will play in the future for managing products within an enterprise supply chain system?
How do you think this partnership would affect logistics for non-food products?
Analyze why is comparing this ratio to the industry average important? Explain how a well-managed supply chain can come into play here.
What do you think should be order of priority of each of the nine transportation issues today? How would this prioritization address issues in retail logistics?
Assess organized crimes' threats to the supply chain. Compare differences, if any, before and after 9/11.
Discuss what are the challenges that face air transportation carriers and shippers? In your opinion, how can these risks be mitigated?
How has Amazon successfully leveraged e-commerce strategies to promote supply chain integration and boost sales and growth for the organization?
What methods has EasyFlower used to shake up the traditional supply chain? Discuss in terms of push vs. pull strategy and the bullwhip effect.
What are the critical activities: the strategic processes the company executes? How does your selected company measure success?
Summarize what the article contribution is in optimizing the distribution and inventory of the vaccine.
How has the development of the internet affected the way companies forecast in support of their supply chain planning process?
Discuss how has Amazon successfully leveraged e-commerce strategies to promote supply chain integration and boost sales and growth for the organization?
What do transportation & logistics (T&L) leaders need to do to prepare for the future of freight transportation, especially motor carriers?
Discuss in small groups of 2 to 3 how the four practices of network management could be used to make global supply chains for critical goods more resilient.