Traditional View: Logistics in the Economy (1990‚ 1996) Supply Chain Management (3rd Edition) Chapter 1 Understanding the Supply Chain Freight Transportation Inventory Expense Administrative Expense Logistics Related Activity $352‚ $455 Billion $221‚ $311 Billion $27‚ $31 Billion 11%‚ 10.5% of GNP Source: Cass Logistics © 2007 Pearson Education 1-1 © 2007 Pearson Education 1-2 Traditional View: Logistics in the Manufacturing Firm Profit Logistics Cost Marketing Cost Manufacturing
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CASE ANALYSIS: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AT WAL-MART INTRODUCTION Wal-mart Stores Inc was the world’s largest retailer and was started by Sam Walton in 1962 who named it as “Wal-Mart Discount City”. However before Wal-mart; Sam Walton owned a number of Ben Franklin Store Chains. Due to this prior experience of owning smaller variety stores and dealing with its franchised supply chain‚ he learnt various business concepts and also was able to selectively purchase merchandise in bulk from new suppliers
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A Project Report On “Study of supply Channel Management of Hindustan Unilever Limited.” [pic] Submitted By Partho mukherjee PGDM (operations) Sem 3rd under the guidance of mr. Vivek swami sinhgad institute of business administration&research S. NO. 40/4A+4B/1 NEARPMCOCTROI POST‚ KONDHWA –SASWAD ROAD‚ KONDHWA (BK) PUNE-411048
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“Scientific Glass - Inventory Management” study case 1. How much funding will have to be raised in 2010 in order to finance the increase in inventory? Generally‚ the budget of inventory has positive correlation with the forecast of the turnover. As the case concerns‚ the finance department forecast 20% growth in sales in 2010 due to a forecast cast increase in the number of orders. Consequently‚ the cost of finished goods inventory in 2010 should get 20% increase on the basis of inventory cost in 2009
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Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains‚ 10e (Krajewski et al.) Chapter 14 Forecasting 1) The repeated observations of demand for a product or service in their order of occurrence form a pattern known as a time series. Answer: TRUE Reference: Demand Patterns Difficulty: Easy Keywords: time series‚ repeated observations 2) One of the basic time series patterns is random. Answer: TRUE Reference: Demand Patterns Difficulty: Easy Keywords: time series‚ pattern‚ random
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Executive Summary Traditional management systems rely on volume to allocate overhead. Indirect cost is allocated to items such as direct labor hours‚ units produced or the production of machine hours. Using only single cost drivers‚ potentially distorts cost estimates especially when dealing with high volume production. The implementation of Activity Based Costing serves as a solution to this downside in traditional systems. ABC utilizes various cost drivers both volume and non-volume related to
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MGMT 472 Homework assignment 2 1. According to the text‚ key ingredients for developing successful supply partnerships include all of the following EXCEPT: a. Personal relationships b. Individualized objectives c. Mutual benefits and needs d. Performance metrics 2. The combination of the purchase price of a good and additional costs incurred before or after product delivery can be referred to as: a. Total cost of acquisition b. Total cost of ownership c. Purchase requisition cost d. Total procurement
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sell and deliver goods and services to a first tier supplier. An automobile company could have a second tier supplier that would supply materials or parts to another company which would then supply materials or parts to another company which would then supply them to the manufacturer. A real world example of a second-tier supplier is “Wisconsin Aluminium” which supplies aluminium fuel filter housing to Mechanical Devices Company. Mechanical Devices uses the fuel filter housing on an engine component
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Supply Chain Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry Dick Carlsson Södra Cell International AB‚ SE-351 89 Växjö‚ Sweden Sophie D’Amours FOR@C‚ CIRRELT‚ Université Laval‚ G1K 7P4‚ Québec‚ Canada Alain Martel FOR@C‚ CIRRELT‚ Université Laval‚ G1K 7P4‚ Québec‚ Canada Mikael Rönnqvist The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration‚ NO-5045 Bergen‚ Norway October 2006 Working Paper DT-2006-AM-3 Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks‚ Logistics and Transportation
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Changing trends in Logistics & Supply Chain Management in India Business organizations today are facing great competitions & challenges as the economy is growing. The growth & the downfall of the company depend upon how it uses its resources. Also the success of an organization depends upon satisfaction the customer gets because of timely delivery of quality product. Organization has to be efficient to survive in competitive world. In the present era of globalization a companies of all sizes are
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