Running head: Amazon.com Supply Chain Project Amazon.com Supply Chain Project Jarrel Nightingale JNightingale2@CapellaUniversity.edu Capella University BUS3004: Supply Chain Management Professor Dr. Robert Goldwasser December 10‚ 2012 Amazon.com Supply Chain Project Introduction In today’s society‚ Online Shopping and the industry of e-commerce has become very popular and mainstream. Many individuals have integrated online shopping into their normal routine and have
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1.0 Introduction There are numerous definitions of the terms ‘Sustainable’ and ‘Supply Chain’. For the simplistic but practical definition is “Management of raw materials and services from suppliers to manufacturer/ service provider to customer and back with improvement of the social and environmental impacts explicitly considered”. The supply chain considers the interactions between a business and its customers and suppliers. The greatest benefits are derived by extending the focus as far as possible
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Total Tariffs is $195.15 million 2. How should Phil structure his global production network? Assume that the past is a reasonable indicator of the future in terms of exchange rates. Dollar and Peso have been decreased to compare with the Euro‚ Real‚ Rupee and the Yen the last three years include 2007‚ 2008‚ and 2009. However‚ the business cycle needs to retain capacity and capabilities throughout the entire supply chain. Therefore‚ production can be diverted as currencies move against each
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CHAPTER TWO Discussion Questions 1. How would you characterize the competitive strategy of a high-end department store chain such as Nordstrom? What are the key customer needs that Nordstrom aims to fill? The Nordstrom web site states the following. Over the years‚ the Nordstrom family of employees built a thriving business on the principles of quality‚ value‚ selection‚ and service. Today‚ Nordstrom is one of the nation’s leading fashion retailers‚ offering a wide variety of high-quality
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Aligning Incentives in Supply Chains On April 16‚ 2001‚ the world’s largest network-equipment maker‚ Cisco‚ shocked its investors when it told them that it would soon scrap around $2.5 billion of surplus raw materials. This would go down as one of the largest inventory write-offs in U.S. business history and gave Cisco a net loss of $2.69 billion for the month of May alone. A supply chain works well if its companies’ incentives are aligned-that is‚ if the risks‚ costs‚ and rewards of doing business
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Chipotle supply chain management The following are three Chipotle partners that are early participants and supporters of the traceability program. GSF ‘’Golden State Foods’’ Ed Miniat‚ Inc. (Miniat) OSI GSF • As one of the largest diversified suppliers to the foodservice industry‚ servicing 100+ customers and 25‚000+ restaurants on five continents‚ Golden State Foods was among the first distributors to get involved with Chipotle’s traceability program. With a wide range of product portfolios of
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2.1 Efficiency Zara’s supply chain is efficient mainly in terms of time and inventory management as discussed below. Zara allows store managers to order twice per week. The shipments are then prepared and delivered in least possible time. The products are displayed in stores on the same day they arrive. This allows Zara to reduce the lead time whenever required. (Benjabutr‚ n.d.) Moreover‚ Zara is able to get a new product from just a sketch to a store in 4 to 6 weeks. This is considered to be unexpectedly
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Supply Chain Management (ENGM078) Sainsbury’s Supply Chain Strategies Arghavan Keivani 6150405 March 2011 A brief introduction to Sainsbury’s and its background J Sainsbury plc (Sainsbury’s) was founded in 1869 and is considered as a top UK-based food retailer having around 150‚000 employees. It drives a chain consist of 500 supermarkets and 290 smaller format stores through the country which offer groceries‚ electricals‚ clothing‚ homewares‚ DVD rentals and financial services. There
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Describe the supply chain of a cffee shop (of your choice) serving coffee and snacks. In what ways globalization and technology affects the supply chains? What are the main challenges for the supply chain for the successful operation of the coffee shop. Make necessary assumptions. 1. Supply chain in Costa Coffee starts at their 2 basic inventories; bakery supplies‚ and coffee supplies. Bakery is catered by Bells of Lazonby at the moment. While their coffee is coming from South America‚ Africa
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informs Vol. 34‚ No. 3‚ May–June 2004‚ pp. 191–205 issn 0092-2102 eissn 1526-551X 04 3403 0191 ® doi 10.1287/inte.1030.0068 © 2004 INFORMS Inventory Decisions in Dell’s Supply Chain Roman Kapuscinski University of Michigan Business School‚ Ann Arbor‚ Michigan 48109‚ roman.kapuscinski@umich.edu Rachel Q. Zhang Johnson Graduate School of Management‚ Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ New York 14853‚ rqz2@cornell.edu Paul Carbonneau McKinsey & Company‚ 3 Landmark Square‚ Stamford
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