Case: 7-Eleven Japan Co. Table of Contents Question 1: 3 Question 2: 3 Question 3: 4 Question 4: 4 Question 5: 4 Question 6: 4 Question 7: 6 Question 1: A convenience store chain attempts to be responsive and provide customers what they need‚ when they need it‚ where they need it. What are some different ways that a convenience store supply chain can be responsive? What are some risks in each case? A convenience store can be more responsive by doing exactly what Seven-Eleven
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2) Seven-Eleven’s supply chain strategy in Japan can be described as attempting to micro-match supply and demand using rapid replenishment. What are some risks associated with this choice? One risk would be more transport visits that will increase transport costs and decrease efficiency. And there is opportunity cost risk‚ where supply and demand will not match (for example: a group visit) which results in not being able to afford wide demand fluctuation. 3) What has Seven-Eleven done
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Uncertainty: because the product is new‚ demand is uncertain c) Provide high level of service quality Risk associated: high cost: staff‚ training high Implied Demand Uncertainty: customer expectation becomes high over time 2. For Seven-Eleven Japan‚ when trying to micro-match supply and demand using rapid replenishment‚ they can face the following risks: High cost of transportation: this choice require frequent delivery and a large number of trucks visiting a store per day‚ since each
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4. Seven-Eleven does not allow direct store delivery in Japan but has all products flow through its distribution center to reduce the number of vehicles required for daily delivery service to each store‚ even though the delivery frequency of each item was quite high. At the distribution center‚ delivery of like products from different suppliers was directed into a single temperature controlled truck. Each truck made deliveries to multiple retail stores. None of the distribution centers carried any
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When considering a distribution network design for 7-Eleven in the United States one must consider the measures that influence the structure of that network. These measures are: response time‚ product variety‚ product availability‚ customer experience‚ time to market‚ order visibility‚ and returnability. The latter three are of less relevance when consider the function of a convenience store chain. A chain like 7-Eleven aims to provide it’s customers with a small variety of essential items (motor
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Seven-Eleven Seven Eleven Japan Co Co. Course: Strategic Supply Chain Management MSc ETH MTEC Fall 2011 Prof. Dr. Stephan M. Wagner Chair of Logistics Management g g Department of Management‚ Technology‚ and Economics Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 1 Assignments g 1. 1 A convenience store chain attempts to be responsive and provide customers what they i t h i tt t t b i d id t h t th need‚ when they need it‚ where they need it. What are some different ways that a convenience
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CENTER FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts 7-ELEVEN Japan Co.‚ Ltd.: Reinventing the Retail Business Model Kei Nagayama and Peter Weill January 2004 CISR WP No. 338 and MIT Sloan WP No. 4485-04 2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. Research Article: a completed research article drawing on one or more CISR research projects that presents management frameworks‚ findings and recommendations
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be responsive and provide customers what they need‚ when they need it‚ where they need it. What are some of different ways that a convenience store supply chain can be responsive? What are some risks in each case? Based on the practices of Seven-Eleven Japan‚ the authors have compiled a few techniques which they believe can reasonably increase the responsiveness of the supply chain‚ as well as their corresponding risks: * Rapid replenishment of goods This is a fairly basic approach to responsiveness
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English 101 Sandra Cisneros “Eleven” Millie Smitter Have you ever heard the expression "too young to be old" or "too old to be young?" “Eleven "‚ a story written by Sandra Cisneros‚ allows us to live the different emotions of Rachael‚ an ingenious first person narrator‚ describes the details of her humiliating eleventh birthday on a regular school day. Growing up can be‚ in most cases‚ a dramatic and difficult process‚ especially for kids. An eleven-year-old can feel helpless and vulnerable
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Michael Welsh 2013 Summer Workshop Eleven Paragraph The message that the short story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros tells is that even though you get older you’re still all the same ages you were before. Rather you be five and have to sit on you’re moms lap because you’re scared or when you’re 10 and you might say something stupid. Sandra uses the element imagery quite a bit in her short story. “…When I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage cheese‚ and then the
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