largest retailer with more than 10‚000 stores worldwide. Wal-Mart remains a family-owned business‚ as the company is controlled by the Walton family‚ who own a 48 percent stake in Wal-Mart. The company has a total of 2.2 million employees worldwide. Wal-Mart is best known for its discount stores‚ grocery stores and warehouse stores. It offers products such as apparel‚ small appliances‚ housewares‚ electronics‚ hardware and a variety of drinks and food. Wal-Mart stores are located in low-rent‚ suburban
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INTRODUCTION A supply chain is a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials‚ transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products‚ and the distribution of these finished products to customers. Supply chains exist in both service and manufacturing organizations‚ although the complexity of the chain may vary greatly from industry to industry and firm to firm. Supply chain management‚ then‚ is the active management of supply chain
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distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 30. The store adopts a continuous review policy in which the order quantity equals the average demand for one month and the reorder point equals 43 boxes. The lead time for an order is one week‚ where each month contains exactly four weeks. a. What is the cycle service level for this product? (see appendix for the look-up tables of a standard normal distribution) b. What is the fill rate for this product? c. The drugstore wants to guarantee
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Level 6 Global Supply Chain Presentation Briefing Notes Some General Points of Guidance You do not need to conduct in depth analysis using the equations we have looked at in supply chain planning or in global supply chain design You can consider the different variables which are used in these equations‚ which impact on supply chain planning and network design Part of the task is to manage the level of content in the time period you have. In your future careers you will be asked to present on
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TBS908 SUpply Chain management ASSIGNMENT 1 A review of JY Books Sdn Bhd’s Supply Chain Management practices Executive Summary JY Books Sdn Bhd is a book publisher that is based in Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia and publishes specialty books on the topics of Chinese Metaphysics and Geomancy (referred to as Feng Shui). They are primarily involved in publishing books by their founder Joey Yap‚ although they do also publish books by other up and coming Chinese Metaphysics practitioners. Our analysis
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Supply Chain Management of J C Penney in perspective of APL Logistics Ltd. 1.0. Introduction Internship report is a mandatory requirement of the Bachelor of Business Administration degree of BRAC University. This report has been designed to portray my on the job internship with APL Logistics from the period of January to April‚ 2007. Being a Customer Service Representative of APL Logistics Limited‚ I had the opportunity to get attached with the supply chain or logistics management department
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Designing and Managing the Supply Chain David Simchi-Levi Philip Kaminsky Edith Simchi-Levi Solutions for Discussion Questions1 Kerem B¨ulb¨ul 1We would like to thank Shiming Deng for his valuable contributions to the preparation of this manual. Chapter 1 Introduction to Supply Chain Management Discussion Questions Question 1 Pick any car model manufactured by a domestic auto maker. For example‚ consider the 2002 Ford Thunderbird. a. The supply chain for a car typically includes the following
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Supply Chain Management Network Design and Facility Location Classical Theories von Thunen Agricultural activity occurs in a “limitless plain of equal fertility” with a city in the middle Theorized that: City price = origin price + transport costs Transport costs = f {weight & distance} As a result Products having high weight/value ratio should be produced near the city (see next slide) Other Contributions Land values decrease as move from city More intense land utilization near
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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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professional audio and film-industry software products; Logic Studio‚ a suite of music production tools; the Safari internet browser; and iOS‚ a mobile operating system. As of August 2010[update]‚ the company operates 301 retail stores in ten countries‚ and an online store where hardware and software products are sold. As of May 2010[update]‚ Apple is one of the largest companies in the world and the most valuable technology company in the world‚ having surpassed Microsoft. Established on April
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