management. The company is actively involved in environment protection and product design to assure consistent quality and optimize the cost for its customers. This project is a study of value chain analysis of ACL and to find how ACL is creating value for its customer and understanding of its Supply chain management system to know where ACL stands in compare to other cement companies. The project is completed using Questionnaire for the Interview and observation of the company SCM system
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Q4. How can accountability be better managed in long‚ global supply chains? Accountability “Accountability traditionally meant writing favourable terms into a contract‚ monitoring vendor performance and then working with the supplier to uphold its obligations” (www.ey.com) While these terms are very important‚ leading organisations have found that in the supply chain‚ every sector needs to be addressed and accountability must be incorporated into every level‚ from supplier to customer. Negotiating
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Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chain As the Indian population is increasing‚ the demand for fresh fruits and vegetables is also increasing. Owing to the perishable nature and very short shelf life‚ these items require storage and transportation facilities in order to reach to the customer in fresh state. This requires a considerable amount of effort from the involved parties. The entire chain is fraught with issues like lack of transparency in pricing (at the farmers’ end)‚ dominance of traders‚ weak
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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY IN INTERNATIONAL FIRM- IBM Bragança‚ 2014 Contents Introduction 3 Products and services 4 Products and services characteristics influence the logistic/supply chain strategy 5 Key customers and location: 7 Key suppliers and location 7 Distribution channels used 9 Manufacturing facilities and location 11 Warehouses facilities and location 11 Modes of transportation used 12 Figure to represent the entire supply chain 13 Other characteristics of international operations
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Dell’s Supply Chain Management The term supply chain management (SCM) was initially used in wholesaling and retailing to denote the integration of logistics and physical distribution functions with the goal of reducing delivery lead times. Manufacturers and service providers have used the same term to describe integration and partnership efforts with first- and second- tier suppliers to reduce cost and improve quality and delivery timing. Terms such as integrated purchasing strategy
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What is your evaluation of the Total Supply Chain Cost (TSCC) program developed by Owens & Minor and Virginia Mason? * Virginia Mason Medical Center (VM) hired Owens & Minor (O&M) as its alpha vendor for medical/surgical supplies in 2004. At that time O&M was performing JIT and low unit measure services for VM. Together VM and O&M worked together to create a new supply chain process called the Total Supply Chain Cost (TSCC) pricing program. * TSCC was is an activity-based
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Give arguments to support the statement that Wal-Mart has achieved very good strategic fit between its competitive and supply chain strategies. Wal-Mart’s competitive strategy is based on three dimensions: high product availability‚ a wide variety of goods‚ and everyday low pricing. Consistently providing a wide variety of goods at low prices presents a challenge to many retailers due to the costs required in managing transportation‚ inventory‚ facilities‚ and information. Their pioneering use of
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BULM 720: The Green Supply Chain Professor Taylor Wilkerson Final Report‚ Group 3 Company Background Maersk Group is a Danish company who has activities in a variety of business sectors‚ primarily within the transportation and energy sectors. It has been the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world since 1996 and a signatory to the UN Global Compact and its ten principles that guide corporate behavior in the areas of human rights‚ labor‚ environment and anti-corruption
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simulations within every day life have come to be known as ’Hyperrealism’. This is the inability of consciousness to distinguish between the reality of a simulation and reality itself. This is particularly relevant in advanced post modern societies. It is seen as a condition in which the real and fiction are seamlessly blended together so there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins. Baudrillard stated in his book ’Simulacra and Simulations’ that simulations within history
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3- Zara Vertical integrated Supply Chain To analyze ZARA supply chain‚ it is interesting to look closely at the product design‚ inventory management‚ evaluation of suppliers and vendors‚ logistics management‚ material management‚ time scheduling‚ information systems which are the main contributors in allowing Zara to offer cutting edge fashion at affordable prices. It is also interesting to consider other key performance indicators of Zara comparing to other peers in the retail market. 3.1- Design
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