(Heizer/Render) Chapter 11 Supply Chain Management Section 1 The Supply Chain’s Strategic Importance 1) Even though a firm may have a low cost strategy‚ supply-chain strategy can select suppliers primarily on response or differentiation. Answer: FALSE 2) The supply chain for a brewery would include raw ingredients such as hops and barley but not the manufactured goods such as bottles and cans. Answer: FALSE 3) When using the low-cost strategy for supply chain management‚ a firm should
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Topic: Demand Driven MRP 21st Century Supply Chains Require New Demand Driven Rules and Tools A white paper by the Demand Driven Institute April 2011 www.demanddriveninstitute.com The Demand Driven Institute (DDI) was founded by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith‚ co‐authors of Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning‚ Third Revised Edition in order to proliferate and further develop demand driven strategy and tactics in industry to enable a company to transform from “push and promote” to
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Global Supply Chain Hang Pan Agenda Company Profile Global Supply Chain Management Challenges and solutions Conclusions Apple profile Founded on April 1‚1976 by Steve Jobs‚ Ste ve Wozniak ‚ Ronald Wayne Headquarter : Cupertino‚ California 394 retailed stores worldwide Produc ts Hardware: iMac‚MacBook‚ iPhone‚ iPod‚ iPa d Software: Mac Os X‚iTunes‚ Internet brower s‚….. New product development process The whole development process is in USA. Global supply chain Designed
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Question 1: There were several interrelated issues that Cisco’s supply chain faced. Inaccurate Demand Forecasts Firstly‚ the demand forecast accuracy on which decisions were based was low. Customers at the time were placing the same order with several suppliers and closing the deal with the supplier that delivered the order first. As noted in the Cisco Systems Case Study‚ due to this practice‚ an order for 10‚000 routers simulated demand for 30‚000 machines. Cisco’s sales force failed
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Executive Summary In this executive summary‚ i will introduce the ideas and details of Apple Inc’s supply chain in its current state. We will examine Apple’s strategy of being consumer based and evaluate the current state of business and some of the partnerships it has formed to remain one of the dominating forces in this industry. This report will cover a brief overview of the company‚ its current assortment of products it offers‚ future opportunities and threats that Apple may face‚ its current
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strategy of Toyota has evolved from the 30s up to 2010? 2. Describe the elements of the TPS system. Do you know any other “lean” firms? 3. Comment on Toyota’s focus on the customer. How this approach is related to quality? 4. Describe Toyota’s supply chain network (complexity of global SC) 5. Under your point of view‚ which are the reasons behind Toyota’s recalls? 6. Describe the communication actions Toyota undertook for dealing with the recall’s crisis Analysis questions: 1. Crisis management
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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 “crossdocking” and internal distribution
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7th Annual SEMATECH Symposium Japan Supply Chain Management in Electronics Industry IHS iSuppli Japan Akira Minamikawa aminamikawa@isuppli.co.jp Agenda Impact of earthquake What changed in the past 10 years? What changes in the next 10 years? iSuppli Corporation – 2 Copyright 2000-2009 iSuppli Corporation. All Worldwide Rights Reserved. Confidential – Patents Pending Supply Chain • Japanese have high market share in material market Components Electronics
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what is supply chain management? Supply Chain Management is the strategic management and coordination of all traditional business functions within the supply chain‚ with the goal of increasing long-term performance and striving for customer satisfaction at the end point of delivery. Supply Chain Management is a cross-function approach that includes managing the movement of raw materials into the organisation‚ internal processing of materials into finished products‚ and the movement of finished
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Supply Chain Class Module 2‚ Lesson 3 Question #1 Develop a small group consensus on the impact (increases‚ decreases‚ no effect) of the Bullwhip Effect on two of the following six supply chain performance measures: manufacturing cost‚ inventory cost‚ replenishment lead time‚ transportation cost‚ shipping and receiving cost‚ level of product availability profitability. One of the two measures that your team chooses must be inventory cost. For inventory costs‚ be certain to be specific
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