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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Logistics and Supply Chain Management Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle La Rochelle‚ October/November 2012 Prof. Dr. Thomas Liebetruth Learning Objectives Realizing some applications of logistics principles in the “real world” Understanding the necessity and the challenges of Supply Chain Management Know different approaches how to model a Supply Chain Structure and localize the problems of Supply Chain Management Master (some of) the basic management and planning techniques in a Supply Chain context
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The Triple-A Supply Chain Key ideas from the Harvard Business Review article By Hau L. Lee The Idea in Brief The holy grails of supply chain management are high speed and low cost--or are they? Though necessary‚ they aren’t sufficient to give companies a sustainable competitive advantage over rivals. Consider these disturbing statistics: Though U.S. supply chains became significantly faster and cheaper between 1980 and 2000‚ product markdowns owing to excess inventory jumped from 10% to 30% of total
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Wal-Mart’s supply chain Management practices Logistics I Denise Melendez 1163688 Carlos Nava 1162897 30/06/10 Case solution: 1- Wal-Mart has been able to achieve respectable leadership in the retail industry because of its focus on supply management. Discuss in detail the distribution and logistic system adopted by Wal-Mart adopted by Wal-Mart. We have listed the key points of the distribution system and logistics system
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Zara: Case questions 1. Coordination of a supply chain is always important. However‚ such efforts are usually initiated by certain parties. For the global apparel industry‚ would it be more suitable for downstream or upstream parties to be the driver of the coordination? Motivate your answer with the use of two important characteristics of the apparel industry. 2. Clearly Zara has a strong relationship with all parties within the supply chain. a) Which of the following retailer-supplier relationships
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building mode. Overall Med-Tec doesn’t need to just create SCM‚ they need to breed the culture of SCM which will push out the “fad” mindset. 3. To analyze whether SCM is right thing to do for Med-Tech‚ Don could create the beginning of a Supply Chain Road Map. First he needs to identify who Med-Tech is and what their purpose is. Then he needs to identify exactly how they fit in as a company currently and where they are falling short. Knowing the facts on what is working correctly and what areas
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Logistics Semester 1 Semester 2 MIRBSLM114OP Operations Block1 MIRBSLM114PL Planning MIRBSLM114SY Systems Analysis MIRBSLM214SC Supply Chain Mgt Block 2 MIRBSLM214DM Distribution Mgt MIRBSLM214DS Project Distribution Strategies 4 Thesis Roger G. Schroeder‚ Susan Meyer Goldstein & M. Johnny Rungtusanatham‚ Operations Management in the Supply Chain: Decisions and Cases‚ 2013 (6th edition)‚ ISBN 978-1-259-06087-8 (International edition) McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright
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International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) www.ijmer.com Vol.1‚ Issue.2‚ pp-747-751 ISSN: 2249-6645 IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR EFFECTIVE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Prof. Himanshu S. Moharana1‚ Dr. J.S. Murty2‚ Dr. S. K. Senapati3‚ Prof. K. Khuntia1 1 (Raajdhani Engineering College‚ Bhubaneswar‚ Odisha) India 2 (Ex-Head‚ Design‚ RRL‚ Bhubaneswar‚ Odisha) India 3 (Professor‚ Dept. of Mech. Engg.‚ IGIT‚ Sarang‚ Odisha) India ABSTRACT In order to survive and beat the
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Max Crombach IE2FA 7-‐3-‐2014 Summary Supply-‐Chain Management Table of Contents Chapter 1: From Mission and supply chain strategy to logistics operation .................................. 2 1.1 Helicopter view: .................................................................................................................. 2 1.2 Organisation Models .........................
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Answer=92%*98%*95%*94%*99%*92%*91%=67% 2. Compare the concept if a modern supply chain with more traditional distribution channels. Be specific regarding similarities and differences. Traditional distribution channels are not integrated and exist in stove pipe functional area. The supply chain integrated all of the functions of transportation‚ logistics‚ distribution‚ warehousing‚ and sourcing into one centrally managed operation. Both the supply chain and traditional distribution channels involve the movement
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