Importance of Supply Chain Optimization Simplifying the supply chain 6/28/2010 ICT 353 : Advanced Business Analysis & Design Pyisoe Yarzar Importance of Supply Chain Optimization Table of Contents What is Supply Chain? .......................................................................................................................... 2 What is Supply Chain Optimization?................................................................................................... 2 Background......
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Aligning Incentives in Supply Chains On April 16‚ 2001‚ the world’s largest network-equipment maker‚ Cisco‚ shocked its investors when it told them that it would soon scrap around $2.5 billion of surplus raw materials. This would go down as one of the largest inventory write-offs in U.S. business history and gave Cisco a net loss of $2.69 billion for the month of May alone. A supply chain works well if its companies’ incentives are aligned-that is‚ if the risks‚ costs‚ and rewards of doing business
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9-609-029 APRIL 27‚ 2009 ANANTH RAMAN NICOLE DEHORATIUS ZAHRA KANJI Supply Chain Optimization at Hugo Boss (A) Introduction Katja Ruth and Constantine Moros sat facing each other in the empty conference room. Covering the table between them were the latest operational and financial figures from the supply chain optimization pilot Hugo Boss had been running in its global bodywear and hosiery Division.1 Ruth‚ the director of the division‚ agreed with Moros‚ the division’s head of operations
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Supply Chain Optimization at Hugo Boss Nicole DeHoratius University of Portland dehorati@up.edu • BECOME A MEMBER OF THE INDUSTRY STUDIES ASSOCIATION BY VISITING • http://www.industrystudies.org Supply Chain Optimization at Hugo Boss by Nicole DeHoratius University of Portland Relationship between Product Availability and Sales Product Availability and Sales Costs of Poor Availability systematic under-stocking of items in high demand (Agrawal & Smith‚ 1996) Product Availability
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approach to supply chain optimization through solution of an LP-problem 1. Key Questions • What are the number of mfg nodes‚ distr. nodes‚ cust. nodes and inventory nodes? [M‚ D‚ I] = N‚ locations [x] Where is demand located per manufacturing type / platform? [c] What are the reliability / infrastructure factors associated between each node? [r] What are the cost factors associated with each possible country & distribution node? [cc‚ dc] What is the overall flexibility from the supply chain‚ i.e. possible
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Dollar Tree Inc. is a chain of discount variety stores that sells an assortment of items for $1 or less. Dollar Tree Inc. uses a point-of-sale inventory scanning system. A point-of-sale inventory system is a fully automated‚ computerized inventory reordering system. The system collects daily merchandise sales and other transactions to prepare sales and inventory reports. The information that is obtained provides information on product sales allowing stores to order the products customers want
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STRATEGIC SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN A LARGE BAKERY Miranda Robinson‚ Walter Fernandez‚ Sigi Goode School of Accounting and Business Information Systems‚ The Australian National University‚ Canberra‚ Australia Corresponding author: sigi.goode@anu.edu.au ABSTRACT Electronic Commerce has ignited a range of risks and opportunities in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM). To minimise these risks and maximise potential payoff‚ carefully thought out research into the area is needed. This
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A – Supply Chain Strategy The supply chain strategy chosen for the power tool company is a long term partnering relationship with few suppliers. The long term vision of the company is to make quality products and constantly stay ahead of the competition with innovation. The best way to accomplish this strategic long term goal is to partner with key suppliers that operate using a strategy of long term thinking based on trust and transparency. Ray Kroc was one of the pioneers on forming partnerships
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value to the product itself‚ but they do add a lot of value to the SC. The nature of distribution has changed over time. The bargaining power of hospital has increased due to mergers and alliances‚ pressuring the distributors to reduce their margins. Upstream members of the SC have also put some pressure on O&M to take additional cost in their operations. If the ABP strategy could be successfully implemented‚ both distributor’s and customers’ incentives could be allied. Customers would be willing
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SAP Excellence Series Editors: Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Mertens Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Dr. Peter Zencke SAP AG‚ Walldorf Gerhard F. Knolmayer‚ Peter Mertens Alexander Zeier and Jörg Thomas Dickersbach Supply Chain Management Based on SAP Systems Architecture and Planning Processes With 77 Figures and 11 Tables 123 Prof. Dr. Gerhard F. Knolmayer University of Bern Institute of Information Systems Engehaldenstrasse 8 CH-3012 Bern Switzerland Dr. Alexander Zeier Deputy
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