The Power of Virtual Integration The assigned readings of session 3 are “The Power of Virtual Integration”, “The Triple-A Supply Chain”,” The Transparent Supply Chain” and the chapter 2 of the book “The new age of innovation”. These articles mainly focus on the IT-enabled innovations in business process and supply chain management. The chapter 2 tells us that business models, which depend on the underlying business processes, are a source of competitive advantage for the success of companies
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e-Commerce is that e-Business includes key business processes like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), whereas e-Commerce does not. An example of an e-Business company would be Dell Computer. Dell has created a “fully integrated value chain” that has a three-way information partnership with its suppliers and customers. Dell provides its
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consolidation activities in operation, and major reengineering project such as order to deliver (OTD), Ford Production system (FPS) was embarked in 1995 to win these battles. In the same time period, with emerging of new technology; Dell had pioneered a new supply chain
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Executive Summary: Ford wanted to adapt the idea of virtual integration to improve its supply chain. By the use of technology; it wanted to reduce its working capital and increase profits. Moreover, the company was emphasizing more and more on shareholder value and customer responsiveness so they were looking into reengineering some of their processes which can help improve their current forecasting model and reduce OTD cycle times substantially. With new business models prevailing, Ford did not
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Dell has been selling computers for over 25 years and has become very successful because they have a constant flow of data in two information loops, the first is between customers and the Dell team and the other is among sales, procurement and suppliers. Dell uses a unique supply chain strategy that gathers large volumes of customer information through direct sales. Dell gathers information from its suppliers and this lets the sales team know what products it can effectively promote to consumers
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The Manufacturing Innovation Series Innovators in Supply Chain Security: Better Security Drives Business Value July 2006 THE ANUFACTURING INSTITUTE MANUFACTURING MAKES AMERICA STRONG The Manufacturing Innovation Series Innovators in Supply Chain Security: Better Security Drives Business Value July 2006 By Barchi Peleg-Gillai, Gauri Bhat and Lesley Sept Stanford University Table of Contents Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Executive Summary Ford’s existing supply chain is highly complex and there are several external factors that have contributed to the search for solutions to move past the costly supply chain challenges the company has been dealing with in recent years. The challenge in their current supply chain system revolves around the inefficient management of their large data base of suppliers, the existence of independent distributors and their inability to communicate and provide direct service to their
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operations decisions to other functions, and the need for strategy to guide all operations decision making. New-product design is treated as a cross-functional decision responsibility that precedes production of goods or services. 2. Operations and Supply Chain Strategy Chapter One The Operations Function Chapter outline 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Why study operations management? Definition of operations management Decisions at Pizza U.S.A. Operations decisions—a framework Cross-functional decision
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into a product or service until the last possible moment. An example of this strategy is Dell Computers' build-to-order online store. Among the earliest reference to the concept was in a paper by Zinn and Bowersox in the Journal of Business Logistics. They highlighted five types: Labelling, Packaging, Assembly, Manufacturing and Time postponements. Postponement in SCM Postponement is a concept in supply chain management where the manufacturer produces a generic product, which can be modified at
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2012-2014 Operations Management Assignment On “DELL” Submitted To: Submitted By: Prof. Hersh Sharma Anukriti Chaturvedi Dell Computer Corporation, with annual revenue of $52.9 billion is a premier provider of computing products and services. As a result of its direct business model, dell is a leading seller of computer systems worldwide
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