The response of the agri-food industry to severe changes of the global economic climate Professor Michael Bourlakis Kent Business School m.bourlakis@kent.ac.uk Six winds of change (Denney-Finch, 2011) • Great correction: prosperity built on credit • Demographic timebomb: avrg no of children per woman –1.5 • New superpowers: Brazil, China, India. • Battle for resources: energy, water, food consumption • Volatile climate: floods, heat waves, forest fires • Digital revolution: Internet, mobile
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Management at DIMCO Kendra Brown Daniel Gilbert BUS 515 – Operations Management July 17, 2011 Answer 1 Durham International Manufacturing Company currently has integrated the internal process and would like to move towards the external integration. Lucille Jenkins, CEO for the company is not sure which avenue to take to insert the supplier function of the chain management
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Demica Report Series April 2009 Issue no.10 Research Report Strengthening the Links issue no. 10 Supply Chain Finance A Third Report from Demica Demica Report Series April 2009 Issue no.10 Summary Continuing tight credit conditions have made liquidity scarce. Corporations want to extend payment terms for their supply chain, but suppliers are finding it difficult or impossible to accommodate this requirement. Demica’s latest research report into Supply Chain Finance (SCF)
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0960-0035.htm IJPDLM 37,1 B2B e-marketplaces: a typology by functionality Kenneth J. Petersen Department of Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA 4 Received January 2005 Revised July 2006 Accepted July 2006 Jeffrey A. Ogden Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA, and Phillip L. Carter W.P. Carey School of Business, Supply Chain
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Table of contentS Introduction 3 GREENING THE SUPPLY CHAIN 4 EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT AND BENEFITS 5 CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT 5 SOURCING DECISIONS 6 SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS 7 FORECASTING 8 PURCHASING SYSTEM: CENTRALIZED/DECENTRALIZED 9 CONTINUES IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITY AND CULTURE (KAIZEN) 10 FACILITY LOCATION 12 ERP systems 14 RFID tagging 15 Juran’s way 16 Appendices 19 References 21 Introduction Lipman Produce is a leading producer and distributor of fresh vegetables and fruits
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What is logistic? The total management of the key operational function in the supply chain which is procurement, production and distribution. Procurement includes purchasing and product development. The production function includes manufacturing and assembling, while distribution function involves warehousing inventory, transport and delivery. The range of activities involved are: 1) Freight forwarding 2) Customs brokerage 3) Freight auditing and payment 4) Vehicle control and
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ALIGNING INCENTIVES IN SUPPLY CHAINS AGENDA OVERVIEW OF ARTICLE MODEL OF ANALASYS (CLASS DISCUSSION) CONCLUSION QUESTION / ANSWER PERIOD CISCO (Mad Monday April 16, 2001) The world’s largest network equipment maker shocked investors when it warned them they would soon be scrapping $2.5 billion of raw surplus (almost 50% of quarterly sales) - which is one of the largest inventory write-offs in US history. How could Cisco misread demand by $2.5 billion, almost
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can sell DVD players for around $200 less than its competitors because it benefits hugely from low costs from its suppliers. DVD for less has now outsourced its warehousing and storage activities to an external firm, this firm is called Baselio Logistics who is charging them $500,000 annually for the warehousing of their inventory. This strategic move is going to have a positive impact on the business overall because their costs will decrease drastically. These costs that will decrease include the
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Mgt 215 UMT University Assignment 1 MGT 215. Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management November 25, 2012 1) Select a technology from 1850 to the present. Describe how it has affected productivity A technology that comes to mind is server virtualization. We use them every day in the government as we work toward going green, lower cost, increasing productivity. Since the migration to the virtual servers we were able to cut paper files by ¾. We use a digital contract file now
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LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT - INTRODUCTION Logistics management is that part of the supply chain which plans, implements and controls the efficient, effective, forward and backward (reverse) flow and storage of goods, services and information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements rather to the customers’ delight. A professional working in the field of logistics management is called a logistician. Logistics, as a business concept, evolved
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