Supply Chain Management According to APICS, a supply chain is a “Global network used to deliver products and services from raw materials to end customers through an engineered flow of information, physical distribution and cash.” The Basic Supply Chain consists of three units….Supplier, Producer and Customer Four basic flows connect these entities together: 1. The flow of physical materials and services from suppliers to producer to customer 2. The flow of cash from the customer back “upstream”
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1) Please describe three most important competitive advantages of ZARA (Inditex) over its main competitor. How sustainable is this advantage? (1,5 pages, 10 points) 2) Assume that ZARA is considering to enter the US market. Please recommend actions for ZARA. Please make clear assumptions when necessary. (1,5 page; 10 points). After reading and analyzing the Zara case we came several conclusions when it comes to Zara’s competitive advantage over its competitors. We understood that Zara is using
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Oracle Inventory - Release 11i.4 Logical Data Model has initialization information initialization information for a inventory adjustment ITEM CATEGORY TYPE assigned to an item by ABC ASSIGNMENT GROUP is class for classifies inventory for ABC CLASS inventory classification for CYCLE COUNT results in results from contains CYCLE COUNT ADJUSTMENT ITEM CATALOG GROUP stores count tabulations in PHYSICAL INVENTORY SUBINVENTORY REPLENISH COUNT owned by COST GROUP
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Harvard Business School 9-693-019 Rev. September 5, 1995 Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. On the Friday before the running of the 118th Kentucky Derby, Doug Friesen, manager of assembly for Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky, Plant, was approaching the final assembly lines, where shiny Camrys took shape. He heard a cheer go up. Team members on the lines were waving their hand tools towards a signboard that read “no overtime for the shift.” Smiling broadly, Friesen agreed: everyone in the
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Capitulo 0 Breve Introducción a Lean Seis Sigma 1 ¿Qué es Lean Seis Sigma Lean Six Sigma es una Metodología que Maximiza el valor de la empresa logrando una rapidez en la mejora de la satisfacción del cliente, el costo la calidad, la velocidad de los procesos y la inversión de capital. La fusión de Lean y Seis Sigma es necesaria porque: Lean no puede poner un proceso bajo control estadístico. Seis Sigma por si solo no puede mejorar de manera dramática la velocidad del proceso ó
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Enterprise Resource Planning: Developments and Directions for Operations Management Research Robert Jacobs and Elliot Bendoly Operations and Decision Technologies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Decision and Information Analysis, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 Abstract Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has come to mean many things over the last several decades. Divergent applications by practitioners and academics, as well as by researchers in alternative fields of study, has
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nature of the textile industry makes implementing lean manufacturing techniques a challenge; hence implementing lean techniques in a textile industry has been taken up as a challenge. We have chosen a combination of value stream mapping (VSM), 5S, kanban, kaizen, poka-yoke, and visual controls to improve the processes. The findings of this study reveal that a thorough analysis of the process, setup, and changeover time (CO), use of colour coding for identification of volume-mix, use of kaizen and
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The idea for the creation of Toyota Motor Company began back in 1924 when Sakichi Toyoda invented and patented the Toyoda Model G Automatic Loom. A loom is an apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn and thread. The Model G Automatic Loom was the first of its kind to use the Jidoka principle, which is where a machine stops itself once a problem occurs. The Jidoka principle and the money made off of the sale of the Toyoda Model G Automatic Loom were used to begin what we now know as the Toyota
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TQM EVOLUTION Total Quality Management (TQM) - is a modern management concept. - is customer oriented management philosophy and strategy, centered on quality so as result in customer delight. TQM addresses the concepts of: 1. Product Quality 2. Process Control 3. Quality Assurance 4. Quality Improvement Quality - fitness for use - Its suitability for use by the customer ISO - International
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Hank Kolb, Director, Quality Assurance case study examines a manufacturing industrial plant that employs 1,200 people. Hank Kolb was the newly hired director, quality assurance. Kolb was warned by the general manager, Morganthal, about the “lack of a quality attitude” in the plant, and told Kolb that he “should try and do something about this.” Hank Kolb left a very good job to accept this position because he wanted a challenge and thought this company was serious about the importance of quality
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