John elevated to the head of the Xerox’s Multinational Development Centre (MDC) in 1986. Just within short three years in this position, Clendenin had led his group gaining a great achievement by improving the efficiency of the company’s worldwide logistics and inventory management system. His team had discovered and exploited business opportunities that saved Xerox millions of dollars a years. Their budget grown from $400000 to $4 million, its staff rose from 4 employees to 42. Discipline Clendenin
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The importance of Purchase and Supply management INF 336 Instructor: Lori Deere In my time of jobs, I’ve had some experience of dealing with projects, vendors (suppliers) and some of the business. When I worked for Whole Foods, I dealt with different vendors and dabbed in some of the project aspect of the work. In later time, I became the bulk buyer and got more involved. At that time I really didn’t know how vital purchasing and supply management were in business. In an organization, buying
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Now I am going to discuss the issues of global sourcing. What things you should be taken considered and what are the pros and cons by purchasing the products from suppliers outside the North America. We know your corporate objective is GROWTH and your strategy is to focus in narrow and differentiate market. You can provide unique product mix that other competitors cannot. As your company growth, you need huge amount of SKU to meet your customers’ needs. And now, you found a corporate global sourcing
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Journal of Economic Geography 7 (2007) pp. 451–469 Advance Access Published on 14 May 2007 doi:10.1093/jeg/lbm010 Barriers to ‘US style’ lean retailing: the case of Wal-Mart’s failure in Germany Susan Christophersonà Abstract Wal-Mart’s exit from the German market in 2006 after 10 years of attempting to achieve sustainable competitive advantage contributes an interesting case to the small but expanding literature on ‘failure’ in international investment. The work on the disinvest decision
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All businesses have a need for information systems, whether it is a transaction, management, or executive system. Some information systems are more critical to an organization than other information systems. Huffman Trucking is in the logistics business. Logistic businesses need an information system with versatility to their needs. A management information system is a critical information system essential for Huffman Trucking. Management Information System According to Sap Ag (n.d.)
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3a) Explain with example what is vertical and horizontal supply chain relationship and how they differ from each other. Vertical relationship is when a company has control of or expands their business into each step of a process, like different points of the same production path. Example: A car company that chose to expand into tire manufacturing, which would fit how you've defined vertical integration. Horizontal relationship is when a business tries to become a monopoly by buying other companies
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1- Because we can make distinguish between utilization and efficiency We must make a definition to the following 1-Efficiency 2-Performance 3-Utilization Efficiency is the measurement for complete factory/ line/ section etc. It is the simplest measurement and can be calculated as the ratio of output vs input. Performance is the measurement of productivity for one particular resource like human (operator) or machine. The input is considered after excluding all lost times/ off standard time
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PROPOSED SOLUTION: HUBBING Hubbing will bring: Increased FTL Decrease WH numbers Decrease transport + handling costs Decrease lead times Decrease return rates Customer satisfaction increase PROPOSED SOLUTIONS: SOFTWARE Implement an EDI Gateway LOGISTICS OPERATOR CUSTOMERS WMS/ HUB EDI Management ERP System • • • • • • PRICAT INSIDES OSTRPT 18 OSTRPT 21 OSTRPT 29 OSTRPT 31 PROPOSED SOLUTION: SOFTWARE EDI Gateway: better traceability Real time information Consolidates physical reality
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ITC eChoupal case Farmers in rural communities of India relied on Department of Agriculture, government, universities, insurance companies etc. for various inputs such as weather, new and scientific farming practices and insurance coverage. There was an indirect link between farmers and manufacturer via input retailers who source from wholesalers. During harvest, farmers bring these produce to Mandis bearing their own transportation cost; where beans are auctioned to the traders and agents of the
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prices by optimising the production process and reduce the input costs. Woolworths consulted with its suppliers to find ways to reduce pricing on their products and reviewed its entire supply chain, reducing unnecessary packaging, improving their logistics and also keeping an eye on price of commodities such as wheat. By making effective changes in their value chain Woolworths is able to increase the value delivered to their
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