APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional Exam Content Outline I. Supply Chain Management (SCM) Fundamentals (30%) A. Overview of supply chain management 1. Supply chain management process overview 2. Definitions of supply chain, supply chain management, including reverse supply chain 3. Value and benefits of supply chain management (using the supply chain to improve profitability and decrease
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barcodes, a new emerging technology called RFID has been identified to meet the demands. RFID is low cost Radio Frequency Identification system which requires minimum human intervention to carry out tasks ranging from billing to materials tracking and supply chain management. It is a small wireless device which can store good amount of data and can virtually be tagged to anything. RFID is an electronic tagging technology as shown in figure 1 that allows an object, place, or person to be automatically
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m BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION IN RETAIL The retail industry is facing sweeping and unprecedented change. Customers’ expectations grow higher, economic pressures require them to do more with less, and each day new competitors appear. Responding to that rapid pace of change, retailers tell us, is both their biggest challenge and their biggest opportunity. Retailers who can adapt to change can make intelligent, fast decisions; find new markets to exploit; and constantly improve their products, services
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cabrera lazarini | | | Work ExperienceResults driven leader with 25 year international experience in Supply Chain Operations including International Trade delivering breakthrough results in Productivity improvement and Cost/Inventory reduction while maintaining fundamentals in place regarding Safety, Quality and Internal Controls by applying Value Stream Mapping, Supply Chain Synchronization, Total Productive Management and High Performance Working Systems, working for P&G and Michelin companies
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SUPPLY CHAIN NOTES CLASS 3 JAN 20 2016 ANSWER: B ANSWER: D ANSWER: C ANSWER: B ANSWER: A ANSWER: WE HAVE INCREASED DELIVERY TO STORES, COST ARE LIKELY TO HAVE GONE UP AND CUSTOMER SERVICE LEVELS UP. D. ANSWER: C ANSWER: E ANSWER: D ANSWER: A Answer: C Answer: D Raw materials purchased represents: well over 50% of sales for most major manufacturers. Answer: C Answer: D Total cost of ownership Bull Whip Effect: lack of synchronization among supply chain members
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channels. It refers to a trend of larger and larger swings in inventory in response to changes in demand, as one looks at firms further back in the supply chain for a product. The concept first appeared in Jay Forrester's Industrial Dynamics (1961) and thus it is also known as the Forrester effect. Since the oscillating demand magnification upstream a supply chain is reminiscent of a cracking whip, it became known as the bullwhip. Because customer demand is rarely perfectly stable, businesses must forecast
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Case Study British American Tobacco Bangladesh Ltd Order collection system through Mobile Mobilizing its Supply Chain Management The End Customer The business was formed in 1902 British American Tobacco was established to trade outside both the UK and the USA, and grew from its roots in dozens of countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and continental Europe British American Tobacco Bangladesh is one of the largest multinational companies in the country and has been operating for over
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CHAPTER 10 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Teaching Notes This chapter introduces the concept of supply chain, its management, performance measures and improvement approaches. As an extension of the systems point of view, the system dynamics inherent in the supply chain are illustrated and the coordination in the supply chain is emphasized. Five areas where measurement of supply chain performance should be made are discussed. The five areas are on-time delivery, quality, time (business
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A warehouse management system (WMS) is a key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and process the associated transactions, including shipping, receiving, putaway and picking. The systems also direct and optimize stock putaway based on real-time information about the status of bin utilization. A WMS monitors the progress of products through the warehouse. It involves the physical warehouse infrastructure, tracking systems,
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are always pushing themselves to improve in order to obtain an advantage over their competitors. They frequently feel the need to reduce costs, time and inventory. One way that has been proven to make an organization improve notoriously is a supply chain process, better known as Lean Logistics. This process involves all departments in a company. It is based in eliminating waste in order to reduce costs, lead times and improve product quality. As we can image it is a philosophy that can be applied
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