Essays on Supply Chain

How could a grocery store use inventory to increase the responsiveness of the company’s supply chain? The logistical driver of inventory encompasses all raw materials, work in process, and finished goods within a supply chain. A grocery store can be more responsive if it offers a broader variety. A grocery store should use products that…

Anhueser Busch-InBev Global Supply Chain Anhueser Busch-InBev has recently agreed to a 5-year contract with IBM in an attempt to improve its global supply management capabilities. Anhueser Busch- InBev was looking for a way to improve its management operations considering that it has over 200 brands and does business in as many as seven different…

Introduction Supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer (Anna, 2006). It is also defined as a set of linkages providing goods and services to end users and to intermediate customers (Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, 2009). It is…

The technique can contribute to the improvement of Acme’s decision making process as a whole. Acme gathers data from their customers, suppliers, partners, and competitors. Retailers such as Acme use the collection of data from the aforementioned sources to make changes to its day-to-day operations management processes. This report further finds that organizations that are…

1. An individual firm like Wal-Mart manages supply chain by using a number of techniques. Considering that supply chains include multiple firms with potentially conflicting objectives, Wal-Mart has created very effective and innovative responses. This involves taking advantage of telecommunications infrastructures which focuses on using computerized systems that keep track of the inventory. Wal-Mart uses…

Supply chain is the collection of steps that a company takes to transform raw component s into the final products for consumption of its customers. In simple terms, a supply chain is or a link between a business and its supplies and customers. It is the series of channel or stages that a product (materials…

According to Handfield and Nicols 1999, the nature of how supply chains are defined as “supply chain contains all activities that involve the flow and transformation from raw materials”. Following on from this description I will describe the nature, first of all, the supply chain is a network of facilities that distribute and output the…

Introduction             Kuiper Leda Inc is located in the Republic of Novamia and specializes in the production of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) with its clients including automobile manufacturers and Original Manufacturers (OEMs). Recently, the company has entered into the Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) line. (Chase, et al, 2006)It has become leader in the industry…

Sunsweet Growers Inc. is the world’s largest agricultural corporate dealing in dried tree fruits. It has its headquarters in Yuba City (California) and it processes and markets 40,000 cases of dried fruits every day. It is the global market leader of prunes. Like any other company, Sunsweet has issues with its supply chain management. Some…

Riordan Manufacturing is a leading global manufacturer of plastics, operating in the United States and China. Dr. Riordan founded parent company Riordan Industries in 1991 when he discovered the commercial potential of his plastic patents for “processing polymers into high tensile strength plastic substrates” (University of Phoenix, 2013). Through licensing patents and research and development,…