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Supply Requirement (1. Briefly explain the key issues in supple chain? (…
Supply Requirement
1. Briefly explain the key issues in supple chain?
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Distribution network configuration
This issue deal with the design of a distribution network to serve a specific market. This will consists of a set of warehouses and retail outlets, together with the manufacturing plant and supply sources, based on consideration of location and capacity of each of these elements.
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Product Design
Concerned with design of the product and its impact on total cost of the product.
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Distribution Strategy
Concerned with the distrubution of the firm's products.
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Customer Value
The key issue is the definition of customer value in an age of increasing consuner power.
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Supply Integrated and strategic partnering
Concerned with the complex issue of strategic inter organizational partnership for achieving competitive advantage.
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Supply Contracts
In traditional supply chain strategies, each party in the chain focuses on its own profit and hence makes decisions with little regard to their impact on other supply chain partners.
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Inventory Control
This is corncerned with the levels of inventory to be held at various points in the supply chain.
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Information Technology and Decision - Support Systems
Critical enabler of effective supply chain management. Indeed, much of current interest in supply chain management is motivated by the oppurtunities that appeared due to the abundance of data and the savings that can be achieved by sophidsticate analysis of these data
2. Discuss the drivers of risk in supply requirement?
Delays
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High capacity utilization at supply source
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Inflexibility of supply source
Systems
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Information infrastructure breakdown
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Extensive system networking
Disruptions
:red_flag: Natural disaster
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Supplier bankruptcy
:red_flag: Labor dispute
Forecast
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Inaccurate forecasts due to long lead times, seasonality, product variety, short lofe cycle.
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Information distortion
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3. What is bullwhip effect? Is it good or bad in logistics? Explain your answer.
The bullwhip effect is the phenomenon of orders and inventories getting progressively larger (more variable) moving backwards through the supply chain
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Manufacturers would like to produce in large lot sizes because it is more cost effective to do so. The problem, however, is that producing in large lots does not allow for flexibility in terms of product mix.
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Ordering/producing in large lots can also increase the safety stock of suppliers and its corresponding carrying cost. It can also create what's called the bullwhip effect.