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Global sourcing, production and logistics - Coggle Diagram
Global sourcing, production and logistics
Production
Activities involved in creating a product
Strategic objectives
Lowering costs
Increasing product quality (reliability)
Accommodating demands for local responsiveness
Responding to shifts in customers' demands
Logistics
Transmissions from procurement to distribution
Where to Produce
Country factors
Skilled labor and supporting industries
Formal and informal trade barriers
Expectation about future exchange rate changes
Technological factors
The level of fixed costs
The minimum efficient scale
The flexibility of the technology
Product factors
Product's value-to-weight ratio
Whether the product serves universal needs
The Strategic Role of Foreign Factories
The advantage of buy
Drive down the firm's cost structure
Greater flexibility
The advantage market
Protect proprietary technology
Facilitate in vestments in highly specialized assets
Low cost
Outsourcing production
Make-or-buy decisions
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Advantages of make
Advantages of Buy
Global Supply Chain Functions
Global Logistics
Global distribution center management
Inventory management
Packaging and materials handling
Transportation
Reverse logistics
Global Purchasing
5 Levels
Types
Domestic
Internal purchasing
Global internal purchasing
Domestic external purchasing
Global external purchasing
Managing a Global Supply Chain
Role of Just-in-time system
Role of Information Technology
Coordination in Global Supply Chains
Interorganizational Relationships