Supply chain management is the process of transforming raw materials into finished products and delivering these to the customers. Elaborate on this statement with appropriate examples.
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finished products and delivering these to the customers. Elaborate on this
statement with appropriate examples.
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- Need to explain the supply chain flow of goods and information
- To focus on- upstream, downstream, reverse logistics, information, cashflow
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- You are selected to be part of the team in the Raju’s Hill Strawberry Farm located in Cameron Highlands. (a) Examine the logistics activities throughout the supply chain from raw materials to end user. please provide detailed answer.minimum words counts 500Source Available at: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/inside-amazons- fulfillment-centers-what-you-can-expect-to-see-on-a-warehouse-tour please read the source above and kindly help me with the question. a. There are several activities performed in a warehouse, discuss picking as an activity and examine the importance of efficient picking for Amazon. b. Warehousing plays an integral part of the supply chain, defend this statement by discussing at least 2 key points highlighting the importance of warehouses in the contemporary business environment.Discuss reverse logistics and where it makes sense for a business to use them or when it could be more costeffective to merely replace the commodity.
- Using the Supply Chain to Create Value for Customers. How does outsourcing differ from offshoring? How can just-in-time and vendor-managed inventories add value to products for customers? What place does reverse logistics have in a company’s supply chain? Please answer in 350 word count. Thank you PlWhat is supply chain management? How does it differ from logistics? Define and explain the different types of inventory costs that managers must consider in making replenishment decisions. How can these costs be determined in practice?2 Read the given scenario and explain logistics operations involved in it. You need to evaluate on these key points. Maximum length of this answer is 250 words. (Marks-05) The role of logistics in the context of successful supply chain Discuss time utility and place utility in the context of above scenario Evaluate drivers of logistics for the same Discuss the mode/modes of transportation you find in the given scenario. A Rose Is a Rose, but Only If It Is Fresh Supply chains for food and flowers must be fast, and they must be good. When the food supply chain has a problem, the best that can happen is the customer does not get fed on time; the worst that happens is the customer gets food poisoning and dies. In the floral industry, the timing and temperature are also critical. Indeed, flowers are the most perishable agricultural item—even more so than fish. Flowers not only need to move fast, but they must also be kept cool, at a constant temperature of 33 to 37 degrees. And they…
- Explain in detail with examples the strategic value-adding role logistics plays in the company’s supply chain?Using the Supply Chain to Create Value for Customers. How does outsourcing differ from offshoring? How can just-in-time and vendor-managed inventories add value to products for customers? What place does reverse logistics have in a company’s supply chain?Explain the significance of the fact that the purpose of logistics is to meet customer requirements.
- Q1: You are a distribution center manager; you understand distribution facilities would provide a variety of services according to the requirements of the supply chain. Your manager requested you to do the training for your team, it should discuss the primary functions of DC, what are they? Q2: When goods need to be transported, the supply chain manager can choose from five modes of transportation: truck, rail, air, water and pipeline. What are the main functions, advantages and disadvantages of each basic mode? Giving goods example under each mode.- Logistics Management Answer the following questions. When logistics is divided into separate functions, each is likely to have its own objectives. Is this necessarily a bad thing, or can there be positive benefits? An integrated supply chain is a convenient notion, but it does not reflect real operations. An organization is only really concerned with its own customers and suppliers and does not have time to consider other organizations further along the chain. Do you think that this is true?3-The trade-off between transportation and inventory costs is significant when designing a supply chain network. Two fundamental supply chain decisions involving this trade-off are Choice of Transportation Mode and Inventory aggregation.Design a complete supply chain network for a FMCG company based in Pakistan. However, suppliers are both local and international but the distribution is confined in Pakistan only. This is a push-based industry and business model is horizontal. You are required to do the following activities and don’t write anything in detail. Required: Wherehouses at each stage, its type and strategies for warehouse location
