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Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter2: Introduction To Spreadsheet Modeling

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 20P: Julie James is opening a lemonade stand. She believes the fixed cost per week of running the stand...

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You have just started work as the Supply Chain Manager for Skateboards company These powered skate boards are a huge marketing success and the company owner now wants someone to look at his supply chain and see what efficiencies/savings can be made. One of your remits is to assess the supplier management strategy of the firm to ensure we are getting the most from our relationships in the supply network. You have asked (as a start) for a copy of this weeks purchases from Accounts and someone has kindly written some comments next to each entry on the payment run, this is printed overleaf. Look at this weeks purchases and think about the following;
•Strategic importance of the item to the firm.
•Supply risk to the firm (risk of non-exclusivity or even supply failure). The substitutability of the product.
•The supplier relationship

(b) Next session you will be shown a matrix for categorising types of purchase and assigning suitable supplier strategies to pursue for each category.

SK - Purchases for week 36
Suppler
Address
Items
cost
Supporting information
(a) Your concerns
Birmingham
Road,
Coventry
Local friendly dealer, Salesman plays
golf with the our MD. Annual company
car replacements.
4 x Ford
Bristol Street
Motors PLC
£80,000.0O
Focus GLX
Evans Electric
Motors Ltd.
Swansea,
Wales
Designed marks 1 & 2 for us. The mark
3 has the wor lds best power/weight
ratio.
450 x mark
£100,000.00
3 motors.
Mizu
Bluetooth Inc.
Yokohama,
Japan
80 x blue-
tooth packs.
The only source we can find. Small
firm struggling in the Japanese
$9,000.00
recession.
Eastbourne,
we st Sussex
Regular order of base. One of 20
cơmpanies from the UK timber
merchant association.
AAA timber
400 m2
£25,000.0o
trading
Plywood
5 reams of
photocopy
раper
Sales Director regularly takes a 'long
lunch' to pick up any office supplies.
Makro 'Cash
Coventry
£9.76
& Carry'.
b) Your matrix.

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