Supply Chain Management
Questions & Answers
# 4. How do trade promotions and price fluctuations affect coordination in a supply chain? What pricing and promotion policies can facilitate coordination?
1. Newsvendor Model You are in responsable for managing the procurement of three key products of your company´s retail´s stores. The Information for the next year projections is: You are asked to: • Determine if the company needs to overstock or understock Product A • Determine if the company needs to overstock or understock Product B • Determine if the company needs to overstock or understock Product C • Based on your suggestion above, determine how many units to order for producto A • Based on your suggestion above, determine how many units to order for producto B • Based on your suggestion above, determine how many units to order for producto C
1. How humanitarian supply chains are different from commercial supply chains in terms of goal, operations,supply chain design, time, demand, and customers?Make an example of a product which is distributed both in humanitarian and commercial supply chains (e.g.water bottles or blankets). Compare and contrast the two supply chains.
Global Supply Chain Infrastructures OBJECTIVES: To coordinate and integrate of global logistics, purchasing, operations and market channel strategies. TASKS: Student requires to conduct case study to examine the global supply chain infrastructures in the selected emerging market and identify the potentials of the infrastructures to attract investors. The case study must cover: 1. Transportation infrastructure 2. Communication infrastructure 3. Utilities infrastructure 4. Technology infrastructure
#1. Discuss the importance of collaboration within a supply chain when performing aggregate planning.
#1. A North Face retail store in Chicago sells500 jackets each month. Each jacket costs the store $100 and the company has an annual holding cost of 25 percent. The fixed cost of a replenishment order (including transportation) is $100. The store currently places a replenishment order every month for 500 jackets. What is the annual holding and ordering cost? On average, how long does a jacket spend in inventory? If the retail store wants to minimize ordering and holding cost, what order size do you recommend?How much would the optimal order reduce holding and ordering cost relative to the current policy?
