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GENERAL INFORMATION Lesson Title: Food Chains Subject: Life Science Grade Level: 4 Instructional Setting: This is a 4th grade class, composed of 16 students, 7 males, 9 females. 3 students are ELL, 1 is gifted in Math and Science, and 2 students have been diagnosed with ADHD. The classroom is composed of 4 tables and stools; students are permitted to stand or sit. STANDARDS, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES Common Core or State Standard: SC.4.L.17.4: Trace the flow of energy from the Sun as it is transferred along the food chain through the producers to the consumers. (Access Points) Lesson objective(s): • After reading Butternut Hollow Pond and discussing relationships among organisms, students will complete the Butternut Hollow Pond quiz, scoring…

Supply Chain Flow and Challenges Walmart is known to have one of the most efficient and modern supply chains in the world. This is not only due to Walmarts trucking fleet, which is the biggest privately owned truck fleet in the world, but also due to the exceptionally modern information and forecasting systems. Due to the fact, that Walmart is known to be the largest retailer in the world, they are also dealing with a lot of suppliers. As Walmart is working together with more than 90.000…

Introduction The supply chain management is the systematic process that a company adopts in order to manage the sources, obtaining of inputs, and process of manufacturing of the products and their supply to the customers. The top most important objective of a supply chain is to meet the customer demands by efficiently utilizing the resources that composed of labor, stock, inventory, and the distribution capability. The supply chain includes all activities that an organization performs such as,…

Most supply chain management specialists prefer supply chain performance implementation because it is the least expensive, the simplest and at least time consuming activity in showing operation improvement. People are believed to behave on the bases of how they are measured. A positive outcome is highly dependent on how well the delivery system, financing, the supply chain, information, the personnel are performing. Improvement of supply chain performance, requires the understanding of the…

maintaining a good relationship with its suppliers. Supply Chain Management is a way to set the parameters with which a company or business can operate while attending the demand for products or services, with a line of providers of materials, equipment and other services required for the end product to reach the market and, of course, the consumers. (see Figure 1) Having an efficient supply chain management, helps companies reduce costs, either for transportation or storage, shorting…

Supply chain management is the network of all the business entities and processes which links suppliers and customers and the various operations which involve them. the business entities consist of the manufacturer, suppliers, distributors, retailers, customers. SCM involves multiple firms and their business activities and how they link and coordinate together both up the stream and down the stream with exchange of products, services, finances, information, etc. This definition creates 3…

Introduction One of the most underrated aspect of business management is supply chain management. (Gemma, 2014) Supply chain is a network among different organization which are linked together by upstream and downstream linkages, due to the specific purpose. (Stadtler, 2015) The Supply chain is faced with different issues such as rapidly soaring multinational corporations and strategic partnership, global expansion and lack of specific source in some lands. In addition, there are some…

According to Chaffey (2002) Value Chain is a model that considers how supply chain activities can add more value to products and services delivered to customers Inbound logistic: This activity refers to the relationship with suppliers and all activities related to receive, storage, transport and deliverof inputs into business (Ingram n.d.). The main logistic tasks of Tesco is receiving receipt from suppliers, storing inventories, handling and transporting goods internally in the business. To…

community is in need of a shopping center with chain stores. This idea would be a sufficient solution to our community’s needs and wants. Chain stores can provide the general public with a numerous amount of goods, ranging from clothing, retail jobs, and supplies. In the article “In Praise of Chain Stores” author Postrel, argues in favor of chain stores throughout America, he clearly states chain stores “increase local variety, even as they reduce the differences from place to place”…

Supply Chain Effectiveness Versus Supply Chain Responsiveness Student’s name Institution The Supply Chain Vice President, Tedra Grav, advocates for efficiency as opposed to responsiveness which in my view is a good strategy. According to Chopra and Meindl (2015), responsiveness is measured by a supply chain’s ability to respond to high ranges of quantities demanded, meet short lead times, handle a large variety of products, build highly innovative products, meet a high service level, and…