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Class, Welcome to QSO-630-X5806, Supply Chain Management! I’m looking forward to spending the next ten weeks with you, exploring the use of current best evidence as a basis for best practice. Professional Logistics and Supply Chain Management SME everywhere are incorporating research findings into their best practice to provide current, effective, and evidence-based best practices. Our exploration of evidence-based practice begins with developing focused research questions, directly relevant to…

The sales and operations can be integrated through two ways. The first way is known as horizontal sales and operation integration and second way is the vertical sales and operation integration. In the horizontal integration, the integration process is carried out by managing capacity, priority and demand. The capacity management deals with the resources, which are need for the production process. Capacity management provides the details about how much resources are available or required to…

Smucker Company is America's top producer and marketer of jams, jellies, and preserves. Operating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia, it also manufactures and markets peanut butter, ice cream toppings, fruit drinks and syrups. The familiar corporate trademark, "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good," alludes both to the Company's founding family and its reputation for high-quality products. Smucker’s was founded in 1897 by Jerome Monroe Smucker’s who sold his…

affordable enough for their target market Apple has to watch the other companies and their supply chain, always ensuring they have the best deal. However, while keeping an eye on the product and where it is coming from, Apple must also ensure that they deliver new products on the expected date. Any delays in release would result in distrust in the company and a loss of custom. Fortunately for Apple, supply chains based in the US have a number of strategic and operational advantages - the US is…

The second piece of work that I am going to discuss is Candy Apple Chick II by James Gill. This piece consists of a portrait of a woman looking up, repeated three times along the top 1/3 of the canvas. She is surrounded by a flat but loud orange, trimmed in a rich blue. The remaining 2/3 of the canvas is the lower half of a woman from her shoulders down, stepping out of a car. This portion of the image is sectioned off in the shape of a rectangle, and flooded with a blue-green. It is…

Biblical Integration There is one specific example in the scriptures that I believe clearly show the utilization of logistics during biblical times. In Exodus Moses was tasked by God to go to Egypt and release the Israelites from their captivity (Exodus 3:7-10 New International Version). Causing the Pharaoh to release the people from their indentured servitude was not the only monumental task that Moses had to accomplish, he also had to lead them to the promise land. After the plagues occurred,…

Description of the Organization Millions of people frequent grocery stores, malls, retail outlets, and pharmacies on a daily basis with the expectation that the products they need will be available. One of the largest Supply Chain organizations in the world works to exceed their customers’ expectations every day to ensure that those products are indeed available, and that company is Exel. Exel is a wholly owned entity of Deutsche Post DHL, the world’s leading logistics group (About Us: Exel,…

in a competitive grocery store market. Wegmans is headquartered in Rochester, NY; with over seventy stores mainly in Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse; they also have locations in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The chain offers a spacious floor layout of 100,000 square feet; which, sometimes is double or even triple the size of the average supermarket. With 37,000 employees, usually 500 to 600 employees per superstore; and annual sales of over $3 billion, Wegmans…

To begin with, supply chain management is considered and known as the management of the flow of goods and services. With so many objectives of supply chain management, it includes the movement of raw materials, Work in process inventory, and last but not least finished goods. Throughout this paper, I will focus on Marketing, Integration with Operations Management. Within this industry, I will provide background information research on the industry influences, pricing with respect to operations…