Supply chain management

Case Summary: This week’s case discusses Proctor & Gamble (P&G) and their comprehensive supply chain administration foundation. P&G is known for producing some of the world’s greatest health care products, household goods, and even everyday use items. From Joy to Ace, to Align to Always, the company produced over 30 brand names that produce more than $1 billion each year. It’s important to note that P&G have an additional 15 brands that produce at least $600 million annually. Generally…

Kong based company established more than 100 years ago by Fung Pak-Lui and his partner Li To-Ming. LF provides a holistic supply chain management and value addition at each level of supply chain at a global level (see Appendix A). In its earlier life, LF did not owned any of the boxes of the supply chain. For example, if an order comes in, LF will facilitate the supply chain from raw material sourcing, manufacturing, quality control and finally delivery. Having grown considerably over the years,…

Lean six sigma Lean six sigma is a business technique and it acts as an important tool make supply chain management success. It offers satisfaction to both customers and companies in terms of their expectations. Most of the industries using this as an aid to increase their revenue and it helps to fix the value added processes beneficial to them. Transparency , mutual understanding, team working, recognizing the value of each individual, build a confidence in employees mind and teaches how to…

important in management. Besides, one may see some paralels between Herzberg’s theory and the theory of Maslow. Maslow has also concluded that a person, a worker, should be motivated firstly with nonmaterial motivators. According to his five stage hierarchy motivation model, the main motivator for every worker is personal growth and fulfillment and the last stage is taken by biological and psychological needs: Figure 5: Maslow’s theory of needs…

The study questionnaire was validated with an interview with five buying representatives and eight supply council respectively. Findings It was deduced that relational capital mediate or links capability development and relationship benefits. Rather in the absence of mutual capital capability development interests do not come to light and on the other hand, the influence of a supplier management regime can be detrimental as well. The results of this study are essential in helping…

When it comes to making decisions on location for supply chain management, it is important to consider market demands and determining customer satisfaction. Calculated decisions must concentrate on the position of stocking and distribution locations, manufacturing plants, and positioning them in key areas that the market provides for. It is important to know what the market demand is in that particular area and how fast the product(s) can be moved the locations desired. For instance, if surf…

2. Problem definition: How can artificial intelligence be employed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness in purchasing and supply chain management? 3. Current research on the topic The official idea and definition of Artificial Intelligence were first introduced by John McCarthy at the Dartmouth Conference in 1955f. According to Mr. John McCarthy “, Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to…

Innovations” stems from superior management talent being mindful of the trends and situations in the external environment in order to recognizing the potential of external opportunities (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). In addition to the team’s vision, the Mountain Dew leadership team was able to organize a vast amount of data and information to drive out and deliver a winning product (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). Pepsico also had a good working relationship with its supply chain partner for bottling…

been difficult to learn. When it is applied this knowledge then can and should cause category sales to increase and increase customer satisfaction. That in turn adds value to external stakeholders as well because Target can then clean up their supply chain, and have priority on the best possible products, creating a positive relationship with those vendors.…

Andrius Blekys Dr. Stryz Professional Writing 19 October 2016 The Evolution of Supply Chain Being undeclared places a lot of pressure on a freshman to select a major. Parents are not as understanding of one’s college experience if there is no “goal” in mind. There is even a stigma that students will be lost in their academic studies and may never find what they want to do in college. I however do not believe this to be true. Being undeclared, in my book, allows freshman to explore many…