Supply chain

Question 1 : IKEA company started over 50 years ago in Sweden with Ingvar Kamprad , the company aim to produce a good products to satisfy the need and want for their customer , and in order to do this , they must apply hard system method to ensure that they are do their right job in a good ways . Stage one : system description IKEA is a furniture company that aims to provide the best products and services to its customers with good quality and low prices if its possible , it has several…

Secondly, in the electronics industry, it is important for companies to decide whether they should perform a certain value creation activity by themselves or outsource it to another firm (Parmigiani, 2007). However, in order to reduce labour costs, companies often choose to outsource the task. The company assigns the task to outside professionals who can offer increased efficiencies and economies of scale reducing the company’s internal costs and mitigating the risk of failure. For example, in…

INTRODUCTION Material handling involves short-distance movement within the confines of a building or between a building and a transportation vehicle. It utilizes a wide range of manual, semi-automated, and automated equipment and includes consideration of the protection, storage, and control of materials throughout their manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, consumption, and disposal. Material handling can be used to create time and place utility through the handling, storage, and control of…

2.1. What are the main causes of inventory stock-outs at warehouses? According to Tourtoulo, Laurent, & Mace (2006, p. 20), human errors are the main cause of stock-outs incidents, due to workforces’ intervention in daily warehouse tasks, including forecasting and order picking. Therefore, the possibilities of stock-outs occurrence increases when inaccurate data is manually collected. In conformity, a study conducted by Kang & Gershwin (2004, p. 19) reached the same conclusion, as its findings…

Plant Capacity and Location According to Cambridge Dictionaries, the capacity is defined as “ the total amount that can be contained or produced, or (especially of a person or organization) the ability to do a particular thing. Where in plant designation, the plant capacity is the rate of producing output within a specific duration. On the other hand, the location is where the plant will be build up under with certain constrains such as cost budget, physical and chemical limitation, regulation…

The application of pest control ranges from do-it-yourself arrangements to scientific and very precise deployment of chemicals and predatory insects by highly skilled practitioners. Despite the fact that pest control is a world-wide industry it is still dominated by family or 1-person businesses. Those that need to control pests range from householders to large scale agri-conglomerates who need to maximise their yield. In between these two are restaurants, bars, food production facilities,…

This concept is a metaphor, which uses the image of a wheel with a core component (the hub) and many sub-components (the spokes). Together, the hub and spokes form a whole that can progress forward as one unit. The hub-and-spoke distribution paradigm (or model or network) is a system of connections arranged like a chariot wheel, in which all traffic moves along spokes connected to the hub at the center. The model is commonly used in industry, in particular in transport, telecommunications and…

Assignment 6 Utkarsh Agarwal 201301184 1) Source of effective demand for pacemaker? Comment on nature of economy that may be suited to enhance the advance in such a technology. Ans) A pacemaker is a small unit that helps the heart beat more regularly. It does this with a small electric stimulation that helps control the heart­beat. Doctor puts the pacemaker under the skin on the chest, just under the collarbone. It’s hooked up to heart with tiny wires. A pacemaker is needed to…

Data exchange is carried out in mode of not contacted induction. Using solar energy as power supply, the digital card-reading manager in not contacted type is an exchanging intermediate device. The card-reading manager demodulates the received radio frequency wave so as to obtain information, and then stores the information in memory. Through blue…

Cross border Acquisitions and Mergers The main motives for cross-border acquisitions and mergers are efficiency gains and strategic motive. Efficiency gains due to synergy between the firms leading to economies of scale or scope. Strategic motive is if there is a change in market structure resulting in the change of the firm’s competitive position and profits because of the access to different product types, workforces, suppliers and capital markets. Also the cross border acquisitions and…