Supply Chain Drivers

Service providers must be willing to change and innovate for clients with collaboration. Skills and capabilities of employees, current clientele, turnover, correspondence to customer’s quality standards, productivity level, security aspects, and the overall financial position will have a collective impact on the selection decision. Location This criterion is again related to supply chain strategy of the company to be responsive or efficient. The ability to offer number of small shipments will be based on the location factor i.e Centralization and decentralization of warehouses and the volume of goods transported between factories and warehouses at a given time period. It is important that at least the warehouse has access for two modes of transport (Catalano, 2009).

Abstract The operation of conveyance determines the efficiency of moving products. The progress in techniques and management principles improving the moving load, distribution celerity, accommodation quality, operation costs, the utilization of facilities and energy preserving. Conveyance takes a crucial part in the manipulation of logistic. Reviewing the current condition, a vigorous system needs a clear frame of logistics and an opportune convey implements and techniques to link the caused procedures. The objective of the paper is to define the role of conveyance in logistics for the improvement.

Q. Critically evaluate the contribution of the resource-based view of the firm to the discipline of strategic management. Illustrate your answer with examples. Strategic Management refers to the analysis, decisions, and actions undertaken by an organization to create and sustain competitive advantages. The resource-based model introduces a different perspective - from competitive positioning model - to strategic planning by looking at the resources and capabilities of the firm.

Section A 1.1 Introduction Process Analysis and Design is a systematic attitude to improve our understanding of the business processes of an organization or better still a roadmap or strategic approach to achieve a unique expectation, it assists in the realization of tangible benefits such as cost reduction, process efficiency, and effective human resource allocation and how and what to do within political, legal, social, environmental, safety and economic constraints in achieving the set objective. The processes and methods used to transform tangible inputs i.e. raw materials, semi-finished goods, subassemblies and intangible inputs such as ideas, information, knowledge into goods or services largely depends on effective management. Process

These aspects will be followed by several constraints that should be satisfied in order to fulfill the real condition inside the industry. The constraints can be defined as capacity for each plant, capacity for each type of transportation mode, capacity for ship loader and unloader, working hours/ day, inventory cost, shortage cost, penalty cost for exceeding the congestion allowance, etc. By considering the constraints, the company should achieve the objectives by completing the needs of subsidiary fertilizer corresponding to government rules, optimizing the plant utilization, and also optimizing the company profitability. II. METHODOLOGY Problem that will be discuss in this research solved by distribution requirements planning method (DRP).

Thematic Analysis 1- Significance of the Research Study ERP plays a major role in Vendor Managed Inventory. A vendor managed inventory is a process where the manufacturer generates order for the manufacturer based on the demand created by the distributor using ERP. During this process the manufacturer follows mutually agreed objectives between the manufacturer and distributor for filling rates and transaction costs. In this regard, some ordering model in Vendor Managed Inventory for the retail industry will be discussed, and its effect on supply chain collaboration mechanism is reviewed, and finally the process cost reduction as a supplier, will be discussed as operational model and rate of this quantities improvement is measured. 2- Implementation

P3.1 Analyze the role of sales teams within marketing strategy. Your sales and marketing team has a substantial influence on the profitability of the business. You have to define roles that reflect the strengths of your products and assign responsibilities for achieving the sales performance required by the company. When your marketing strategy builds on the roles taken on by the members of your team, they can set achievable targets and take responsibility for meeting their objectives Market Segments The roles assumed by the members of your sales and marketing team depend on the products you offer and how you segment your markets. For example, if your products are highly technical, a

For that there is certain department, such as research and development, branding and marketing, etc., Needs to be decentralized and work in direct connecting with the customer. Nestlé operation management Nestlé operation management covers the following aspects Capacity and Capacity Planning - “Capacity is the ability to hold, receive, store and accommodate.” Volume and certainty of anticipated demand - The factor by which the management Calculate by formulas to locate their facility.” Strategic objectives – Design made and trade - “The companies develop their operations into many of the countries.” Cost of expansion and operation - “The concept of JIT is to getting the right quantity of goods at the right place and at the right time.” Best operating level – boost the business performance Facility Location – enable the business to offer uniform quality and product glabally Product design – innovation and creativity is the name of the

RefreshNow: Case Study Question 1 RefreshNow should consider the cost of product implementation; such may include the need for more in-house staff to support the implementation, which includes such activities as marketing and advertising. The company should also consider the competitive environment with a focus on their competitors, the competitors pricing strategies, their market share. Another significant factor the company should consider is the profit potential with a focus on the product’s potential impact on bottom-line revenue. Focus should not only be on the product itself but also on its potential to open more doors to new opportunities for revenue. Question 2 Solution Price per Unit $2 Variable Cost per Unit $1.9 Total Fixed Cost$40,000,000

Process Drive to achieve functional excellence and integration across all major processes. - Core supply chain processes driving the business. - Best in class approaches to our core processes (manufacturing, integrated demand planning, procurement, cycle-time, compression, dynamic deployment) - Bulk linkages with suppliers and customers. C. Organization Providing the critical success factors of cohesion, harmony and integration across organization entities - Level of cross functional integration is required to manage core processes effectively - Leverage cross-company skills and abilities - Performance measurement and reporting structure help to achieve objectives D. Technology Empowers the Supply Chain to operate on a new level of performance and is creating clear competitive advantages for those companies able to harness it. - IT platform and core applications software support world-class SCM - Advanced decision support capabilities have the greatest impact on business performance - Data are required to manage the core business