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Supply Chain Management Basic Video 1

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SCM Chapter 1 Assessment

1.    Based on the order data provided, what is the item fill rate?

Categories                  Unit

Orders received           5,000

Units ordered              40,000

Lines ordered              12,000

Units delivered            37,800

Lines delivered complete 11,200

Orders delivered complete 4,600

a.    92.0% 

b.    93.3% 

c.     94.5% 

d.    97.5%

2.    What term best describes a costing methodology that is frequently used to develop estimates of customer profitability?

a.   Absorption-based costing 

b.  Activity-based costing 

c.  Allocation-based costing 

d.  Area-based costing

3.    Why do we use systems thinking in supply chain management (SCM)?

a.    An SCM’s performance depends on the performance and interrelationship of its parts

b.    Human bodies are complex biological systems

c.     It has been used since World War I

d.    Engineers find it useful

                                   

4.    What is a primary challenge that frequently occurs when adopting a centralization strategy for a global supply chain.

a.  Economies of scale can be difficult to achieve across the supply chain  

b.  Misalignment of information technology is likely to occur 

c.  Monitoring of partner performance can be difficult to coordinate 

d.  Standardized practices may not fit particular markets or regions

5.    Which of the following is not a way to reduce inventory levels?

a.    Supply-push replenishment

b.    Smaller, more frequent orders

c.     Use of premium transportation

d.    Elimination of slower moving products                                                                                                                               

PIOS Chapter 1 Assessment

1.    Which of the following is a productivity paradox?

a.    As system based productivity increases, other forces can simultaneously reduce gains

b.    It is often difficult to quantify tangible productivity gains from the use of an information systems

c.    Unintended consequences of technology expenditures can reduce system effectiveness

d.    All of the above

2.    Which of the following is a type of argument for a business case for IT?       

a.    Fear

b.    Anger

c.    Reason

d.    All the above

3.    What is a database?

a.    A collection of data

b.    A collection of related data organized in a way that makes it valuable

      and useful

c.     A collection of information

d.    A collection of software                               

4.    What is an entity?

a.    Information about an object

b.    Things we wish to store

c.     Things we store information about

d.    Software holding the data

5.    What is an attribute?

a.    Information

b.    Pieces of data

c.     Information storage

d.    Pieces of information

Textbook for SCM

CONTEMPORARY LOGISTICS      GE    MURPHY   

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Text Book for POIS

Title: INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS, 16th Edition (9789814599801)
Author: MARAKAS,O'BRIEN
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Assistance to Group Assignment - POIS

1.  What are UPS “Smart Labels?”  What role do they play in UPS operations? 

UPS Smart Labels are bar coded labels that are used to initiate a UPS transaction.  The bar code label contains all the key information about the customer, the package size, destination and weight.  This information is sent immediately to a UPS processing center at the very time it is created with a UPS drivers hand held computer (the DIAD IV).  The smart labels become the control document used throughout the transaction right through to final delivery.

2. Write out the steps a package takes from pick-up by a UPS driver to delivery including the role of DIAD, the UPS Data Center, and the UPS Package Center. 

Smart label created

Information sent to processing center

Information processed—stored, address corrected

Information matched to dispatch plan

Package is sortedAnother label is printed specifying delivery truck and position on truck

Geo software used to continuously update dispatch plans for trucks based on current load

Information is displayed on the DIAD IV identifying drop off order, position on truck

At delivery, package scanned.  Information sent wirelessly to processing center

Customers sign on the dotted line on the DIAD IV.

Main processing centers store complete track of package for customer tracking

3. What role does wireless communication play in the UPS systems?

DIAD IV is wirelessly connected to the main processing centers and the package centers.  Generally UPS trucks contain a transceiver to work with the local driver's DIAD IV, and then  communicate that information wirelessly back to the UPS processing center.

4. How has information technology transformed the package delivery business?

Package delivery used to take many days and even weeks prior to the development of the UPS technologies described in this video.  Now next day service is available anywhere in the United States, and around the world.   Information technology has made the industry much more efficient, reliable, and lower in cost to the customer.  IT has enhanced the competitive position of UPS and others like FedEx vis a vis the U.S. Postal Service, and prior local delivery services which no longer exist because of the success of UPS and FedEx.

5. How does UPS’s investment in IT help it achieve the strategic business objectives described in Chapter 1?

The most important contributions of technology to UPS strategic objectives is the greatly enhanced operational efficiency; the compression of time to deliver; the development of new services like tracking, and overnight or 2-day service; the closeness to the customer; improvements in the quality and speed of decisions related to packages. 

Firms that made these investments in IT benefit by achieving significant competitive advantage over others in the package delivery business.  FedEx remains a much smaller but competitive service especially in the overnight market.  Other competitors have largely disappeared.  

Assistance to Group Assistance _ SCM

1.  What are the characteristics of the market served by the Horizon Foods

      Corporation? 

The market served by Horizon Foods Corporation is characterized by:

• concern for high quality products.
• intense competition for retail shelf space.
• pressure from the trade for higher levels of service.
• weakening of national brands.
• small orders placed frequently reduce inventories for the trade but increase costs for the manufacturer.

2.  What problems exist at the Horizon Foods Corporation? 

The problems faced by the Horizon Foods Corporation include:

• failure to meet promised delivery dates.
• special production runs.
• large cost for public warehouses (20 of them).
• large inventory investment but still cannot ship (this is why they need special production runs).
• lack of integration between production and marketing.
• high transportation costs.
• purchasing does not appear to consider total Logistics costs.
• low advertising Levels. Horizon Foods is contributing to the weakening of its brand names by advertising at a low level and placing emphasis on promotions (which encourage brand switching and further brand erosion).
  
  

3.    Why do you think that these problems exist?

These problems exist for a number of reasons.

·       First, the company is not focused on the customer and what is required for success in the marketplace. Without a customer service study to determine what lead times are necessary, most companies make the mistake of offering lead times that are too short. Marketing people generally believe that more warehouse locations are better. However, the more warehouse locations, the more likely Murphy’s Law will rule. The more locations that the inventory is in, the less likely a customer order can be filled from any one location. The inventory will be in the system somewhere, but invariably in the wrong location. This no doubt explains the high number of special production runs as well as a significant portion of the high transportation costs. It may even account for a significant number of the small orders (actually small shipments) because customer orders are being split because of lack of inventory availability at the ship location. By putting the inventory in a reduced number of locations, orders will have a greater chance of being filled completely.

·       Second, there is not a logistics function. Responsibility for logistics activities is split between production and marketing and no one is looking at the least cost method of achieving the customer service objectives.

·       Third, the long production run mentality which leads to manufacturing efficiency may be needlessly increasing inventories.

4.  What would you suggest that the task force recommend in order to gain “control over this product movement process?” 

The major recommendations should be:

• Conduct a customer service study so that it can be determined with precision what service levels are required and how many warehouse locations are necessary.
• Create a logistics department and bring all of the materials flow activities together under a logistics executive.
• Rethink the company’s policy of producing in large production runs.