Midterms Flashcards

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set of processes used to effectively and efficiently integrate suppliers, manufacturers, distribution centers, distributions, and retaillers

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Supply Chain Management

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it also includes coordination and collaboration with channel partners, which can be suppliers, customers

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Supply Chain according to Supply Chain Management Professionals

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Provides combination of Product, service or solution to end customer

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Common Definition of SCM

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Designing, planning, executing, or measuring activities related to:
- Sourcing
- Procurement
- Manufacturing
- Integrated Operations Planning

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SCM and Logistics

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Use product in additional process or product

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Customer

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Residential homes that consume food and use appliances

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Consumers

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  • Reduced operating cost
  • Increased revenue
  • Asset Utilization
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Supply chain Value Adds

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Supply Chain Application

Involving suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers for consumer products

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Product

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Supply Chain Applications:

For items that are being heavily promoted such as end-aisle tasting displays in wholesale clubs.

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Promotional

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Supply Chain Applications:

Moves bulk products such as grains, metals, and chemicals. In many cases, these materials are relatively low value

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Bulk material

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Supply Chain Applications:

Applies supply chain principles to talent management, where individual talent represents that products that are moved through the supply chain with the value-added process being training and education.

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Talent

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Supply chain Applications:

Addresses the increasing volume of product that is sold online from manufacturers or distributors directly consumers.

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Business to consumer (B2C)

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Supply chain Applications:

Handles product returns for recycling of products, components, reprocessing, and packaging.

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Recycling

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Supply chain Applications:

Provides facility resources for information-based supply chains, such as servers farms for cloud or social media applications.

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Resource

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Supply chain Applications:

Provides and sequences the equipment and the building suppliers for construction

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Construction

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Supply chain Applications:

Recovers material that has reached its useful life in the field.

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Recovery

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Supply chain Applications:

Provides post-event support for disaster recovery, This includes bringing in equipment for recovery, food and medical care items, and commodities to support reconstruction.

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Humanitarian

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Supply chain Applications:

Sources and delivers from multiple regions around the world

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Global

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Supply chain Applications:

Facilitates the handling and delivery of heavy equipment, such as agricultural, construction, or military equipment

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Durables

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Supply chain Applications:

Moves agricultural product from the farm to the commodity elevator or processing plant.

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Agricultural Commodity

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Supply chain Applications:

Rapidly introduces new product to the market, this is typically a responsive supply chain that is defined to bring new product variation to market or to have souvenirs such as for movies, athletics events

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Innovative

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Supply chain Applications:

Specialized requirements include the ability to provide chains for range of products

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Military

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Supply chain Applications:

Supports the very precise demands for completing.

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Clinical trials

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Assessment of demand and strategic design to achieve maximum responsiveness to customer requirements

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Demand Planning Responsiveness

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Development and administration of relationships with customers to facilitate strategic information sharing joint planning and integrated operations
Customer Relationship Collaboration
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Ability to execute superior and sustainable order-to-delivery performance
Order Fulfillment & Service Delivery
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Participation in production/service development and lean launch
Product/Service Development Launch
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Support of manufacturing strategy and facilitation of postponement
Manufacturing Customization
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Development and administration of relationships with suppliers to facilitate strategic information sharing, join planning and integrated operations
Supplier Relationship Collaboration
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Repair and support of products during their life cylce
Life Cycle Support
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Return and disposition of inventories in a cost effective, secure and responsible manner
Reverse Logistics
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Achieving a high degree of cooperative behavior requires
Information sharing paradigm
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Commitment to focusing collaborative arrangements on planning joint operations
Process specialization paradigm
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- Transportation specialists - Warehousing specialist
Integrated Service Providers
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- Environmentally friendly raw materials - Substitution of environmentally questionable materials. - Taking environmental criteria into consideration - Environmental design considerations
Green Supply Chain Management Practices
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- Firms Can be Fast Alone, The Goal is Supply Chain Synchronization - "Hurry up and wait."
Integrated Supply Chain Management
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- Synchronized Operating Environment - Cycle time compression 10x - Point in time performance
World Class Supply Chain
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Discuss how firms employ supply chain competencies to create competitive advantage
Supply Chain Value Adds
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Configure in a customer relevant way while simultaneously increasing quality, productivity and operational excellence. - Service Excellence ---> Effectiveness - Cost Minimization and Avoidance ---> Efficiency - Value Generation ---> Relevancy - Continuous Improvement ---> Sustainability
Supply Chain Value Proposition
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- Anticipatory (Push) - Responsive (Pull or demand driven)
Responsiveness
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- Pushed based on forecast - Essential work is completed prior to experience demand
Anticipatory Business Model ("Push")
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- Seeks to reduce or eliminate reliance on forecast - Employs joint planning with supply chain partners
Responsive Business Model ("Pull")
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Needs for publicly held firms to delivery quarterly profits, which motivates them to push products to customers
Systems
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Globalization Opportunities and Differences
Globalization
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90% of global demand is not fully satisfied by local supply
Demand exceeds local supply
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Identify and matching the sources of raw materials and components to manufacturers and distributors
Strategic Sourcing
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Moving manufacturing and distribution operations to countries with favorable labor costs and tax laws.
Offshoring
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Distance of typical order-to-delivery operations
Significant difference for global logistics
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Logistics should be managed as an integrated effort to achieve customer satisfaction at the lowest total cost
Logistics Value Proposition
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Service benefits, Cost benefits, Value generation
Logistics Value Proposition
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The more significant the service failure impact upon a customer's business, the greater priority placed on error-free logistical performance
Logistics Service Benefits
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Having inventory meet customer requirements
Availability
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Time required to deliver an order
Operational Performance
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Quality of performance, how consistent
Service Reliability
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Key to achieving logistical leadership is to master the art of matching operating competency and commitment to key customer expectations
Logistics Value Generation
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Gives emphasis on accuracy, work balancing, forecasting and communication
Order Processing
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Core customer segmentation, product profitability, and transportation integration
Inventory
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integrated nature, integral part of other areas, forward facing logistics
Warehousing, materials handling, and packaging
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- Number of Facilities, - Location - Ownership arrangement
Facility network design
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The operational management of logistics is concerned with movement and storage of inventory in the form of materials, work-in-progress, and finished products
Inventory Flow
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Flow of components and product from the raw material provider to the consumer
Facility Network Design
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Achieve logistical integration within a supply chain context, six operational objectives must be simultaneously achieved: - Responsiveness - Variance Reduction - Inventory Reduction - Shipment consolidation - Quality - Life Cycle Support
Logistical Integration Objectives
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Logistical Integration Objectives: A firm's ability to satisfy customer requirements in a timely manner. Importance of information technology
Responsiveness
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Logistical Integration Objectives: Common solutions to safeguard against variance include additional inventory and/or expedited transpotation
Variance Reduction
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Logistical Integration Objectives: Control of asset commitment and turnover
Inventory Reduction
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Logistical Integration Objectives: - Transportation cost is the most significant logistical expenditure - Transportation cost is directly related to product type, size of shipment, and distance traveled.
Shipment Consolidation
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Logistical Integration Objectives: - Focus on continuous quality improvement - Total Quality Management (TQM)
Quality
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Logistical Integration Objectives: Few products are sold without some guarantee the product will perform as advertised
Life Cycle Support
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Logistical Operating Arrangement: The potential for logistical services to favorably impact customer experience is directly related to operating system design
Balance of Performance, Cost, and Flexibility
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Logistical Operating Arrangement: Flow of product typically proceeding through an established arrangement of firm as it moves from origin to final destination - Use of warehouse
Echelon
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Logistical Operating Arrangement: Systems designed to ship product direct to the customers destination from one or a limited number of centrally located inventories
Direct
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Logistical Operating Arrangement: Ideal logistical arrangement, wherein the inherent benefits of echelon and direct logistics structures are combined.
Combined
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Logistical Operating Arrangement: Preplanned contingency strategies to prevent logistical failures, typically on the importance of meeting the needs of a specific customer
Flexible
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- Multi-firm operational integration across a supply chain. - Seeks to coordinate flow of materials, products, and information between supply chain partners to reduce duplication and redundancy
Supply Chain Synchronization
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Represents the elements of work necessary to complete the logistics related to customer accommodation, manufacturing, or procurement
Logistics Performance Cycle Structure
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Input = Demand Output = Level of Performance
Logistics Performance Cycle Structure
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A major objectives of logistics in all operating areas is to reduce ___________
Performance Cycle Uncertainty
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Logistics is the process that links supply chain participants into integrated operations
Logistics Summary
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- End user of product in consumer market - customer company in business market
Customer from the perspective of the total supply chain
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Intermediate customer organizations exist between the firm and end users
Customer from the perspective of specific firm within a supply chain
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Any delivery location
customer from the perspective of a logistics manager
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Is a traditional strategy with a focus on creating successful individual transactions between the company and its customers
Transactional Marketing
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Is a new strategy with a focus on the development of long term relations
Relational Marketing
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Recognizes that each individual customer may indeed have unique requirements
Micromarketing of one-to-one marketing
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Significantly reduce transaction costs
one-to-one relationships
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Customer Service Provides Customers...
With the right amount, of the right product, at the right time
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Capacity to have inventory when desired by the customer
Availability
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Measures the magnitude or impact of stock outs over time
Fill Rate
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Occurs when a firm has no product available to fulfill customer demand
Stockout
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Require shipping everything that a customer orders to count as a complete shipment
Orders shipped complete
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Deals with time required to delivers a Customer's Order
Operational Performance
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Elapsed time from when a customer established a need to order until the product is delivered
Speed
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measured by the number of times that actual cycles meet the time planned for completion
Consistency
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Firm's ability to accommodate special situations and unusual or unexpected customer requests
Flexibility
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Firm's ability to quickly implement contingency plans when a failure occurs in the supply chain
Malfunction recovery
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Firm's Ability to Perform All Order-related Activities
Service Reliability
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The Ultimate in Logistics Service Levels
The Perfect Order
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Gaps Managers Must Fill to Satisfy customers
- Knowledge - Standards - Performance - Communications - Perception - Satisfaction/Quality
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How well the product performs in comparison to how it was designed to perform
Performance
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Likelihood that the product will perform throughout its expected life
Reliability
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Actual life expectancy of the product
Durability
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Extent to which the product meets its design specifications
Conformance
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What different function or tasks can the product performance
Features
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Extent to which styling, color, and workmanship is pleasing to customer
Aesthetics
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Ease of fixing or repairing the product if it fails
Serviceability
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Based on the customer's experience before, during, and after they purchase a product
Perceived Quality
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Is a philosophy focused on meeting customer expectations with respect to all needs, across all company function, and recognizing all customers, both internal and external
Total Quality Management
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Purchased goods and services are among the largest cost elements for most firms
Procurements as a Strategic Activity of the Firm
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Purchasing was historically perceived as just a buying function for manufacturing and repair materials and supplies
Purchasing Perspective
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Organizational Capability that ensures that firm is positioned to implement its strategies with support from its supply base
Procurement Perspective
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Focus on Several Issues Related to Firm's Supply Base
Procurement Objectives
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Insourcing vs Outsourcing - Alternative procurement strategies
Procurement Strategies
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Volume consolidation, reducing total number of suppliers while minimizing risk
Users buy
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- Building Partnerships - Sharing Information and Knowledge
Supplier operational integration
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Primary objective of operational integration is to cut waste, reduce cost, and develop a relationship that allows both buyer and seller to achieve mutual improvements
Supplier Operational Integration
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More frequent delivery of smaller quantities
Just-in-Time (JIT)
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- Integration of suppliers into manufacturing processes - Procurement of logistics services
JIT II
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Initiated by U.S Department of Defense to purchase performance outcomes instead of individual transactions defined by product specifications
Performance-based logistics Interface
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Produces a unique product quickly and at a low cost using a high-volume production process
Mass customization
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used when products are unique and extensively customized for specific needs of individual customers
Engineer-to-order (ETO)
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Relies on relatively small quantities, but more complexity
Make-to-order (MTO)
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when base components are made and stocked to forecast, but products are not assembled until a customer order is received
Assemble-to-order (ATO)
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features economies of scale, large volumes, long production runs low variety, and distribution channels
Make-to-stocks (MTS)
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Sufficiently large customer segment that values "translatable variety"
Market Characteristics
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Modular or adjustable product building blocks
Product/Process Characteristics
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Only the goods/services that customer want. As quickly as customer want.
Lean Systems Produces
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To go from traditional TQM three-sigma to six-sigma quality effort requires a more intensive approach
Defining the Six Sigma Program
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- Supply Chain Visibility - Simultaneous resource consideration
Supply Chain Planning
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Visibility regarding location and status of inventory
Supply Chain Visibility
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Supply Chain Planning Objectives
Developing a consistent forecast within the firm
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Forecasting of unit sales by geography and product
Demand Planning
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Development of a manufacturing plan considering resource availability
Production planning
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Coordinating overall movement demand, vehicle availability, and transportation expenses
Logistics planning
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coordinating product demand with the ability to produce and ship products to the consumer
Inventory deployment
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An internal-to-firm demand collaboration process where individual from operations-focused and customer-facing processes collaborate to develop a coordinated plan
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
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Collaboratively establishes a coordinated plan for responding to customer requirements within the resource constraints of the enterprise
S&OP Process
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- Identifying how suppliers can enhance customer value. - Facilitating joint product innovation and development
Rationale For Supplier Integration
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Facilitating customer segmentation with key customers
Rationale for Customer Integration
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Is the specific definition of what is projected to be sold, when, and where
Forecast
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The largest expenditure in logistics, usually representing over 60% of a typical firm's total logistics spend
Transportation
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Movement of inventory to specified destinations
Product movement
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in transit inventory is captive, usually inaccessible during transporation
Restrictive Element
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Occurs while product is in transit or waiting to be moved or unloaded
Restrictive Element
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Inventory can be diverted during shipment to a new destination
Flexible Element
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Consists of rights-of-way, vehicles, and carriers operating within five basic modes
Transportation Modal Structure
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Track mileage has declined by over a half since 1970
Rail
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The Philippine highway network spans over 32k kilometers 20kmi across all regions of the Philippines
Truck
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Oldest model of transporation
Water
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Highest fixed cost and lowest variable cost of all modes
Pipeline
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Least Utilized, 1% of intercity ton miles
Air
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Transportation services can be improved by combinig modes
Specialized Transportation Services
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Combining the use of truckload and rail
Intermodal
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Non Operating Intermediaries
Containership
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Cost per unit weight decreases as distance increases
Economy of Distance
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Cost per unit weight decreases as total weight increases
Economy Weight
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Cost per unit weight decreases as the density of the shipment increases
Economy Density
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Odd package shapes and sizes waste cubic capacity
Stowability
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May be needed to load and unload trucks, railcars, or ships.
Special Equipment Handling
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Carriers must pay for liability insurance or accept financial responsibility
Liability
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Economy of Scale
Lane of Volumes
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Movement both ways between a given market/lane
Balance
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Opportunity to avoid empty miles
Back haul
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Also known as empty miles to relocate equipment
Dead Head
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Cost allocation is primarily a carrier concern
Costing Freight
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costs that change in a predictable, direct manner in relation to some level of activity
Variable
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Expenses that do not change in short run
Fixed
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Created by the decision to provide a particular service
Joint
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Includes carrier costs that are incurred on behalf of all or select shippers
Common
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transportation are only incurred if you operate the vehicle
Variable Costs
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________ are not influenced by shipment volume
Fixed Costs
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Pricing Strategy: price is similar to cost-plus pricing strategy for manufacturing
Pricing Strategy: Cost-of-service
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Pricing Strategy: ________ price is based on value as perceived by the shipper rather than the carrier
Value-of-service
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Seller States price at point of origin and agrees to load a carrier but assumes no further responsibility
F.O.B Origin
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Seller arranges for transportation and adds charges to the sales invoice
F.O.B Destination
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Seller includes transportation in the product price
Delivered pricing
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Buyer pays a single price regardless of where they are located
Single zone delivered pricing
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Seller charge different prices for different geographic areas
Multiple zone pricing
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Final delivered price is determined by the product's list price plus transportation cost
Base point pricing
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Shipment is picked up at origin travels to the border terminal
Origin pickup
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Shipment is loaded in a trailer and dropped in the terminal yard awaited customs entry
Loading and customs filing
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Once customs entry is filed, the drayage agent picks up the trailer and crosses the border.
Border Crossing
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Customs inspection of product, paperwork, and vehicles
Customer Inspection
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The drayage agent drops the trailer at the freight terminal
terminal arrival
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Shipment travels through the U.S. freight network to its destination
Destination Delivery
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Key functionalities such as equipment scheduling and yard management, load planning
Operations
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Identification of opportunities to consolidate orders and shipments to drive efficiency and economy of scale
Consolidation
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Recommendation of optimal carrier solution based on service and price
Negotiation
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Ensuring all local, state, and federal regulations are followed
Control
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"Back end" of transportation including paying carriers, auditing bills for accuracy
Payment, auditing, and claims administration
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Basic document utilized in purchasing transport services
Documentation: Bill of Loading
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Carrier's method for charging for services performed
Documentation: Freight Bill
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Lists individual stops or consignees when multiple shipments are placed on a single vehicle
Shipment Manifest