Demand and Supply: Case study
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Demand is the quantity of products or services a buyer is willing to buy at a certain price. On the other hand, supply is the amount of goods or services that a certain market is willing to supply at a certain price. The relationship between supply and demand is...
Capitalism, planned economies and the concept of supply and demand
Worksheets - 1 pages - Economy general
Capitalism is characterized by a private enterprise system contrary to a planned economy which is based on the collective or governmental ownership by the means of production, that is to say that all the enterprises in the country are public. Capitalism is theoretically based on a pure and...
An integrated coordination model for a supply chain dealing with short life-cycle products operating under stock dependent demand
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
The market demand of any product is generally influenced by quality, warranty, service, advertisement and sales promotion. Apart from these factors, the amount of stock displayed will also significantly influence the sales at retail level. Though, many inventory models have been developed...
Microeconomics, main concepts for an economy study: capital formation, production, consumption, employment, credit multiplier, money demand, money supply, prime rate, Keynesian transmission mechanism, exports, imports and government expenditures
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Financial investment and interest rates have a positive relationship. Financial investment represents investment in bonds or shares or money saving in the bank. If the interest rate increases, the return of investment will be better. You will get more return on shares (or bonds) and earn more...
International operations and logistics - Supply chain management
Case study - 9 pages - Logistics
Alpha, the explosion protection solutions manufacturer, recently faced financial pressure due to some external specific situations, mostly the global downturn in the oil and gas industry. Therefore, the company has had to imagine a new supply chain's strategy aiming at improving its...
The Impact of the Demand Planning Process on the Company's Performance
Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy
All manufacturing organizations across all industries face a common problem of balancing supply and demand. This problem is further accentuated in the context of fast-moving consumer goods organizations due to the high demand for product availability. With much research on...
Analysis "OM/SCM in the news" Operations/supply chain management of Tesla Company
Case study - 2 pages - Logistics
The first article focuses on the importance of using the lithium battery in the automotive sector. This battery represents a great alternative to the use of diesel fuel. The essential component of this battery is the lithium is qualified by the "new gasoil". Consumption demand for this...
Analysis of the operations and supply chain management of Nestlé Company
Case study - 2 pages - Logistics
The Nestlé report for the first half of 2017 tells us that the net profit increased by 19% to 4.9 billion CHF. In the next chapters, we will try to analyze the role of the supply chain strategy in this success. First, we will define supply chain management, and then we will examine...
Reassessing Global Supply Chains: Challenges and Reshoring in the Wake of a Pandemic
Essay - 2 pages - Purchasing & supply chain
The global supply chain is a highly integrated system, which consists of a heterogeneous network of several partners that are situated in different countries and continents. The first key task to overcome in managing the wide area of cultural diversity is to understand cultural diverse...
Supply Chain in Dell
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Engaging in active management of the supply chain is fundamental to realize success given the dynamism facing organizations from the contemporary business environment. Although emphasizing on efficient supply chains allows Dell to orchestrate its direct-selling and build-to-order...
The Impact of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse and its Impact on the US Supply Chain
Case study - 2 pages - Purchasing & supply chain
A major trade route will be disrupted, and supply networks that are already under strain will become even more tangled due to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, which shut off access to a large portion of the city's port. The Port of Baltimore, which ranks 17th in the...
Supply Chain Management in Aerospace Industry
Case study - 16 pages - Educational studies
The uncertainty characterizing growth opportunities in the global economy mandates the aerospace organizations to shift focus towards improving their visibility in the supply chains. Contrary to serial identity implied by a chain, the reality in the aerospace today demonstrates a network...
Sustainable cocoa sourcing strategies and supply chain - Mondelez International Inc.
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Foreign markets
Mondelez International Inc., the largest chocolate manufacturer in the world and in Europe has committed to cover 100% of its cocoa supply chain with its Cocoa Life Program by 2025 while investing at the same time $400 million in it. This program for sustainable cocoa sourcing is...
Brittany Ferries and the Supply Management in Innovation
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
Brittany Ferries is a French shipping company founded by Alexis Gourvennec in 1972. This company aims to transport passengers and vehicles between Brittany, Normandy, southern England, Ireland and Spain by boat. The company had a turnover of €441,810,800 in 2018 and currently owns 11 ships,...
Transport Information Technology in supply chain
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Supply chain management is the active management of the activities related to the supply chain to increase customer value and satisfaction and achieve competitive advantage (Robert, Jan 2011). Transportation is one of the components of supply chain. Information technology is...
Energy Demand and Population Growth
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The key drivers of the demand for energy around the world include growth in population and the economy. Estimates reveal that the entire population of the world will grow 1.3 billion people from 2011 to 2030. Additionally, the real income of people will be expected to double...
Supply Chain Management in TeaJava
Case study - 2 pages - Management
Effective management is necessary for the success of a business. This is because the current business environment is large with massive competition and rivalry from other entrepreneurs. Supply chain management reflects efficient management of a business network that is involved in...
Information technology benefits in e-supply chain coordination
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
Information technology (IT) has enhanced Improvement of the customers' services. Fast services to the customers get enhanced resulting to customers' satisfactions leading to more sales thus high profit. IT reduces the time cycle right from the acquisition of the inventories to the distribution...
Global Logistics: Ikea's global supply chain model
Essay - 17 pages - Logistics
The decisions regarding the supply chain design highly depends of the kind of products or services a company is dealing with. Issues such as the sourcing location or the distribution method will be affected by a whole range of requirements given by the nature of the products. In the first...
Supply chain management, concept and its uses
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Business strategy
Supply Chain Management has dominated our lives, our thinking and our actions for almost half a decade now. From logistics to materials management to supply chain management, the evolution has been slow and stead. The decade of the 90's has been the most turbulent leading to...
Integrating supply chain management and strategic management: The basis for analysis of the grain industry
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
The observed corporate changes in many supply chains in Australia suggest that instability rather than stability is a consistent pattern in corporate supply chain relationships. This observation should not be surprising given the dynamic impacts of competitive strategy and has been...
Managing the global supply chain: A risk measurement perspective
Dissertation - 43 pages - Management
The end of the last millennium and the beginning of the new millennium has seen supply chain management emerge as a new management paradigm and a source of competitive advantage. This is especially true in a global marketplace where "getting the right goods at the right place at the right...
Supply chain management
Dissertation - 26 pages - Management
Every organization with a service or manufacturing entity needs a robust supply chain management in order to gain and maintain a competitive advantage within supply chain alliances and partnerships. An independent firm on its own may not have all the resources to match its...
Short-run and long-run aggregate supply - published: 12/01/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
One of the goals of economists is to try to predict the changes in the state of the UK economy. Thus they are interested in the economic growth -given by the growth of potential GDP-, the inflation and business cycle fluctuations. The Aggregate Supply - Aggregate Demand model...
Developing a supply chain for the service industry
Dissertation - 41 pages - Management
Historically we have moved from physical distribution to logistics management to supply chain management. The major difference seems to be that supply chain management is the preferred name for the actualization of “integrated logistics”. With IT (Information Technology)...
Short-run and long-run aggregate supply
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
One of the salient features of this document is to distinguish between the short-run and long-run aggregate supply curves and explain why they are important for the definition of a macroeconomic equilibrium. The Aggregate Demand model tries to examine the effects on the real GDP and...
Applied Memory: The Role of Strategic Outsourcing in Supply Chain Management
Thesis - 45 pages - Logistics
The current political and economic scenario presents tremendous opportunity for companies to benefit from a higher growth potential in international markets due to economic globalization and hyper-liberalization of trade. World trade has multiplied through a series of economic agreements and...
The implications of the operations of the banking sector on money supply
Thesis - 8 pages - Finance
The UK banking sector plays a crucial role in determining not only the amount of money in circulation in the economy but also the form that it takes (e.g. fiat money or current/deposit account holdings available to be given by the banks as loans). These aspects of the monetary policy can, in...
The mediator effect of supply chain agility on firm performance
Thesis - 9 pages - Management
While it is generally acknowledged that an organization's supply chain agility is crucial to its competitive advantage, the impact of agility on firm performance has not been adequately researched. This research uses structural equation modeling to examine the effect of supply chain...
Define and explain the concept of an income elasticity of demand for a product
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
Would you expect the income elasticity for potatoes and DVDs to be large or small? If the supply of oil is price inelastic in the short term, what would you expect the impact of an outwards shift in the demand for oil to be? What might happen in such a situation in the long term? In...
