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b. Selectively apply automation to help reduce costs and lower prices a
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t whole foods - ANSWER✔✔-
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1. In class we discussed amazons recent acquisition of whole foods. The
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strategy that seems the most plausible for amazon is:
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Focus on creating supply chains that deliver the specific form, time and
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place utility that each customer segment is looking for, at a price that eac
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h segment is willing to pay - ANSWER✔✔-
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3. Two kinds of customers walk into grizzly fly fishing shop: college fres
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hman taking a first time class and high end professionals with fishing ex
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perience, in order to deliver most value to each of these customers, john
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should
B. Australian grocery store provides food in remote towns - ANSWER✔✔-
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4. Among the following examples, which refers mostly to the place utili
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ty that SC provides?
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5. Chuck from sales department wants to increase volume of sales for a p
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roduct. To do this, he wants to service a client in a new market that is thr
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ee times as far from your current DC as current markets. although chuck
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might be happy because his sales numbers go up, total overall profit mig
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ht not improve because:
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Distance to other DHL operations is important since they do not operate
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in isolation - ANSWER✔✔-
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6. A WSJ article discussed in class regards DHLs decision to locate/expa
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nd an operation in cincinatti/north Kentucky (CVG airport) what does thi
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s example imply about the DHL Greenfield/brownfield site location deci
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sion
7. b. Employees should expect safe working environment, and compani
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es should take the steps to maintain one - ANSWER✔✔-
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7. The safety management process is important to Supply chain professi
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,8. In today's competitive business environment, the most successful fir
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ms focus mainly on improving customer satisfaction by:
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, e. Stay the same - ANSWER✔✔-
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9. Recall that firms may seek to gain comp adv through superior SC mg
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mt. refer to the value adv/productivity adv matrix (figure 1) to answer q
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uestion below CHART: QUESTION: COMPANIES LOCATED IN THE C
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10. Supply chain management: - ANSWER✔✔-
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is the systematic coordination of purchasing, manufacturing manageme
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nt and distribution upstream with suppliers and downstream to custome
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rs
b. Is pulled closer to actual time (Shortens), improves - ANSWER✔✔-
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11. As the time horizon for planning SC activities
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< the accuracy of the planning
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c. Creating a production- oriented focus across SC - ANSWER✔✔-
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12. Firms have been talking about the GREAT DIVIDE as one of their bigg
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est challenges, among the following approaches, which would NOT help
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a business deal with the great divide?
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