Supply chain strategy Flashcards
What is supply chain?
All stages involved directly or indirectly in fullfiling customer requests
factors to demand uncertainty
Order quantity fluctuations
Response time that people tolerate
Variety of products needed
Service Level required
Price sensitivity
Desired rate of innovation
supply uncertainty
frequent breakdown
low yield
poor quality
limited supply capacity
inflexible supply capacity
evolving production process
ZARA demand and supply uncertainty
ZARA has high demand uncertainty; supply uncertainty low
Coffe demand and supply uncertainty
Supplyn high uncertainty, but demand uncertainty
low supply and low demand uncertainty?
efficient zone, jepanese car industry
low supply and high demand uncertainty
responsive, zara
high supply, low demand uncertainty
risk-hedging, amazon
high supply and high demand uncertainty
agile, cisco
Eficient
primary goal: low cost; product design strategy; low cost
Apple supply chain
Design(california) - Production -Assembly-Distribution- Retail
what is apple startegy?
responsive
what is diff. between apple and its business strategy?
business strategy- focuses a new product development, high quality,apple culture
