Supply chain management assignment

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Identifying order winners and order qualifiers is a way to better integrate a company in its market allowing full potential and optimization of the way a product is built and delivered. In the case of Manufacturer of seats, we can see, as order winners, the quality and security the seats offer, which are capital characteristics when it comes to transportation. It also has to fit the place it has to go in perfectly and this is decided by the automotive assembler. As order winners, we can note the factors flexibility, price and delivery period. In the actual context of globalization it is essential that suppliers offer such characteristics if they want to stand one step ahead of the competition. With respect to the web page design, we can see as order qualifiers factors such as the quality of the design, the conformity with the demand and the flexibility to respond to the demand. As order qualifiers the factors are, the ranking it offers for the pages, which is a primordial criterion of choice nowadays, the time taken for delivery and also the warranty it offers, because companies are always looking for stability and safety in their business.

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[...] - Products description in 4 languages and many improvements and surprises to keep the interest burning regularly. b. Quality Highly qualitative products: They come from the most famous brands of the industry which has already proven them. If the quality is not satisfying we simply do not accept to sell the product. Each piece of garment is carefully chose and accepted by ourselves. c. Managing capacity and demand We are often limited in term of stock; this is why we sell the stock allocated to us by the brands. [...]

[...] From an original model, we had to reproduce it according to the demand and the supply chain quality (time rounds, demand checked, batch process, any stop). That simulation learned us about the keep process moving and the quality problems In our Lego experience, the person who put the small ships was never the bottleneck of the line, in spite of the distance that he or she should cover. Why? This person was never the bottleneck of the line because in comparison to the others, the task he had to do on the product within the supply chain was very brief. [...]

[...] We sometimes use the out of stock which consists in offering a product in small quantity. When consumer sees that he came here too late he will be frustrated and it is sure he will come back later again. d. Information This is a traffic comparison in our market. We are not very big but we already compete with companies in the market for more than 3 year which is really rewarding and encouraging. We also are the only one to offer a service in Europe and this is great because we discovered amazing potential in the other countries of Europe with a special crush for Spain a real good customer base. [...]

[...] The LEGO case included a supply chain close the kanban process, a method that aims at reducing inventory and work with a tend flux method. This method is supposed to bring us the efficiency needed to produce quality products in time. In all those way the LEGO case is similar to the HP case study in the first seminar. Both companies keep on looking and studying their supply chain organization and optimizing its efficiency in accordance with the quantitative and qualitative objectives, but also the delays. [...]

[...] - Only one type of plane to cut cost on maintenance. In fact southwest is a real good example of cost cutting company and optimization of processes? The order winner in this case would be the price Go to any service store (fast food, internet services, laundry, café, bar, languages schools, car repair services, ) and analyze the firm following the structural and managerial elements proposed by Fitzsimmons and Fitzsimmons. You should include some general information about the firm as estimated sales per year, number of employees, services offered, locations, possible competitors I decided to do this analysis about Label-Park.com, a recent company established in Biarritz in December 2007. [...]