Supply Chain Management

Running head: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Supply Chain Management
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Topic 1
Appropriate classification for logistics and SCM
There are two indexes into which the authors have classified logisticians are abs and raw. I feel
that the raw logisticians are more appropriate for logistics and supply chain management. The
rationale behind such opinions is the fact that raw is the total gap between significance of supply
chain management and logistics. Furthermore, it is because raw logisticians are unionists and
they take the actions in accordance with the latter (Halldórsson, Larson and Poist 2008).
Dells supply chain
The company’s supply chain sets it apart from its competition. The company collaborate their
efforts with the supplier in reducing the amount of inventory (Youtube.com 2019). They do so
by giving the suppliers long-term forecasts regarding the volumes. Dell employs a direct model
and that helps the company to serve their customers conveniently and in an efficient way.
ZARA
1) Unlike other fashion retailers, Zara adjusts and adapt with the changing trends in fashion.
The company has realised that consumers of the area that they operate in a highly
sensitive to fashion. Thus in this way the company has gained competitive advantage
over their competitors.
2) The company has no intention to compromise on the quality of their products. This is the
reason why they chose to stick with the European market even if production could have
been possible much cheaply in Asia. Furthermore, they have realised the existence of
numerous fashion trends in Europe and that is the rationale behind them sticking to
Europe.

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3) By having full visibility of the suppliers the company can monitor all their weekly
activities. The use of hand held electronic devises help them monitor from the very
bottom of the sully chain to the top.
4) Keeping spare capacity of trucks, warehousing and production, helps the company
eliminate the risks associated with failure of any component of the supply chain.
5) Yes. I think the ‘rapid fire fulfilment; is suitable for online sales. This process reduces
inventory overload and further helps in boosting service speed.
Topic 2
Ex 1: Information sharing and the quality of the same is crucial when it comes to proper
functioning of the supply chain. It helps in supply chain integration by helping companies in
reducing costs. This further helps in integration of the improving utilisation of resources.
Internal supply chain integration should take place before external integration as the latter cannot
take place without the former.
Ex 2: It should be understood that products that are considered highly innovative, do not stay in
the same state for long. New innovations take of the market after which the previous innovations
are forgotten about. Such products have short life cycles and thus the supply chain should adapt
their objectives in accordance with the same. In order to gain strategic fit, the supply chain
objectives should be dynamic and in a short term perspective.
Ex 3: A company is said to be successful in achieving strategic fit if it is able to utilise all the
resources that that are available to them in accordance with the opportunities provided by the
external environment. From the case study it has been found that wall mart have been able to
achieve strategic fit (LeCavalier 2010). Not only have the company been successful in utilising