Supply Chain management Assignment 2022

Running head: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Supply Chain Management
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Company Background................................................................................................................2
Supply Chain Management Performance Analysis of Nike......................................................3
Upstream supply chain...........................................................................................................4
Downstream supply chain......................................................................................................5
Activity integration at Nike....................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT2
Introduction
There a various functional department that help in sustaining the operations of a
company. Functional departments such as Marketing, Human Resources, Financial
Management, Operations management and Supply chain management help in sustaining the
activities that are carried out by a company (Lambert and Enz, 2017). All functional
departments might not be always present in a company, however, regardless of the fact that
whether a company is product of service or experience based, huge importance must be
invested in the supply chain management of a company. Nike has been recognized as
company that offers sporting products throughout the word (Sokolowski 2019). Apart from
various factors that have contributed to the success of the company. The effectiveness of the
supply chain is deemed to be the factor that is responsible for the success of the company.
The aim of the paper is the is to critically evaluate the scope of operation of Nike in terms of
the supply chain management. The paper will critically evaluate the upstream and
downstream of supply chain management of the process.
Company Background
Nike is a company that has been recognized for the position that they have in the
sporting industry (Vos 2019). The company offers a range of sporting products such as shoes,
apparel, gear and sporting equipment. The company was founded in 1964 by Bill Bowerman
and Phil Knight (Knight 2016). The company that is head quartered in Beaverton; United
States has been bale to develop a business model with the help of which it has been able to
gain an international stature (Cattoglio et al. 2019). The company is effectively positioned in
the market as a provider or top-quality products that are of utmost quality. Not only in terms
of production, but in accordance with the nature of relationships that the company has been