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Describe the different types of bid bonds.
What are micro-purchases? How can they be used to improve public procurement?
Why do firms purchase from foreign suppliers? What are the risks involved in global sourcing?
What is countertrade? Describe the various types of countertrade.
Describe how a typical government bidding process is conducted.
How can global sourcing enhance a firm’s competitiveness?
Describe the disadvantages of global sourcing and how it can adversely affect a firm’s competitiveness.
Why should an organization be concerned with supplier relationships?
Compare and contrast the arm’s-length or adversarial approach to the partnership approach to building customer-supplier relationships.
What are the key factors that contribute to a lasting buyer-supplier partnership?
It has often been pointed out that 60 percent of strategic alliances fail. What are the reasons for this?
What are the criteria used in evaluating a supplier?
Discuss how an organization develops a supplier evaluation and certification program.
Why should an organization invest in supplier development programs? What are the challenges of supplier development activities?
What are the benefits of ISO 9000 certification?
Are environmental concerns impacting purchasing decisions? What are the benefits of ISO 14000 certification?
What are the key capabilities of supplier relationship management software?
Why do organizations have supplier awards programs?
Why do organizations use supplier certification? What are its benefits?
What are the advantages of using SRM solutions to manage suppliers?
What are the differences between transactional and analytic SRM?
Discussion Problem: The Margo Manufacturing Company is performing an annual evaluation of one of its suppliers, the Mimi Company. Bo, purchasing manager of the Margo Manufacturing Company, has
What is the difference between purchasing and strategic sourcing?
What is ethical sourcing, and why do firms do it?
What are some common practices or activities of ethical sourcing?
What are some of the risks of ethical sourcing? What about the potential advantages? Do you think ethical sourcing is a good practice?
What is a fair trade product?
What is sustainable sourcing, and how does it differ from ethical sourcing? From green purchasing?
What are the benefits of sustainable sourcing? Can firms actually make money from sustainable sourcing? Do you think it is a good practice?
Where do ethical and sustainable sourcing policies come from in an organization?
What are the benefits of obtaining ethical and sustainable certifications? Why would a buyer want its suppliers to have these certifications?
Would a firm ever want to outsource a core product or process? Why or why not?
When would firms want to insource a product or process? How is this different from co-sourcing?
What is sourcing’s role in value engineering, and what benefits does this give to the firm?
Why is early supplier involvement a good way to integrate the supply chain?
Describe the differences between vendor managed inventories and co-managed inventories, and when it might be advisable to do either of them.
Discuss the advantages and risks of supplier co-location.
What is the difference between supplier management and alliance development?
What makes supplier alliances fail? How can firms reduce the failure rate?
Describe the differences between integrative and distributive negotiations, and when each should be used.
Why are second-and third-tier suppliers important to the focal firm?
If your firm had 500 suppliers and they each had 100 suppliers, how many second-tier suppliers would your firm have? What if your firm reduced its supply base to twenty?
When would your firm want to use an e-procurement system?
What is a 3PL provider? What advantages could a 3PL provider give to a small firm? A large firm?
What is a 4PL? When would you use a 4PL instead of a 3PL?
Could your firm use a 3PL to improve its ethical or sustainable purchasing practices?
Why would a firm want to monitor its purchasing performance?
What is demand management?
Why is demand forecasting important for effective supply chain management?
Explain the impact of a mismatch in supply and demand. What strategies can companies adopt to influence demand?
What are qualitative forecasting techniques? When are these methods more suitable?
What are the main components of a time series?
Explain the difference between a time series model and an associative model. Under what conditions would one model be preferred to the other?
What is the impact of the smoothing constant value on the simple exponential smoothing forecast?
Compare and contrast the jury of executive opinion and the Delphi techniques.
Explain the key differences between the weighted moving average and the simple exponential smoothing forecasting methods.
What are three measures of forecasting accuracy?
What is a tracking signal? What information does the tracking signal provide that managers can use to improve the quality of forecasts?
What are the key features of CPFR? Why would a company consider adopting CPFR?
What are the eight tasks associated with the CPFR model? Why is sharing data important in CPFR implementation? What are the benefits of sharing information?
West Marine identified the ten performance improvement steps in their successful implementation of CPFR. Is West Marine’s approach unique, or can their experience be duplicated at another company?
Why is widespread adoption of CPFR below expectations?
What is cloud computing, and how can companies benefit from this technology in solving their supply chain forecasting problems?
Ms. Winnie Lin’s company sells computers. Monthly sales for a six-month period are as follows: MONTH SALESJan ........ 18,000Feb ........ 22,000Mar ........ 16,000Apr
The owner of the Chocolate Outlet Store wants to forecast chocolate demand. Demand for the preceding four years is shown in the following table: YEAR DEMAND (POUNDS)1 .......... 68,8002
The forecasts generated by two forecasting methods and actual sales are as follows:(a) Compute the MSE, the MAD, the MAPE, the RSFE and the tracking signal for each forecasting method. Which method
Why is it important to balance production capacity with market demand?
Describe long-range, medium-range and short-range planning in the context of materials plan and capacity plan. How are they related?
Describe aggregate production planning, master production planning, material requirements planning and distribution requirements planning. How are these plans related?
Describe how MRP evolved into closed-loop MRP, MRP-II and eventually into ERP.
Compare and contrast chase versus level production strategies. Which is more appropriate for an industry where highly skilled laborers are needed? Why?
Is a level production strategy suitable for a pure service industry, such as professional accounting and tax services or law firms? Can these firms inventory their outputs?
What is the purpose of available-to-promise quantity, and how is it different from on-hand inventory?
What is system nervousness? Discuss how it can be minimized or avoided.
What are the crucial inputs for material requirements planning?
What is a BOM, and how is it different from the super BOM?
What is the difference between scheduled receipts and planned order releases?
What is the difference between an MRP explosion and a DRP implosion?
Briefly describe resource requirements planning, rough-cut capacity planning and capacity requirements planning. How are these plans related?
How are the various capacity plans (ERP, RCCP, CRP) related to the material plans (APP, MPS, MRP)?
Why are production planning and capacity planning important to SCM?
Why have so many firms rushed to implement ERP systems over the past ten years?
Describe the limitations of a legacy MRP system.
What are the advantages of an ERP system over the legacy MRP system?
Explain best-of-breed and single integrator ERP implementations. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the best-of-breed implementation?
Explain why many ERP implementations have failed to yield the expected benefits over the last ten years.
Given the following production plan, use a(a) Chase production strategy(b) Level production strategy to compute the monthly production, ending inventory / (backlog) and workforce levels. A worker is
Given the following production plan, use a(a) Chase production strategy(b) Level production strategy to compute the monthly production, ending inventory / (backlog) and workforce levels. A worker can
Given the following production schedule, compute the available-to-promisequantities.
Given the following production schedule, compute the available-to-promisequantities.
The bills of materials for two finished products (D and E), inventory status, and other relevant information are given below. Compute the planned order releases and projected on-hand balances for
The bill of materials for a finished product E, inventory status and other relevant information are given below. Compute the planned order releases and projected on-hand balances for parts E, F and M.
Crop-Quick Inc. replenishes its three distribution centers in Boston, Denver and Houston from its Las Vegas central supply warehouse. The distribution schedule for one of its products for the next
Describe and provide examples of dependent and independent demand.
Describe the four basic types of inventory.
What is the ABC inventory system, and how is it used to manage inventory?
What is the ABC inventory matrix, and how is it used to manage inventory?
Describe inventory turnover and how it can be used to manage inventory.
Briefly describe how RFID can be used to manage inventory.
What is the purpose of the EOQ and the ROP? How can they be used together?

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