1)Describe the desired relationship between business unit strategy and supply chain strategy (using frameworks from the course)....
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1)Describe the desired relationship between business unit strategy and supply chain strategy (using frameworks from the course). Apply this to the American Greetings case using the Tender Thoughts (two-for-a-dollar cards) and Papyrus (the bejeweled, hand-crafted cards) business units. Note: please limit your answer to no more than 400 words.
2)In the context of what you learned, what is the relationship between a bottleneck and the capacity of an overall process (e.g., like in Kristen’s Cookies or National Cranberry cases)? Note: please limit your answer to no more than 50 words.
3)Under what circumstances would you NOT want to operate a process very close to 100% utilization? Why? Please use frameworks from the course and try to be as concrete and specific as possible. Note: please limit your answer to no more than 50 words.
4)Under what circumstances would you choose to NOT outsource, even when the economics are quite favorable? (note please use frameworks from the class and try to be as concrete and specific as possible)? Note: please limit your answer to no more than 50 words.
Transportation A Global Supply Chain Perspective
ISBN: 9781337406642
9th Edition
Authors: Robert A. Novack, Brian Gibson, Yoshinori Suzuki, John J. Coyle