According to $$New Study on Collaborative Execution Finds Supply Chain Collaboration Can Improve Operational Metrics by $50$ Percent or More$($Bloomberg$,2012)$

By a ratio of nearly two to one, supply chain professionals agreed that one of the biggest barriers to successful collaboration is a slow issue resolution process. This was identified as a systemic problem related to quality of information flow, in terms of both the granularity $($level of detail$)$ and timeliness of data shared.

And $92$ percent of respondents agreed that rapid problem resolution was part of good collaboration. True collaboration can be defined in terms of speed, both in problem solving and in organizational learning. More than half of the responses indicated that speed of response in truly collaborative relationships was twice as fast or faster, with learning curve improvements more than $50$ percent greater than in non$-$collaborative trading partner relationships.

$5.$ What problems are encountered in implementing ERP systems?

$6.$ Find examples of how two of the following organizations improve their supply chains: manufacturing, hospitals, retailing, education, construction, agribusiness, and shipping. Discuss the benefits to the organizations.

$7.$ It is claimed that supply chains are essentially $$a series of linked suppliers and customers; every customer is in turn a supplier to the next downstream organization, until the ultimate end$-$user.$$ Explain. Use a diagram.

$8.$ Discuss why it is difficult to justify CRM$.$

$9.$ A supply chain is much more powerful in the Internet marketplace. Discuss how Internet technologies can be used to manage the supply chain.