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Internet Portals and Business Value

starting site. This may be the page that a browser is set up to load automatically when it is opened or it may be a webpage that i...

Gas Industry Storage and Supply Chain Value Increasing

that powers and heats and does not have the same level of disadvantages seen with the use of oil. Once gas was seen more as a wast...

WalMart's Distribution Process

WalMart have a highly integrated logistics and distribution strategy. The writer looks at the way distribution takes place through...

Creating Value With Supply Chain Integration

In 2002 the National Institute of Standards and Technology estimated that in the US alone more than $1 billion a year could be sa...

How Wal-Mart Creates Value Through the Supply Chain

The writer looks at Wal-Mart's supply chain, examining the different components and the way that they work together to provide the...

Supply Chain Analysis for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR)

example the transportation to get the product in and out of the firm which include transport, labor, power and water needed in the...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – TRENDS AND USAGE

Focuses on using smart phone technology for a supply chain in a Fortune 500 company. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliograph...

THE SUPPLY CHAIN

Discusses supply chain issues including performance metrics and ecommerce from bricks-and-mortar. Bibliography lists 5 sources. ...

Supply Chain Management and RFID Chips

chips into products or shipping pallets. In particular, the development of the Intelligent Global Pooling System, or IGPS, has ena...

Controls for Guidant

build in existing successes. It has been determined by the management team that for this to be achieved there needs to be a corpor...

SUPPLY CHAIN STUDY

this is Wal-Marts relationship with Procter & Gamble, which went from an adversarial one into a cooperative one. These two compani...

Transportation and Logistical Management

are needed urgency in another country then speed is of the essence and air carriage may be used, but if the goods are heavy this c...

WAL-MART STORES AND SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY

$572,000,000 $562,000,000 $600,000,000 $2,303,000,000 Other income (expense) $40,000,000 $44,000,000 $22,000,000 $159,000,000 Inco...

WAL-MART AND SUPPLY CHAIN COMPONENTS

to retailer, to consumer (Supply Chain Management, 2005). According to some sources, the standard supply chain has five components...

The Potential Benefits of EDI, CPFR and RFID in Increasing Supply Chain Performance

of tracking data for the deliveries. This could potentially increase efficiency as well as allow the firm to benefit from increase...

GLOBAL LOGISTICS, SUPPLY CHAINS AND INTERMODEAL TRANSPORTATION

where it would head off to another distribution center, and from there, to its destination. The major intermodal function, inciden...

Market Supply Chains and BHP Billiton

the Bass Strait. The firm was becoming increasingly diversified, and investments were being made in a range of different areas, in...

Potential Supply Chain Management Risks for Two Retail Organizations

The risks associated with procurement start with increases to the price of the inputs that are purchased which have not been expec...

SUNSWEET, TECHNOLOGY AND LOGISTICS

There is little doubt that todays supply chain is becoming very complex and multifaceted. This is a result of consistent outsourci...

Supply Chain Risk Management via Intelligent Agents

efficacy. For instance, through the use of embedded RFID chips, supply chain management can be handled in a much more straightforw...

Strategic Procurement in the Construction Industry

client as a result of the delays, but could be substantial to the relevant contractors. The current project is one that provides...

How Retailers Select Site Locations

resources will need to be allocated. The aim of this paper is to consider the way in which retailers do, or should, choose locati...

Child Labour

the last century (Haralambos and Holborn, 2004). Prior to this it was common for children to work, even seen as beneficial to thei...

Coca-Cola Supply Chain

bottle the product carry the majority of the costs. To assure success Coca-Cola may underwrite some of the loans but the financing...

Hewlett Packard Web Site

with Dell, emulating a similar model of sales. In terms of the way the company has set up generally business have two...

Futura Case Study

The economic future is one of the aspects that many commentators believe that they already know with some level of confidence. The...

Global Technology

1. Consistency 2. Communication IV. List methods for gaining and sustaining global technology leadership....

Wal-Mart Management Effectiveness

the managers of each outlet may not be available, we do know that Wal-Mart has more employee-initiated class-action lawsuits again...

Wal-Mart; The Impact of the External Environment - Technology

are made and supplied. The internet and the communications technology have increased the potential to find suppliers in many count...

Supply Chain Differences between B2B and B2C Organizations

to the above statement can be found in the sites handling of personal information. Security measures are much improved over what ...