Essays on Replenishment

Question One

Apart from being punctual and efficient in response to the customers’ needs, a convenient store can be more responsive by offering additional services to the customers. The additional services may include the transportation of the commodities to the customers’ place of preference, or the provision of discounts on various amounts of purchases made by their customers. Moreover, the store can be more responsive by adding more value to their products, for example, giving additional items after the customer purchases certain items from the store.

Question Two

The challenges associated with the micro matching of supply and demand as is evident in ...

Article Review

The article, Fleet Analysis: Fleet composition, replenishment plans and the impact on the pre-owned market 2016 is written by AIN Business Aviation.

Brief Summary

The article examines and analyses various aspects of fractional fleets, owned and operated fleets, and aftermarket fleet sales (pre-owned market impact of the aftermarket sales). It encompasses a detailed analysis of fleets from the key fractional ownership programs in the world as well as owned and operated charter providers. Furthermore, the article analyses the replenishment strategies of the two fleet components and the effects of fleet sustenance on pre-owned markets. The author reiterates that fractional ownership was ...

Introduction

Every business takes inputs from the society and processes them into outputs for members of the society. The supply chain “is a set of entities that are involved in the upstream and downstream flows of products, services, finances and/or information from a source to a customer”. Supply chain management is the management across and within the network of upstream and downstream organisations of both relationships and flow of material, information and resources. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse the supply chain systems of various companies in order to draw conclusions on how they operate. In order ...

The supply chain management tends to integrate the customers’ logistic requirements, the distributor and the supplier of a particular business entity into a single cohesive system. It is basically a collection of the individual physical entities, for instance, the plants where goods are manufactured, the centers of distribution, retail outlets, the conveyances, personnel and information, all the entities are linked together through the consumption of goods and services. Most of the organizations including the Walmart stores value the supply chain management because it tends to decrease time and also the final costs incurred by the customers in the purchase ...

Vid30 complex participation in the degradation of CDC25 in yeast and their role in Ras/ cAMP/ PKA pathway

Background: Unicellular organisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae in its total life cycle is exposed to diverse and changing nutrient conditions. Thus, in order to survive and achieve a competitive advantage, it has adapted itself such that it not only uses the wide range of available nutrient sources but also the sources that are nutrient rich. It mainly uses fructose and glucose by rapidly fermenting to alcohol. In response to these nutrient conditions, the intracellular trafficking transcription and turnover of protein from nutrient transporters (e.g. Hxts) get regulated. Therefore, when the availability of the glucose increases, the expression of low- ...

LeanCor’s Supply Chain Case Study

Q1. A consumer product company has a number of standard logistics operational characteristics. The main characteristics considered in the LeanCor case study include high inventory availability, constant flexibility during customer order processing and speedy deliveries from distribution points to the customer. These three characteristics all relate to improved customer service which is the main target for consumer product companies. More inventory availability means that there is no occasion that a consumer will require a product and find it out of stock. Inventory availability in the warehouses and distribution points is a key practice to ensure that customers get the ...

Respect for cultural diversity is essential to the success of any nation. However, this notion has not been properly upheld over the years in the United States, as one would anticipate. Captain Richard Pratt, for instance, had a disheartening overview of coexisting with the African Americans and the Native American communities. He wanted to assimilate the Natives into the American culture by establishing a school that would familiarize them with a new culture. He emphasized the utilization of brutal methods of civilizing the “savages” to enhance national progress (History Matters n.p). His actions are unjustified since they undermine cultural ...

Question 1

The societal response to coastal changes caused by sand transportation has mostly been a moderate effort in harm mitigation. The erosion of shorelines and beaches tends to be seen as less of a cause for concern than higher-impact or episodic natural events, like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and tornadoes (Dilley & Rasid, 1990). Sand transportation, also known as sediment transportation, is the movement of sand and other earthy particles (such as mud, clay, gravel, or boulders) along a sloping surface due to the motive force of gravity. This causes beaches to erode and shorelines to retreat. People have used several ...

Zara

Introduction and Background The case of Zara, a famous fashion clothing manufacturer, has been considered with the focus on inventory management and lean operations. The major aim of lean manufacturing (Just-In-Time) is to reduce the cost through having control over inventory and reducing waste. Zara is a fast fashion retailer and fashion changes rapidly. Therefore, it is difficult to estimate the demand for products. Hence, Zara procures the material in bulk and cut the clothes into pieces. However, when fashion changes and demand for any specific design rise, the retailer prepares the dresses on demand (Just-In-Time). In this way, ...

There is no service or manufacturing organization that can work alone or in isolation. It always needs suppliers and a supply chain in order to function in an effectual manner. Nowadays, realties as well as trends that are prevailing in the global economy are compelling the organizations to ensure management of supply chain as an essential element of business strategy. In recent years, most organization have started relying on external supply sources, by using outsourcing in order to reduce the cost, and utilize major competencies. Supply chain perspective of operations management has become important because of the role that ...