Anwar U Azim

The biggest take away from week four I think is collaboration is a must in order to decrease the bullwhip effect. Also, companies must take lagging time into the consideration.

1. RFID reduces the labor work where as, barcode has to be scanned in every steps.
2. RFID can help decreasing theft at the store
3. RFID helps locating products at the warehouse fairly easily

Privacy:
Companies can keep track of consumers’ buying habits.
Some passports has RFID, and those passport will track the movement of the passport carrier.

Security:
At the store, dishonest people can […]

c. The tag’s power source

Some causes of the bullwhip effect are price fluctuation, order batching, rationing and shortage gaming, and demand forecast updating.

Knowing POS definitely has an effect of the bullwhip effect. POS system […]

Robert S Farber. Natalie M Divalentino, Jonathan S Lober, Anwar Azim

GM would be an example. They involve their suppliers in their development process. I think this is definitely a good idea just because this way both parties know what to do next and prepare themselves better. In […]

Basically, sharing information and ideas with partners is the collaboration. It can be done over some network connection.

Basically, Ford wanted to drive the cost out of the supply chain. They wanted to better integrate with their customers and bring all the business partners in one place to create an environment where they can […]

MRO – (Maintenance, Repairs, and Operation) is obviously for maintenance, repair and operations where as, raw materials are used for production only.

Paper & Pulp
– asiapapermarkets.com
– paperloop.com
– pulpandpaperonline.com
– go2paper.com
– expressopaper.com

1. Logistics and procurement services
2. Oracle
3. Having the right partner rather than having only a bigger supplier is the key lesson learned.

1. Logistics and procurement services
2. Oracle
3. Having the right partner rather than having only a bigger supplier is the kea lesson learned.

1. I learned about different kind of e-market.
2. Bigger suppliers are not always the best one that business should choose.
3. I had an idea about the difference between integration and collaboration, but the […]

False; not forecasting would not solve the issue of the bullwhip effect. Instead, it’ll increase the effect. It seems like the reason why bullwhip effect occurs is because of lack of shared information among […]

MIS professional’s main job is to help business people with implementing IT in the organization. Without having a good understanding about supply chain, a MIS professional would not have a better understanding of […]

Anwar Azim (tuc57113)

1. 20% on average
2. 250,000
3. True
4. FinProject NA

E. all of the above