Evan A Chiao

This seems like a significant slip up for Amazon. I doubt it will cause a huge loss customer wise for Amazon but it shows that they’re not as involved with their supply chain as previously thought. Delivery is a huge part of Amazon’s business model and for a company with such a great reputation they can’t afford to hire a company which could ruin…[Read more]

I’ve already got a list of reasons to not get Apple products, but this news is another reason but not a huge one to me. While the conditions are terrible at Foxconn, it’s good to see that Apple is working to gain more control over their supply chain to fix issues like this. Apple is one of the most profitable companies in the world, the fact their…[Read more]

This we went though the first year of the Supply Chain Simulation with our partners. The year of the simulation went well for my partner and I, we chose to be brave and get two suppliers instead of one, which helped us adjust to the later years. The forecasters seemed kind of irrelevant, the comments they said were usually unrelated and their…[Read more]

This class really gave me some perspective as to applications of IT in the business environment. The cases really allowed me to see how companies are integrating IT systems to get ahead of their competitors, cut down costs, and respond to demand faster than ever before. The fact all the cases were based on fairly recent events kept them…[Read more]

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User name: Evan Chiao
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