1. What is an example of a supply chain that has evolved over time?

2. Consider the supply chain for canned peaches sold by a major food processing company.What are the sources of uncertainty in the supply chain?

3. Consider a firm redesigning its logistics network.What are the advantages to having a small number of centrally located warehouses?What are the advantages to having a larger number of warehouses located closer to the end customer?

4. Consider a firm selecting a supplier of transportation services?What are the advantages to using a truckload carrier?A package delivery firm such as UPS?

5. What are some ways that redundancy can be built into the supply chain?What are the advantages and disadvantages of building redundancy into the supply chain?