Answer the following questions

1.Define supply chain and logistics management.

2.What is the importance of the supply chain?

3.What are the different types of supply chain?

4.How do you implement supply chain into action?

5.What are the technical challenges that are associated with supply chain management?

6.What is the role of e-business applications on the supply chain?

1.Define Supply Chain and Supply Chain Management. Discuss the historical perspective of Supply Chain Management.

2.Explain or discuss the implementation of supply chain into action.

3.What are the technical challenges that are associated with supply chain management? Briefly explain each.

4.Discuss the risks and benefits of outsourcing supply chain management.

5.Discuss the role of e-business applications on the supply chain? What is E-business and the E-collaborations?

Answer the following questions

1.Define supply chain and supply chain management.

2.What is the concept of supply chain integration?

3.What are the different types of supply chain integration?

4.What are the eight key processes of excellent supply chain management?

5.What are the new technology and emerging trends in supply chain management?

6.What strategic decisions do managers consider in the design of their company's supply chains?

Answer the following questions .

1.Define the terms supply chain and supply chain management.

2.Discuss or explain the benefits of supply chain management.

3.Explain the concept of supply chain integration and discuss why each of the six types of integration is important

4.Identify the eight key processes of excellent supply chain management. How each of these processes impacts the end customer?

5.Discuss the key strategic decisions supply chain managers must make when designing their companies' supply chains.

6.What are the new technology and emerging trends in supply chain management. Explain or discuss each of them.

Answer the following questions

1.What is a supply chain driver?

2.What is the concept of supply chain integration?

3.What are the different types of supply chain integration?

4.What are the eight key processes of excellent supply chain management?

5.What are the new technology and emerging trends in supply chain management?

6.What strategic decisions do managers consider in the design of their company's supply chains?

Answer the following questions .

1.List and define the four major drivers of supply chain performance.

2.Explain the supply chain decision-making framework and the role of the four major drivers.

3.Explain the basic trade-off between responsiveness and efficiency for each of the major drivers of supply chain performance.

1.What is a supply chain network design?

2.What factors that may suggest the need for logistics or supply chain network?

3.How do you structure an effective process for logistics or supply chain network design?

4.What are the different types of modeling approaches that may be used to gain insight in logistics or supply chain design?

5.What is a simple "grid" or center-of-gravity approach to facility location?

Answer the following questions

1.Explain the critical need in certain companies for new and improved logistics/supply chain networks.

2.Identify factors that may suggest a need to redesign a logistics/supply chain network.

3.How do you design a structure for an effective process for logistics/supply chain network?

4.Discuss the key locational determinants, both national/regional and site specific, and the impact they may have on prospective locational alternatives.

5.Describe the different types of modeling approaches that may be used to gain insight into logistics/supply chain network design and facility location decision making.

6.How do you apply the simple "grid" or center-of-gravity approach to facility location?

7.Discuss certain ways in which transportation alternatives and transportation costs may affect the location decision.

1.What is forecasting? What is aggregate planning?

2.What are the different characteristics of forecasts?

3.Discuss the basic approach to demand forecasting.

4.How do you formulate aggregate planning strategies?

Answer the following questions

1.Discuss the role of forecasting and aggregate planning in the supply chain.

2.Discuss the different characteristics of forecasts and the basic approach to demand forecasting.

3.Discuss or explain the basic approach to demand forecasting.

4.How do you formulate aggregate planning strategies?

5.Explain the purpose of aggregate planning.

6.Explain how aggregate planning is put into practice or implemented.

7.Briefly discuss the aggregate planning process.

1.What is a supply chain?

2.What is logistics?

3.What is the relationship of supply chain to logistics?.

4.What is logistics system design and planning? How important is it in the world of business?

5.What are distribution networks and transportation?

Answer the following questions

1.Discuss or explain the contexts of supply chain.

2.Discuss an overview of the supply chain.

3.Explain briefly the basic concepts and characteristics of logistics.

4.How are logistics system design and planning applied in the business world?

5.Discuss distribution networks and transportation and their applications in today's business world.

1.What is supply chain integration?

2.How do consumers respond to collaboration?

3.How does collaboration extended in strategic as well as operational levels?

4.What are the implications of supply chain to management?

Answer the following questions

1.How can we integrate internally, externally and electronically in the supply chain?

2.How can collaboration be extended across the supply chain to focus on meeting consumer demand?

3.How can collaboration be extended to strategic as to well as operational levels?

4.How can broader-based relationships be formed between trading partners in the supply chain?

5.What are the management implications of integrating the supply chain?

1.What is global or international logistics?

2.What do you understand by materials management and physical distribution?

3.Compare international logistics and domestic logistics.

4.What is international inventory management?

Answer the following questions

1.Discuss or explain the escalating importance of logistics and supply-chain management as crucial tools for competitiveness.

2.Discuss or explain materials management and physical distribution.

3.Why international logistics is more complex than domestic logistics? Briefly explain.

4.Discuss how the transportation infrastructure in host countries often dictates the options open to the manager.

5.Why is it that international inventory management is crucial for success? Explain.

6.Explain the two main aspects of Supply Chain Management.

a)Supply chain as a cross-functional entity

b)Supply chain as the integrator and coordinator of production and logistics activities

7.Discuss the areas to be considered while moving from domestic to International supply chain.