Review the case: Lenovo: Digital Transformation for Supply Chain Intelligence about emerging and digital technologies for supply chain and operations and business models.

Answer the following questions below:

Describe:

Develop a physical and conceptual map of the global supply and value chain for Lenovo PC products. Where are the products made? Where are the components sourced from? Where are the products sold?

What are some core elements of business and SCI? What are some advantages and disadvantages of automating supply chain decisions and processes?

Identify the critical competitive performance measures within a mature industry and for a mature company but with short product life cycles, attributes shared by Lenovo and the PC industry.

Diagnose:

What are the main challenges or issues being faced by Lenovo and the underlying causes$/$drivers$?$

What are the main challenges or issues being faced by the Lenovo GSC team and the underlying causes$/$drivers$?$

What are some ways in which the COVID$-19$ pandemic disrupted supply chains for common household products and services? What are some challenges for products with several hundred components, such as Lenovo PCs$?$

Action:

How can companies such as Lenovo counter such disruptions as the Covid one?

How should Lenovo prioritize the implementation of the SCI framework across its supply chain? What hurdles can it expect along the way, from either an organizational or technological viewpoint, and how should they be dealt with?

How should other identified issues be addressed, and what is the way forward?