Supply Chain Management Cases

Address issues facing Richard Effress, MedSource Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, as the company approaches the project Precision Cut – first test MedSource features like integrated, contract manufacturers in the medical device industry. MedSource Technologies was established in 1999, the simultaneous acquisition of seven components manufacturing company, serving original equipment manufacturers in the medical device […]

Global Health Exchange Canadian business-to-business exchange that connects hospitals and their key suppliers through e-procurement process. Established as a subsidiary of its global parent, the exchange has become the leading medical currency into the country, but it is still far from breaking even. To manage the adoption in hospitals and providers targets, Global Healthcare must […]

Rick Wagoner, CEO of General Motors (GM), knew that something was “broken” in the automotive industry long before the USA Today article announced that in December 2001. Wagoner, along with a top aide, had launched several initiatives to realize their shared vision of creating value in GM. Some of these initiatives are aimed at the […]

In recent years, increasing attention is paid to the buyer-supplier relationship and supply chain management in general. Types of buyer-supplier relationships have evolved from the old school of the 1980s, where buyers and suppliers are considered as part of a zero sum game, in a collaborationist perspective of the 1990s, who claimed that buyers and […]

Skanska AB, the largest construction companies in Sweden, forms a partnership with ten key suppliers in order to significantly improve the supply chain in the construction industry. The first of these partnerships signed with Rockwool AB, manufacturer of insulation materials. Actions necessary to make the partnership work identified: the company representative from the customer to […]