Supply Chain Management Cases

The case is based on real supply outsourced management solutions for a large manufacturing company. The company has been disguised for confidentiality reasons. The case discusses the various types of outsourcing, supply chain management, benefits and risks of outsourcing, as well as different pricing model for outsourcing contracts. Students need to make management decisions and […]

Describes how to set up UPS UPS Supply Chain Solutions, a brand new business, with a carefully selected target market segments for which the unique and extensive proposals were developed value. To build this business UPS made numerous acquisitions and successfully achieved following the acquisition, integration issues as compensation, information systems, human resources and organizational […]

Professional cycling teams use road bikes consists of several parts or components: frame, fork, wheels and tires, seats, seat posts, handlebars and pedals. Pedal to hold special biker boots on the ground, so they can “clip in” for more power and control, and a few companies make different models of pedals. Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour […]

In 2005, Erez Meltzer, president and CEO of Netafim (the world’s leading manufacturer of drip irrigation equipment), was wondering whether the supply chain Netafim was strong enough to support changes in the strategy he had planned for the company: The transition from product sales selling decisions. When Melzer entered the office three years earlier, the […]

Faced with the prospect of slow growth, commercialization and global competition, companies such as General Electric Co, Microsoft Corp, and the company Ford Motor Co has been emphasized innovation as crucial to their future success. But what is innovation? Although the topic has risen to the top of the agenda for the CEO, many companies […]