Supply Chain Management Cases

Starbucks Corporation was the largest specialty coffee retailer in the world, with 2005 annual revenues of $ 6.4 billion. Despite the tremendous growth in specialty coffee in the 1990’s worldwide oversupply of lower grade coffee has been pressed in market prices in the past few years, making it difficult for coffee farmers to earn enough […]

Examines how the acquisition of services are managed within the organization, the risks associated with the current services procurement practices and how to improve the professional management services of purchase. Review of data obtained from benchmarking studies CAPS Center for Strategic Supply Research shows that the acquisition of services is seen as more difficult than […]

How can companies develop products and production lines in order to maximize profit? Of all the possible configurations available to them as they have to decide which of them offer? The authors have developed a framework to balance the cost of developing and offering a rich range of products and services for the consumer demand […]

It’s not easy to be skinny. And for many companies get lean right the first time is not always possible. Lean is a management philosophy focused on the identification and elimination of waste throughout the value stream of the product is distributed not only within the organization but also to the power supply circuit of […]

When Quanta Computer, Inc, the world’s largest manufacturer of portable computers for the first time joined the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, it faced the challenge of trying to balance spending targets laptop aimed at children from developing countries with increasing content demands of the market and the non-profit OLPC Foundation . He also […]