Supply Chain Management Cases

ANSWER TO (A) Tariff is the tax or duty that is to be paid for a class of imports or exports. Considering the market of Barley in China, the exports of barley to China are almost 9% of the exports of agricultural products of Australia. China is allowing a tariff free import of barley form […]

BACKGROUND Hewlett-Packard (HP) is an American multinational information technology company, which was founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. HP has become one of the leading provider of information technology infrastructure, global services, personal computing and access devices, printing equipment to business and home consumers around the globe. The strength of the company […]

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, businesses around the world are operating in more interconnected and globalized world economy. The changing global business environment increased the level of competition in the global market. The resources in which organizations rely have become more challenging to access and more costly to operate. The globalization of world economy and differences between different […]

Introduction Walmart is a United States based Retail Corporation that has been operating a chain of discounted departmental stores and warehouse. The company is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. Sam Walton is the founder of the company who started Walmart in 1962. The company has more than 11,000 stores and it has been operating in more […]

Write down the objective, decision variables and constraints.  Be specific and quantitative. DHL has a primary objective of decreasing the CO2 emission in order to maintain a healthy and an unpolluted environment. On the other hand, the company has also a secondary objective in maintaining cost efficiency in its shipment program. There are few variables that […]