INFS 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nestlé, Consumer Behaviour

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11 Nov 2016
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Today; companies are expanding their focus on the following to influence their supply chains. Organizations must embrace technologies that can effectively manage supply chains. Distributer: deliver right amount of inventory at the right time, avoid overstock, returns and discounts. In the past, companies focused primarily on manufacturing and quality improvements. Today companies are expanding their focus beyond the manufacturing process: Enable farmers to share processing and transportation facilities with other farmers. Plan: the strategic portion of supply chain management. A company must have a plan for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for products or services. Companies must carefully choose reliable suppliers that will deliver goods and services. Make: where the companies manufacture their products or services. This step is commonly referred to as logistics. Logistics is the set of processes that plans for and controls the efficient and effective transportation and storage of supplies from suppliers to customers.

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