Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

There are many reasons why a company should pay attention to their reputation as it relates to their future vendor relations and product supply costs and availability. Complete the following:

Discuss why it is important for organizations to manage their reputation by answering the following questions:

What impact could a poor quality product have on a company?
How does reputation help a company to be more competitive?
How do you think a company can improve their vendor and customer relations?
Summarize 3 examples of what goes into the reputation of a company.

Be sure to include your references, and format your submission in APA format.

Consider a collection of pallets of paint of various kinds. Each sku will be floor stacked 4 pallets high. Which skus are best stored in the area of the warehouse with lane depth of 3 pallet positions and an aisle 3 pallets wide?

Using the organization Cigna health Care, consider what corporate portfolio strategy the company uses or what you imagine they use and why? What are the benefits to the selected corporate portfolio strategy compared? What is the role of the corporate center and Strategic Business Unit (SBU)?

Given that supply chain decisions rely on accurate data records to generate MRP scheduling of production and purchase orders, demonstrate the ability to calculate and distribute product withing the distribution network.

Determine the best and most efficient distribution requirements system (DRP) that will maximize delivery time to the customer and minimize on-hand inventory at all locations.

Explain the reasons and conditions for inventory safety stock, shelf life, and stock rotation.

Determine locations of constraints and apply line of balance models to the manufacturing process.

The question is listed above and the three listed below are the enablers. Have to discuss each one or how would you do it. There is no more information. It's basically what would you do in Global Supply Chain Resource Planning and Management.

(International Business)

Discuss how the culture and religion of a country might increase the costs of doing business in that particular country. You can pick any country of your choice to make your argument. Please provide specific examples to support your answer.

Explain how an airline’s inventory management system and revenue management system must be linked.

1. How does competitive strategy determine business process and structure of information systems?

2. How do information systems provide competitive advantages?

Explain and give examples for the four I’s of transformational leadership. Must all four factors be present for someone to be transformational?

How can you use video to support your customers or to train staff on handling customer relations? Discuss a scenario and content of such a video briefly

Given an opportunity to align business decisions with operations functions, apply a sales and operations plan (S&OP) to increase in supply chains.

Analyze the relevant costs in creating an aggregate plan.

Compare and contrast the different types of aggregate production strategies.

Develop aggregate production plans for both service and manufacturing companies

Given an opportunity to acquire more information about demand planning, demonstrate the ability to employ an integrated systems of techniques to plan for future demand.

Understand the differentiation between demand planning, demand forecasting, and demand management activities.

Evaluate, select, and learn how to develop forecast models and understand various measures of accuracy and bias.

Test data for any seasonal component and calculate seasonal index

The question is listed above and the three listed below are the enablers. Have to discuss each one or how would you do it.

Discuss application/uses of Johari Windo's model of communication.

For the comapny Medtronic, Conduct the current state of compeition and strategic group from the 6 path analysis for the company.

1. Current state of competition

2. Strategic group

After reviewing “There’s No Such Thing as Business Ethics”, discuss what type of business organization might best succeed with a “Golden Rule” philosophy in its leadership.

What do you believe to be the most significant ethical issues facing business today, and what would you suggest as a general approach to dealing with those issues?

Which ethical principle, concept, or theory you learned about will be the most useful to your future ethical decision-making as a business professional?

how do you think a Christian heritage makes the academic experience different than at a non-faith-based university? What value will this difference add to your educational experience?