Question

PLEASE ANSWER FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BASED ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF SUPPLY MANAGEMENT, AND WRITE A HEAVY PARAHRAPH FOR EACH ONE! Thank you!

1.Give four examples of how Adidas may have combined digital supply chain, marketing, and omnichannel in the development and implementation of its Speedfactories.

2.You work for a retail company and you want to identify a location for a new warehouse and distribution center. This DC needs to be able to service the lower 48 states. Name five factors (total) related to location, service levels, suppliers, and financial performance and the technique you would use to identify the ideal location for the warehouse and why.

3. You work for a hospital. Understanding the challenges in a healthcare supply chain, give two examples each of how you would use operational and financial analytics to improve the cost and inventory structure, and how you anticipate the solutions will address the challenges.

4.You work for a national manufacturing company with production locations in Seattle, Los Angeles, Tulsa, Detroit, and Greensboro, NC, with headquarters in Atlanta.  The company is about $500M in sales and the facilities buy materials with unique properties, but 80% of the dollar value comes from the same four vendors.  Which, of the four procurement structures we discussed in class do you think makes the most sense for the company to implement. Give three reasons to support your answer.

5. Name four responsibilities (total - at least one from each area) that procurement and logistics have related to operating a sustainable supply chain? Name two ways marketing can leverage this to gain an advantage.

Answer 1

Speed factories are set up by Adidas to manufacture products through highly automated and digital processes. It has flexible automated machines and 3D printing machines which allows it to produce shoes at a faster speed with the digital technologies. They are able to manufacture shoes through this facility three times faster than the traditional methods of manufacturing. Through this facility the company was able to produce shoes according to the tastes and demand of the customers because of the flexibility and speed in this operations. The customer can design a shoe customized with their own specifications and Adidas with support of speed factory is able to produce that shoe in no time. As the system is fully automated the shoe specifications and customization can be changed quickly. The shoe is created by robotic machines in the factory which helps in faster and accurate results.

Digital supply chain market and omnichannel in Adidas has made it possible for customers to provide customized specifications for the shoe they require and the company wills to create the product with the given specification. Also technology like RFID is allowing customers to view the inventory, purchase and collect the product through online buying. The customers at the store can view the whole range of products available online and order their choice which will be supplied to them by the store. Speedfactories are focussing on fast fashion where designing, manufacturing and distribution of the shoes is done in fastes speed possible which is three times more than the traditional methods and is working on increasinf the speed further. Hence to compete in the market and increase sales and growth the company needed innovation in the field of desigining, manufacturing and distribution and this is possible through the fast and automated functioning at the speedfactories.