{"title":"Innovative Distribution Company: A Total Cost Approach to Understanding Supply Chain Risk","authors":"T. Farris, Ila Manuj","doi":"10.1108/case.cscmp.2018.000014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/case.cscmp.2018.000014","url":null,"abstract":"This case illustrates the use of the total cost of ownership concept to analyse and compare two supply chains – one international and one domestic. The case provides an opportunity to calculate economic order quantity and safety stock quantities and then combine purchase price, shipping costs, and inventory carrying costs to quantify the differences between the two supply chains.","PeriodicalId":294349,"journal":{"name":"Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Cases","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125121793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ConSort Inc.: Utilizing Consolidation to Lower Transportation Costs","authors":"T. Farris","doi":"10.1108/CASE.CSCMP.2018.000007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/CASE.CSCMP.2018.000007","url":null,"abstract":"This case illustrates the concept of consolidation and how freight forwarders use it to reduce transportation costs. The student must compare a ship-direct model against vehicular consolidation, then consider temporal consolidation, investigate the differences between a freight broker and a freight forwarder, and develop a rate analysis for use in negotiation.","PeriodicalId":294349,"journal":{"name":"Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Cases","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131855065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephan M. Wagner, V. Heldt, Katrin Lentschig, Jennifer Meyer
{"title":"Bertelsmann China: Supply Chains for Books (B)","authors":"Stephan M. Wagner, V. Heldt, Katrin Lentschig, Jennifer Meyer","doi":"10.1108/case.cscmp.2018.000002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/case.cscmp.2018.000002","url":null,"abstract":"The case of Bertelsmann China: Supply Chain for Books (B) is situated in China in the beginning of 2006. Bertelsmann Direct Group, the Chinese subsidiary of the worldwide Bertelsmann AG, is one of the leading book retailers in the country. Supply chain management is essential for success in retailing, which is why Bertelsmann puts a lot of effort into the optimization of its supply chain design. As costs are paramount to importance in the low-margin book retailing sector, linear programming methods are applied to optimize the network","PeriodicalId":294349,"journal":{"name":"Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Cases","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133312243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Provincial Industries: Opening International Regional Offices","authors":"","doi":"10.1108/case.cscmp.2018.000019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/case.cscmp.2018.000019","url":null,"abstract":"Provincial Industries has decided that the time has come to expand internationally. In this case and the activities along with it, individuals will need to consider different attributes or factors in each category evaluated. These categories include: business climate, communications, financial services, health services and “Quality of Life”, infrastructure, and transportation. This evaluation will decide the new international office location.","PeriodicalId":294349,"journal":{"name":"Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Cases","volume":"441 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123585852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}