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Comment on Simulation by Kehinde Mobayo

Kehinde Mobayo — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:06:35 +0000

Hi Danny,

Thanks for your response. There is a post on online supply chain simulation that can help your organisation achieve a positive result.

Comment on Indian Consumer market for road freight by aeromarine

aeromarine — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:22:21 +0000

The impact of retail developments on the road freight sector has grown and has proven be an effective means of delivering consumer goods.

Comment on Safari Tourism by Volcanoes Safaris

Volcanoes Safaris — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:28:27 +0000

I have to agree with the previous comments made, a standard family holiday is exciting but for the more adventerous family a luxury safari would be ideal as they allow you to have wildlife literally outside your door. You get a feel for the environment and are able to see more on these safaris as you wont be willing on the guides to pick you up all the time for game rides as you will see wildlife on your door.

Comment on How to secure the freshness across the supply chain by stubby holder

stubby holder — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:55:32 +0000

Of course! Who will patronize products who are expired? But, actually, this post is actually happening at present times. These are people who selfishly think of themselves alone.

Comment on Cloud based Supply Chain Systems by scm

scm — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:30:53 +0000

The concept of cloud computing is relatively new even in the area of information technology. For the time being, I believe ERP as software as service is still the alternative for supply chain practitioners to minimize implementation cost.

Comment on Repercussions of Wrong / Conflicting Priorities: The Case of an Indian Pizza Chain by Gursharan Singh

Gursharan Singh — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:07:08 +0000

I am quite new to this site and so, am having the chance to look at blogs after a lot of time since the blogs were written.

It’s seriously a very valid discussion going on between Varun, Vineet and Ravi. And the point raised by Ravi that Dominos clearly know what they are doing can be very much valid. In this situation with interwoven scenarios, I believe there is another angle to it that the company should look at. No doubt Dominos is the market leader among pizza joints and ‘home delivery’ has become kind of their high priority. But the reason why I think they should not exercise any sort of levity with their in-store customer orders is that the impression that they would leave on them. If I was Varun’s friend who had an unpleasant experience at Dominos, there are good chances I might carry a grudge about Domino’s. And that grudge can very well translate into me not ordering from Dominos even for a home delivery service.

Though I don’t think such unpleasant experiences would be happening on a very alarming scale for Dominos as of now, but they surely need to fix this right and overhaul their order management. Because as pizza market is increasing day by day, number of people ordering online or through phone are increasing day by day. This is putting more pressure on their order-taking and processing systems. And at the same they would probably have a marginal increase in number of customers walking in to the outlets and having pizzas there. Surely they would not want to disappoint these walk-in customers and leave a bad taste in their minds about the company. Not to forget, these people will also narrate their experience to their friends and peers, just like Varun did

Comment on Earthquake in Japan and its likely affect on global supply chain by Katherine Hartman

Katherine Hartman — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:25:05 +0000

My company, DTx Inc.(http://www.dtx.com), has been impacted by the affects of the disaster in Japan that you so accurately predicted in your blog. We provide engineering, manufacturing and supply chain management services to OEMs in a variety of industries. We noticed an almost immediate and significant impact in the area of consumer displays namely NEC, Sharp and Optrex. The Toshiba display plant was also damaged and lead-times are out to 40 weeks. More long term affects are expected. Stepper manufacturer was damaged. 90 day lead-times have increased to 180 days due to component shortages and rolling blackouts. AUO has communicated a concern regarding the component manufacturers and is recommending customers to prepare their inventories for expected supply chain disruptions. We’ve taken steps to protect our customers in the area of displays as well as memory and hard drives and are monitoring other areas of concern. Our VP of Supply Chain posted a blog on this topic which may interest your readers (http://bitly.com/j2y0qp). It includes current market predictions for customer and COTS circuit card assemblies, memory, hard drives, displays, custom and COTS wire harness assemblies and embedded CPUs.

Comment on Simulation by Danny Rodriguez

Danny Rodriguez — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:44:56 +0000

Hi Kehinde, do you have any suggestions for online supply chain simulations? We are the international affiliates of Apics in the Dominican Republic (www.steamdo.com) and will like to use more simulations in our trainings. Thanks.

Comment on OUTSOURCING by chin

chin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:18:49 +0000

Nice article. I appreciate it.

Comment on Home Delivery: Has it Become a Necessity for a Fast Food Chain to Penetrate in a Market? by amenagement terrasse bois

amenagement terrasse bois — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:38:15 +0000

I found your blog on Facebook today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more tomorrow