Solution Manual for Managing Supply Chain and Operations: An Integrative Approach, 2nd Edition

Solution Manual for Managing Supply Chain and Operations: An Integrative Approach, 2nd Edition simplifies the toughest textbook questions, providing easy-to-follow solutions for every chapter.

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Managing Supply
Chain and Operations
An Integrative Approach
Second Edition
S. Thomas Foster
Scott Sampson
Cindy Wallin
Scott Webb
Solution Manual for
Managing Supply Chain and
Operations
Mahesh Srinivasan
Chapter 1 Solutions Manual
Integrative Learning Exercises

During this first exercise, students discuss how SC&O is relevant to their areas of study,
such as finance, marketing, or the like. The purpose of this exercise is to help the students
understand how SC&O is relevant to their careers. Let the students spend 510 minutes in
groups to discuss this and then open up class discussion.

Integrative Experiential Exercises

In this exercise, students go into a company and identify a couple of key processes. They
discuss process design and process control. They also find out how the companies are
improving processes. Usually, the assigned teams make about a 10-minute PowerPoint
presentations with their findings.

Discussion Questions

1. How is operations management different from supply chain management?

Supply chain management is cooperation between different firms to create value for
customers. Operations management is the administration of transformation
processes that create value for customers by meeting their needs or enabling them
to meet their own needs.

2. Why have organizations combined supply chain and operations management
into SC &O?

Combining the terms “supply chain” and “operations” emphasizes the linkages
between firms that tie the operations of those different firms together with the goal
of satisfying customers. The move to SC&O management from just operations
management externalizes the view of a productive firm in a way that is healthy for
the world, individual firms, and their global competitiveness.

3. Identify some of the strategic factors associated with the decision to bring
manufacturing back on-shore (e.g., nearshoring).

Nearshoring is the act of moving production from far away to a closer location. For
example, when Apple announced the production of Mac computers in the United
States instead of China, it was nearshoring. The strategic factors associated with the
decision to bring manufacturing back on-shore can be separated into two
categories: those related to the physical environment and those related to the task
environment. Important strategic aspects of the physical environment include
access to physical resources and suppliers, as well as sustainability initiatives and
costs. Strategic aspects of the task environment include economic structures, skills
of the employees, compensation structure, technologies, and government agencies.
Another concept similar to or related to nearshoring, is nearsourcing which occurs
when production of a product is moved from a supplier that is far away to one that

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