Supply Chain Logistics Questions
Introduction
Each chapter of your textbook has a list of study questions. Check your understanding of the concepts by completing the selected study questions.
Requirements: Each question response should be 50-100 words.
Homework Assignment Questions: Chapter 10, Page 402, Questions # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Discuss the role of distribution in the supply chain. Provide examples of how distribution operations can positively and negatively impact supply chain performance.
- Compare and contrast the four primary functions of a DC: accumulation, sortation, allocation, and assortment.
- Discuss the primary tradeoffs that must be made between distribution and logistics activities
- Describe the major challenges faced by distribution managers in the current environment
- What are the primary capabilities, advantages, and disadvantages of direct distribution, DCs, and cross-docks?
- Discuss the role of transportation in the supply chain. provide examples of how transportation can positively and negatively impact supply chain performance.
- Describe the major challenges faced by transportation managers in the current environment
- What are the primary capabilities, advantages, of each of the basic modes.
- Considerations and issues that must be factored into modal and carrier selection
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