SK - Purchases for week 36 Suppler Address Bristol Street Motors PLC Evans Electric Motors Ltd. Mizu Bluetooth Inc. AAA timber trading Makro 'Cash & Carry'. b) Your matrix. Birmingham Road, Coventry Swansea, Wales Yokohama, Japan Eastbourne, west Sussex Coventry Items 4x Ford Focus GLX 450 x mark 3 motors. 80 x blue- tooth packs. 400 m2 Plywood 5 reams of photocopy paper cost £80,000.00 £100,000.00 $9,000.00 £25,000.00 £9.76 Supporting information Local friendly dealer, Salesman plays golf with the our MD. Annual company car replacements. Designed marks 1 & 2 for us. The mark 3 has the worlds best power/weight ratio. The only source we can find. Small firm struggling in the Japanese recession. Regular order of base. One of 20 companies from the UK timber merchant association. Sales Director regularly takes a 'long lunch' to pick up any office supplies. (a) Your concerns
You have just started work as the Supply Chain Manager for Skateboards company These powered skate boards are a huge marketing success and the company owner now wants someone to look at his supply chain and see what efficiencies/savings can be made. One of your remits is to assess the supplier management strategy of the firm to ensure we are getting the most from our relationships in the supply network. You have asked (as a start) for a copy of this weeks purchases from Accounts and someone has kindly written some comments next to each entry on the payment run, this is printed overleaf. Look at this weeks purchases and think about the following;
•Strategic importance of the item to the firm.
•Supply risk to the firm (risk of non-exclusivity or even supply failure). The substitutability of the product.
•The supplier relationship 1.(a) Do you have any concerns about this weeks purchases? Write them in the boxes. Can you begin to imagine your objectives for the supplier relationship in each case? 2.(b) Next session you will be shown a matrix for categorising types of purchase and assigning suitable supplier strategies to pursue for each category.
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