Operations and Supply Chain Management
Operations and Supply Chain Management
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780078024023
Author: F. Robert Jacobs
Publisher: MCG
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Chapter 1, Problem 1DQ

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To describe: The source-make-deliver-return relationship in an airline.

Introduction: Supply chain process is the process that flows from the vendor or supplier to the customers. It involves planning, sourcing, making, delivering, and returning.

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Describe the source-make-deliver-return relationship in an airline:

The source should contain the detail or plan about the supplies or suppliers, make should be the things done by the manufacturers, deliver should have the information regarding warehouses and distribution centers, and return information should have the after-sale service that is available in the final cell.

Operations and Supply Chain Management, Chapter 1, Problem 1DQ , additional homework tip  1

b)

Summary Introduction

To describe: The source-make-deliver-return relationship in an automobile manufacturer.

b)

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Describe the source-make-deliver-return relationship in an automobile manufacturer:

Operations and Supply Chain Management, Chapter 1, Problem 1DQ , additional homework tip  2

c)

Summary Introduction

To describe: The source-make-deliver-return relationship in a hospital.

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Describe the source-make-deliver-return relationship in a hospital:

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d)

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To describe: The source-make-deliver-return relationship in an insurance company.

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Describe the source-make-deliver-return relationship in an insurance company:

Operations and Supply Chain Management, Chapter 1, Problem 1DQ , additional homework tip  4

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