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CAPELLA MBA6125 FULL COURSE DISCUSSIONS AND ASSIGNMENT
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Capella MBA6125 Unit 2 Discussion 1 & 2 latest 2016 December
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Third Party Logistics
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Briefly describe the basic types of third party logistics (3PL) organizations.
Identify some of the best practices that leading companies using 3PLs have embraced.
What value-added considerations would you take into account when considering the use of a 3PL?
Which 3PL would provide the most suitable service to your organization?
What 3PLs does your organization currently use? (If your organization does not use the services of a 3PL, consider the operations where a 3PL could be used.) What other 3PLs could you recommend to your management?
Response Guidelines
Respond to the posts of at least two of your peer s. For each response, include the following:
Evaluate whether the 3PLs used at your peer’s organization would be suitable in yours
.
Do you agree with your peer’s assessment of 3PLs in his or her organization? Explain
.
What additional comments, suggestions, or experiences can you share with your peer?
dq 2
Trends and Security Issues with Logistics
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How can information logistics technology be used to facilitate real-time decision-
making in your organization’s
logistics network?
Describe how IT logistics technology is currently used in your organization, and how its use can it be improved or expanded.
In what ways has the logistics technology added value to your organization? Quantify this value in terms of tangible and intangible results.
Identify some of the best practices that leading companies using logistics technology have embraced.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the posts of at least two of your peer s. For each response, include the following:
Do you agree with your peer’s assessment of the potential for logistics technology in his or her
organization? Explain.
What additional comments, suggestions, or experiences can you share with your peer?
Capella MBA6125 Unit 3 Discussion 1 & 2 latest 2016 December
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Forecasting and the Economic Environment
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Identify changes in forecasting methodologies and approaches (for practices such as contracting, advanced payments, outsourcing to fix a price, continuous and fixed budgeting, simulations, or regression analysis) that have been influenced by current economic conditions.
Has the current economic environment changed your organization’s forecasting approaches to logistics within
the supply chain?
If so: Describe at least one new approach that is a specific result of the changes in the current economic environment. How is this change unique to these times? Will these changes help to maintain
your organization’s competitive edge?
If not: Would you recommend the implementation of new forecasting approaches? In what ways might a continuation of past techniques and approaches be dysfunctional? Briefly describe one specific new approach you would recommend. Identify some of the best practices that leading companies are using in the area of logistics forecasting.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the posts of at least two of your peer s. For each response, include the following:
Do you agree with your peer’s assessment of the value of new or potential forecasting approaches in
his or her organization? Explain.
How would you recommend your peer’s organization change its app
roach?
What additional comments, suggestions, or experiences can you share with your peer?
dq 2
Levels of Customer Service
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Has the philosophy that there are different
levels
of customers had any material effect on the value of your
organization’s
customer service?
Identify and explain the different levels of customer service in your organization.
How are these differing levels associated with the cost-benefit financial approach?
Is there a financial rationale for designating these differing levels? Can this be quantified?
Has any aspect of the different levels approach been negative to the customer, or to the organization?
Describe some of the best practices that leading companies using unique approaches to customer service have embraced.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the posts of at least two of your peer s. For each response, include the following:
Do you
agree or disagree with your peer’s assessment of the use and value of the different levels of
customer service? Explain.
What additional comments, suggestions, or experiences can you share with your peer?
Capella MBA6125 Unit 4 Discussion 1 & 2 latest 2016 December
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Declines in Inventory Costs and Levels
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According to your reading for this unit in Chapter 9 of the Coyle text, inventory costs and levels have declined in relation to the gross domestic product (GDP), in recent year s. Carrying high levels of inventory can be costly and risky. While products sit on shelves, opportunities and financing might be missed. Pilferage is a potential risk. Over time, the product could become obsolete. Today, organizations are developing techniques to reduce the levels of inventory they must maintain, and their associated costs. For example, one evolving trend is to maintain showroom inventor y. Approaches such as in-transit replenishment stock and point-of-sale reordering also reduce stagnant inventory costs. How have new approaches influenced inventory information delivery in your organization?
Investigate and identify any significant declines in inventory costs and levels for your organization over the span of the past 20 year s.
How have costs of carrying high levels of inventory (such as financing, opportunity, obsolescence, and pilferage) in your organization changed?
Suggest at least one reason for any apparent decreases in costs or levels of inventory.
What benefits can you attribute to these declines? Discuss some of the best practices that leading companies, using unique approaches to logistics and inventory management, have embraced.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the posts of at least two of your peer s. For each response, include the following:
Compare how inventory processes in your peer’s organization have changed with how your organization’s inventory processes has changed
. Identify specific examples.
Do you agree or disagree with your peer’s assessment of the changes in his or her organization due to
new inventory approaches?
What additional comments, suggestions, or experiences can you share with your peer?
Reference
Coyle, J. J., Langley, C. J., Jr ., Novack, R. A., & Gibson, B. J. (2013).
Supply chain management: A logistics perspective
(9th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.
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Costs of Transportation
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