Chapter 9 Running Case Assignment: Improving OperationalExcellence: Identifying Supply Chain ManagementSolutions
Software skills: Web browser and presentation software
Business skills: Locating and evaluatingsuppliers
In this project you’ll use the Web to identify the bestsuppliers for one component of a dirt bike and appropriate supplychain management software for a small manufacturing company.
A growing number of Dirt Bikes orders cannot be fulfilled ontime because of delays in obtaining some important components andparts for its motorcycles, especially their fuel tanks. Complaintsare mounting from distributors who fear losing sales if the dirtbikes they have ordered are delayed too long. Dirt Bikes’smanagement has asked you to help it address some of its supplychain issues.
Use the Internet to locate alternative suppliers for motorcyclefuel tanks. Identify two or three suppliers. Find out the amount oftime and cost to ship a fuel tank (weighing about five pounds) byground (surface delivery) from each supplier to Dirt Bikes inCarbondale, Colorado. Which supplier is most likely to take theshortest amount of time and cost the least to ship the fueltanks?
Dirt Bikes’s management would like to know if there is anysupply chain management software for a small business that would beappropriate for Dirt Bikes. Use the Internet to locate two supplychain management software providers for companies such as DirtBikes. Briefly describe the capabilities of the two softwareapplications and indicate how they could help Dirt Bikes. Whichsupply chain management software product would be more appropriatefor Dirt Bikes? Why?
