An ongoing cycle aimed at enhancing processes, products, or services systematically over time.

• One-time fix
• Continuous improvement
• Random enhancement
• Sporadic development

Consider the cycle related to sourcing decisions. What is step 1.

• Evolving relationships: stores, DCs, factories

• Electronic connections with all parties

• Learn to support different store formats

• Empower network of many suppliers and producers

Consider the cycle related to sourcing decisions. What is step 2.

• Evolving relationships: stores, DCs, factories

• Electronic connections with all parties

• Learn to support different store formats

• Empower network of many suppliers and producers

Consider the cycle related to sourcing decisions. What is step 3.

• Evolving relationships: stores, DCs, factories

• Electronic connections with all parties

• Learn to support different store formats

• Empower network of many suppliers and producers

Consider the cycle related to sourcing decisions. What is step 4.

• Evolving relationships: stores, DCs, factories

• Electronic connections with all parties

• Learn to support different store formats

• Empower network of many suppliers and producers

What is a plan-o-gram?

• A type of diagram used in architecture
• A visual representation or diagram that shows the placement of products on shelves or displays in a retail store.
• A type of hologram used for advertising
• A type of graph used in mathematics

Let's say you were going to create a boxed dinner plan-o-gram, what would be the variables?

• 160 items

  12ft of shelf space

  7 shelves

  Many brands: Kraft Hamburger Helper, Lipton, Suddenly Salad, etc

• 1 item

  2 ft of shelf space

  1 shelf

  1 Brand (e.g., Kraft)

• 50 items

  10 ft of shelf space

  2 shelves

  5 brands (Kraft, GM, Lipton, Suddenly Salad, and Ragu)

• 10 items

  6 ft of shelf space

  1 shelf

  Only competing brands (Kraft, General Mills, Hamburger Helper)

(T/F) Technology is about what we can do with it, not building technology just to have it.

• False
• True

(T/F) Technology enables "always virtual" connections

• True

• False

A continuous stream of feedback guides a system through an ever changing environment towards its goal

• Linear feedback

• Self Adjusting Feedback Loop

• Intermittent feedback
• A one-time feedback loop