Group 2

Is essential for businesses, encompassing the flow of materials

and information from suppliers to

customers.

• Forward integration

• Supply chain management

• Companies

• Global sourcing

Procuring goods

and services from suppliers located

around the world, rather than relying

on local or domestic services.

• Global sourcing

• Supply chain performance metrics

• Chase capacity

• Long-range decisions

Integration

is forward If a manufacturer, for

example, decides to buy a wholesaler

firm and only distribute it to wholesaler.

• Forward integration

• Companies

• Qualitative forecasting

• Cumulative squared error

Delivery, quality, flexibility, time, cost.

• Supply chain management

• Level workplace

• Supply chain performance metrics

• Facility location

Are focusing on external

flow of materials and information using

supply chain thinking, understanding

processes of all departments.

• Forward integration

• Global sourcing

• Estimating capacity

• Companies

Also called of economies of accelerator effect

The time it takes to put a product in stock and be available in market

The process of returning back a product to its manufacturer due to its defects and malfunction

Innovation transportation that attributed to walmart

Total integration if the firm owns the entire supply chain