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Supply chains: healthcare
Science, Maths & Technology

Supply chains: healthcare

...supply chain processes must be organised with scrupulous efficiency. This material forms part of The Open University course T882 Supply chain innovation, strategy and management... An unusual market sector An introduction to B.Braun, the company which provides surgical implants and medical implements for the UK's National Health Service. The steriliser's tale How...
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Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...chain for the context in which they operate, they also have to consider issues of sustainability in their supply chain strategies. These issues are a consideration beyond those of environmental sustainability and also encompass social sustainability (ethics and wellbeing), financial sustainability, and network sustainability. This free course, Supply chain ......
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supply chains: the supermarket
Science, Maths & Technology

Supply chains: the supermarket

...supply chains presents fundamental organisational challenges. This material forms part of The Open University course T882 Supply chain innovation, strategy and management... Supply chains: the supermarket A short introduction to this album Shaping Tesco overseas How leading retailers have been expanding their global reach, introducing Tesco's ......
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Business Bursts: Supply chain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Supply chain

...supply chain, exploring brands such as Mini and WH Smith...Watch Read Leslie Budd, Reader in Social Enterprise Supply chains connect the production or raw materials to the final consumption of goods and services in shops and malls or online. They’re both static but dynamic, because you’re talking of a throughput of say steel that comes from iron-ore, which comes from...
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Supply chains: Smart cars
Science, Maths & Technology

Supply chains: Smart cars

...supply chain, and its assembly line in Hambach, France, where a finished car is produced every 96 seconds. With its major suppliers situated on the same site, Smart can rapidly assemble a good value customisable car which is both pioneering and appealing. This material forms part of The Open University Course T882 Supply chain innovation, strategy and management... ......
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Can you manage a supply chain?
Money & Business

Can you manage a supply chain?

...supply chain. Can you complete the ordering process, without ending up with too much stock? Your profits and reputation are at stake!...The supply chain game is The Open University’s version of a classic simulation, known as the beer game. The beer game lets you experience problems of supply chains. In our supply ......
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Tackling systemic human and workers’ rights issues in garment supply chains
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling systemic human and workers’ rights issues in garment supply chains

...supply chain of garments...[Rana Plaza Collapse, 2013] On Wednesday, 24 April 2013 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh where an eight-story commercial building named Rana Plaza, collapsed. The search for the dead ended on 13 May 2013 with a death toll of 1,129. The global apparel industry has been beset by high-profile disasters such as the Rana Plaza factory...
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The machine that is still changing the world
Science, Maths & Technology

The machine that is still changing the world

...Supply Chain coordination [A photograph of the Landrover Discovery production line in modern times. The photo is in colour and shows to paired lines of orange machines that are moving their top halves in different directions. ] Landrover Discovery production line Historically, one focus of attention in lean systems was the just-in-time supply that is still evident as an...
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