Assignment
1-Select a retailer of your choice and analyses their strategy for management of the upstream and downstream supply chain.
2-Explain how the concepts of disintermediation, re-intermediation and counter-mediation apply to the supply chain.
3-You have recently been appointed as supply chain manager for a pharmaceutical company. Summarize the main Internet-based applications you would consider for communicating with your suppliers.
4-How has the increase in electronic communications contributed to the development of value networks?
5-What are the characteristics of a virtual organization? Using examples, explain how e-commerce can support the virtual organization.
6- What are the differences and similarities of using information technology to support:
(a) the upstream supply chain
(b) the downstream supply chain?
7-Describe the relation between supply chain and e-commerce.