SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT OC

Supply Chain Management and Purchasing

2021 - 2022

Case

Case instructions

This case represents 20% of your final grade.

The case can be answered individually or by teams of two students. No exceptions to this rule will be allowed.

All the cases will be verified via Urkund

Your answer must include between 3 pages (minimum) and 6 pages (maximum).

You answer must be posted on c@mpus before November 21st

The objective for this case is that you establish links between the tools and methodologies learnt in class and events that affected significantly different companies around the world during the last year. We propose three events as described in the following articles:

● Chip shortage: affecting among others the car industry (Renault or Volkswagen) and high tech (PlayStation, Samsung , Apple…)

o https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/technology/computer-chip- semiconductor-shortage.html

o https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2021/04/22/2003756133 ● The Suez canal crisis: affecting among others the oil sector, gas , car manufacturers

and food o https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56533250 o https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/27/suez-canal-

economy/ ● The demand peaks linked to Covid: affecting among others toilet paper, pasta, flour,

masks, hydroalcoholic gel… o https://cnr.ncsu.edu/news/2020/05/coronavirus-toilet-paper-shortage/ o https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/walmart-stockouts-covid-19-

cases-demand/589174/

Evidently many other companies and sectors were affected by these events.

Your role is to choose a company or a sector. It can be one of the companies or sectors suggested in the articles or any other company that may be relevant for you. For instance, a company where you have, or you would like to do an internship. If you have doubts about the choice of the company, you can contact your lecturer to validate your choice.

The case objective is to study how the firm’s decisions in terms of inventory management, production (MRP II and production plan) and supplier selection have been affected by one or several of the events described before.

To structure your ideas, we suggest you the following questions:

● Explain how these events had repercussions on the supply chain of the company / sector. What are these repercussions? Will other companies in the supply chain be affected in the near future?

● How could the company have avoided or reduced the impact? Which tools, among the tools being studied, could be applied in the future? What will be the consequences, whether positive or negative (economic, organizational, commercial, human ...)?

Please use Supply Chain terms in your answers and cite your sources.