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Supply Chain & Logistics InstituteEngineering Tomorrow’s Supply Chains
Seminar in Global Supply Chains
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ISyE 6340
January 8, 2018
Class leaders
• Dr. John Bartholdi
– ISyE 346
• Pete Viehweg
– ISyE 346
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• Course description
• Course purpose
• Course requirements
• Questions and discussion
• Walmart video
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Agenda
Course Description
• M W F 10:10–11:00, Main ISyE Bldg, room 228
• MS SCE course; letter grade
• Check the class website often for changeshttp://www2.isye.gatech.edu/people/faculty/John_Bartholdi/classes/6340/
• Tours– Sites of key players in North American or global supply chains
• Seminars– Professionals, faculty
• Class discussions
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• M W 10:10–11:30, Main ISyE Bldg, room 228
To broaden our understanding of many different
supply chains and their components through
tours, presentations and in-depth classroom
discussions.
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Course purpose
To aid you in focusing on areas
that interest you for further study or
future employment.
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Secondary Benefit
Tours (subject to change)
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Jan. 10 Walmart Super Center
Feb. 5 Hon
Feb. 7 Amazon
Mar. 5 MSC
Mar. 7 Alcon
Mar. 14 Walmart High Velocity DC
Mar. 17 Port of Savannah
Complementary to other classes
• In class, you learn abstraction, modeling,
thinking and theories
• In tours, you see flows, processes, clutters,
human issues, complex relations
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Challenges
• Distractions
– Movement: Forklifts, conveyors, trucks
– Noise
• Space limitations
• Attitudes
• Appearances
• People from the same tour get very different perceptions
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What one should do
• Dress appropriately
– “Corporate casual”
– Long pants
– No open-toed or high-heeled shoes
• Representatives of Georgia Tech
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What one should do
• Stay alert and pay attention
• Make sure everyone can see
• Keep an open mind
– Do not limit yourself to your own or guides’ perspectives
• Keep criticism within the class
• Most companies do something right to stay in business.
• Be thinking of strengths and weaknesses
• Each has room for improvement. Do not think the
status quo is the “best” way, as some hosts might
argue.
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Guided discussion after the tour
• Very important to help everyone to understand better
Objectives:
– Review, digest and enhance learning
– Capture everyone’s impressions and ideas
– Understand strengths/weaknesses, niche in the supply chain
Find other supporting information such as journal articles, books, etc. to enhance discussion
• Everyone must participate !!!
• Nametags
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Visiting speakers
• Industry and academic representatives
presenting interesting and pertinent information
about particular supply chain areas
• They’re not on recruiting trips!!!
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Presentations (subject to change)
• Cotton Farming & Mitumba
• Google Hardware Supply Chain
• Rail Operations (Norfolk-Southern)
• Trucking
• UPS
• Changing Logistics Ecosystem
• Fresh Perspective on Cold Chain
• Port Operations (Savannah)
• Container Shipping
• Load Planning & Logistical Entrepreneurship
• Supply Chain Consulting
Visiting speakers
Questions:
• Ask lots of pertinent questions
• Make sure they concern the issues at hand
– Want presenter to be able to finish
• Save questions about other issues for the end of
the presentation
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Grading
• 75% participation in tour and discussions
– Every tour, every class
– Opinions, your experiences, etc.
– Includes coordinated reading, etc. from syllabus
• 25% professionalism
– Attendance
– On time
– Attention & respect for others
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Activities in the near future
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Wednesday, January 10th
• Tour Wal-Mart Super Center• Bus departs at 8:15 AM from Hemphill Avenue
• Preparation: Read Wal-Mart material from syllabus,
calendar
• Pickup times will vary for subsequent tours !!!
Tour pickup point
20You are here
Bus pickup – 8:15AM, Hemphill Avenue- John Patrick Crecine Residence Hall
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Tim Cook
CEO, Apple Inc.
World’s most valuable corporation
Market Capitalization:
# of shares outstandingtimes the share price
Apple, Inc: $876.3 Billion
Johnson & Johnson $374.0 Billion
ExxonMobil: $360.3 Billion
Walmart: $292.1 Billion
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Tim Cook
CEO, Apple Inc.
World’s most valuable corporation
BSIE, Auburn University
MBA, Duke University
• Senior VP, Worldwide OperationsApple Inc
• VP, Corporate Materials, Compaq• Director of N. A. Fulfillment,
IBM Personal Computers
Walmart
• $485.9 Billion in annual sales
– $307.8 Billion in Walmart stores in the U. S.
– $57.4 Billion in Sam’s Club stores
– $116.1 International
• 28 countries
• 2.3 million associates worldwide
• 11,695 stores worldwide
– 5,332 in the U. S.
• 260 million customer visits per week worldwide
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Potential Walmart Questions
• What is the annual sales volume of this store vs. others?
– (Is this considered a small, medium, or large store)?
• How many SKUs in the store?
• Are they all delivered via Wal-mart trucks?
– If not, what other methods?
– What frequency?
• For Wal-mart deliveries:
– From where? (Wal-Mart DC? Which one? Others?)
– As pallets? How many? Any mixed pallets?
• What are the receiving hours?
• How many trucks per day?
• How long to unload a truck?
• What is the schedule for Wal-mart truck deliveries?
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Potential Walmart Questions
• When do you restock the shelves?
• How long from receipt until product is on the shelves, available
for sale?
• Does the store have any responsibility for inventory
management (SKU ordering, etc.)?
– If so, what is the time from order submission to receipt?
– What sort of seasonalities most affect you?
– What do you do with discontinued/obsolete SKUs?
• How much inventory is kept in the back room?
• Any local input to the store plan-o-gram?
• Who decides on special promotions - what items, displays?
• How often does the product offering change?
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Potential Walmart Questions
• Do all items have Wal-mart specific labels/barcodes prior to
arrival, or do some have to be labeled on-site?
• Any use of RFID within store?
• How large is the workforce?
• What is the turnover?
• How do you schedule?
• How do you track worker productivity?
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