a) What type of purchasing and supply organizational structure are we observing in the case above? Motivate your answer with evidence from the case. (b) Draw Kraljic portfolio purchasing model.
Critical Path Method
The critical path is the longest succession of tasks that has to be successfully completed to conclude a project entirely. The tasks involved in the sequence are called critical activities, as any task getting delayed will result in the whole project getting delayed. To determine the time duration of a project, the critical path has to be identified. The critical path method or CPM is used by project managers to evaluate the least amount of time required to finish each task with the least amount of delay.
Cost Analysis
The entire idea of cost of production or definition of production cost is applied corresponding or we can say that it is related to investment or money cost. Money cost or investment refers to any money expenditure which the firm or supplier or producer undertakes in purchasing or hiring factor of production or factor services.
Inventory Management
Inventory management is the process or system of handling all the goods that an organization owns. In simpler terms, inventory management deals with how a company orders, stores, and uses its goods.
Project Management
Project Management is all about management and optimum utilization of the resources in the best possible manner to develop the software as per the requirement of the client. Here the Project refers to the development of software to meet the end objective of the client by providing the required product or service within a specified Period of time and ensuring high quality. This can be done by managing all the available resources. In short, it can be defined as an application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet the objective of the Project. It is the duty of a Project Manager to achieve the objective of the Project as per the specifications given by the client.
Question 4
Read the case below and answer the questions that follow after
Assessing Risks and Maximizing Profits
You have just taken responsibility for purchasing at a major international logistic company, and you are reviewing all of the fuel purchases over the past two years.
Fuel is such a necessary commodity for this logistics company and consequently, the company spends a fortune on fuel, and it hired you, in part to look for ways to cut costs. However, the availability of this commodity (fuel) is quite limited in supply.
The problem is that, because of the diverse nature of your company’s transportation methods (which cover air, ground and ocean freight), each individual department purchases fuel separately. So, their air division purchases its own jet fuel, the trucking division purchases its own diesel, and the shipping freight division purchases its own oil
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(a) What type of purchasing and supply organizational structure are we observing in the case above? Motivate your answer with evidence from the case.
(b) Draw Kraljic portfolio purchasing model.
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