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Appendix A - Additional Supply Chain Case Illustrations
Appendix A - Additional Supply Chain Case Illustrations
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They are • In the Industrial Production channel: pharmaceuticals and biotechnology; • In the Retail Distribution channel: food service, urban wholesale food, supermarkets, big box retail, and retail drug stores; and • In the Service Provision channel: hospitals, and waste and recyclables. Comparisons of all 12 supply chains can be found in Exhibit 3-5 and accompanying discussion that concludes Chapter 3.
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Transloading requires an extra step in labor and time as workers manually transfer trailer contents from one type of equipment to another. Case Illustration 6: Food Services Supply Chain Overview The company portrayed in this supply chain illustration distributes essentially anything needed in a restaurant, whether it is independently owned, a restaurant chain, or an institution providing food service.
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Warehouses handle both dry and temperature-controlled product; company trucks operating from the warehouses deliver both, using compartmentalized trailers. Customer orders are placed through a sales force and delivery routing plans developed using logistics software.
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This supply chain illustration portrays a public urban wholesale produce market in the United States. Public wholesale food markets serve the function of receiving food from regional, national, and global sources, and staging and recombining the incoming food for delivery to metropolitan areas.
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Case Illustration 8: Supermarket Grocery Supply Chain Overview This illustration portrays the supply chain of a national grocery chain operating both as a retailer and a wholesaler. It is a large-scale distribution business serving independent retailers in addition to supplying its own stores.
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General traffic congestion in many metropolitan areas causes delays for delivery drivers. Lane closures, ramp closures, and merging lanes on major corridors cause numerous delays and additional truck miles.
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Performance Minimizing vehicle miles traveled is a critical performance target for this company's fleet. In recent years, routing improvements, fully loading trailers, and packaging initiatives have allowed the company to eliminate hundreds of millions of miles while still increasing store deliveries by hundreds of millions of cases.
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Case Illustration 10: Retail Drug Store Supply Chain Overview The retail drug store supply chain is a relatively simple system that moves product from various vendors to the company's regional DCs and from there to specific retail stores. Given the diversity of goods available for purchase at contemporary drug stores, products can originate essentially anywhere domestically or may be imported from overseas.
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Food products are supplied by multiple vendors, food service providers, and distributors, and are staged by truck from regional plants and DCs. Laundry is handled by a national service with a local facility that delivers fresh linens and collects soiled materials by truck daily.
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Case Illustration 12: Waste & Recyclables Supply Chain Overview The waste and recyclables supply chain can be viewed as the reverse of a typical goods delivery supply chain. Rather than distributing products from a central location, waste vehicles transport materials from dispersed locations to central disposal facilities.
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However, nighttime waste collection is a politicized issue. Even when operating during the day, there are complaints about waste collection truck noise, particularly in denser urban areas.
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