The World is Flat Flatteners 7-10

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The World is FlatFlatteners 7-10
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Flattener 7Supply ChainingEating Sushi in
Arkansas
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Flattener 7Supply Chaining

• Global Optimization
• Dell
• A customer for
• every computer
• 2 basic challenges in developing a global supply
  chain in a flat world
• 1. global optimization
• 2. coordinating disruption-prone supply with
  hard-to-predict demand

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Flattener 7Supply Chaining

• The Wal-Mart Symphony
• Wal-Mart
• Save money by buying directly from manufacturers,
  by constantly innovating to cut the cost of
  running its supply chain, and by keeping its
  inventories low by learning more about its
  customers, it could beat its competitors on price
  every time
• RFID
• Downfalls
• Japans attempt to copy Seiyu

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Discussion QuestionIs the type of global
supply chain used by Wal-Mart really good for the
United States?
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Flattener 8InsourcingWhat the Guys in Funny
Brown Shorts Are Really Doing
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Flattener 8Insourcing

• UPS Your World, Synchronized
• Toshiba Laptops UPS people repair laptops?
• Papa Johns, Nike, Jockey, HP, Segrest Farms
• Global Supply Chain Manager
• UPS engineers come right inside your company
  analyze its manufacturing, packaging, and
  delivery processes and then design, redesign,
  and manage your whole global supply chain.

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Flattener 8Insourcing

• Trust
• Some companies never touch their own products
• Help the small act big and the big act small
• Financing
• Tracking Systems Ford Motor Co.
• Operations Research Division
• Meteorologists
• End of Runway Services

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Discussion QuestionDo you think other
companies will follow in UPSs footsteps?
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Flattener 9In-formingGoogle, Yahoo!, MSN Web
Search
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Flattener 9In-forming

• ability to build and deploy your own personal
  supply chain a supply of information,
  knowledge, and entertainment
• Carry all the worlds knowledge in your pocket?
• 1 billion searches per day, up from 150 million
  just 3 years ago

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Flattener 9In-forming

• Text is not the only source of information
• Everything we see, hear, touch, read, and write
  is information, and will eventually be able to be
  searched
• Googles power
• Better search
• Strategic advertising
• Yahoo Groups
• Google is like God. God is wireless, God is
  everywhere, and God sees everything. Any
  questions in the world, you ask Google.

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Discussion QuestionIs there a point where
there is too much information available?
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Flattener 10The SteroidsDigital, Mobile,
Personal, and Virtual
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Flattener 10The Steroids

• Wireless connectivity in Japan
• Taking all the forms of collaboration and making
  it possible to do each and every one of them in a
  way that is digital, mobile, virtual and
  personal.

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Flattener 10The Steroids

• Computing computational, storage, and
  input/output capabilities
• Instant Messaging and File Sharing
• Phone Calls over the Internet (VoIP)
• Videoconferencing
• Computer Graphics
• Wireless Technologies and Devices
• Cell Phones, DoCoMo, Rolls Royce, Madonna

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Discussion QuestionDo you think cell phones
will become as prominent in the US as predicted
in the book (for example scanning Madonna
posters?)