For the Chapter 9 blog, review the Interactive Session on pages 345-346, Southwest Airlines Takes off with Better Supply Chain Management. In a detailed response, answer questions 1-4 on page 346.
1- Why is parts inventory management so important at Southwest Airlines? What business processes are affected by the airline's or inability to have required parts on hand?
* The Southwestern airlines are one of the very high profile airlines, with over 500 aircraft in the world. I think in order to maintain and to keep their good reputation Southwestern must be able to keep available supplies and extra inventory in stock and readily available. The company needs a strategic plan to manage this process on a daily basis to insure that all supplies are on hand. The long term, cost effective way to solve that problem was to increase productivity thorough the use of right application software.
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2- Why management, organization, and technology factors were responsible for Southwest's problems with inventory management?
* All the factors such as management, organization and technology were responsible for southwest's problems of inventory management. one of the problems was lack of information visibility. Even though the information were stored it was not available for viewing. Also, the organization and the management was not successfully able to provide the inventory management solutions which leads to the mechanical problems of fulfilling different parts. Moreover, the information system was unable to keep up with the increasingly large amount of the date generated in the organization.
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3- How did implementing the i2 software change the way Southwest ran its business?
I2 Technologies a leading supply chain management, it also demand planner improves Southwest's forecasts for all the part location combinations in its system, and provides better visibility into demand for each part. It optimizer to overhaul its supply chain management and data visibility. I2 Service parts planner helps Southwest replenish its store of parts and ensures, The I2 Service Budget Optimizer helps Southwest use its historical data of parts usage to generate forecast of the future parts usage. I think I2 make them better and ran better than before.
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4- Describe two decisions that were improved by implementing the I2 system?
* It optimizer to overhaul its supply chain management and data visibility
* it also demand planner improves Southwest's forecasts for all the part location combinations in its system, and provides better visibility into demand for each part.
1- Why is parts inventory management so important at Southwest Airlines? What business processes are affected by the airline's or inability to have required parts on hand?
ReplyDelete* The Southwestern airlines are one of the very high profile airlines, with over 500 aircraft in the world. I think in order to maintain and to keep their good reputation Southwestern must be able to keep available supplies and extra inventory in stock and readily available. The company needs a strategic plan to manage this process on a daily basis to insure that all supplies are on hand. The long term, cost effective way to solve that problem was to increase productivity thorough the use of right application software.
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2- Why management, organization, and technology factors were responsible for Southwest's problems with inventory management?
* All the factors such as management, organization and technology were responsible for southwest's problems of inventory management. one of the problems was lack of information visibility. Even though the information were stored it was not available for viewing. Also, the organization and the management was not successfully able to provide the inventory management solutions which leads to the mechanical problems of fulfilling different parts. Moreover, the information system was unable to keep up with the increasingly large amount of the date generated in the organization.
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3- How did implementing the i2 software change the way Southwest ran its business?
I2 Technologies a leading supply chain management, it also demand planner improves Southwest's forecasts for all the part location combinations in its system, and provides better visibility into demand for each part. It optimizer to overhaul its supply chain management and data visibility.
I2 Service parts planner helps Southwest replenish its store of parts and ensures, The I2 Service Budget Optimizer helps Southwest use its historical data of parts usage to generate forecast of the future parts usage.
I think I2 make them better and ran better than before.
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4- Describe two decisions that were improved by implementing the I2 system?
* It optimizer to overhaul its supply chain management and data visibility
* it also demand planner improves Southwest's forecasts for all the part location combinations in its system, and provides better visibility into demand for each part.
Thank you so much,
Deleteit was very useful to our study purpose
Good. Full credit.
ReplyDeletethank you so much ma'am
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