MGT5052-IU-SP2018 case3 overview & supply chain - BETA Florida Institute of Technology Department of Extended Studies Virtual Site Dr. Paul Battaglia MGT5062-IU-SP2018 Logistics Policy Case number 3 WORKING (BETA) Overview of Logistics and Supply Chain 35 percent of the course grade -=-=- Individual work. -=--- How submitted. *** Post your answer to the Canvas assignment box. Do NOT send to the rest of the class. *** Your answers are due according to the class schedule & the policy on self-selected late submissions. It is usually possible to include ALL your answers in one file. That includes the memo. *** Be sure to label each answer with the correct question number (or otherwise indicate which question is being answered) so that the CEO (or other reader such as the grader!) can easily find the answer. *** For essay- or narrative-type questions use MS Word or compatible. There is usually no need to go to a universal format such as PDF. But you can use PDF if you desire with no penalty. *** Be sure to show your work. For more complex calculations you can use Excel or compatible; or manual and scan the pages into your answer file. Just be sure that the CEO or other reader can find and interpret the answers. You can use basically any file name that you want EXCEPT please include your last name (a) somewhere in the file name; and (b) at the top of the first page inside each file. That helps me identify whose work I am looking at grading, etc. -=-=-=-=-=- Copyright 2018 as adapted. Dr. Paul Battaglia and Florida Institute of Technology for use ONLY in MGT5062-IU-SP18 for the Virtual Site. Other use requires explicit written permission. -=-=-= Note: As noted earlier, the basic LUML scenario is used throughout the course for the cases. Additional information is provided for each case as needed. There are THREE parts to this case. Be sure to submit the answers for ALL THREE parts! Case 3 Light Up My Light, Inc. The basic scenario for LUML continues. Case 3, Part 1 (Warehouse/shipping performance) In working cases, we typically want much more information than is presented in the case. Of course, even in the “real world” we do not always have all the information (and time) that we would like. Basically, stick to the information in the case. If you need to make any assumptions, then be sure to make these clear in your answers. It is now mid-2017. During the last weekly review, the CEO (still Elise Ennis) expressed some concerns about the warehousing operations. She has no real feel for the efficiency of the warehouses. The operations “strike her” as being somewhat expensive. And her impression is that “the cost for each warehouse is sort of all over the place.” The CEO asked if it would be possible to do a quick analysis of the warehousing function. [Of course, that was a rhetorical question. As you might expect, the answer from Tom Perkins the VP/head of logistics was “sure we c ...