Presentation gives the idea of old supply chain of CISCO with the new digitized supply chain. Write down by CISCO and the Bullwhip effect is also explained. Relationship of suppliers and partners is also described in the presentation.
This presentation briefly examines the history and company profile of Cisco Systems, it provides a detailed look at current factors which affect the business’ operations both within its internal and external environment. The presentation also takes a look at Cisco past supply chain management blunder as outlined in Mukund & Subhadra (2003), in which the company lost billions of dollars in overstocked inventory.
Suggestions are made on how CISCO can continue to maintain its market leadership using knowledge management principles.
Cisco Case Study Reverse Logistics Transformation (Interlog)Mudit Agarwal
Aligning with changing dynamics, Cisco has embarked upon major foundational changes in the Reverse Logistics space to support the Manufacturing Excellence Strategy and streamlining its processes to create a world class, end-to-end global business model.
Building globally consistent, scalable and reliable process with connected system(s) for Inbound Logistics, Receiving/Disposition, Inventory Management and Value Recovery of returned products, in other words unlocking value from Cisco product returns.
Apple INC.: Managing a Global Supply ChainAyesha Majid
As part of her analysis of Apple’s stock, she wanted to look at the company’s supply chain to see if she could gain some insight into the pros and cons of Apple as a key holding in BXE’s fund. When. Apple Computer was founded on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula to manufacture and distribute desktop computers.
This presentation briefly examines the history and company profile of Cisco Systems, it provides a detailed look at current factors which affect the business’ operations both within its internal and external environment. The presentation also takes a look at Cisco past supply chain management blunder as outlined in Mukund & Subhadra (2003), in which the company lost billions of dollars in overstocked inventory.
Suggestions are made on how CISCO can continue to maintain its market leadership using knowledge management principles.
Cisco Case Study Reverse Logistics Transformation (Interlog)Mudit Agarwal
Aligning with changing dynamics, Cisco has embarked upon major foundational changes in the Reverse Logistics space to support the Manufacturing Excellence Strategy and streamlining its processes to create a world class, end-to-end global business model.
Building globally consistent, scalable and reliable process with connected system(s) for Inbound Logistics, Receiving/Disposition, Inventory Management and Value Recovery of returned products, in other words unlocking value from Cisco product returns.
Apple INC.: Managing a Global Supply ChainAyesha Majid
As part of her analysis of Apple’s stock, she wanted to look at the company’s supply chain to see if she could gain some insight into the pros and cons of Apple as a key holding in BXE’s fund. When. Apple Computer was founded on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula to manufacture and distribute desktop computers.
Digital Transformation is one of the most important business trends of our time. A lot of research has already been done on this topic. Most research has examined Digital Transformation within organisations, or between organisations
and their customers.
But in today’s globalised and outsourced world, an organisation’s success is no longer dependent on its own efforts alone. Today, the success of an organisation depends largely on how effectively it can orchestrate a vast, global network of supply chain partners to deliver goods and services that meet the needs of individual consumers.
This presentation [which was presented today to mark European Supply Chain Day in Ireland] highlights how the utilisation of digital technologies and processes enable supply chains to be more effectively and efficiently managed, creating business networks and increasing the overall supply chain visibility within the network.
Supply Chain Management in the Motor Vehicle Industry, the Example of Mini.aguesdon
The powerpoint presentation based on my dissertation. It is much less complete than the dissertation itself, as the presentation must only last 3 minutes.
Please feel free to leave any comment or suggestion !
Challenges
Inaccurate forecasts of retailer demand has become a major issue at Obermeyer. The two major factors that made this task more difficult was the increase in product variety and intense competition in market. Second challenge the company had faced was to allocate production between Hong Kong and China. Although Obermeyer had 1/3 of Parka production in China for 1992, this year the organization insisted on increasing the sales to half. There was difference in quality and labor rate at China and Hong Kong which made allocation decision more difficult.
Another challenge the company faced was the larger lead time. The company had supplies of raw materials from various countries which resulted in delayed production time. Organization challenges along with competition from competitor companies were major challenges the company had faced.
Analysis
From the sales predictions that the six managers forecasted, a coefficient of variation (COV) was determined, which indicated the level of spread of the forecasted data. The COV values were broadly divided into two levels, the low risk group and the high risk group. Every value below 0.2 were considered to be among the lower risk items and all the items above COV value of 0.2 were considered to be of higher risks. Once the risk levels of each item were determined, the quantities of items to be produced in first and second production cycles could be calculated with least risk. 70% of the entire sales forecast for the lower risk items were ordered to be produced. Only 30% of higher risk items were ordered to be produced in the first production cycle. The quantities which amounted to 1200 were manufactured in China and that which were close to 600, were manufactured in Hong Kong in the first production cycle.
Once the 80% of the orders were received from the retailers from the Vegas show, a clear picture of the demand forecast could be obtained, according to which the rest of the items could be manufactured either in China or Hong Kong. Referring to exhibit 1, the four products to be produced in China in the first production cycle are: Assault, Seduced, Entice and Electra. These four products have COV less than 0.2. However Gail, Daphne, ISIS, Anita, Teri, Stephanie are produced in Hong Kong for the first production cycle as they have a high level of risk associated with it.
Conclusion
Short term operational changes
o Decrease lead time by obtaining raw materials from geographically closer locations to ensure timely delivery
Long term operational changes
o Cross scaling Chinese labors which would help the company produce quality and reliable goods at a cheaper price
Newell’s goal is to increase its sales and profitability by offering a comprehensive range of products and reliable service to the mass retail channel. Newell has chosen to develop its product line through key acquisitions, rather than internal organic growth. The strategy succeeds based on their two pronged approach of following an established acquisition process (Newellization) and ensuring corporate continuity across the division to support its performance in the market. This strategy helps Newell successfully diversify their portfolio of products for mass retailers.
The case study optimizes the HP DeskJet printer supply chain by redesigning the network using component commonality and risk pooling. The redesign leads to considerable savings to the business.
Manzana Insurance is the second largest insurance company founded in California in 1902. • They operated through a network of autonomous branch offices in California, Oregon and Washington. Each branch is treated as a separate profit and loss centre. • Manzana does not directly interact with public but instead has its 2000 agents who represents Manzana. • Fruitvale was one of the Manzana’s smaller branches, with 3 underwriting teams and 76 agents. Our case concern is the falling performance and hence the profitability on Property Insurance for this branch.
Haier: Taking a chinese company global in 2011Ilaria Fiore
Corporate strategy for HAIER business case. This presentation is based exclusively on informations and data provided in Harvard Business School's case study "Haier: Taking a chinese company global in 2011" and Wikipedia.
The presentation provides information about Haier, evaluates the situation, problems and opportunities of the company; then it describes the possible options avaiable to Haier and selects the best, according to the group's ideas.
Digital Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain 4.0 - Supply Chain Management ...Danar Mustafa
Digital Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain 4.0 - Supply Chain Management in Industry 4.0
How to increase operational efficiency leveraging digital technologies in Supply Chain Management
https://digitalstrategy-ai.com/
Digital Transformation is one of the most important business trends of our time. A lot of research has already been done on this topic. Most research has examined Digital Transformation within organisations, or between organisations
and their customers.
But in today’s globalised and outsourced world, an organisation’s success is no longer dependent on its own efforts alone. Today, the success of an organisation depends largely on how effectively it can orchestrate a vast, global network of supply chain partners to deliver goods and services that meet the needs of individual consumers.
This presentation [which was presented today to mark European Supply Chain Day in Ireland] highlights how the utilisation of digital technologies and processes enable supply chains to be more effectively and efficiently managed, creating business networks and increasing the overall supply chain visibility within the network.
Supply Chain Management in the Motor Vehicle Industry, the Example of Mini.aguesdon
The powerpoint presentation based on my dissertation. It is much less complete than the dissertation itself, as the presentation must only last 3 minutes.
Please feel free to leave any comment or suggestion !
Challenges
Inaccurate forecasts of retailer demand has become a major issue at Obermeyer. The two major factors that made this task more difficult was the increase in product variety and intense competition in market. Second challenge the company had faced was to allocate production between Hong Kong and China. Although Obermeyer had 1/3 of Parka production in China for 1992, this year the organization insisted on increasing the sales to half. There was difference in quality and labor rate at China and Hong Kong which made allocation decision more difficult.
Another challenge the company faced was the larger lead time. The company had supplies of raw materials from various countries which resulted in delayed production time. Organization challenges along with competition from competitor companies were major challenges the company had faced.
Analysis
From the sales predictions that the six managers forecasted, a coefficient of variation (COV) was determined, which indicated the level of spread of the forecasted data. The COV values were broadly divided into two levels, the low risk group and the high risk group. Every value below 0.2 were considered to be among the lower risk items and all the items above COV value of 0.2 were considered to be of higher risks. Once the risk levels of each item were determined, the quantities of items to be produced in first and second production cycles could be calculated with least risk. 70% of the entire sales forecast for the lower risk items were ordered to be produced. Only 30% of higher risk items were ordered to be produced in the first production cycle. The quantities which amounted to 1200 were manufactured in China and that which were close to 600, were manufactured in Hong Kong in the first production cycle.
Once the 80% of the orders were received from the retailers from the Vegas show, a clear picture of the demand forecast could be obtained, according to which the rest of the items could be manufactured either in China or Hong Kong. Referring to exhibit 1, the four products to be produced in China in the first production cycle are: Assault, Seduced, Entice and Electra. These four products have COV less than 0.2. However Gail, Daphne, ISIS, Anita, Teri, Stephanie are produced in Hong Kong for the first production cycle as they have a high level of risk associated with it.
Conclusion
Short term operational changes
o Decrease lead time by obtaining raw materials from geographically closer locations to ensure timely delivery
Long term operational changes
o Cross scaling Chinese labors which would help the company produce quality and reliable goods at a cheaper price
Newell’s goal is to increase its sales and profitability by offering a comprehensive range of products and reliable service to the mass retail channel. Newell has chosen to develop its product line through key acquisitions, rather than internal organic growth. The strategy succeeds based on their two pronged approach of following an established acquisition process (Newellization) and ensuring corporate continuity across the division to support its performance in the market. This strategy helps Newell successfully diversify their portfolio of products for mass retailers.
The case study optimizes the HP DeskJet printer supply chain by redesigning the network using component commonality and risk pooling. The redesign leads to considerable savings to the business.
Manzana Insurance is the second largest insurance company founded in California in 1902. • They operated through a network of autonomous branch offices in California, Oregon and Washington. Each branch is treated as a separate profit and loss centre. • Manzana does not directly interact with public but instead has its 2000 agents who represents Manzana. • Fruitvale was one of the Manzana’s smaller branches, with 3 underwriting teams and 76 agents. Our case concern is the falling performance and hence the profitability on Property Insurance for this branch.
Haier: Taking a chinese company global in 2011Ilaria Fiore
Corporate strategy for HAIER business case. This presentation is based exclusively on informations and data provided in Harvard Business School's case study "Haier: Taking a chinese company global in 2011" and Wikipedia.
The presentation provides information about Haier, evaluates the situation, problems and opportunities of the company; then it describes the possible options avaiable to Haier and selects the best, according to the group's ideas.
Digital Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain 4.0 - Supply Chain Management ...Danar Mustafa
Digital Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain 4.0 - Supply Chain Management in Industry 4.0
How to increase operational efficiency leveraging digital technologies in Supply Chain Management
https://digitalstrategy-ai.com/
CISCO SYSTEM’S STRATEGIC USE OF THE INTERNET AND BUSINESS APPLICATIONScscpconf
Information systems are the key decision component of a firm’s business strategy. Cisco made use of
internet and its information systems to accomplish its following strategies: to create a business ecology
market its technology to networking world; to create a virtual organization and outsourcing many
operational and customer services and focusing its resources on its own core product innovation strategy;
to showcase its own internet use as a marketing tool. Cisco’s strategy enabled it to sustain high growth
rates throughout 1990s. In late 2000, however Cisco’s market collapsed and experienced a loss of billions
of dollars in unsold inventory.
Cisco ERP Implementation and related results about Systems Integration.
Project Members:
Rohan Kumbhar, Chris Moss, Dhanesh Gandhi, John Hicks and Gouthami Gurram
RDSO (Indian Railways) Industrial Training ReportNeha Arya
Introduction to RDSO
Supply System for Electric Locomotive
Power Supply for Electric Traction
Conductor & Tower Wagon
OHE Equipment
Pantograph
Conclusion
Reference
Doordarshan, the national television service of India, is devoted to public service broadcasting. It is one of the largest terrestrial networks in the world. In the Industrial training at Doordarshan Kendra, Lucknow, provided useful knowledge which will surely be of great help in future.
This report gives an opportunity to learn the practical aspects of the knowledge of Electronics and communication. Doordarshan Kendra is a milestone in the field of entertainment and education media source. Doordarshan, Lucknow is the Program Production Center and transmission. The studios are housed at same campus and the transmitter is located at the Lucknow.
The insurance sector in India is still in its nascent stages. But the Indians are an extremely risk averse race. Thus due to this only the government entities have a good presence and brand
recognition in India and the others have a difficult time carving a space out for themselves in the market.
The study helps to make comparison between the LIC with the new private life insurance company (IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co. Ltd.) on basis of quality of services, consumer satisfaction, awareness, consumer preference, market share, premium collection and their working as a whole. It shows the customer view point with respect to their company.
The presentation gives the overview of Two wheeler industry scenario. The ppt also shows the industry composition, domestic market share, production & sales tends.
The presentation discusses the comparative study of IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and LIC of India. The comparison is done on the basis of products & plans, market share, new policies issued, grievances resolved percentage, premium collection, claim settlement ratio. The presentation also gives the analysis of customer awareness and satisfaction level for both the companies.
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
Unleashing the Power of Data_ Choosing a Trusted Analytics Platform.pdfEnterprise Wired
In this guide, we'll explore the key considerations and features to look for when choosing a Trusted analytics platform that meets your organization's needs and delivers actionable intelligence you can trust.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Databasejavier ramirez
Talk Delivered at Valencia Codes Meetup 2024-06.
Traditionally, databases have treated timestamps just as another data type. However, when performing real-time analytics, timestamps should be first class citizens and we need rich time semantics to get the most out of our data. We also need to deal with ever growing datasets while keeping performant, which is as fun as it sounds.
It is no wonder time-series databases are now more popular than ever before. Join me in this session to learn about the internal architecture and building blocks of QuestDB, an open source time-series database designed for speed. We will also review a history of some of the changes we have gone over the past two years to deal with late and unordered data, non-blocking writes, read-replicas, or faster batch ingestion.
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Round table discussion of vector databases, unstructured data, ai, big data, real-time, robots and Milvus.
A lively discussion with NJ Gen AI Meetup Lead, Prasad and Procure.FYI's Co-Found
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Analysis insight about a Flyball dog competition team's performanceroli9797
Insight of my analysis about a Flyball dog competition team's last year performance. Find more: https://github.com/rolandnagy-ds/flyball_race_analysis/tree/main
Enhanced Enterprise Intelligence with your personal AI Data Copilot.pdfGetInData
Recently we have observed the rise of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) that are community-driven or developed by the AI market leaders, such as Meta (Llama3), Databricks (DBRX) and Snowflake (Arctic). On the other hand, there is a growth in interest in specialized, carefully fine-tuned yet relatively small models that can efficiently assist programmers in day-to-day tasks. Finally, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures have gained a lot of traction as the preferred approach for LLMs context and prompt augmentation for building conversational SQL data copilots, code copilots and chatbots.
In this presentation, we will show how we built upon these three concepts a robust Data Copilot that can help to democratize access to company data assets and boost performance of everyone working with data platforms.
Why do we need yet another (open-source ) Copilot?
How can we build one?
Architecture and evaluation
2. • Industry- Computer Networking
• Headquarter- San Jose, California
• Founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from
Stanford University
• Leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based
networking technologies.
• Company's core development area- routing and switching,
home networking, IP telephony, optical networking,
security, storage area networking, and wireless technology.
• Also provides a broad range of service offerings, including
technical support and advanced services.
3. YEAR EVENT
1995
Cisco introduced applications for selling products and
services in the website.
1996
Cisco introduced “Networked Strategy” to foster its
relationship with the
supplier,customer,manufacturer,distributor etc. It started
product configuration and order placement online.
2000 More than 70% of Cisco orders were online
2001
Market demand decreased due to downturn resulting in
huge loss
Recent
Steps implemented to recover the loss and make the
Cisco supply chain more flexible to market demand
4. Enable Cisco’s success by delivering
ADAPTABLE, INNOVATIVE, and
SCALABLE SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES
that OPTIMIZE CUSTOMER
OUTCOMES
6. • Cisco supply chain is highly diverse, extensive & global with
more than 300 product families.
• Most of the products uses a configure-to-order (CTO)
production model.
• A large percentage of Cisco growth comes through acquisitions.
• A notable exception was the Cisco acquisition of Scientific
Atlanta in 2005.
• Scientific Atlanta set top boxes and modems are fixed-
configuration products have cost structure and sourcing strategy
different from Cisco core products.
• They use a build-to-stock (BTS) production model.
7. In addition to more than 1000 suppliers, along with
manufacturing partners and logistics providers, the Cisco
supply chain encompasses:
● 16 CTO manufacturing sites
● 4 BTS sites
● 8 strategic logistics centers
● 25,000-plus orderable product IDs (about 25 percent
assemble-to-order, 75 percent spares)
● Millions of shipments annually (for example,
approximately 9 million cartons shipped in the six months
ending March 2014).
8. In May 2001 Cisco Systems had to write
off $2.2 billion in inventory.
• Cisco relies on contract
manufacturers for final assembly (that
is, tier-1 suppliers).
• Contract manufacturers are supplied
by component producers (that is, tier-2
suppliers)
• who in turn are supplied by
commodity suppliers (that is, tier-3
suppliers).
The Largest Inventory Write-down
9. • Only tied in the contract
manufacturers.
• Overlapping of the orders
• Artificially inflated demand for the
components.
• Cisco ordered large amounts of the
scare components; demand
increases thus the price increases.
10. An imbalance between supply and demand caused router
customers to over-order, which created a greater sense of
scarce supply and further over-ordering at higher tiers in
the supply chain.
20. Common software limitations, like “garbage in, garbage out”.
Here: If the demand projections will not improved, Cisco will
still order too much and have inventory they are never able to
market.
Effects on the competition due to more transparency of
information.
Here: Eventual collusive behavior of contract manufacturers
because they know, they can´t fill the whole order alone because
their supplier will only serve the total aggregated demand.
Contract Manufacturers might set higher prices to increase their
profit margin.
Editor's Notes
Cisco has a wide range of gear targeted at a spectrum of customers with vastly different expectations and fulfillment requirement.
they bring their own supply chain requirements and processes that need to be integrated into Cisco core operations.