{"id":3036,"date":"2020-06-08T01:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T01:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/?page_id=3036"},"modified":"2020-06-08T01:56:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T01:56:54","slug":"supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/learning-pathways\/developing-a-value-proposition-for-the-product-life-cycle\/supply-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\/File:Ghostbusters_Supanova_2014.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/wikieducator.org\/images\/thumb\/b\/ba\/Ghostbusters_Supanova_2014.jpg\/300px-Ghostbusters_Supanova_2014.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Ghostbusters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table class=\"cquote\" style=\"margin:auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color: transparent; width: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"top\" style=\"border:none; color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px 10px;\"> \u201c\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"border: none; padding: 4px 10px;\"> Suppose you have developed a great new product like Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Not only is the game terrific, but you\u2019ve managed to maximize to get it sold in every marketing channel you can. The product is selling at GameStop, Walmart, Best Buy, and Amazon, and it\u2019s slated to come out on Sony\u2019s PlayStation Portable console. That\u2019s the end of the story, right? Not quite. Sooner rather than later, in addition to focusing on the firms \u201cdownstream\u201d that sell your product, you will also look \u201cupstream\u201d at your suppliers and \u201csideways\u201d at potential firms to partner with. It\u2019s only natural. (Or in the case of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, should we say supernatural?)\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20\" valign=\"bottom\" style=\"border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 10px;\"> \u201d\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" class=\"cquotecite\" style=\"border: none; padding-right: 4%\">\n<p style=\"font-size: smaller; text-align: right;\"><cite style=\"font-style: normal;\">\u2014Saylor<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\">\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"reading\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_reading.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Supply Chain<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Read this entire <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/saylordotorg.github.io\/text_principles-of-marketing-v2.0\/s12-using-supply-chains-to-create-.html\">chapter<\/a>. All elements of the supply chain are looked at with an eye to maximizing customer value while minimizing operational costs.<br \/> The chapter discusses:\n<ul>\n<li> sourcing and procurement\n<\/li>\n<li> outsourcing\n<\/li>\n<li> demand planning and inventory control\n<\/li>\n<li> warehousing and transportation, and\n<\/li>\n<li> tracking systems.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> Post a WEnote about how an efficient supply chain contributes to marketing success and business profitability. Look on the course feed page to see what others think.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><div><p>You must be logged in to post to WEnotes.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><i>Note: Your comment will be displayed in the <a href=\"\/pmkt102\/interactions\/course-feed\" title=\"Principles of marketing\/PMKT102\/Feed\">course feed<\/a>.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.120 seconds\nReal time usage: 1.495 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 179\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 1254\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 4946\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2281\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key we_en-mw_:pcache:idhash:176895-0!*!0!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20200608015649 and revision id 1013959\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/pmkt102\/learning-pathways\/developing-a-value-proposition-for-the-product-life-cycle\/the-offering\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/pmkt102\/learning-pathways\/developing-a-value-proposition-for-the-product-life-cycle\/start-value-proposition-challenge\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghostbusters \u201c Suppose you have developed a great new product like Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Not only is the game terrific, but you\u2019ve managed to maximize to get it sold in every marketing channel you can. The product is selling at GameStop, Walmart, Best Buy, and Amazon, and it\u2019s slated to come out on Sony\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":790,"featured_media":0,"parent":3026,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3036","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3036\/revisions\/3037"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/pmkt102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}