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Question 1

List the stages of a SC

Answer 1

1. First stage
   - when SC is set up: “Emerging or new SC”
2. Growth stage
   - improvement in performance and stability of SC and processes and their enabling technologies
3. mature stage
   - reached when demands are stable with high certainty
   - strong + reliable SC processes + technologies (no big changes)
4. declining stage
   - less throughput, due to market shrinkage or new SCs

Question 2

What are the stages of a SC lifecycle?

Question 3

How does the SC of Auto Industry evole?

Answer 3

-more software in vehicles
→ new collaborations

-conventionally vehicles still dominant

→SC is initially transitioning but slow

Question 4

How does the SC of Aerospace industry evole?

Answer 4

-radical innovation in airplane assembly

→ radically new SC with much higher outsourcing
→ upstream supllier have problems, leading to long delays

→ different SC then in the beginning

Question 5

How does the SC of the Electronic industry evolve?

Answer 5

-growing and maturing SC
→ caused by rapidly increasing technologies (e.g data storage: 8MB to GB)

Question 6

How does the SC in the Clothing industry evolve?

Answer 6

-great changes in the location of plants

-no trade barriers
→ more capacity in Asia + e-commerce enhancing
→ no radical technology changes: automation in cutting, but still a lot of human impact

Question 7

How does the SC of the Steel industry evolve?

Answer 7

-mature Supply Chain
→ last big invention in the 70s
→ growing variety
→ stable structure due to mature technologies