In Class Supply-Chain/CRM Exercise Debrief

Suppliers –

How many raw items did you determine you needed to produce product?
Did you find any constraints on ordering?  
How did you determine how much to order? Price discounts?
What about shipping? How long would items take? Would they arrive on time?
How many different suppliers did you have for each raw item needed?

Manufacturers-
What did you determine about the process? Were all items needed at the same time?
Were any of the items subject to spoiling?
How long did you estimate to produce an item?
Did you estimate how much production you could do in a given day/week?
What about worst/most likely/best case production numbers?
What type of quality control systems?

Distributors –
How did you determine what cities?
What different avenues of shipping methods did you find?
Did you determine how long it might take to go to each city?
Where there any price breaks for larger shipments?
Where you able to determine any type of accurate and reliable methods of estimation?
Did you find the ability to send emergency replenishment orders?
Did you determine how much quantity on stock you should have in the warehouse?

Retailers –
How did you determine which cities?
Did you consider any competition, i.e. other products?
Did you consider going to the grocery store to determine what might have to offset on the shelf for your product?
How would you encourage the stores to carry your product?
How might you be able to determine sales and if there were any factors that might lead to higher sales? How did you determine price?
Did you determine order quantity?

Customers –
How did you determine who your customers were?
How did you plan on launching your product campaign?
Did you have discussions with the retailers about assisting with promotion?
Did you discuss how you might measure your campaign success?
Did you consider other means of making your product available to customers?