Supply Chain & Logistics Institute Engineering Tomorrow s Supply Chains Seminar in Global Supply Chains ISyE 6340 January 8, 2018 1
Class leaders Dr. John Bartholdi ISyE 346 John.Bartholdi@gatech.edu Pete Viehweg ISyE 346 pviehweg@bellsouth.net 2
Agenda Course description Course purpose Course requirements Questions and discussion Walmart video 3
Course Description M W F 10:10 11:00, Main ISyE Bldg, room 228 M W 10:10 11:30, Main ISyE Bldg, room 228 MS SCE course; letter grade Check the class website often for changes http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/people/faculty/john_bartholdi/classes/6340/ Tours Sites of key players in North American or global supply chains Seminars Professionals, faculty Class discussions 4
Course purpose To broaden our understanding of many different supply chains and their components through tours, presentations and in-depth classroom discussions. 5
Secondary Benefit To aid you in focusing on areas that interest you for further study or future employment. 6
Also To learn how to gain meaningful information when walking through an industrial operation. 7
Tours (subject to change) Jan. 10 Feb. 5 Feb. 7 Mar. 5 Mar. 7 Mar. 14 Mar. 17 Walmart Super Center Hon Amazon MSC Alcon Walmart High Velocity DC Port of Savannah 8
Complementary to other classes In class, you learn abstraction, modeling, thinking and theories In tours, you see flows, processes, clutters, human issues, complex relations 9
Challenges Distractions Movement: Forklifts, conveyors, trucks Noise Space limitations Attitudes Appearances People from the same tour get very different perceptions 10
What one should do Dress appropriately Corporate casual Long pants No open-toed or high-heeled shoes Representatives of Georgia Tech 11
What one should do Stay alert and pay attention Make sure everyone can see Keep an open mind Do not limit yourself to your own or guides perspectives Keep criticism within the class Most companies do something right to stay in business. Be thinking of strengths and weaknesses Each has room for improvement. Do not think the status quo is the best way, as some hosts might argue. 12
A tour is worth a thousand pictures Sennheiser TourGuide System 13
Guided discussion after the tour Very important to help everyone to understand better Objectives: Review, digest and enhance learning Capture everyone s impressions and ideas Understand strengths/weaknesses, niche in the supply chain Find other supporting information such as journal articles, books, etc. to enhance discussion Everyone must participate!!! Nametags 14
Visiting speakers Industry and academic representatives presenting interesting and pertinent information about particular supply chain areas They re not on recruiting trips!!! 15
Presentations (subject to change) Cotton Farming & Mitumba Google Hardware Supply Chain Rail Operations (Norfolk-Southern) Trucking UPS Changing Logistics Ecosystem Fresh Perspective on Cold Chain Port Operations (Savannah) Container Shipping Load Planning & Logistical Entrepreneurship Supply Chain Consulting 16
Visiting speakers Questions: Ask lots of pertinent questions Make sure they concern the issues at hand Want presenter to be able to finish Save questions about other issues for the end of the presentation 17
Grading 75% participation in tour and discussions Every tour, every class Opinions, your experiences, etc. Includes coordinated reading, etc. from syllabus 25% professionalism Attendance On time Attention & respect for others 18
Activities in the near future Wednesday, January 10th Tour Wal-Mart Super Center Bus departs at 8:15 AM from Hemphill Avenue Preparation: Read Wal-Mart material from syllabus, calendar Pickup times will vary for subsequent tours!!! 19
Bus pickup 8:15AM, Hemphill Avenue - John Patrick Crecine Residence Hall Tour pickup point You are here 20
Tour pickup point 8:15 AM!!! 21
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Walmart Michael T. Duke BS in Industrial Engineering, GA Tech, 1971 24
Tim Cook CEO, Apple Inc. World s most valuable corporation Market Capitalization: # of shares outstanding times the share price Apple, Inc: $876.3 Billion Johnson & Johnson $374.0 Billion ExxonMobil: $360.3 Billion Walmart: $292.1 Billion 25
Tim Cook CEO, Apple Inc. World s most valuable corporation BSIE, Auburn University MBA, Duke University Senior VP, Worldwide Operations Apple Inc VP, Corporate Materials, Compaq Director of N. A. Fulfillment, IBM Personal Computers 26
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Walmart Bachelor of Science, U. S. Military Academy, 1982 MBA, The Wharton School 1996 28
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Walmart $485.9 Billion in annual sales $307.8 Billion in Walmart stores in the U. S. $57.4 Billion in Sam s Club stores $116.1 International 28 countries 2.3 million associates worldwide 11,695 stores worldwide 5,332 in the U. S. 260 million customer visits per week worldwide 30
Walmart One Mission: Save Money, Live Better 31
Potential Walmart Questions What is the annual sales volume of this store vs. others? (Is this considered a small, medium, or large store)? How many SKUs in the store? Are they all delivered via Wal-mart trucks? If not, what other methods? What frequency? For Wal-mart deliveries: From where? (Wal-Mart DC? Which one? Others?) As pallets? How many? Any mixed pallets? What are the receiving hours? How many trucks per day? How long to unload a truck? What is the schedule for Wal-mart truck deliveries? 32
Potential Walmart Questions When do you restock the shelves? How long from receipt until product is on the shelves, available for sale? Does the store have any responsibility for inventory management (SKU ordering, etc.)? If so, what is the time from order submission to receipt? What sort of seasonalities most affect you? What do you do with discontinued/obsolete SKUs? How much inventory is kept in the back room? Any local input to the store plan-o-gram? Who decides on special promotions - what items, displays? How often does the product offering change? 33
Potential Walmart Questions Do all items have Wal-mart specific labels/barcodes prior to arrival, or do some have to be labeled on-site? Any use of RFID within store? How large is the workforce? What is the turnover? How do you schedule? How do you track worker productivity? 34
Questions, comments? 35