Appendix A: Cases in Supply Chain Management

Case 1: People’s Motor Company*

People’s Motor Company is considered a global leader in the auto industry. Over the past decades, the company has experienced tremendous growth while maintaining an effective global supply chain strategy for sustaining this high level of growth and success. People’s Motor Company’s supply chain strategy involves building reliable strategic alliances with its suppliers, designing an agile global distribution network, and locating production facilities strategically all around the world.

In order to have a highly efficient supply chain, People’s Motor Company’s strategy has been to open factories in every market it has been serving. An important element of this decision ...

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