{"id":225360,"date":"2018-09-17T06:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T06:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/iscom-476-week-3-purchasing-and-logistics-alignment-challenge\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:01:30","slug":"iscom-476-week-3-purchasing-and-logistics-alignment-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/iscom-476-week-3-purchasing-and-logistics-alignment-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"ISCOM 476 Week 3 Purchasing and Logistics Alignment Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISCOM 476 Week 3 Purchasing and Logistics Alignment Challenge\tResource: Achieving Supply Chain Integration, Ch. 5\tYou&#8217;re a group of purchasing agents who have been contracted by Small Molecule, a pharmaceutical distribution reseller. Small Molecule has identified a gap between purchasing and logistics. They want to compete in an emerging market but because of that gap between purchasing and logistics, they are at a significant disadvantage in the market. The gap is concerning because there may not be enough focus to align purchasing and logistics to execute the launch of a new product that is outsourced.\tApply the &#8220;Seven Actions a Supply Chain Leader Can Take Today&#8221;\ufffd as outlined in Ch. 5 (page 119) to better align purchasing and logistics as a strategic advantage.\tExplain each step and how they will make a difference in closing the gap between purchasing and logistics.\tWrite a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that depicts each actionable item resulting from going through all seven steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISCOM 476 Week 3 Purchasing and Logistics Alignment Challenge Resource: Achieving Supply Chain Integration, Ch. 5 You&#8217;re a group of purchasing agents who have been contracted by Small Molecule, a pharmaceutical distribution reseller. Small Molecule has identified a gap between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/iscom-476-week-3-purchasing-and-logistics-alignment-challenge\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}