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  • Week 1 - Value of responsiveness and Introduction

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      Case and Readings Folder
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      10th Jan Lecture materials and links Folder

      Link to the Zoom session: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67468346065?pwd=cjQ2ODBDYWpIR0tQUjVhMmNtZ3NOZz09

      Vaccination Sourcing game: https://forio.com/app/lausanne/ltmvax/# (Credit Jordi Weiss, University of Lausanne):

      Group task in the game:

      •Before starting the game: discuss shortly what are important factors for making the sourcing decisions

      •Play the game together

      •After the game: Document on a slide or doc per group:

      •Mention few important factors on making the sourcing strategy for vaccinations? (In general, and in the game)

      •What are particular challenges, difficulties?

      •What was your strategy?



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      Thu 13th Case session: Sport-Ober Folder

      Case session 16:15-18:00

      Zoom link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69124203655?pwd=VUJWRWYrWWs1VVZnakd0WWNNTlBoUT09

      Session materials to be added in this folder after the session.

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      In-class GROUP exercise: Sport Ober and production quantities File XLSX

      Work in group in breakout room to develop production sequence and quantities for initial production order (total of 10k units to be ordered)

      Document your results together in Excel/Powerpoint and be ready to share your group's thinking.

      Assignment instructions:

      • First discuss the different group participants solutions and thoughts on initial production commitment?
        • What different solution methods did you use? Discuss the logics and assumptions you used.
      • Next download the "Sport Ober Analysis Student" excel-sheet below
        • Working on the spreadsheet and using the "Non-constrained single z0", find a z-value that you would use to set order quantity for all products (Assuming no MOQ:s, same price for all products, and first commitment needs to be 10k)
      • Create a risk based sequencing method to find products for the speculative production (10k initial production commitment)
        • You can use the "Constrained Students m=600" sheet for testing and as a template, but you can also create your own sheet and version of the analysis
        1. Device a risk factor measure for product prioritization
        2. Decide products to be produced
        3. Decide production quantities
          1. Which products you decided to produce? (Seduced, Assault, Anita, Electra, Daphne, Stephanie, Teri, Isis, Gail)
          2. How much was your speculative production quantity Q0 for Seduced?
        4. Explain and reflect your logic: is this a good solution, are there still some factors that are not accounted for?

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