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Background Supply chains are involved in the production and delivery of almost every good or service ability to recognize and identify the supply chains involved with specific products is a useful and necessary skill for everyone involved with logistics and supply management. This projec intended to introduce students to the thinking and the process of identifying and describing various supply chains. Assignment Find a common but specific physical product or good that you can either safely disassemble or otherwise gain visibility to the components and subcomponents within it and request instructor approval for your choice. )Disassemble or otherwise identify a minimum of five levels of vertically inter-nested manufactured or industrially processed components. 3) Write a one page introduction which includes a product description and overview of how upply chains work in general. Be sure to describe as much information about the product as possible such as make, model, manufacturer, retailer, age, cost, and other related information. 4) For each component, identify or defend a well educated guess about the company that manufactured it, where they are located, how long they have been in business, how much revenue and profits they earn each year, and how many people they employ. If you are nable to identify a component try to find another set of sequentially inter-nested components where the identification of the manufacturers is possible. As a last resort, you may make an assumption about which specific company manufactured the component as long as you clearly disclose this and describe the company as required above. 5) Look up whatever information is availabl le about the manufacturing process used to make each component and write at least a half page summary for each. Try to include th various sub-steps that are involved in each manufacturing process as well as a description of the various logistical and support steps which might be required. If no specifi information is available for a component, you ma process as long as you fully disclose the assumptions. y make reasonable assumptions about the Write a half page summary of the supply chain you identified and the process you used to identify it. Be sure to include the total time parts flowed through the supply chain and the 6) e traveled from the start of your supply chain to the final consumer Reports will be graded on the basis of the accuracy, realism, detail, completeness, and quality of the report. Print your report only on one side of standard sized paper and affix with paper clips (not staples) to receive full credit and submit it to the instructor

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1. The physical product which I can disassemble and gain visibility to it's subparts is Computer System.

2. The five internesteed components in the computer system are as follows:

1. Processor

2. Mouse

3. Keyboard

4. Motherboard

5. Monitor

3. The product description is as follows

The computer systems are manufacturer or asembled in accordance with the user. There are various companies who manufacturer the computer system such are Asus, Dell, iBall, Microsoft, Lenovo, HP etc. The range of the product varies according to the facilities given with the computer system. It costs from $ 450 to more than $ 10, 000 also. As the subproducts are assembeled in it so for the each sub product there are companies that manufactures for example the processors are mainly manufactured by Intel company. the agae of the product or life of the product is on an average 10 years. It also depends upon the usage of the customers. The supply chain in the process of manufacturing the product is distributor, wholesaler, retailer and registered agents of the company. In general the supply chain of the product works as the product would be assembeled at the manufacturing company or prepared with the manufacturer then in bulk it would be sold to the wholesaler in various states or countries their own department then from their it goes to the distributor on the basis of demand made by the distributor then it goes to the retailers shop or to the agent who is going to sell the system direct to the customers.

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