1) Apple 's Supply Chain Model
Data about Apple Supply Chain is somewhat here, there and all around, it 's difficult to locate the real …show more content…
- Company additionally depends on its accomplices to hold fast to supplier set of accepted rules.
The above data is likewise from yearly report. As should be obvious, a large portion of the dangers are on the supply side.
3) How Complex is Apple 's Supply Chain?
A few people in blogosphere said that Apple Supply Chain is not that entangled. So this area will clarify a few attributes of Apple Supply Chain through different measurements and contrast them and Amazon Supply Chain.
Stock Turnover
Stock Turnover is a customary monetary measure to decide how productive organization utilizes its money related assets to make deals, the higher number is the better. Production network experts likewise utilize this metric in stock administration capacity. For the most part acknowledged computation is [Cost of Goods Sold/Average Inventory]
Stock Turnover of Amazon versus Apple Inc
The above picture demonstrates that the stock turnover of Amazon and Apple is 10 and 59 separately (cost of merchandise sold of advanced substance/downloadable items are barred). From the face esteem, Apple is by all accounts more proficient. Anyway, there is an explanation behind this. Apple Inc is presently a promoting organization with no assembling office yet Amazon is a wholesaler of general stock. It 's truly regular that Amazon needs to keep more stocks then the stock turnover is much …show more content…
Around 135 million things are physical items. For Apple, they have around 26,000 things (unpleasant evaluation, subject to change). The fact of the matter is that, on the off chance that you need to make an interest figure, which one will more troublesome for you, 135 million things or 26k things.
Item Life Cycle
Put it straightforward way, the item life cycle is to what extent you can offer items (the more is the better).
Item Life Cycle Amazon versus Apple
From the harsh appraisal, Amazon has some occasional items, for example, summer product. They can just offer it for 3 months max. The life of Apple 's key items are much over 12 months. It 's a given that the interest gauge of regular, short life cycle items is extremely hard to evaluate.
As you may see, in light of the illustration qualities, Amazon 's Supply Chain is much more confused than that of Apple Inc.
4) Conclusion
The outcomes from the examination of Apple 's procedures, testing issues and complexities demonstrates that the achievement of its store network operations relies on upon how well they deal with the supplier relationship. This incorporates early supplier contribution in new item advancement, close correspondence and supplier execution change/assessment. At that point, Apple Inc is named as "Lord of