Read http://www.industryweek.com/procurement/managing-supplier-information-dynamic-environment ( Minter, S. (2009). Managing Supplier Information in a Dynamic Environment. Industry Week/IW, 258(10), 22.), and answer the following questions:
In the article it mentions that buyers and suppliers need more insight into trade compliance. What examples can you give that illustrate the benefits and/or challenges with having or not having this insight?
Information systems can also help companies deal with concerns about risk in the supply chain. Outsourcing processes and logistics can offer great financial benefit; however, control of information needed to manage the process is a major concern. Discuss some of these challenges and the solutions that a company might need to implement to resolve them.
Sample Solution
Benefits of having insight into trade compliance include:
– Increased efficiency and accuracy in the procurement process, as buyers can quickly identify which suppliers are compliant with trade regulations.
– Improved supplier relations, as buyers can ensure that their suppliers are compliant with their requirements and expectations.
Sample Solution
Benefits of having insight into trade compliance include:
– Increased efficiency and accuracy in the procurement process, as buyers can quickly identify which suppliers are compliant with trade regulations.
– Improved supplier relations, as buyers can ensure that their suppliers are compliant with their requirements and expectations.
On the other side of the aisle, there are a handful of disadvantages associated with the relationship of open-list PR. In traditional PR, party leaders would have the power to allocate seats to their parties candidates as they deem appropriate, taking away political influence from citizens. Candidates in both systems have incentives to garner political party support as it allocates more party power within the upper and lower chambers of the legislature. However, since candidates have more personal power in making a name for themselves without necessarily following party principles, this can lead to a weakening of political parties. Lack of faith in political parties leads to what is known as floor crossing, political figures would change party affiliation, “in an attempt to jockey for the best positions for future elections,” (Dickovick/Eastwood, 409). Only causing faith in open-list PR to further disintegrate, political leaders would offer bribes to legislators to maintain a majority vote on specific pieces of legislation. Also, due to legislators loyalty to their federal states, they do not always have Brazil’s interests in mind when enacting legislation, as only the members of their respective state ensure re-election. What’s more, Brazil contains a multi-party, fragmented party, system where “voters may face as many as one thousand candidates in a single district… [caused by] high-magnitude legislative districts, low costs for candidates’ entry, and high thresholds for the number of candidates per party list,” (Aguilar/Barone/Cunow/Desposato, 181). Withal, the disadvantages of open-list PR in Brazil have led citizens to lose trust in their government, such as the impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in August 2016.
Altogether, the interesting question arises of how an open-list PR system would affect a less fragmented, strong party alliance system in a democracy such as the United States. The transition from a strict first-past-the-post system, which has been the building blocks for American society for 250 years, would certainly cause an uproar from conservatives and libertarians alike. While it would have little to no effect on the Senate retaining two seats per state, the institution of voting proportionment would likely result in smaller parties becoming more prevalent in the House of Representatives. Potential effects of such an institutional
