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BY: JUNYI HUANG
AMNA ASIF
THI NGOC DIEP NGUYEN
JIALONG WU
HAI YING CHEN
HUIQING HUANG
HISTORY
Founded in 1910 in Denver, Colorado and headquartered in
Luxembourg
well
Also selling luggage worldwide through variety of distributors.
REASONS:
1.Reduction in cost of:
inventory carrying
cost
shipping cost
labour cost
2. Reduction in time of
transportation
REASON:
1. Limited manufacturing
capabilities compared to
soaring demand
2.Building more factories
means higher fixed cost, so
increased outsourcing
decreases costs that could
have been spent on a
factory.
Samsonite
Start:1910
Soft
Product:Luggages
Hard
Supply Chain:
Manufacture
Distribute
Sale
Wholesaler
Retailer
Other producers
Partnership
Suppliers
Apple
Start:1976 Product:Computers and other products
Supply Chain
Design
Department
Manufacture
Outsourcing
Market
Process
Marketing
Apple VS Samsonite
Common Issues
1. Marketing Strategies: Wholesalers, retail
stores, and other different channels.
2. Costs: broadly covers operational costs and
inventory costs.
California Transparency
Forced labor
Child labor
Sweat shop
conditions
Sexual exploitation
Differences
Samsonite &Tumi
Their supply chains - sale by region
Similarities
In Asia, China is the
major market for
growth.
Differences
Differences
Samsonite: design facilities in
different countries to fit local
trends. Outsourcing most of their
production to India.
Tumi: designed products in its U.S.
design studios.
Differences
Tumi:
- signed the California Transparency
in Supply Chains Act ( eradicate
human trafficking and slavery from
supply chains)
- member of the Fair Labour
Association and the Leather
Working Group.
Samsonite: not included in any of
these above.