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Business: Case Study Name: Grade Course: Tutor`s Name: (6, April, 2011) Q1. Discuss the major factors responsible for making yesterday's supply chain networks less relevant today. Be sure to include in your discussion any other issues the authors may have missed that you would consider important. The key objective of each and every organization is to be profitable in the market thus an organization will want to be ranked the best company that offers the best quality of services and goods both locally and globally. The sudden changes in the world economy and the growing numbers of the organizations have made it difficult for the organizations to facilitate their activities and maintain their traditional business strategies that made them excel in the past (Ironside, 2007). This has resulted to the organizations to conduct persistent change in their business strategies in order to fulfill the needs of their customers whose needs are constantly changing and at the same time maintain the repetition of their organization in the local or global markets. The increase in the environmental degradation according to Ironside is also another aspect that is making the yesterday`s supply chain network irrelevant today; this is experienced when the growing numbers of organizations and manufacturing organizations affect the ways in which the products are in the market (Ironside, 2007). The increasing numbers of these industries have increased the rate of carbon emission in the atmosphere this automatically resulting to the increased shortage of raw products being supplied in the factories. Consequently, resulting to the shortage in the markets making the customers pay more on the purchase of these products as a result of the companies increase of the prices of there goods and services. Globalization has resulted to the companies in the developed worlds to change their tactics; this is by the move from their mother countries to other countries that have plenty of raw materials and offers cheap labour such as the Asian countries which have acted as the regional manufacturing companies for the companies from the developed countries. This in some way have benefited the Asian countries to offer employment opportunities to their citizens and improved their economy at the same time (Ironside, 2007). Q2. Assess the feasibility of the design solutions provided in the Napolitano article for addressing the challenges faced in today's "down" economy. The increase in the prices of oil in the world market has resulted to a lot of misfortunes in the businesses both locally and globally. The increase in the prices have also motivated the organizations in the region to be more reliant on the use of networking these are measures used by the organizations as ways of ensuring that the organizations don`t overcharge their consumers from the increased rates of oil commodities that is seen to be subsiding day by day (Napolitano, 2009). The solutions that are presented by Napolitano in his article "Redrawing Your DC Network, Logistics Management" are very applicable and will aim at ensuring that the costs of products are maintained by the organizations. At the same time the companies...