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Contemporary Logistics_Week 4 Discussion

_Week 4 Discussion

Q Read this article concerning KFC closures in Pakistan due to Middle East uprisings. How will the KFC supply chain be impacted by these events? money.cnn.com/2012/09/21/news/companies/kfc-pakistan/index.html What would you do if you were the supply chain manager for KFC and you had a shipment of food products ready to deliver in Pakistan but you are notified that their stores have been shut down and the inventory needs to be rerouted to different stores in nearby countries? Are there any tools, or technology available to assist with your decision making?

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The food products shipment shall be rerouted to stores that are different in the nearby nations as the manager of supply chain of KFC by using of technologies and tools such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and Internet of things (IoT). It is possible to keep a track of the exact present shipment location with the utilization of tags of RFID. The route can be changed to the closes centers of distribution in an optimal manner close to Pakistan in case real-time shipment location is known.