链典4矮降贸多大 高级商务英语阅读 Supplementary Exercises for Chapter 12 Long Live the Revolution 1. Questions on the text: 1.How do define the supply chain?Can you give some examples to illustrate it? 2.The word "revolution"reminds us of"the Great Cultural Revolution"in the 1960s and 1970s as well as "the Communist Revolution"before the founding of the People's Republic of China. What do you know about these two revolutions?How much impact did they have on our lives? 3.According to the writer,what are two revolutions that took place in supply chain? 4.How does the change in the supply chain result in revolutionizing the competitive structure of industries? 5.What does the writer intend to illustrate with the example of the personal computer industry? ll.Read the following text and choose the best sentence from A to F below to fill in each of the gaps in the text. Supply Chain Management Effective value chain and supply chain are the keys for an enterprise's success.In today's competitive business environment and economic pressures,companies need to effectively reduce cost and increase value.Chain Supply Chain Management(SCM)solution enables companies to achieve this dual objective.1)__ Supply Chain Management module enables the system to create production and procurement plans based on demand forecasting.2)The forecasts consist of anticipated requirement over a given time frame for each independent requirement.The forecast periods can be split using time buckets such as daily,weekly or monthly.The demands could be either forecast based or forecast and sales order based.The system creates master demand schedule(MDS)and master production schedules(MPS)for independent requirements for a given time period.3) 第1页共4页高级商务英语阅读 Supplementary Exercises for Chapter 12 Long Live the Revolution I. Questions on the text: 1. How do define the supply chain? Can you give some examples to illustrate it? 2. The word “revolution” reminds us of “the Great Cultural Revolution” in the 1960s and 1970s as well as “the Communist Revolution” before the founding of the People’s Republic of China. What do you know about these two revolutions? How much impact did they have on our lives? 3. According to the writer, what are two revolutions that took place in supply chain? 4. How does the change in the supply chain result in revolutionizing the competitive structure of industries? 5. What does the writer intend to illustrate with the example of the personal computer industry? II. Read the following text and choose the best sentence from A to F below to fill in each of the gaps in the text. Supply Chain Management Effective value chain and supply chain are the keys for an enterprise's success. In today's competitive business environment and economic pressures, companies need to effectively reduce cost and increase value. Chain Supply Chain Management (SCM) solution enables companies to achieve this dual objective. 1) ________ Supply Chain Management module enables the system to create production and procurement plans based on demand forecasting. 2) ________ The forecasts consist of anticipated requirement over a given time frame for each independent requirement. The forecast periods can be split using time buckets such as daily, weekly or monthly. The demands could be either forecast based or forecast and sales order based. The system creates master demand schedule (MDS) and master production schedules (MPS) for independent requirements for a given time period. 3) ________ 第 1 页 共 4 页