Ethical Dilemma Lean Operations World Effort Lower Handling Costs Speed Delivery Reduce In Q33504639

Ethical Dilemma In this Lean operations world, in an effort to lower handling costs, speed delivery, and reduce inventory, retailers are forcing up with the technology will be dropped. their suppliers to do more and more in the way of preparing their merchandise for their cross-docki shipment to specific stores, and shelf presentation. Your company, a small manufacturer of aquarium decorations, is clerk. The in a tough position. First, Mega-Mart wanted you to develop you into a loss for several months, resulting i Mega-Mart has made it clear that suppliers that cannot keep Earlier, when you didn’t have the expertise for bar codes you had to borrow money and hire an outside firm to do the development, purchase the technology, and train your shipping n, meeting the special packaging requirement drove ing warehouses, bar-code technology, then special packaging, then small individual shipments bar coded for each store. (This way business, under when the merchandise hits the warehouse, it is cross-docked and the ban year. Now it appears that the RFID request is impossible. Your the best of conditions, is marginally profitable k may not be willing to bail you out again. Over wnately to the truck destined for that store, and upon the years, Mega-Mart has slowly become your majo ival the merchandise is ready for shelf placement.) And and without it, you are probab c Mega-Mart wants you to develop RFID-immediately. ethical issues, and what do you do? Show transcribed image text