Purchasing and Supply Management - Rilegato

P. Fraser Johnson is the Leenders Supply Chain Management Association Chair at the Ivey Business School, Western University. Professor Johnson is director of the Ivey Purchasing Managers Index, the most widely watched and utilized indicator of future economic activity in Canada. He was faculty director of the Ivey MBA program from 2009 to 2014.

Dr. Johnson received his PhD in Operations Management from Ivey in 1995, and following graduation, joined the Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration at the University of British Columbia. He returned to Ivey as a faculty member in 1998, where he currently teaches courses in supply chain management and operations. Prior to joining Ivey, Professor Johnson worked in the automotive parts industry where he held a number of senior management positions in finance and operations. His experience includes managing automotive parts facilities in both Canada and the United States, and overseeing a joint venture partnership in Mexico.

Professor Johnson is an active researcher in the area of supply chain management and he has authored articles that have been published in a wide variety of journals and magazines. Fraser has also authored a number of teaching cases. He is an associate editor for The Journal of Supply Chain Management and sits on the editorial review board for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. Professor Johnson has worked with a number of private- and public-sector organizations in both consulting and corporate education assignments in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

1. Purchasing and Supply Management

Case 1-1 Qmont Mining

Case 1-2 Erica Carson

Case 1-3 Southeastern University

2. Supply Strategy

Case 2-1 Spartan Heat Exchangers Inc.

Case 2-2 Sabor Inc.

Case 2-3 Ford Motor Company: Aligned Business Framework

3. Supply Organization

Case 3-1 Iowa Elevators

Case 3-2 Roger Haskett

4. Supply Processes and Technology

Case 4-1 Bright Technology International

Case 4-2 Hemingway College

Case 4-3 Portland Bus Company

5. Make or Buy, Insourcing and Outsourcing

Case 5-1 B&L Inc.

Case 5-2 Rondot Automotive

Case 5-3 Alicia Wong

6. Need Identification and Specification

Case 6-1 Moren Corporation (A)

Case 6-2 Moren Corporation (B)

Case 6-3 Carson Manor

7. Quality

Case 7–1 The Power Line Poles

Case 7–2 Air Quality Systems Inc.

8. Quantity and Inventory

Case 8-1 Sedgman Steel

Case 8-2 Throsel-Teskey Drilling

9. Delivery

Case 9-1 Penner Medical Products

Case 9-2 Andrew Morton

10. Price

Case 10–1 Cottrill Inc.

Case 10–2 Coral Drugs

Case 10–3 Price Forecasting Exercise

11. Cost Management

Case 11–1 Deere Cost Management

Case 11–2 McMichael Inc.

Case 11-3 City of Granston

12. Supplier Selection

Case 12-1 Loren Inc.

Case 12-2 Russel Wisselink

Case 12-3 Kettering Industries Inc

13. Supplier Evaluation and Supplier Relations

Case 13-1 APC Europe

Case 13-2 Plastic Cable Clips

Case 13-3 Delphi Corporation

14. Global Supply Management

Case 14–1 Trojan Technologies

Case 14–2 Marc Biron

15. Legal and Ethics

Case 15–1 Rocky Plains Brewing Ltd.

Case 15–2 Sinclair & Winston

16. Other Supply Responsibilities

Case 16-1 Ross Wood

Case 16-2 Raleigh Plastics

17. Supply Function Evaluation and Trends

Case 17-1 Randall Corporation

Case 17-2 Fairview School Board

Case 17-3 Tanton Foods