Building A Dell Laptop involves many components
within a supply chain. The first part of that chain is when a customer
orders the laptop online, or in a store. The person taking the order
knows exactly how many they have in stock, and can either ship it to the customer
after the transaction is completed, or they have to get the customized laptop
built from different companies from around the globe. China plays a huge
role in the manufacturing of Dell laptops. Several different vendors will
be utilized for different components of the laptop, such as the case,
motherboard, hard drives, keyboard etc. Once the Laptop has all of the
components assembled, it ships out directly from the manufacturer that
assembled it to the customer. Generally they provide the customer with a
tracking # and invoice for the purchase. It is remarkable when you think
that the laptops are ready to go when you order it online, and then you see
that there is a huge supply chain that works on such an exact time frame.
Coordinating all of the individual components, along with the actual
fulfillment of the laptop is a big job, but they have it down to a
science. Any delay in the process means a delay for the customer in
receiving their goods, which means bad business and reviews for the
company.
Al-Qaeda has an old school supply chain that seems
to be a branch of of our American traditional chain. However, they use
their supply chain to promote terrorism, and bring weapons into their countries
of origin. Friedman said that "The mutant supply chains are formed
for the purpose of destruction, not profit." These people do not
need investors, they only need sneaky dishonest people to carry out their
wishes. The US calls it the Virtual Caliphate, and it's leaders
understand their supply chain just as much as Walmart does. Friedman said
that they use the flat world to their advantage, meaning that they have they
ability to use the internet globally to deliver messages of terrorism with a
click of a button. Al-Qaeda is built on Ideologies that mobilize and energize
the Muslims, and it is a barbaric attitude that serves no one. I am tired
of worrying about the Middle East, and the terrorists, and the way that they
feel that the world owes them something. The world owes them nothing, and
I honestly hope that the evil-doers get what they deserve. I personally
feel that it will never change, because there will always be that one guy that
people will follow to the death. It is a very sad world, and I feel for
the women and children growing up with such pig-headed morons.
The curse of oil, what more can I say. I have
heard people say that all wars start either over oil, or religion, and in the
middle east, it is the combination. Oil is money, money is power, and
power controls humans. According to Friedman the curse of oil stems from
the leaders of a country trying to get rich off of the oil, rather than
utilizing the people to grow the country. When the sole focus of the
economy is oil, there is no room for people to grow in any other business other
than oil. There will be no entrepreneurs, as the oil is the god of the
economy. It amazes me that all of the countries won't pull together and
stop purchasing oil from these terrorist countries. If we decrease the
cashflow into the country, how will they survive. I have read where we
have enough oil reserves in the US for hundreds of years, and you would think
that eventually we would stop supporting the middle east. I don't get
politics, and I never will, but I do know that oil is what it is all
about.
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