Sims Essay

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Case 3 “Sims Metal Management” 1. Why does Sims Metal Management operations impact on their ability to offer competitive prices for nonferrous metals? Sims Metal Management can propose competitive prices on nonferrous metals from high recovery rates that accomplished by an efficient supply chain and well-designed internal processes. Their main supply, cars are collected from their transportation network connecting the company 36 metals and shredding recycling locations across England and Wales to a network of 35 scrap metal dealers. The integrated operations are the main process of efficient supply chain. Next, well-designed internal process is organizes by 3 steps. First, shredding the component and second, taking light materials apart by using wind turbine. Lastly, removing the remained any nonferrous by employing powerful magnets. From these processes, Sims Metal Management can get nonferrous metals. 2. Select a recycling cycle from SIMS Metal and draw its flow chart diagram. 3. Illustrate the evolution of the global supply chain of ferrous metals in the past decade? One of the main metal recycling process of SMM(Sims Metal Management) is utilizing end of ELV(End of life vehicles. As 90 years old company and have an operation all over the world, they developed their own transportation network linking the company and 35 scrap metal dealers across England and Wales. After collecting scrap metal they go through value- added process to come up to environmental regulation. These days, more and more electronic device wastes are increasing due to short average life of. Cell phones. SMM has developed the process to recycle those as a metal sources. From UK they are supplied 50 million cell phones, but also for white goods. 4. Discuss the future challenges for Sims Metal Management The world’s largest metal recycler Sims Metal Management has

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