Preamble to the Capstone Projects: This is the first of four assignments that together involve students in the creation of a comprehensive and realistic supply chain for the product, imported from their designated country, into the Canadian market. Each student team will consider themselves as managers of a Canadian company importing a product that they will in turn sell to customers/consumers in the Canadian wholesale/retail channel associated with that product. Acting as a retail management team, students will therefore be responsible for the business decisions involved in developing and maintaining an effective and efficient supply chain to meet their customer's requirements which includes having the required quantity and quality of product on the shelves or available in their stores for timely sale to consumers. NOTE: The head office and distribution warehouse shall be within the Province of Ontario. The importing entity will act as a wholesaler or distributor within the supply chain either to retailers or as a supplier to their own retail outlets. For this project, they will not sell on the internet. The student management team must consider the annual volume indicated in the "Capstone Import Register" as the optimal order quantity for a year based upon the retailer's experience of their consumer's buying behavior. It will be a management decision as to whether this volume be sourced, procured and imported at one time or in several shipments over the course of a year. It should be noted that by the end of year
