The Global Supply Chain of the Apple Iphone

Supply

Iphones supply has many raw materials including:

The iphone screen has the following materials - silicon, potassium, alliminum, indium and tin. Small mounts of rare earth mentals are used to produce colour on the screen.

The sound + vibration of the iphone 6s is made from - nickel, Neodymium, praseodymium, boron, dysprosium and iron. to get lots of sound from a small place, high powered neodymium magnets are needed.

Electronics - micro-electrical - electrical connections are made from following elements; gold, silver, copper, tungsten within your iphone. the phone's processor is mainly made from silicon but also has various other elements to give it superior electrical properties which are: phosphorus, Angtimony, arsenic, boron, indium and Gallium. Micro-capacitors regulate the electrical flow this contains tantalum. The solidering contains tin, copper and silver.

The battery of the iphone uses lithium, cobalt for its cathode, 60% of cobalt through. It also uses graphite anode and alliminum for casing.

The casing - contains alliminum with an anodized outside layer for extra protection. This layer is thinner than pain.

The camera - is made of sapphire glass this is a material covering the

lens that rates a 9 on the Mohs hardness scale, making it nearly

as hard as a diamond

Manufacturing

Apple's manufacturing home is in Cupertina, California, called Apple Inc, but now one of the main manufactures of the Apple iphone's if Foxconn which is located in the country Taiwanese. the parts of the iphone are sent to these manufacturing places like Apple Inc and Foxconn and they assemble the iphone together. Manufacturing of Apple also has really abd work conditions because workers work for long hours with then paid low wages, they also get young people to do the manufacturing. The iphone is then stored.

Marketing and Advertising

Apple'smarketing and advertising is simplicity it was said that 86%, more likey to puchase and 115% more likey to be recommend a product if it is simplier and more stream wind and just easier to use. Apple's billiboard ads are similar and about as it gets. The three main things on it is the apple symbol, a picture of the product and the name of the new product so that people can look it up and buy it later. They also speak in the auidence's language saying stuff like, that the screen is beautiful, the retna display, the edge of the glass is smooth, they don't just talk about the size such as; gigabytes which not even half the people know about. they also say things like":the iphone insn't just a music player and storage device, it lets you store hours of music in you pocket".

Distribution

Distibution

The Apple Iphone is not advertised everywhere around the world, but howerver, it is distributed to a lot of countries around the globe. The iphone is distributed by all different transportations such as; trucks, planes, ships, etc. Well the in distribution China - iphones are loaded onto a truck and travel about 18 hours from Zhengzhou to Apple's National Distribution Centre in Shanghai. Apple is sometimes Distrubed by FedEx and Ups which delivery service companies.

Retail

The Apple store is one of the main places to puchase an iphone, they are usually located in exclusive locations. However most iphones are bought online now a days. there are also many other places to buy an iphone these include; Harvey Norman, Good Guys, JB HI-FI, Office Works, Target, Sprint, Best Guys, Radio Shack, Malls, etc. Apple iphones are sold through phone companiess at the store and on online websites. Apple iphones sell about 216.76 iphone a year, 798, 877 iphones a day, 33.286 every hour and 554 every minute worldwide