Sample content BUS 698 Week 2 Assignment Ashford University Supply Chain Strategic Management Bus 698 I have chosen to study and evaluate Samsung Group for this research. The Samsung Group consists of 28 main subsidiaries that previous year recorded worldwide sales in excess of $54 billion. Its yearly profits represent 10% of Korea’s annual output. To be at power with the major players in the world, it must be equipped to source capital adequately and utilize it efficiently and accordingly. The proficiency of its procedures made Samsung to evolve into country’s foremost issuer of equity and debt to other countries and a trendsetter among Korean businesses in stepping out into world markets. Since 1999, earnings have doubled and revenues have alleviated 20 times due to effectiveness of a unique strategy. “To catch up with the early birds, we had to be the fastest in commercializing original technologies,” says CEO Yun Jong Yong” (Foroohad & Lee, 2