Project Risk and Cost Management Case Study Sleep More Mattress Manufacturing: Plant Consolidation Group Members: Divya Yadav‚ Lamia Nafees‚ Ashwin Chadaga‚ Deeshanu Sharma EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Sleepmore mattress is one of the leading manufacturers of mattresses and has recently acquired its competitor. This acquisition has brought in a unique proposition wherein the company has to decide if it wants to consolidate the existing plants with the acquired plants or let them both
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1. External users’ reliance on financial statements External users rely heavily on the financial statement of Pinnacle Manufacturing. Although‚ Pinnacle manufacturing is a privately held company it incurs a large amount of debt. As a result potential users rely heavily on financial statements. Pinnacle is selling the machine tech division to focus on engine manufacturing‚ the company’s core operations. This causes buyers to also rely heavily on financial statements. In No. 6 the board chooses
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Superior Anufacturing Question 1 Answer Based off of the 2004 statement of profit and loss data‚ I do agree with Water’s decision in keeping product 103. The total sunk costs for the company could be more substantial in a shorter time than having years of low profits from the sales of product 103. Overall the company would lose $4‚933‚000 by eliminating product 103. Recovering the indirect costs of dropping the product line would also be unclear as well. An incremental analysis would be the best
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2-2: Chapter Questions Action Items Q/ 01 Why study operations management? Answer All businesses want to hire bright people who can make the best decisions for the business as a whole‚ not the best marketing‚ finance‚ or operations decisions. They want employees who can see the big picture of how these functional areas interact. You will severely limit your career if you take a narrow functional perspective. Every decision is cross-functional in nature2. You will be working with operations and
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John Knotwell ACCT 6350 10/10/2014 Case Hilton Manufacturing 1) If the company had dropped product 103 as of January 1‚ 2004‚ what effect would that action have had on the $158‚000 profit for the first six months of 2004? The impact on the profit would have been to decrease the profit by about $2.5M. This would mean that this would now trend to an unprofitable move. It was wise NOT to divest the product in the first half. 2) In January 2005‚ should the company reduce the price of product 101 from $9
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Superior Grain Elevator Superior Grain Elevator SUPERIOR GRAIN ELEVATOR‚ INC. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Superior Grain Elevator was located at Thunder Bay‚ Ontario‚ Canada’s third busiest port. With 14 giant grain elevators‚ Superior was able to load ships constantly sending grain to all parts of Eastern Canada and the globe. The ships were contracted for by agents who lined up the required tonnage of shipping capacity to fulfill the various contracts held with Superior. Although the agents tried
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Case Brief: Superior Supermarkets Short Brief: Superior Supermarkets MKT 5023 The University of Texas San Antonio I. Major Issue The major issue presented in the Superior Supermarkets case study is: Should Superior Supermarkets adopt an “Everyday Low Price” pricing strategy? II. Alternative Courses Maintain Current Pricing Strategy i. Advantages 1. No New Training or Advertising Adjustments Needed
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PROBLEM STATEMENT Superior Supermarkets (SS) must decide whether or not to pursue an everyday low pricing (ELP) strategy at its three Centralia MO locations. Strategic Issues & Marketing Mix Pricing: Current prices are reflective of a high-end branding strategy. SS everyday (non-promotional) prices are approximately 10% higher than Harrison (Hr) and about 7 percent higher than Grand American (GA) and Missouri Mart (MM). Subsequently‚ higher prices have become a competitive concern due to their
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American Connector Company (A) Assignment Questions: 1.How serious is the threat of DJC to American Connector Company? 2.How bug are the cost differences between DJC’s plant and American Connector’s Sunnyvale plant? Consider both DJC’s performance in Kawasaki and its potential in the United States. 3.What accounts for these differences? How much of the differences is inherent in the way each of the two companies compete? How much is due strictly to differences in the efficiency of hte operations
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(Lochmann). These could be for example religious‚ economic or racial. Moreover‚ there are some societies who divide themselves in a so called “class system”. One group claims itself as superior‚ and the others are pushed to an inferior status. Placing humankind in two categories of the inferior and the superior can be a danger to our society‚ and can cause many problems and conflicts. One danger to our society is when guardians try to raise the youth to believe that they have to fit into
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