A General Strategic Capacity Planning Model under Demand Uncertainty Woonghee Tim Huh‚1 Robin O. Roundy‚2 Metin Çakanyildirim3 1 Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research‚ Columbia University‚ New York‚ New York 10027 2 School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering‚ Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ New York 14853 3 School of Management‚ University of Texas at Dallas‚ Richardson‚ Texas 75083 Received 29 October 2003; revised 24 August 2005; accepted 30 September
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SUPERMARKET INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA TABLE OF CONTENT SUPERMARKET INDUSTRY CHARATERISTIC Supermarket industry market size Shopping habits Industry employment and their wages Basis of competition Market segmentation Product and services segmentation Positive growth factors The Porter’s Five Forces Model Supermarket industry attractiveness MAJOR COMPETITION Keys competitors Financial ratio analysis Sales growth Ebit margin Ebitda margin Inventory days Current ratio Return on investment
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of the Progressive Grocer‚ a monthly industry publication‚ we can know that in 2009‚ 35‚612 supermarkets were in business in the United States‚ which accounted for 54.5% of food item sales by grocery stores including supercenters and warehouse outlets. Convenience stores had 31.9% of sales‚ and wholesale clubs had11.5% of sales. So‚ supermarkets overall account for more than half of all food sales. Market definition In general‚ we believe that a supermarket is a large comprehensive retail store
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Capacity Planning & Aggregate Production Planning Capacity Planning • Long term strategic decision • determines overall level of resources • affects product lead times‚ customer responsiveness & operating costs Capacity Planning Three Basic Strategies for Timing Capacity • Capacity Lead Strategy – capacity is expanded in anticipation of demand – aggressive and used to lure away customers from competitors already constrained Capacity Planning Three Basic Strategies for Timing Capacity • Capacity
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Capacity Planning and Control: Nestle Course Work in Operations Management May‚ 2005 A business organization is an entity that inputs capital and resources‚ processes them and gets an output – products and services. Any business invests much capital into R’n’D and marketing for studying the customers’ opinion because it is a priority for any business to satisfy its customers. The more satisfied the customers are the better off the business is. Thus both parties are well off – customers get what
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chapter 6: Planning capacity Capacity the maximum rate of output of a process or a system. Acquisition of new capacity requires extensive planning‚ and often involves significant expenditure of resources and time. Capacity decisions must be made in light of several long-term issues such as the firm’s economies and diseconomies of scale‚ capacity cushions‚ timing and sizing strategies‚ and trade-offs between customer service and capacity utilization. Planning capacity across the organization
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dependent variable that we are solving for‚a is the Y-intercept‚ b is the slope‚ and X is the independent variable( In the time series analysis‚ X is the units of time)This method is useful for long-term forecasting of major occurences and aggregate planning. The linear regression model is based on the relative increase in consumer sales‚ which is then translated with a separate retailer model into the sell-out sales forecast of Coca-Cola. The restrictions with this method is that past data and future
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CAPACITY PLANNING Real Options Analysis Practice Questions and Solutions CAPACITY PLANNING Question 1: PROJECT SABLE Use a 30% per year discount rate to evaluate Project Sable‚ which has two phases. You may invest in the first‚ in both or in neither. You may not invest in the second phase without investing in the first. Phase 1 requires an investment of $100. One year later the project delivers on the average $120. At that time‚ after the phase 1 payout has been received‚ you may invest
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pleasure to see what has been accomplished. This hospital represents a labor of love on the part of a lot of people. Before we opened the new hospital‚ we had to send kids to ‚ Miami‚ wherever‚ because there was no children’s hospital here." Capacity planning at Arnold Palmer Hospital Since opening day the Arnold palmer hospital has experienced an explosive growth in demand for
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Southwestern University: Capacity Planning Case Prepared by: Jalotjot‚ Reyes‚ Subang Central Issue: How to guarantee that the various support activities generate revenue? Areas of Consideration: * Marketing/Finance/Human Resource * Items Available/Pricing/Variable Cost/Revenue Distribution Item | Price/Unit | Variable Cost | Revenue | Soft Drink | $1.50 | $0.75 | 25% | Coffee | $2.00 | $0.50 | 25% | Hotdogs | $2.00 | $0.80 | 20% | Hamburgers | $2.50 | $1.00 | 20% | Misc
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