Case Write-up Sunshine Foods Problem Sunshine Foods biggest problem is their declining profits. They also have had minimal growth and have high overhead costs‚ which are a large part of their declining profits. Causes Sunshine Foods has three major areas that need to be address in order to increase their profits. First‚ their motto: “As long as new products look like they will increase the company’s sales volume‚ they are introduced.” This is causing the company to take on too many products
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Operations management and operations strategy are two very important undertakings for any company that is involved in the production of products and services. This is because operations management ensures that raw materials are successfully converted to finished goods‚ while operations strategy makes sure that whichever goods or services produced have a competitive advantage over similar products offered by rival companies. It is from the business strategy that the operations strategy is derived
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to calculate WACC. To compromise these differences‚ we agree to use the average discount rate that doesn’t make a large influence of the valuation price. After this‚ we discussed the most important factor –growth rate. Based on the assumption in the case‚ we use 4% as terminal growth rate‚ 2% annual oil demand growth rate plus 2% inflation rate. However‚ Amoco hold the view that the oil price
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eReading: Amazon’s Kindle Case Write-Up In 2007‚ when the average consumer was inundated with a multitude of choices relating to their entertainment options‚ Amazon had just released the Kindle‚ a new electronic reader. Amazon had been extremely secretive in the lead up to the launch‚ and there was a tremendous amount of concern regarding how the Kindle would affect the publishing industry. From the brick and mortar bookstores‚ to textbook manufacturers to the I-Phone‚ any company involved in
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LAUDMC13_0131538411.QXD 2/3/05 10:35 AM Page 489 Chapter 13 Enhancing Decision Making for the Digital Firm 489 CASE STU DY Optimizing Operations at UPS United Parcel Service (UPS) is the world’s largest air and ground package-distribution company‚ with annual sales of about $34 billion. It is also a leading provider of specialized transportation and logistics services. Following its nearly 100-year promise of the “best service and lowest rates‚” this company currently delivers over
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DRIVE WINTER 2013 PROGRAM/SEMESTER MBADS (SEM 3/SEM 5) MBAFLEX/ MBAN2 (SEM 3) PGDOMN (SEM 1) SUBJECT CODE & NAME OM 0010 - OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT BK ID B1232 CREDITS & MARKS 4 CREDITS & 60 MARKS Question 1 : Write short notes on : Operations as Transformation Systems : Answer : Operational transformation is a technology for supporting a range of collabouration functionalities in advanced collabourative software systems. OT was originally invented for consistency maintenance and
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Gadget Toys Case Write-Up Gadget Toy Company is faced with a choice between two options to reduce project time for their new toy line. Gadget must cut down project time in order to meet their Christmas deadline that is 19 weeks away. Analysis shows that there are two critical paths for the current process‚ which is 20 weeks long and includes the following critical activities: obtain funding approval (A)‚ finalize engineering (B)‚ build dies/tools (D)‚ raw material delivery (K)‚ initial production
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CHAPTER 1 Operations management Short case: Dealing with variety – two examples The Bombay Tiffin Box Suppliers Association (TBSA) operates a service to transport home-cooked food from workers’ homes to office locations in downtown Bombay. Workers from residential districts must ride commuter trains some 30–40 km to work. Typically‚ they are conservative diners‚ and are also constrained by strong cultural taboos on food handling by caste‚ which discourage eating out. TBSA arranges for food
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Operation management week 3-2 1. what is the reason for formulating and implementing an operation and supply chain strategy? The implementation of an operations and supply chain strategy is necessary for an organization in order to provide a clear vision of the value they will provide to the customer. The strategy should detail the competitive advantage the organization seeks to obtain and deliver. To develop a successful strategy‚ the organization must understand the values held by the customer
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1-March-2005 05-03-001 SIG Combibloc - Supply Chain Innovations It was July 2002 and Theodore Streng‚ Head of Supply Chain Management (SCM) of SIG Combibloc‚ the second biggest supplier of aseptic packages for food and beverages just tried to prioritize the aspects he was about to present at the meeting of the executive committee on strategic positioning. The key issue of this meeting was the benchmark report which compared SIG Combibloc to its main competitor Tetra Pak. The results of
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