Wally Obermeyer is facing a challenge in accurately forecasting the market response and demand for the upcoming season. Historically‚ the company founder‚ Klaus Obermeyer‚ relied minimally on forecast data‚ and more on intuition and artistic tastes. In comparison‚ his son Wally prefers to make decisions based on analytical techniques and information gathering. If Wally’s approach proves successful‚ it can change how Sport Obermeyer approaches its manufacturing processes‚ secure its position long-term
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Sport Obermeyer | October 4 BUAD 6600 | SCMers Meagan Frances AyersJames FranksEmelie HallJean-Hubert Trahan | Instructor: Sachin Modi | Objective/Scope The purpose of this article is to determine how many units of each style Sport Obermeyer should produce during its initial phase of production (November through March) and during its second phase of production (March through October). Factors that need to be considered in this decision are the risk associated with each style‚ from where
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College of Management 63.371 T. Sloan Case Study Write-up #3 SPORT OBERMEYER‚ LTD. Sport Obermeyer is a high-end fashion skiwear design and merchandising company headquartered in Aspen‚ Colorado that sells its products through U.S. department stores and ski shops. Although the company has a global supply network‚ most of its critical outerwear products are sourced through the Hong Kong-based company Obersport‚ a joint venture between Sport Obermeyer and a Hong Kong partner. Obersport‚ in
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Andrew Vaccarrazza Jennifer Wadsworth Ryan Ordonez Matt McKinney John Fung OPM 181 T-TR 4:30PM 1. Based on analyzing the Optimal Cycle service Level for seasonal items (single order) we were able to come up with the following recommendation for the initial phase. Style O* (Hong Kong) Gail 1288 Isis 1429 Entice 1550 Assault 2870 Teri 1707 Electra 3025 Stephanie 2019 Seduced 4337 Anita 4426 Daphne 3671 Total 28705 What if capicity was limited to 10‚000 units? Style O* Ratio
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Peter M. Ovwiovwio Course Title: MSCM 553: Logistics & Supply Chain Systems Paper: Module Two Assignment (Two) Paper Title: Sport Obermeyer Case Analysis BACKGROUND: This paper presents a brief and concise case analysis of Sport Obermeyer. Sport Obermeyer is a fashion Skiwear manufacturer. The company is headquatered in Aspen Colorado with two major suppliers in China and Hong Kong. The company’s product is offered in five different “genders” men’s women’s‚ boy’s‚ girl’s‚ and prescholers
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Supply Chain Management Case Study Report: Sport Obermeyer Q #1. Where would you place production? Although the article argues that they intended to place about half of its all production to China‚ I would personally shift more than half of its production toward Hong Kong if you are talking about the current market. I’m not quite sure if it’s about population of skiers/snowborders‚ but apprently a number of ski resorts went out of business in the past decade and we are faced with the
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Sport Obermeyer is a Skiwear Company‚ established in 1947 by Klaus Obermeyer in Aspen‚ Colorado. The management: His management approaches: took more intuitive style & was informed by his extensive industry experience. Klaus son Wally‚ MBA‚ is the company’s vice president. His management approaches: relied on formal data gathering and analytical techniques. Suppliers: Obersport plays a huge role in the production‚ it gathers and sources the supplies
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Obermeyer Case Study Considering all the factors estimated in the case‚ the current problems are how to forecast the future demand with limited uncertainty as well as would that be too risky if increasing production in China due to China’s larger minimum order requirement and intense trade relationship with US. To solve those problems‚ we can first lay out what information and conditions we have: The minimum order quantity is 600 in Hong Kong and 1200 in China. The average cost of producing in
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Financial Valuation of Spyder Active Sports Inc. April 27‚ 2011 Analysis By: Sean Baeyens Taylor Zuccolotto Mengyu Zhu Larry Hu Mohamed Alloo 1.a) To value Spyder Active Sports Inc.‚ we decided to use the WACC method since we can easily value its cost of assets with the data immediately available to us in the case. We first unlevered the beta’s of 7 comparable companies and took the average to get a comparable unlevered beta
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Corporate Finance Case 1 1. To calculate the present value of future cash flow in 2013‚ we first calculate the free cash flow between 2014-2020: Table 1: Free cash flow of 2014-2020 (in $million) After-tax profits Depreciation Gross investment in fixed assets Investment in net working capital Free cash flow 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 5.25 2.40 5.70 3.10 3.00 3.12 3.40 3.17 4.35 3.26 6.00 3.44 7.60 3.68 (4.26) (10.50) (3.34) (3.65) (4.18) (5.37) (6.28) (1.39) (0.60)
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