BOSTON COLLEGE CARROLL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Capacity Management at Littlefield Technologies: DSS Manufacturing Issues During Spring 2006 Professor Field’s Version Background In early January 2006‚ Littlefield Technologies (LT) opened its first and only factory to produce its newly developed Digital Satellite System (DSS) receivers. Littlefield Technologies mainly sells to retailers and small manufacturers using the DSS’s in more complex
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Cross-Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning Rogelio Oliva Noel H. Watson Working Paper 07-001 Copyright © 2007‚ 2008‚ 2009 by Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Cross-Functional Alignment in Supply
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3. Why is demand forecasting important for effective supply chain management? * Demand forecasting is important for effective supply chain management because it provides critical‚ accurate and timely demand information. It estimates the future demand and the basis for planning and sound business decisions. Demand forecasting helps to minimize the deviation between actual demand and the forecast and having accurate demand forecasts allows a supply chain to run smoothly. 4. Explain the impact
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•Soumendu Mukhopadhyay FT151034 •Vivek Anand FT153113 •Anand M FT152020 •Manzoor FT152099 •Lokesh Chandana FT152087 Case – Problems & Issues Problems : •To identify a forecasting technique so as to forecast the demand for existing products as well as new products. Issues : •Best fit model ?? •Problems associated with each forecasting model ?? •Performance of the used model ?? •Fundamental things to be accounted while looking at forecast performance ?? •Managerial issues to be addressed ?? •Quantification
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Sales Analyst Job Description Position Overview Reporting to the practice head of Sales Strategy & Optimization practice‚ the Sales Analyst is responsible for the collection‚ analysis‚ and reporting of sales related data in an on-going effort to increase overall sales productivity. He/She must collect sales records and evaluate performance based on sales quotas while taking into consideration current economic conditions. The development and tracking of key performance indictors will be critical
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panic hiring. By planning ahead‚ HR can provide managers with the right number of people‚ with the right skills‚ in the right place‚ and at the right time. Workforce planning might be more accurately called talent planning because it integrates the forecasting elements of each of the HR functions that relate to talent--recruiting‚ retention‚ redeployment‚ and leadership and employee development. Businesspeople who just wait and then attempt to react to current events will not thrive for very long.
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technology and the changes in the delivery of humanitarian aid has done little to change the fact that relief supplies still have to be collected and delivered. Historically‚ the transportation of supplies has been regarded as an ancillary function of little or no central importance. More recently‚ efficient transportation has been recognised as an essential determinant in providing consistent‚ quality service to beneficiaries. A good transport system fulfils three of the "rights" of supply. That is
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1. Chapter 1 1.1 ABSTRACT This paper presents the research proposal of ‘The market for taxi cabs in Windhoek‚ Namibia. The growing population and urbanization mark the existence of taxi services in Namibia and the industry is booming. Taxi services are concentrated not only in Windhoek but can be found in most urban towns like Swakopmund‚ Walvis Bay and Oshakati. This will be discovered by means of questionnaires to taxi drivers and their clients. This chapter includes; introduction‚ literature
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HTime series using Holt-Winters Forecasting Procedure Summary The Holt-Winters forecasting procedure is a simple widely used projection method which can cope with trend and seasonal variation. We can apply this method to lots of fields such as banking data analysis‚ investment forecasting‚ inventory controlling and so on. This paper shows us a practical banking credit card example using Holt-Winter method in Java programming for data forecasting. The reason we use Holt-Winter is that
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Making Supply Meet Demand in an Uncertain World by Marshall L. Fisher‚ Janice H. Hammond‚ Walter R. Obermeyer‚ and Ananth Raman Harvard Business Review Reprint 94302 HarvardBusinessReview MAY-JUNE 1994 M.L. FISHER‚ J.H. HAMMOND‚ W.R. OBERMEYER‚ AND A. RAMAN MAKING SUPPLY MEET DEMAND IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD 94302 CHRISTOPHER MEYER HOW THE RIGHT MEASURES HELP TEAMS EXCEL 94305 CRAIG SMITH THE NEW CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY 94309 TODD B. CARVER AND ALBERT A. VONDRA
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