Business Decision Models ____________________________________________________________ ________________________ Question 1 (10 marks) Sandra Enright of Techtronics Inc.‚ an electronics supply firm‚ has been examining the times required for stock pickers to fill orders requested from inventory. She has determined that individual order-filling times approximately follow a normal distribution with a mean value of 3.2 minutes and standard
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Value adding roles of warehouse Advantage and limitation in warehouse Documentation in goods receiving Add value in warehouse Breaking bulk -taking delivery of bulk consignment and issuing in smaller lots to customers or users -more efficient matching of demand with supply Creating Bulk -goods that produce in different locations can be grouped together into large lots for economic shipment to the users -accumulation and aggregation of these smaller supply quantities Eg: milk‚ vegetables
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of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 1. Company Overview 4 2. Marketing 5 2.1 Introduction 5 2.2 Strategic Business Units in Carphone Warehouse 5 2.3 SBUs and Their Orientation 5 2.4 SBUs and the BCG Model 6 2.4.1 BCG Model’s Recommendations 7 2.4.2 Product life cycle of the ‘cash cow’ and the ‘question mark’ 7 2.5 PEST Analysis 8 2.6 Carphone Warehouse SBUs and “Five Forces” 8 2.6.1 Industry Competitors 8 2.6.2 Substitutes 9 2.6.3 New Entrants 9 2.6.4 Buyers (Customers)
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goods and market consumers‚ which are separated by time and distance. It has been estimated that logistics operations represent a large portion of a firm’s cost dollars. In many local distribution centers‚ items stored in the slots of racks are
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CASE 10-1: MINNETONKA WAREHOUSE Question 1: For each of the four work team sizes‚ calculate the expected number of trucks in the queue waiting to be unloaded. Size of team Number of trucks in queue 2 3.2 3 .5 4 .27 5 .12 Question 2: For each of the four work team sizes‚ calculate the expected time in the queue—that is‚ the expected time a truck has to wait in line to be unloaded. Size of team Expected time in queue 2 .8 hours 3 .125 hours 4 .067 hours 5 .030 hours
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References: APEC (1997)‚ Congestion Points Study‚ US-DoT‚ Washington. CHRISTOPHER‚ M. (1999)‚ Logistics and Supply Chain Management‚ Financial Times Pitman Publishing‚ London. EC (1999)‚ TRILOG – Europe End Report‚ European Commission‚ Brussels. ECMT (2001)‚ Railway Reform‚ OECD‚ Paris. NRTC (1999)‚ Potential for Fast-Tracking Heavy Vehicle Drivers‚ Melbourne. NRTC (2001)‚ “Chain of Responsibility”
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WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM By HEMANAND.R (Reg. No: 35203051) A PROJECT REPORT Submitted to the Department of Computer Applications in the FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS S.R.M. ENGINEERING COLLEGE S.R.M. INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Deemed University May‚ 2006 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Literature Survey The main objective of this project is to computerize the Warehouse
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A data dictionary is a file that defines the basic organization of a database. A data dictionary has a list of all files in the database‚ the number of records that are in each file‚ the names and types of each field. The data dictionary is hidden from users so that it is not accidentally destroyed. The data dictionary only keeps bookkeeping information and does not actually contain any data from the database. The database management system cannot access data from the database without a data dictionary
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The Men’s Wearhouse Case Analysis Background/Problem statement Men’s Wearhouse is a specialty retailer of men’s tailored business clothing. Since its first store in early 1980s‚ it had developed rapidly till current hundreds of stores nationwide. Men’s Wearhouse developed its own culture‚ management theories and practices; however‚ the external environment of this industry is fiercely competitive. So the strategic issue in this case is how Men’s Wearhouse could keep high-paced development in this
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What’s the Benefit? (The Report) “It is easier to stay out than get out”.- Mark Twain. Smokers believed that smoking is like heaven that releases all your stress and problems furthermore only smokers can understand their fellow smokers. For all over the years the consumption of cigarettes increases and the government must do something about that. Taxation is one of the methods of the government in which they finance their expenditures by implementing charges on citizens and corporate entities
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