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CMS Case Study Hewlett Packard 3rd trimester 2008 EM-Lyon

CASE STUDY : Hewlett Packard

France FONDACCI

Léa MONTANARI

Tarik OKTAN

Damien VALTIER

Yao WU

Hewlett Packard is an American group specialized into the computing sector and the communication market. Hewlett Packard is organized by product into several Business Units. The traditional accounting system gave information on costs per department. Even if there are worldwide accounting system rules, each manager of a business unit can implement new accounting system.



Using the data in Tables 1.4 to 1.11:

Calculates the cost of the activities for France

ALLOCATION OF COST CENTER COSTS TO ACTIVITIES FOR FRANCE FOR Q3 1998

COST CENTER

COSTS OF THE CENTER FOR Q3 98 (€ THOUSANDS)

CALL RECEIPT

CALL QUALIFICATION

DISPATCHING (PEOPLE AND PARTS)

LOGISTICS (PARTS HANDLING)

FREIGHT

POP (CUSTOMER ASSIS (PART/UNIT SENT))

ON-SITE HP CE

ON-SITE TEMPS

ON-SITE 3RD PARTY CE

COURIER

CE ASSIST

ESCALATION

ROPS

Call Center

1 000

1 000

Qualification Center

2 000

1 200

800

Engineers

15 500

1 550

10 075

775

1 550

1 550

Courier costs (transportation)

600

600

Administration

2 400

2 400

Logistics (warehousing)

3 500

3 500

Logistics (transportation)

2 500

2 500

Subcontracting costs

3 000

450

450

450

1 650

TOTAL COST PER ACTIVITY (€ THOUSANDS)

1 450

1 650

1 250

3 500

2 500

1 550

10 075

775

1 650

600

1 550

1 550

2 400

ACTIVITY

FRANCE

GERMANY

ITALY

UK

TOTAL

CALL RECEIPT

1 450

2 250

900

1 500

6 100

CALL QUALIFICATION

1 650

3 000

800

2 000

7 450

DISPATCHING (PEOPLE AND PARTS)

1 250

1 000

950

975

4 175

LOGISTICS (PARTS HANDLING)

3 500

4 950

2 600

3 900

14 950

FREIGHT

2 500

3 150

1 200

3 000

9 850

POP (CUSTOMER ASSIS (PART/UNIT SENT))

1 550

1 350

800

2 100

5 800

ON-SITE HP CE

10 075

17 100

5 600

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