APPLICHEM Indian Institute of Management‚ Ranchi Case Analysis Presented to Professor Dr. Ranjan Ghosh Strategic Operation Management Submitted By Bharat Bhushan (PGEXP/019/2013) Prasanta Kumar Pattnaik (PGPEXP/057/2013) Rajesh Dhiman (PGEXP/063/2013) Post-Graduate Executive Programme in Management PGEXP (2013-15 Batch) Applichem Introduction Applichem is a manufacturer of speciality chemicals‚ one of its unique products
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Applichem Case Purpose: This case write-up is intended to compare the performance of Applichem’s 6 Release-ease plants and understand why some plants are performing better than others. Approach: This paper would like to use two methodologies to compare the performance of factories. First‚ this paper will measure input Vs. output. Factories which generate higher output given the same input will rank higher. Inputs can have two dimensions of time and money. We will measure how much input
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Applichem Case OM 888 Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis Applichem • Produces Release-ease‚ a specialty chemical • 6 plants that manufacture Release-ease – – – – – – Gary‚ Indiana Frankfurt‚ Germany Mexico Canada Venezuela Japan (Sunchem) • Competitive Situation – Applichem = Market Leader‚ Revenues $ 75 Million (1982) • Main competitor has one large plant What is the Objective? – Minimize cost? • What costs? – Transportation – Manufacturing – Fixed versus variable? • What
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SITUATION ANALYSIS Applichem is a manufacturing company producing Release-ease‚ a specialty chemical for the molding industry. On mixing with the plastic molding compound‚ Release-ease prevents any residue when the molded parts are separated from the mold. This helps in keeping the mold clean. They have six plants – one each in Gary‚ Canada‚ Frankfurt‚ Mexico‚ Venezuela and Sunchem in Japan. Each region has a different specification. This along with capacity constraints leads to export-import
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CASE 3: APPLICHEM 1. Compare the performance of Applichem’s 4 Release-ease plants. Competitive environment Applichem is a company that offers high product customization. Indeed‚ they provide solutions to specific customer problems‚ and then refine the product and process to arrive at a product with broader application. They created a product that was widely used: Release-ease. This product enabled the customers to clean easily the mold at the end of the process‚ which was a bottleneck
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Executive Summary Applichem was a Chicago based manufacturer of the specialty chemicals mainly devised as solutions to specific customer’s problems. Applichem has developed a chemical called Release-ease in 1952 as a solution to the problem faced by plastic molding industry in cleaning the stainless steel molds. This specialty chemical when added in low concentration to the plastic molding compound during the manufacturing process will ease the separation of molded parts from the mold and leave
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APPLICHEM A Case Analysis Submitted to Prof. Jishnu Hazra Indian Institute of Management‚ Bangalore on December 20‚ 2005 in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Operations Management Course in the Post Graduate Program in Management Submitted by Mahesh Bansal (0511018) Nitin Bhadauria (0511023) Rahul Parihar (0511033) Uma Gurumurthy (0511050) Yadavendra Yadava (0511057) SECTION A APPLICHEM Introduction: Release-ease was a specialty chemical developed by Applichem
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PLANTS Plants in Our Daily Life A plant(also called green plants) is a multi-cellular living organism‚member of kingdom Plantae.It is at the base of the food web and are Autotrophs.Plants are considered as backbone of all life on Earth and essential resource for living oragnisms.Plants can be reffered as a factory which processes light into energy and manufactures food for it ownself as well as for other living things.Scientists have foundmore than 270‚000 spieces of plants They include a host of
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Plants‚ also called green plants (Viridiplantae in Latin)‚ are living organisms of the kingdom Plantae including such multicellular groups as flowering plants‚ conifers‚ ferns and mosses‚ as well as‚ depending on definition‚ the green algae‚ but not red or brown seaweeds like kelp‚ nor fungi or bacteria. Green plants have cell walls with cellulose and characteristically obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis using chlorophyll contained in chloroplasts‚ which gives them their
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Plants and animals have a lot of things in common so much in fact i couldn’t fit half of them into this essay‚ there similarities and differences span from the smallest things like cells to huge thing like the whole organism. One thing that plants and animals both have in common is the fact that they adapt‚ the main thing isn’t that they adapt though it’s why they do it. Animals‚ plants‚ and humans all share the same thing they have a will to live in different ways maybe or some might want to live
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