Case 11-2 Amerbran Company (A) Amerbran Company was a diversified company that sold various consumer products‚ including food‚ tobacco‚ distilled products‚ and personal care products and financial services. Financial statements for the company are shown in Exhibit 1. EXHIBIT 1 AMERBRAN COMPANY Balance Sheets As of December 31 (In thousands) 20x1 20x0 Assets $ 28‚912 $ 23‚952 Accounts receivable 756‚152 687‚325 Inventories
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E9-1 | | | | (Lower of Cost or Market) The inventory of Oheto Company on December 31‚ 2011‚ consists of the following items. | Part No. | Quantity | Cost per Unit | Cost to Replace per Unit | | 110 | | 600 | | $95 | | $100 | | | 111 | | 1‚000 | | 60 | | 52 | | | 112 | | 500 | | 80 | | 76 | | | 113 | | 200 | | 170 | | 180 | | | 120 | | 400 | | 205 | | 208 | | | a121 | | 1‚600 | | 16 | | 14 | | | 122 | | 300
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been inspected on a regular basis for tampering. Access control provides authorization to gain access. The company had poor firewall and intrusion detection protection. The firewall that TJX had in place was not sufficient enough to keep hackers out. In addition to firewalls‚ intrusion detection systems provide full-time monitoring placed at “hot spots” in corporate networks. The company should have upgraded their wireless network protection to a WAP2 . Another source of security is to use encryption
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http://www.mama.co.th/en/about.php [pic] Thai President Foods Public Company Limited was established on February 15‚ 1972 with an initial registered capital of 6 million baht through a joint venture between President Enterprise Co.‚ Ltd. of Taiwan – providing manufacturing technology expertise and Saha Pattanaphibul Co.‚ Ltd. - responsible for marketing and distribution. The founding objective was to produce instant noodles under the "MAMA" brand. The Company’s first Head Offices were located
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1964‚ Bill Bowerman‚ Knight’s track coach & Phil Knight joined hands together & NIKE Inc. was co-founded with headquarters in Beaverton‚ Oregon. Nike’s grassroots strategy was born of low capital and necessity‚ but became one of the strengths of the company. (Becklund‚ 12-17) The 80’s and 90’s yielded greater profits as Nike began to assume the appearance of athletic juggernaut. "Advertising Age" named Nike the 1996 Marketer of the Year‚ citing the "ubiquitous Swoosh Logo and its memorable ’Just do it’
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Why go global? In today’s world‚ it feels necessary for growth-minded business to go global. “How to take your company Global"‚ is an article in Entrepreneur magazine that discusses this topic and also perfectly relates to some of the concepts that were talked about in class. This article talked about of some of the advantages and motivations to grow your business internationally .It also discussed concepts including importation and exportation ‚ and how these go along with the topic of going
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAM Module Two Procurement and Supply Management Blozis Company Case Stu September 28‚ 2012 Table of Content Executive Summary Page Part 1 Executive Summary 2 Issue Identification Part 3 Immediate Issue 3 Part 4 Systematic Issue 3 Environmental & Root Cause Analysis Part 5 Qualitative Analysis 4 Alternatives Part 6 Alternatives 5 Recommendations
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Central Issues When looking at the Donner Company in 1987‚ there are some initial concerns. The company as a whole does not have a true sense of how long it takes them to do what they do‚ and their process flow table is made up of "guesstimates"‚ as throughput time at individual processes have not been formally taken. The company appears to be operating below capacity based on their need to rework their products often‚ find things for people to do‚ and meet deadlines that are based on fuzzy estimates
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Vershire Company Key Problems Though Vershire Company does not have explicit problems‚ it has a number of weaknesses in its systems. First is in the style of their budget preparation. Their sales budget preparation had little flexibility when it was already approved before the start of the year and were already fixed objectives. This kind of system has an advantage of pushing its managers to strive and meet the objective budgets. However‚ it is a disadvantage when there are unforeseen relevant
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Case Analysis: I. SUMMARY The Dashman Company was a large decentralized concern making many types of equipment for the armed forces of the United States. Late in 1940 the company faced increasing difficulty in securing certain essential raw materials. So Mr. Manson‚ the company’s president‚ appointed an experienced purchasing executive‚ Mr. Post as vice president in charge of purchasing to improve the situation. But there seems to be no improvement
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