There are three potential suppliers available to Platinum to replace the existing machinery; JabaKing‚ the existing supplier‚ who enjoys a very close strategic relationship with Platinum‚ Merakuri – a supplier out of South Korea who offers cutting edge technology‚ and Pnutype – a relatively new supplier in the market who offers preferable financing options‚ service and superior technology. In order to arrive at a decision on choice of supplier (or mix of suppliers) I have taken the approach
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SUPPLY CHAIN: INNOVATION Increasing Suppl ’ierDriven Innovation When customers collaborate with suppliers they can build trust‚ reduce relational stress‚ and increase innovation-related activities. BY JOHNW. HENKE JR. AND CHUN ZHANG MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO‚ management guru Peter Drucker identified innovation as one of the basic ways in which a business builds and maintains a competitive position in the marketplace.I It wasn ’t until recently‚ however‚ that companies not only established internal
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Tobacco Nicotine use is a leading preventable cause of death in the world‚ directly and indirectly responsible for 440‚000 deaths per year. The health problems that result in tobacco use tally an annual of $75 billion in direct medical costs (Slovic 36). That money spent on medical problems for smokers should be used to pay for more important things in our society such as schools‚ libraries‚ childcare‚ etc. Because it takes approximately eight seconds for nicotine to reach the brain and each
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History[edit] Concern about health effects of tobacco has a long history. Gideon Lincecum‚ an American naturalist and practitioner of botanical medicine‚ wrote in the early 19th century on tobacco: "This poisonous plant has been used a great deal as a medicine by the old school faculty‚ and thousands have been slain by it. ... It is a very dangerous article‚ and use it as you will‚ it always diminishes the vital energies in exact proportion to the quantity used - it may be slowly‚ but it is very
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Downloaded from tobaccocontrol.bmj.com on February 26‚ 2013 - Published by group.bmj.com ii88 R ESEARCH PAPER Breaking and re-entering: British American Tobacco in China 1979–2000 K Lee‚ A B Gilmore‚ J Collin ............................................................................................................................... Tobacco Control 2004;13(Suppl II):ii88–ii95. doi: 10.1136/tc.2004.009258 See end of article for authors’ affiliations ....................... Correspondence
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Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 On February 12‚ 2012 a federal court ruled that the new graphic warning labels scheduled to be placed on cigarettes packages in September 2012 violate tobacco companies’ first Amendment right. These warning labels were required by The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 which was signed by President Obama on June 22‚ 2009. Rep. henry A. Waxman‚ the author and champion of the Food and Drug Administration-tobacco bill‚ said
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Should Tobacco be Illegal Tobacco is deeply ingrained into the roots of America and is a very addictive and deadly force. Since the success of the first commercial crop in 1612‚ tobacco has been raking in billions of dollars annually.(CNN) Even today tobacco is one of the largest exports in the world despite the staggering number of deaths that it causes each year. So why is it that tobacco is still legal? I feel we should just get rid of it completely‚ but it isn’t that
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The term “Collective Bargaining” originated in the writings of Sidney and Beatrice Webb‚ the famed historian of the British labour movement‚ towards the end of the 19th century. Collective bargaining is a process of joint decision-making and basically represents a democratic way of life in industry. It establishes a culture of bipartism and joint consultation in industry and a flexible method of adjustment to economic and technical changes in an industry. It helps in establishing industrial peace
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(2007) 2475–2486 www.elsevier.com/locate/apm Analytic network process in supplier selection: A case study in an electronic firm Cevriye Gencer *‚ Didem Gurpinar ¨ Gazi University‚ Faculty of Engineering and Architecture‚ Department of Industrial Engineering‚ 06570 Maltepe/Ankara‚ Turkey Received 1 November 2005; received in revised form 1 August 2006; accepted 9 October 2006 Available online 8 December 2006 Abstract Supplier selection‚ which is the first step of the activities in the product realization
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thankful to Allah Almighty who has given us the ability and courage to complete the course and preparing the report. We thank personally to Miss.Nazia Mumtaz Hr Manager at Lakson Tobacco‚ who took time from her busy routine to help in preparing the report. And to Mr. Adeel Jafri Finance Manager At Lakson Tobacco who helped in contacting the personnel for the report. Last but not the least to our course coordinator Mr. Maqsood Ahmed who have given us the opportunity in experiencing what we
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