Homework 2.1.2.0 1. In addition to clay minerals‚ what other soil constituents contribute to total CEC? The Organic Matter present in the soil. 2. How does CEC buffer nutrient concentration in soil solution? CEC will exchange ions continuously between the solution concentration until both of the concentration has neutralized. 3. Why does anion adsorption appear to be of little importance in most agricultural soils? Why are AECs of ultisols usually greater than those of mollisols?
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____________________________________________________________ _________________________ Case Study Manzana Insurance [pic] Presented to: Prof B. Mahadevan Submitted By Group 12 (Section B) Peeyush Razdan (0811115) Shalekh Banka (0811124) Shalem Anand Tirkey (0811125) Shreshth Sharma (0811128) Sumeet Mittal (0811131) Manzana Insurance As per the case facts‚ Manzana Insurance’s Fruitvale branch is the least performing branch and the senior VP seeks a report on the same
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Dear John: We definitively have some issues here at Fruitvale Branch‚ but there are not the ones you think. The main problems that I could identify are the followings: * TAT (Turnaround time) measurement: We are not measuring correctly the TAT. In exhibit #3 shows that the TAT for a particular week is 8.2 days (0‚6+3.4+2.0+2.2)‚ but this means that the process is carried as a batch process‚ every process must be finished in order to go to the next one‚ and that is not the case (The possibility
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Manzana Insurance Case write-up Introduction This study is designed to determine why the Fruitvale branch of Manzana Insurance is performing so poorly for Property Insurance. Golden Gates‚ a competitor of Manzana‚ numbers are estimated to outperform Manzana Fruitvale branch as well. There are several problems that are leading to the poor performance at this branch. This past quarter turnaround time increased again reaching 6 days‚ where Golden Gate is sitting at 2 days. Also the system is running
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Manzana Insurance-Fruitvale branch Case Study A. Get the Big Picture: 1) Why have been Manzana’s profit deteriorating? Analyze by taking the following questions as lead. It is commonly believed at that RERUNs is less profitable than RUN and given less priority.Do you agree with this policy? Why? We don’t agree. Reasons are as below: 1) Working Time (Refer to Exhibit 3). RUN(mins) RERUN(Mins) DC 128 43.2 (95%SCT per request)
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Operations Management Case Analysis - 2 Manzana Insurance (Fruitvale Branch) Group 13: ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION The Fruitvale branch of Manzana Insurance is facing stiff competition and is being severely outperformed by Golden Gate casualty Insurance. On every measure of performance‚ Fruitvale branch seems to be falling apart. Following are the problems faced by Fruitvale branch: 1) Turnaround Time (TAT) is too high TAT‚ or the number of days between the
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT GROUP ASSIGNMENT MANZANA INSURANCE CASE ANALYSIS OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT CASE ANALYSIS Case Background About the firm Manzana Insurance was founded in Sebastapol‚ California in 1902. It originally specialized in orchard and farm insurance. In 1906‚ after the San Francisco Fire‚ it saw an opportunity and expanded into a number of areas. The main lines of business initially were Commercial property insurance only. Then Manzana dabbled into commercial liability segment
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Case: Manzana Insurance - Fruitvale Branch (Abridged) Harvard Business School Executive Summary Fruitvale ’s core management problem is the low performance due to an unacceptable long turnaround times (TAT). Especially because of the late Renewals many of Fruitvale´s customers are turning to its major competitor Golden Gate. The operating performance needs to be improved by eradicating the bottleneck in Underwriting. This will be achieved by restructuring and simplifying the process. Through
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most important aspects of the service level is speed and therefore TAT. Finally‚ a basis analysis suggests that the increase in TAT is related to the increase in percentage loss rate. What is strongly related to the decreasing profitability of Manzana. In summary: the TAT is very important in this industry because of the needs of the agents and end-customers‚ the aspects of competition‚ the factors that drive profitability and the expected relation between the percentage loss rate and the TAT.
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INTRODUCTION Stock market is a market where the trading of company stock‚ both listed securities and unlisted takes place. It is different from stock exchange because it includes all the national stock exchanges of the country. Stock Exchanges are an organized marketplace‚ either corporation or mutual organization‚ where members of the organization gather to trade company stocks or other securities. The members may act either as agents for their customers‚ or as principals for their own accounts
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