introduce new methods. Layout decisions have long term consequences on cost and companies ability to serve the customers. Major objectives of layout i) Providing enough production capacity ii) Reducing material handling costs iii) Easy supervisions iv) Improvement in productivity v) Efficient utilization labour vi) Increase in morale of the employees vii) Reducing accidents and hazards to personnel viii) Reducing congestion ix) utilizing the space efficiently and effectively
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Atlantic Corp – case study | | | | Question 1: Is the acquisition of Royal’s Linerboard mill and box plants a sound strategic move? Yes. Atlantic corporation intends to increase its linerboard capacity‚ as it is a net buyer of linerboard. This acquisition of Royal by Atlantic Corporation would be a horizontal integration‚ which occurs when both the firm being taken over and the firm taking over are in the same industry and in the same stage of production. The linerboard industry
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Porter’s Five Forces and SWOT Analysis Porter’s Five Forces of automobile industry. Globalization had indeed left its impact on the automobile industry. Now foreign auto dealers were facing lesser restrictions to operate in overseas markets. Michael E. Porter in his book “Techniques for analyzing industries and competitors” dealt with five competitive forces that shaped all industries. This helped to analyze the intensity of competition which had an impact on the profitability of an industry
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Abreham Kelile Kaba ID LMBA0013/2014 BACTH 1ST Part I: Multiple Choice Questions (1 point each) Choose the best answer from the following Questions _C__Q1.One advantage of Just-in-Time (JIT) Management of stock is _____a. It reduces the need to plan and organize _____ b. it removes the need for delivery Quality Control _____ c. it reduces the cost of holding stock within the factory _____ d. it works very well with competitive tendering __A__Q2. ‘Kaizen’ is a. A word meaning ‘continuous improvement’
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Security Analysis and Portfolio Management Equity Research Report – Shalimar Paints Industry Overview: Indian Paint Industry is today worth INR 275 bn. with ~69 % coming from organized segment and rest coming from unorganized segment. India has one of the lowest per-capita consumption of paints at just 1.5 kg. (World Average = 8 kg.) because of which Indian Paint Industry is projected to sustain its growth momentum to reach ~460 bn. by 2016. Organized segment is a very concentrated
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30 | 30 | | | | | 30 | TOTAL USED | 60 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 60 | 30 | 30 | Capacity Utilization | 66.67% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 66.67% | 33.33% | 33.33% | If we average the utilization rates‚ we come up with a current average utilization of 71.43%. 2.) Develop a similar table to show the effects of adding operations on Saturday. How would this affect the utilization of the bed capacity? Is this capacity sufficient for the additional patients? The hospital will be admitting an additional
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its own coalfield. * Super regional manufacturer localized in a area of short fall in supplying the demand. Later this has turned into search for new plant need after penetration of other brands into the territory of their control. * Capacity utilization rate slightly higher than other brewers with multi plants. * Coors being the only brewer which was not unionized. * Coors’s technology such as producing first cans * Domination over resale channels‚ force them to carry its brands
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cement division. But this was the case in both years 2002-03 and 2003-04 which means those profits were achieved only by improvising on internal factors of the company like improvements in performance of Cement division by achieving the higher capacity utilization of available resources and cost effective management. On the other hand Birla’s Calcium-Carbide business was facing the Global Competition which is an external factor and it is out of the control of the corporation. As company know its strength
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which use chloride manufacturing process. Three factors related to production will settle the cost advantage of titanium dioxide manufacturing. They are Economic of Scale‚ Capacity Utilization Rate and Experience Curve Effects. Economic of Scale : Total Output / Plants Numbers Capacity Utilization Rate : Total Output / Total Capacity Experience Curve Effects : Cumulative Output (production) Each of these factors in the production process has positive but decreasing marginal products and we assume that
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9%. The Venezuelan plant‚ started in 1964‚ had a no-frills design‚ and no improvements had been made thereafter. The educational qualifications of the Venezuelan operators were below those of other plant operators. There hadn’t been any process or capacity improvements.
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