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 Study on Transportation Problem 12/15/2010 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost‚ we would like to thank to our mentor‚ Dr. G.N. Patel for his valuable guidance and advice throughout the project. Without his support and guidance‚ this report would not have been possible. We would like to extend our sincere regards to the authorities of Birla Institute
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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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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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Transportation Problem Amit K. Bardhan Transportation Problem Amit K. Bardhan Faculty of Management Studies‚ University of Delhi Transportation problem Transportation Problem Amit K. Bardhan A transportation problem basically deals with the problem‚ which aims to find the best way to fulfill the demand of n demand points using the capacities of m supply points. While trying to find the best way‚ generally a variable cost of shipping the product from one supply point to a demand point or
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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 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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Chapter 6. 1.0 TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM The transportation problem is a special class of the linear programming problem. It deals with the situation in which a commodity is transported from Sources to Destinations. The objective is to determine the amount of commodity to be transported from each source to each destination so that the total transportation cost is minimum. EXAMPLE 1.1 A soft drink manufacturing firm has m plants located in m different cities. The total production is absorbed
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