Case Study: Eliminate the Middleman? US Tech Ü Market positioning ¡V more features than commodity and lower price than higher-end rivals Ü Goal ¡V number 3 spot in the global market Ü Competitors ¡V CaliTech and TexaTech c Produce innovative products and pull down price (20% cost cutting by sourcing directly from China) Ü Sourcing directly from China c Indirect cost (government bureaucracies and long distance logistics breakdown) and low quality c Prices were undeniably attractive
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should USTech’s sourcing strategy would be? US Tech is a company that has a unique problem in the matter of supply chain management and logistics. The company is at burden whether to maintain their relationship with their supplier‚ TaiSource or find new and alternate Chinese supplier and maybe future partner for their business and operations in the Chinese market. All odds are in favor but let’s see how the company can cope with such a complex case. For starters the want to end the relationship
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Project Management Case Study Read the following case and provide a minimum of three reasons why problems occurred on this project‚ and what should have been done to prevent these occurrences. Problem and Associated Reason #1. _______________________________________________ Action(s) to prevent Problem #1.__________________________________________________ Problem and Associated Reason #2. _______________________________________________ Action(s) to prevent Problem #2.__________________________________________________
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The case study was conducted to propose an intelligent strategy for the Information Systems (IS) Department of the Fort Wayne‚ Indiana Plant‚ which is the largest custom-machine factory in North America and subsidiary company of International Machine and Tool (IMT-USA). The IS division had made several proposals of incremental solutions to aid the urgent needs of their system‚ however‚ they could not acquire the specific solution which will show them what modifications should be done and how
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Yorktown Technologies Case Analysis By Case Recap Yorktown Technologies is a fairly new company that is marketing and introducing GloFish into the market. In 2002 Yorktown raised $500‚000 fro investors under the projection that it would have $4‚000‚000 in profits in 2004. Sadly the company only had $500‚000 in revenues and had an outstanding $620‚000 in expenses leaving the company $120‚000 in the red (Roger A. Kerin‚ 2010). Alan Blake of Yorktown Technologies is searching for what to tell
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the software industry. • 1995 company earned net income $5.4 million on sales $57.5 million. AspenTech estimated that it commanded 50% of the simulation market for chemical sector. • 1995‚ it employed 417 people of which 265 ware based in the US and the remainder in office in 5 countries. History and Overview • AspenTech went public in USDD31 million IPO which included a USD 18 Million primary offering and USD 13 Million secondary offering : – to finance further R&D – to acquire
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AGRI-TECH PRODUCTS COMPANY (CASE ANALYSIS) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Agri-Tech Products Company is a firm that specializes in the production and marketing of agricultural-based products. It normally enters into royalty agreements with inventors or scientists for new products developed by them. This company was approached by Dr. Renato Melgar to produce and market the Rapidgrow --- a soil treatment in pellet form which increases the growth rates of two- three species commonly used
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Schools may regulate student speech that results in a material and substantial disruption within the school. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist.‚ 393 U.S. 503‚ 509‚ 513 (1969). Garner Vo-Tech must show either that there was an actual disruption within the school or that officials reasonably anticipated a material and substantial disruption was likely to occur. Alternatively‚ the Court could expand the exception found in Morse that waives the disruption requirement and include speech that
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The Human Resources System at Texas Tech University Patrick Britz Human Resource Management‚ MBA 533 Dr. Rina Coronel February 24‚ 2013 Abstract Texas Tech University is a teaching and research institution that offers bachelors‚ masters and doctoral degrees in numerous disciplines. It is located in Lubbock‚ Texas and was founded in 1923. Texas Tech has an enrollment of approximately 30‚000 students and there are an estimated 9‚000 full-time employees‚ which includes faculty and
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Branch Tech officially began in Shanghai‚ China when two men‚ marketer Edmond Brown and electrical engineer Samuel Lee bought their first work complex. Brown and Lee met in college at Fudan University both had a passion to design and build. Together they began working in their garage and building machines. Seeing and wanting to move onto bigger things‚ they started a company that creates‚ innovates‚ and solves problems. The two men joined with Dongfeng‚ a car manufacturer‚ to make various models
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