(1) Calculate the firm’s financial ratios for 2007: Vanguard Group 2007 financial ratios 1. Current ratio = current assets/current liabilities = 718‚750/431‚250 = 1.67 2. Quick ratio= (current assets-inventory)/current liabilities = (718‚750-303‚750)/431‚250 = 0.96 3. Inventory turnover= cost of sales/average stock = 1‚362‚480/303‚750 =4.49 4. Average collection period= (average debtors/annual credit sales)×365 = (296‚250/1‚680‚000) ×365 = 64 days 5. Total asset turnover= annual sales/total assets
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Problem Definition Senior executives at Vanguard are evaluating their marketing strategy. In particular‚ they are looking at their approach to market segmentation‚ the organization of the marketing function‚ and the emphasis placed on marketing metrics in the corporate dashboard in light of an economic and stock market downturn. Situation Assessment Strengths · Low cost high value; extremely low advertising spending and no large sales force. · Customer focused · High morale; Low employee turnover;
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automobile industry in India are attracting big names with the big purse and they are investing vigorously in infrastructure‚ design and development‚ and marketing. Automobile industry in India is today poised for (he big leap and t h i s segment helps you to be ready for that. Indian Automobile Industry The automobile industry is one of the core industries in India economy‚ whose prospect is reflective of the economic resilience of the economy. With the liberalization of the economy
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The Vanguard Group Four C Analysis Company: The Vanguard Group‚ headquartered in Valley Forge‚ PA‚ is the nation’s second-largest mutual fund and a leading provider of company-sponsored retirement plan services. Vanguard serves come 18 million shareholders accounts and manages approximately $850 billion in US mutual fund asssets‚ including more than $260 billion in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Vanguard offers 130 funds to US investors and 40 additional funds in foreign markets.
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Part 2 - Supply Issues Case Ryan Schwab MGT147 31512 Principles of Supply Chain Management Case 3) Don’t shoot the messenger 1. If you were in Jeff’s position‚ what would you have done to preserve relationships? If I were in Jeff’s position‚ I would first have thanked my suppliers and expressed gratitude to them for being willing to work closely with the company in not only designing the new product line‚ but in then reducing supply prices by the asked for 10 percent. I then would have tried to
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Case Recap Frito-Lay Inc. leads the world in manufacturing and marketing of snacks. More than eight different kinds of Frito-lay snacks chips brands are found among the top 10 best-selling snacks in the U.S Supermarkets. Frito-lay’s well-known brands are: lay’s Doritos‚ Tostitos‚ Ruffles potato chips‚ Fritos corn chips‚ Santitas tortilla chips‚ Sun chips Multigrain snacks and Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks among others. Frito-Lay operates as an independent division of the PepsiCo Inc. Its operations
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Position Paper: Frito Lay’s Dip Strategic Issues: * A highly profitable product line and had phenomenal sales growth between 1981($30M) and 1985 ($87M). * More than 80% of all dips are accounted for by supermarkets‚ with a total dip retail dollar sales volume of $620 million (in 1985). * Major competitor in shelf stable dips. * Virtually all of the growth in 1984 and 1985 was accounted for by cheese-based dips‚ which captured market share from other dip flavors. * Dip competitors
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The role of lay counselor is important because The numbers of dysfunctional and emotionally hurting people in our society and churches are rapidly increasing. Some churches seem to be in denial of these facts and have even challenged the need for counseling within
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Automotive Supply chains risks and mitigation strategies The auto industry has been a global business for a long time. This year has made it clear just how much a problem in just one of those regions‚ however‚ can affect everyone in the product chain (Miel‚ 2011)… Lall (2009) classified supply chains risk into different types depending on their origins. These include demand risk‚ internal risk‚ and external environment risk. External Environment These risk elements are external to and uncontrollable
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Operations Management “Automotive Supply Chain Synchronization” Summary The article‚ “Automotive Supply Chain Synchronization” by Matthias Berlit‚ Ulrich Dorndorf‚ and Hans Jurgen Zimmerman‚ discussed the importance of logistics planning in the management of automotive supply chains‚ and namely the role the transport management system SynroTESS played in the optimization of supply chains for Audi and Volkswagen (VW) Mexico. The article began by explaining that the unregulated inbound‚ internal
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