Circuit City developed world-class capabilities in logistics that enabled it to track trends and have inventory in its geographically dispersed stores. Additionally‚ Circuit City developed a core of motivated and knowledgeable sales staff. Circuit City employed a big-box strategy with stores that had a large footprint that stocked a variety of products (selection) and service that relied on economies of scale to achieve high sales volumes. High sales volume enabled competitive pricing‚ but it also
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Capabilities Capabilities are valuable‚ rare‚ costly to imitate and non substitutable are core competencies. Core competencies are sources of competitive advantage for the firm over its rivals. A sustained competitive advantage is achieved only when the competitors cannot duplicate the benefits of a firm’s strategy or when they lack the resources to attempt imitation. Sustainable competitive advantage results only when all four criteria are satisfied. For a capability to be a core competence
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FedEx Corporation Operating Segments and Companies Basically‚ FedEx is divided into four segments and 11 operating companies. The segments consist of FedEx Express Segment‚ FedEx Ground Segment‚ FedEx Freight Segment‚ and FedEx Freight Segment. The 4 segments and 11 operating companies are as shown chart below: FedEx Services Segment FedEx Freight Segment FedEx Ground Segment FedEx Express Segment FedEx Services FedEx Freight FedEx Ground FedEx Express FedEx Global Supply Chain Services
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SWOT ANALYSIS ON FedEx Corporation - November 30th‚ 2010 FedEx Corporation ‚ originally known as FDX Corporation‚ is a logistics services company‚ based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis‚ Tennessee.[1] The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company’s original air division‚ Federal Express‚ which was used from 1973 until 2000. FedEx Corporation is a Delaware corporation‚ incorporated October 2‚ 1997.[2] FDX Corporation was founded in January 1998 with the
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FedEx: Building a Global Distribution Powerhouse Questions 1. Evaluate the methods used by FedEx to grow domestically and internationally. Why do you think that the company initially had problems in its global operations? We are living in a global world so business‚ companies and people needs to communicate and deliver something to others quick and successfully in domestically and internationally. For that reason‚ Smith designed efficient distribution system to overcome difficulties in moving
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Prevention/Protection Mission Area Core Capabilities On Monday‚ January 17‚ 1994 at 4.31 a.m. an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 6.7 struck a densely populated area of San Fernando Valley. In spite of Los Angeles County considered as one of the greatest prepared regions for earthquakes‚ Northridge was one of the worse disasters financially. They were around 14‚000 aftershocks reported in the magnitude of 4.0-5.0 range. Because of the earthquake people displaced from their homes are estimated
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Performance management starts by defining the skills and behaviors needed for an employee to succeed in a position. Employees who possess the skills and competencies to perform their work and can meet the expectations for their role are more engaged and satisfied (Nelson & Quick‚ 2017 p.92). Hiring and selecting the right talent requires identifying potential candidates who possess the abilities and behaviors required to perform the tasks for a specific position. Individuals are different
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Case 1.1 : FedEx 1) List the business processes displayed in the video. The first step is to pick up the package at the customer’s and to scan it. Therefore‚ the employee ) inform FedEx than the package is under FedEx’s responsibility. The second step is the transport of the package by truck for instance to a hub (or sorting center). In the third step‚ the package will process in the sorting center. The package is going to progress in a long and complex net of conveyer belts. This is called
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Question 4 Assess the strategic alternative used by the firm Burger King is the world’s largest flame broiled fast food restaurant chain. As of mid-2009‚ it operated about 12000 restaurants in all 50 states and in 74 countries and U.S. territories worldwide through a combination of company-owned and franchised operations‚ which together employed nearly 400‚000 people worldwide. Two major ways in which Burger King differentiates itself from competitors are the way it cooks hamburgers by its
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The Factories Act‚ 1948‚Section 51 to 60: 51.Weekly hours: * No employee will work more than 48 hoours in a week. 52.Weekly Holidays: * NO worker will work on the first day of the week. * Incase he is made to work the he should get a holiday 3 days immediately before or after the first day for which the responsible manager has to send a notice to the inspector for approval which must be displayed in the factory notice board. 53.Compensatory holidays: * In case an employee
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