1. Competitive advantage A distinctive competence is a unique firm-specific strength that allows a company to better differentiate its products and/or achieve substantially lower costs than its rivals and thus gain a competitive advantage. Resources are financial‚ physical‚ social or human‚ technological‚ and organizational factors that allow a company to create value for its customers. Company resources can be divided into two types: tangible and intangible resources. Tangible resources are something
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Engineering POSTECH‚ Korea Abstract This paper studies channel coordination through revenue sharing contract between a single retailer and a single wholesaler in a two-period newsboy problem. Two models are discussed‚ a single-buying-opportunity model and a two-buying-opportunity model. We discuss how the revenue sharing ratio and the wholesale prices are to be determined in order to achieve channel coordination and a win-win outcome. We find that the wholesale prices are set to be lower
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Tutorial 8 Sourcing & Purchasing Decisions Part A MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. One advantage of outsourcing is that it: a. gives the company a high degree of control over its operations. b. increases the company’s access to state-of-the-art products and processes. c. protects the company’s proprietary designs and processes. d. encourages the development of the company’s core competencies. 2. Which of these is an indirect cost associated with insourcing?
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A – Supply Chain Strategy The supply chain strategy chosen for the power tool company is a long term partnering relationship with few suppliers. The long term vision of the company is to make quality products and constantly stay ahead of the competition with innovation. The best way to accomplish this strategic long term goal is to partner with key suppliers that operate using a strategy of long term thinking based on trust and transparency. Ray Kroc was one of the pioneers on forming partnerships
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Supply Chain Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry Dick Carlsson Södra Cell International AB‚ SE-351 89 Växjö‚ Sweden Sophie D’Amours FOR@C‚ CIRRELT‚ Université Laval‚ G1K 7P4‚ Québec‚ Canada Alain Martel FOR@C‚ CIRRELT‚ Université Laval‚ G1K 7P4‚ Québec‚ Canada Mikael Rönnqvist The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration‚ NO-5045 Bergen‚ Norway October 2006 Working Paper DT-2006-AM-3 Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks‚ Logistics and Transportation
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INTRODUCTION Competitive advantage(CA) is an advantage competitors gain by providing or offering customers or consumers greater value for their money through product and service differentiation or through lower prices. Maintaining competitive advantage is crucial to many businesses or organizations’ success in order to survive in the market. Competitive advantage is characterized by superior performance which could be an attribute to outperform the competitors whether current or potential; or gaining
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9 THE EVOLUTION OF CROCS‚ INC.: WILL CROCS FACE EXTINCTION? Scott Droege‚ Western Kentucky University Lily C. Dong‚ University of Alaska-Fairbanks CASE DESCRIPTION The primary subject matter of this case concerns the four “Ps” of marketing—product‚ price‚ place‚ and promotion. Secondary issues examined include entrepreneurship and business strategy. The case has a difficulty level three‚ appropriate for junior level courses. The case is designed to be taught in one class hour and is expected
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STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE FROM OPERATIONS DRAFT SYLLABUS This syllabus is tentative and subject to change. MEETINGS: ROOM: INSTRUCTOR: Josh Reed‚ Room KMC 8-79‚ (212) 998-0584 jreed@stern.nyu.edu OFFICE HOURS: TEACHING ASSISTANT: OFFICE HOURS: REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS: CUSTOM TEXT: Competitive Advantage from Operations (Sixth Edition) a customized text created for Stern students including
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INTEGRATING THE SUPPLY CHAIN Case Study - Friedland Timbers co. Johann Klassen is the Managing Director of Friedland Timbers co. which makes specialised wood products for the construction industry. He has recently been worried by late deliveries to some important customers. The industry is very competitive‚ and Johann knows that customers will go to other suppliers if he cannot guarantee deliveries. The marketing manager is particularly upset because he has worked with these customers for a
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Ryanair: Revolutionizing the Airline Industry Isuru ‘Nimesh’ Wickramasinghe AVIT 423 St. Cloud State University Novermber 17th 2011 Europe’s new low cost airlines are growing at an exponential rate‚ taking over market share from the big traditional airlines and some of them such as RyanAir is carrying more passengers than the British Airlines (Dr. Dennis). Trends in the past 2 decades have all shown of a constant and almost fierce growth in these low-cost airlines and it looks like they
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