Zara: Case questions 1. Coordination of a supply chain is always important. However‚ such efforts are usually initiated by certain parties. For the global apparel industry‚ would it be more suitable for downstream or upstream parties to be the driver of the coordination? Motivate your answer with the use of two important characteristics of the apparel industry. 2. Clearly Zara has a strong relationship with all parties within the supply chain. a) Which of the following retailer-supplier relationships
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Question #1: Wholesalers provide value in the supply chain to producers‚ manufacturers‚ and customers by building warehouses in specific regions‚ taking ownership of the goods and distributing those goods. They have the ability to store nonperishable goods removing the burden of storage from the producers and manufacturers. The wholesaler can also purchase a large amount of products from the producers/manufacturers so that retailers can have access to them when needed. Producers and manufacturers
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Finnegan’s Gardens The shared costs of each service line can be allocated in several different ways. You can allocate based on FTE’s‚ direct-labor costs‚ direct labor plus direct materials or by square footage usage. If you were to allocate the shared costs for Finnegan’s Gardens by FTE you would allocate $24‚778 to design‚ $89‚203 to installation‚ $56‚991 to maintenance and $24‚778 to administration. To calculate the allocation based on FTE’s‚ I divided the FTE number given for each service
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Case Write-up Week 1 1. Supply Chain 2. Who are the various customers for textbooks? What do these customers want in terms of goods and services related to textbooks? From the publisher’s point of view‚ who is the critical customer? The various customers are professors‚ students‚ bookstores‚ schools‚ and online retailers. The customers want “on demand” accessibility‚ flexibility‚ and more content in the textbooks. The professors are the critical customer because they directly impact the
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Signora Da Vinci by Robin Maxwell: SUMMARY Caterina is the Signora da Vinci. She is Leonardo’s mother. She is the daughter of a well-educated man‚ Ernesto‚ Vinci’s apothecary. He had an alchemical laboratory‚ a medicinal garden and an apothecary shop where Caterina normally helped. Caterina’s mom died when she was a baby. Caterina was raised by her dad and by her aunt. At the age of eight‚ his dad decided she was ready to start her education. Ernesto told Caterina that eight was the greatest
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| Sales & Distribution system | | | | | By Christopher Arputha Raj | 2011014 | Fuzail Sohail Anjum | 2011019 | Nitish Pal | 2011094 | Sanil Santosh Pai | 2011106 | Amit Purohit | 2011129 | Sujit Deshpande | 2011179 | | Contents Sr no | Title | Page no | | Executive Summary | | 1 | Introduction | | 2 | Generic flow of product | | 3 | Channel structure existing in the organization | | | a. Number of levels | | | b. Intensity | |
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Technical Problem The Metric Machine Parts and Supplies Corporation (MMPS) is a large growing global business with a few network problems. MMPS have many difficulties with their current network service that has been monitored by a third party telecommunication network who does not think anything is wrong with their service. Some of the technical difficulties that MMPS faces are frequent telecommunication network crashes that lead to bad customer services satisfaction to their customers. Due to the
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Finance 460 Buy/Sell Case Study Santa Clara Wealth Management (SCWM) has agreed in principal to be sold to Anne and Barry‚ two recent graduates of the MBA program at SCU. Anne has a strong background in business development and will lead the firm’s efforts in recruiting new clients and managing client relationships. Barry will be focused on internal operations including investment strategy‚ vendor relations‚ and other operations-related matters such as HR‚ Finance and Accounting‚ and Compliance
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E14‚ Page 549: Solution: You would buy the American call for $75‚ exercise the call immediately in order to purchase a share of Pintail stock for $50‚ and then sell the share of Pintail stock for $200. The net gain is: $200 – ($75 + $50) = $75. If the call is a European call‚ you should buy the call‚ deposit in the bank an amount equal to the present value of the exercise price‚ and sell the stock short. This produces a current cash flow equal to: $200 – $75 – ($50/1 + r) At the
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Barilla Case Study 1. What are the reasons for the increase in variability in Barilla’s supply chain? The supply chain of Barilla is highly variable because of a number of reasons. One of the major reasons is the fact that the distribution network for the firm is complicated because of the involvement of middlemen who make the supply chain longer and complex. In order to have adequate supplies‚ the firm depends on forecasting models‚ which are improper‚ rather than depending on the distributors
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