Rich Manufacturing Saint Leo University MBA 540 Sep 8‚ 2011 Why do many firms use cost-plus pricing for supply contracts? Firms use cost-plus pricing in order to cover their operating costs. Cost-plus means they can increase the price to their customers with whom they have contracts when the operating costs rise. Operating costs can rise for many reasons and cost-plus pricing allows firms the flexibility to manage operating costs. This flexibility is often needed when the price
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CASE BLUE RIDGE MANUFACTURING 1. Context and Problem Definition Blue Ridge Manufacturing produces and sells towels for the U.S. ‘sports towel’ market. A ‘sports towel’ is a towel that has the promotion of an event or a logo printed on it. Their most popular use is distribution in connection with major sporting events such as the Super Bowl or the U.S. Open. The firm designs‚ knits‚ prints and embroiders towels in three sizes: regular (18”x18”)‚ hand (12”x20”) and mid-range (15”x24”). Occasionally
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Riordan Manufacturing FIN 370 February 2013 University of Phoenix Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a global manufacturer with projected annual earnings of $46 million. The parent company Riordan Industries Incorporated is a Fortune 1000 enterprise. The company specializes in manufacturing plastic beverage containers‚ custom plastic parts‚ and plastic fan parts. Manufacturers from the automotive‚ aircraft‚ appliance‚ as well beverage makers and bottlers are major customers. The
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Manufacturing Overhead Name Institution Manufacturing Overhead Manufacturing overhead costs play a vital role in determining final cost of the product. Manufacturing overhead represents all the costs that the company incurs indirectly and not related to the cost of direct labor‚ direct materials or direct cost of machines (Donald‚ 2010). In short‚ companies are not able to trace these costs to individual items during the manufacturing process. Examples of overhead
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Strategic Plan Riordan Manufacturing is a mid-size American company that was founded in 1991‚ employs 550 people and has projected annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan has three manufacturing locations‚ two in the United States and one in China. Riordan understands the importance of strategic planning and will lay out their reasoning in this paper. Competitive advantages‚ sustainability‚ innovation and ethical and social responsibilities will be addressed‚ as well as cultural and structural leadership
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Dr. Riordan‚ a professor of chemistry he started Riordan plastics‚ Inc in 1991. Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics‚ medical supplies‚ stents‚ automotive parts‚ appliance manufacture ’s parts‚ airplane parts‚ and beverage containers manufacturer. Riordan has 500 employees with a projected annual earnings of $46 million and a fortune of 1000 enterprises with revenues of $1 billion. Riordan Manufacturing has 4 worldwide locations Albany Georgia‚ Pontiac Michigan‚ Hangzhou China‚ and the company
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Module 5 Abrasive Processes (Grinding) Version 2 ME‚ IIT Kharagpur Lesson 28 Selection of wheels and their conditioning Version 2 ME‚ IIT Kharagpur Instructional Objectives At the end of this lesson the students would be able to (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) identify need and purpose of grinding wheel specification state the role of various compositional parameters of the grinding wheel state the logical steps in selecting a grinding wheel recognize need and purpose of grinding wheel conditioning
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White‚ 2013). Beck Manufacturing requires assistance with determining capacity of each of their systems and how the capacity can be increased. Beck has four departments including milling‚ grinding‚ boring and drilling and each department is essential in producing steering gears. A manufactured product is often an assembly of multiple parts (Obi‚ 2010). There are several machines within each department that work to produce a piece of the gear. The president of Beck Manufacturing‚ Al Beck has provided
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Polyester Manufacturing Polyester fibers‚ the synthetic fibers‚ are long chain polymers derived from coal‚ air‚ water‚ and petroleum. They are formed through chemical reaction between an acid and alcohol. In this reaction‚ two or more molecules combine to make a large molecule whose structure repeats throughout its length. These molecules are very stable and strong. There are variations in the compositions and therefore in the properties of polyester fibers. Types of Polyester The polyester
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implementation issues. This lean survey first describes the philosophy‚ the tools and the supporting management behaviour to successfully implement lean manufacturing and continuous improvement. As shown‚ lean is not simply a set of tools and concepts‚ which can be implemented by command and control. Rather it is a fully integrated manage- 2 ment and manufacturing philosophy and approach in which the human dimension is the single most important element for success. Primary data form a survey was gathered
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