1) What caused the existing system at ETO to fail? This system was based on the assumption that direct costs and overhead are consumed in the same proportion for all product testing. However‚ this is not the case and therefore the system failed. For example‚ due to the implementation of the vendor certification and the just-in-time delivery‚ some products are already tested and do not need any further tests‚ and ETO faces a decreasing number of the tests performed. On the other hand‚ new components
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has been using the Qualitative method rather than Quantitative method. 2. What is the importance of accurate forecasting for YFHC? Justify with case specific information and avoid general comments. (5 marks) (max.150 words) 3. What should be an appropriate forecasting horizon (duration)? Justify with one specific example connected to the case. (5 marks) (max. 150 words) 4. Please draw the graph of 4 years demand data and write down your observations (5 marks) (max.100 words for observations)
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Is Isom’s business vision responsive to the situation? In general‚ most of the companies in property and casualty insurance business would want to be high performing specialists rather than generalists. Yes‚ in this case however his vision was responsive to the situation. He had a good view of the situation and knew that radical shift in the divisions strategy is required to turn around the future. P&C was a low performing generalist insurance division • Years of
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Ducati & TPG – A “Wild Ride” LBO Case Study December‚ 2010 Q1. The nature of the opportunity and the question of brand expansion 1.1 The situation of the target firm Positives: (1) The Ducati brand was world famous;(2) The product was great in terms of technology and quality and it had won the 1990‚ 1991‚ 1992‚ 1994‚ and 1995 World Superbike championships against strong competition;(3) Ducati’s product family was broad offering 15 models in four families based on seven different engines;(4)
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Tire City Case 1993 1994 1995 Notes-96 Multipli er 1996 Notes-97 Multipli er 1997 INCOME STATEMENT Net Sales Cost of Sales Gross Profit 16230 9430 6800 20355 11898 8457 staff projected 20% 23505 incr 58.1% 93‚ 58.5% 94‚ 13612 57.9% 95 9893 maintain same relationship to sales; 32% 93‚ 31.2% 94‚ 7471 31.8% 95 but "no depreciation on new expansion in 96 and expense on other assets should 213 remain the same % of S/T (Maturities of L/T) & L/T debt; 10.5% 93‚ 10.6% 94‚ 10.4% 94 95 2115 Rate (% of
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Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) is an $8Billion dollar network of businesses involved in retail‚ financial services and petroleum operations. They had just completed a strategic plan in 2002 with a clear corporate goal "to become a top quartile performer in our market sector as measured by total return to stockholders". This mandate guided CIO Andy Wnek to create IT strategies‚ imperatives and vision of "an agile It team‚ aligned to business priorities‚ operating a simpler technical environment with
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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Q1) Comment on the forecasting method being used by Yankee? Suggest changes that you feel are justified? Ans1) Yankee presently is using the qualitative method for forecasting future demand. Qualitative method as we know is subject to experts’ intuition‚ experience‚ and opinions. So each person according to his/her past experience‚ forecasts the demand for the future. For example‚ Phil Stanton who is in the operations makes his decision of producing in the future on the basis of demand forecast
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6.0 Recommendations Acid Test Ratio The acid test ratio shows that Muhibbah have less liquidity which indicates that they holding low amount of cash but high level of inventories .They may have difficulty paying its current liabilities on time. Business is relying on turnover of stock to meet obligations. Here‚ we recommend that Muhibbah should consider level of their accounts payable or paying off their liabilities and ensure the cash flow of the business is optimal meaning that the company must
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