Supply Chain Management Group work 2: HP DESKJET PRINTER SC Group 11: Claudia Jongerius S120008 Sjoerd Groot S120011 Chris Louman S120035 Tom van der Laan S120042 PTMSc16: June 6th 2013 1. Consider the solution alternative - placing scientifically based inventory system‚ (say Periodic review system) - to solve inventory-service crisis. Estimate cycle inventory‚ safety inventory and pipeline inventory‚ for all desk jet printer models‚ to achieve 95% cycle service level (under
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Executive Summery Hewlett-Packard is trying to keep an edge against its competition by having extraordinary customer service. HP can better reach one of its target markets targeting college students by focusing on the parents who buy their college children printers. Three changes to HP printers are needed to better serve this niche and maintain Hewlett-Packard’s competitive edge against competitors such as Canon. The first is to make the ink more affordable‚ the second is to eliminate unneeded
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Hewlett Packard Michelle Costa December 3‚ 2012 MGT 249 Hewlett Packard‚ HP‚ is computer software‚ computer hardware‚ IT services and IT consulting American company. The name Hewlett Packard came to be after a coin toss which David Packard won. He decided to put William Hewlett’s name first. Bill and Dave met when they both attended and graduated from Stanford in 1934 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Bill and Dave founded Hewlett Packard‚ in a garage‚ in 1939. The garage‚ where
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I) Give an example for each one of the four types of supply chain‚ and then determine which type your company is adopting. 1. Integrated Make to Stock In this model‚ supplier make products in advance of demand and holds them in finished goods inventory‚ satisfying demand from that inventory as orders come in. The customer has little direct involvement in deciding the product features. In this environment‚ suppliers manufacture the goods and sell from the finished goods inventory and so this strategy
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The Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Merger Analysis The Proposed Merger with Compaq HP entered into an agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation in September 2001. In this definitive agreement‚ HP is going to purchase all of Compaq’s common shares outstanding‚ and pay a total price of 0.6325 shares of its common stock for each share of Compaq’s common stock. To evaluate this transaction for the benefits of HP’s shareholders‚ we use the excess earnings model to forecast HP’s stock price if it standalone
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the context of mergers and acquisitions. For example‚ if Company A has an excellent product but lousy distribution whereas Company B has a great distribution system but poor products‚ the companies could create synergy with a merger. In our case‚ Hewlett-Packard Company‚ a global provider of computers and imaging solutions‚ was focused on making computers and imaging technology. Compaq Computer Corporation was a leading provider of enterprise technology and solutions. Compaq designed developed and
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Supply Chain Strategies Integrated Supply Chain Management BUS631 Matthew Keogh This paper shall discuss the concept of supply chain strategies of Hewlett-Packard organization. Strategic planning and modeling (SPaM) is the Hewlett-Packard (HP) supply chain planning‚ analysis‚ and modeling system. “Hewlett-Packard ’s strategic planning and modeling (SPaM) team refined an approach using true optimization coupled with scenario analysis‚ selectively focused on the most
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areas. The customer was divided through entity or locations‚ therefore‚ each segment could be better served with more efficient use of firm facilities. Formis (2008) added that Dell operate physical store in domestic market. It show indirect sales of chain store or service center operate in US. Refer to global market. The direct sales like website or phone are remarkable. (Source: Dell fiscal 2011 in review) 1.3 Major competitors&Market position(leader‚ niche) The belw table provided by Ann(2008)
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Bibliography 8 1. What has caused the so-called Inventory/Service "Crisis"? In 1990’s‚ Hewlett-Packard faced several problems with inventory levels for the Deskjet Printer product line. This printer was produced in Vancouver’s facility and from there was shipped to a distribution center. HP has three distribution centers (DC)‚ in North America‚ Asia Pacific and Europe that at the moment were filled of Deskjet stock. Each DC have a make-to-stock system to guarantee product availability and
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What is the practical Application of text mining? The main practical application of text mining in this case was CRM focused and dealt with the process of how HP employed SAS Text Miner to determine what its most valuable customers were discussing and then how to develop new customer service strategies based on the recurring themes extracted from text mining. In HP’s case they wanted to monitor public insights and opinions (i.e. review sites‚ blogs) and bring science to customer relationships.
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