CASE: GS-3A DATE: 05/01 (Rev’d. 3/8/04) Hewlett-Packard Company DeskJet Printer Supply Chain (A) INTRODUCTION Brent Cartier‚ Manager for Special Projects in the Materials Department of Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company’s Vancouver Division‚ clicked off another mile. It had been a long week and it looked like it would be a long weekend as well‚ based on the preparation that needed to be done for Monday’s meeting with Group Management on worldwide inventory levels for the DeskJet Printer product line
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Situational Analysis Molson Coors bring to you a product that offers a healthier lifestyle. A beer that gives no hangover what we call ‘Molson Light’ is an extension to our 67 calorie beer that avoids hangovers and nauseous feelings for the next day. As this generation is now leaning towards healthier options‚ Molson Coors does not want them to sacrifice the fun they can be having. Molson light is a beer that targets the working force as well as university/college students. Therefore‚ the beer
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I. HP Background and Overview of The Case I.1 HP History After graduated as electrical engineers from Stanford University‚ Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard become close friends during a two-week camping trip‚ and they had an idea of having a business together.They did anything at the first time of having a business just to bring a nickel.They made a bowling alley foul-line indicator‚ a clock drive for a telescope‚ a thing to make a urinal flush automatically‚ and a shock machine to make people lose
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HP provides people with opportunities to learn essential business and IT skills‚ empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs to succeed in a global economy. For example‚ HP LIFE e-Learning uses HP’s innovative cloud-based technology‚ enabling millions of entrepreneurs and students to establish and grow their own businesses‚ create jobs‚ and help communities thrive. They extend the reach of HP LIFE e-Learning with partners such as the Education Development Center Inc.‚ United Nations Industrial
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successful. HP – Compaq Case – As the PC‚ printing and services related to this and IT were changing fast because of customers and enterprise’s increased expectation from the manufacturer and service providers. The industry saw the biggest change from 1990 to 2000. In this period Dell became leader in PC space mainly using the the make to order concept and then dealing directly through their web site with the customers. And IBM was leader in high end high growth service related space. HP on the
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HP DESKJET 1. HP is in an inventory crisis. What should it do? Qualitatively evaluate the options given in case A: (a) Build a new European factory‚ (b) Utilize air shipments for Europe (c) Do better forecasting (d) Reduce customer service by lowering fill rate (e) Keep more inventory. a) HP has 3 distribution centers. Those of Europe and Asia Pacific Distribution Centers are in an inventory crisis. Especially crisis is becoming deeper in European Distribution Center. Is it a solution
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Sustainability at ^ Hewlett-Packard: FROMTHEORYTO PRACTICE Lynelle Preston "The Internet and related information technologies hold the promise of rapid‚ sustainable economic growth that directly benefits everyone on the planet. However‚ the same forces could also trigger traumatic social‚ environmental and economic disruption. . . . If technology firms simply follow strategies of maximizing short-term shareowner value by encouraging maximum consumption of products by customers‚ we exacerbate
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HP Pendrive Creative Brief Iman Giri ADV 140 - 17/01/13 BRAND STATEMENT The HP Brand is a “lifestyle” brand that provides electronic gadgets. PROJECT BACKGROUND Wheather you are very much active in computer and need to transfer lots of office presentations‚works‚songs‚movies HP provides pendrives to fit your kind of lifestyle.It had developed itself to cater to those who are active and value transfering files‚music‚movies etc.HP provides a varity of pendrives for the purpose of being
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Hewlett-Packard‚ Inc (HP) and Mike Thomas of Cisco Systems‚ Inc (Cisco) were both leaders of strategic alliance management teams that were formed in early 1997. Both teams were created to help facilitate the strategic alliance that was formed between HP and Cisco. As with all alliances‚ a wide variety of issues and challenges emerged that had be to be resolved and it was the purpose of the alliance teams to solve such issues. Beginning in February 2002‚ a formal contract to expand the HP and Cisco alliance
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to maintain satisfactory product availability. THE DESKJET SUPPLY CHAIN The network of suppliers‚ manufacturing sites‚ distribution centers (DCs)‚ dealers‚ and customers for the DeskJet product make up the DeskJet supply chain (see Exhibit 17.14). HP in Vancouver does manufacturing. There are two key stages in the manufacturing process: (1) printed circuit assembly and test (PCAT) and (2) final assembly and test (FAT). PCAT involves the assembly and testing of electronic components (like integrated
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