STRAYER UNIVERSITY THE SHELL OIL COMPANY: FUEL OIL CARGO TRANSPORTATION COST MINIMIZATION A TERM PAPER SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR FARAMARZ FATHNEZHAD‚ PH.D. QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR BUSINESS MAT540 007016 WINTER 2006 BY ALPHARD VICTOR T. ROMERO ALEXANDRIA‚ VIRGINIA MARCH 2006 Contents Chapter 1. Introduction…………………..…...…………..……………………..………..2 2. The Case Of Shell Oil Company……………………………….…...……..….3 3. The Case Figures And Calculations.……….…………………….….....
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Case 1: Strong Tie Ltd. Background Located in Winnipeg‚ Minnesota‚ Strong Tie Ltd. is a family–owned corporation that is still owned by the Johnstone family. Strong Tie Ltd. designs and makes custom structural connectors. These connectors are used to reinforce wood joints in the construction of houses‚ fences‚ and other edifices. Strong Tie Ltd. has been a major leader in this industry‚ however there is growing competition from low-wage countries such as China. They previously had a market share
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KETI Constructions (Ii) Ltd. T H E C O M P A N Y KETI Constructions (I) Ltd. KETI CONSTRUCTIONS (I) LTD. ’Vidya Deep’‚ 15/3‚ Manoramaganj‚ Indore -452001 (M.P.) Ph. (0731) 2496931/32/33/34 Fax: +91-0731-4096457
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ARAB OIL BOOM The Arab oil boom took place after the 1967 war. The 1973 oil crisis began on October 17‚ 1973‚ when Arab members of the OPEC‚ during the Yom Kippur War‚ announced that they would no longer ship petroleum to nations that had supported Israel. This included the United States and its allies in Western Europe. At around this same time‚ the OPEC members agreed to use their leverage over the world price-setting mechanism for oil in order to quadruple world oil prices. The dependence
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CASE STUDY – THE UO SWIFT Ltd. UO Swift Ltd. was promoted for nineteen years back as a company manufacturing automobile parts with an investment of Rupees 5 crores by Ismail Oberai. He took over as its chief executive and is occupying the same position till date. Ismail is an automobile engineer himself possessed rich experience of working abroad and in Hindustan Motors Ltd. in India. He is dynamic and risk-taking. He always emphasized on maintaining high quality standards. Initially‚ the products
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GROUP PROJECT ON NIRMA LTD. SUBJECT: ACCOUNT FOR MANAGERS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Financial analysis is essential for problem analysis and decision making for any organization. It has been a great pleasure to work on this project and has been an enriching learning experience. We are very grateful to the director of our college‚ GLS-ICT (MBA)‚ Mr. Hitesh Ruparel for giving us this valuable opportunity. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude towards the professor in-charge Prof
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in M.M. ISPAHANI Ltd. for completing my term paper. I was rotated in almost every desk of the organization and all over the factory. Statement of the Problem: The efficient management of working capital is very vital for a business survival. This is premised on the fact having too much working capital signifies inefficiency‚ whereas too little cash at hand signifies that the survival of business is shaky. Here I focus on working capital management practices in M. M. ISPAHANI Ltd. to evaluate the
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NEW OIL ESSAY Water is a resource lots of people take for granted. When water starts to become more scarce throughout time‚ who should take control over it? Public companies? Or Private? I believe the answer to this dilemma is that public companies should mostly take control of the water system but still work with private companies to benefit the water supply the most. They should mostly control the water supply because I think that private companies won’t be able to handle the water resources properly
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America’s Foreign Oil Dependency: What are the options to stop this crisis? For Professor Sharon Mitchener From August 11‚ 2006 BUS 531 Research Proposal Abstract The topic of this paper is America’s foreign oil dependency. The purpose of this paper is to suggest how might America completely destroy or at least greatly mitigate its dependency on crude oil to fuel Americans’ cars‚ especially foreign crude oil. Library literature‚ newspaper articles‚ encyclopedias‚ and the Internet
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Business 352 Gulf Oil Company Sarah Barrette‚ Trevor Haug‚ Tyler Crawley‚ Maxwell Steimle Group #1 10/31/12 Table of Contents Recent History Page 3 The Takeover Pages 3-4 The Auction Page 5 Financial Analysis Page 5-6 Standard Oil Company of California’s Alternatives Page 6 Recommendations Page 7 Works Cited Page 8 Appendix Balance Sheet (Table 1) Appendix 1 Operating Sheet (Table 2) Appendix 2 Financial Analysis (Table 3) Appendix 3 Give appropriate
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