DSME 2030 Operations Management Introduction to Operations Management Sean Zhou CUHK Business School CUHK DSME 2030 Page 1 Why is so Successful? Founded in 1971‚ based in Memphis‚ Tennessee‚ with $44.3 billion annual revenue in 2013 Serve 220 countries and regions‚ 300 thousand employees Deliver 3.4 million packages daily with 654 planes and 43‚000 trucks Multiple divisions/operating units: FedEx Express‚ FedEx Ground‚ FedEx Freight‚ FedEx Services Fast and reliable On-time
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Professional Development Plan Maritza Maezze LDR531 12/11/2014 Lee Huffman Professional Development Plan According to the self-assessment each member in group A took‚ the team is formed by individuals who in the majority possess Cautious Style characteristics and are influenced by the recessive styles of Steadiness and Interactive. As a whole the team can be defined as a goal or task oriented group whose members are very organized‚ prefer precision and accuracy when setting up goals for themselves
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Star Company‚ Year: 1970 Founded By: Chris Rufer‚ President of The Morning Star Company Goal: To be the dominant player and achieve success through its unique self management approach. CASE SUMMARY The Morning Star Company was founded as a trucking company hauling tomatoes and peaches from farms to processing facilities. Morning Star Company manages the company by following a. Field to Factory Freshness and Efficiency b. Excellent Customer Services c. Cost Effectiveness and d. Single Product
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Education 300 Professor Huffman My Best Teacher My best teacher that I have had thus far in my academic teacher would have to be Elias Semaan. Professor Semaan taught the upper level Finance courses here at JMU and his intelligence as well as his passion captured my attention and made me want to absorb the knowledge that he was preaching. I had Professor Semaan my sophomore and junior year and he was great. He taught a difficult course‚ FIN 360 Analytical Methods in Finance but he made difficult
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1. Who do you consider the Itwo greatest leaders in American business - past or present? What did/do they do that makes you call them leaders versus managers? I consider Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to be the greatest leaders in American business. Over the past 25 years‚ technology was the industry of choice for many of the top business people. Microsoft ’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs both exemplify the explosion in that realm. Gates‚ Microsoft chairman and world ’s richest man‚ is the No. 1
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and high value items were supplied directly to Supercenters (SC) by suppliers. Another feature of Wal-Mart China’s distribution system was that the incoming shipments from suppliers arrived in diverse range of trucking and loading configuration while Wal-Mart outsourced standardized trucking fleet for all of its DC-DC and DC-SC shipments. The shipments from
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get the goods to Turkey through Romania would include $42‚000USD for shipping from North Korea to Romania‚ $10‚211USD to generate false documents‚ $6‚250USD for handling fees at the Liman (port)‚ $3‚100USD for Suez Canal charges‚ and $15‚000USD for trucking the goods into Turkey for a total cost of $76‚561USD which does not include the cost of the chemicals which was not given. The lumber should sell for $500‚000USD once inside of Turkish borders. This would take 43 days. The total cost to get the
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PART III EXAMINATION QUESTIONS CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF LOGISTICS Multiple Choice Questions 1. Logistics clearly contributes to ___________ and ___________ utility. a. time; place b. form; time c. place; form d. possession; time e. none of the above (a; p. 3) 2. ___________ utility refers to the value or usefulness that comes from a customer being able to take possession of a product. a. Time b. Place c. Form d. Possession (d; p. 3) 3. ___________ utility refers to having products available
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Brandon Correll AIU Online Marketing IP 3 - Revised Abstract This paper discusses the various distribution methods at the disposal of American Eagle Outfitters. It discusses product manufacture and how the products get from the manufacturers to the United States‚ and then to the American Eagle Outfitters stores. It discusses the best practices for distribution‚ as well as indirect vs. direct distribution. It shows the many direct and indirect ways that American Eagle Outfitters achieve this
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Ram Trucking considers their consumers as a united nation; meaning that they will stand together through the good and the bad and serve regardless. According to Ram Nation‚ “They serve because they’re kind folks with big hearts. They serve because they feel a
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