Chapter 13: Multiple Choice Questions 1. The typical time horizon for aggregate planning is a. less than a month b. up to 3 months c. 3 to 18 months d. over one year 2. Which of the following is the term used for medium range capacity planning with a time horizon of three to eighteen months? a. material requirements planning b. short-range planning c. strategic planning d. aggregate planning 3. Aggregate planning is capacity planning for
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND A. Introduction Computerization‚ commonly referred to as digitalization‚ refers to the shift to a society where computers are ubiquitous; to carry out‚ control‚ or conduct by means of a computer. When we talk about computerization we are speaking of the growth of computer technology that controls most of the items we use in our daily lives. Everywhere we turn we see an electronic item run by computers. Basically‚ computers make life easier for people
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Small Vineyard Management in the Finger Lakes There are many so called “tricks of the trade” dealing with the managing a vineyard of any size big or small (Hagen). You need to know a lot of that of different “odds and ends jobs” to be able to take care of everything dealing with a small vineyard (Andersen). According to the book “Wines of North America” by Bernard Moore‚ knowing the history of your area and important information of the grape vines is very important. Depending on how you “take care
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Due to the continuous efforts towards trade liberalization‚ there has been a substantial increase for transport and logistics‚ and thus an increase in the supply of service from custom brokers. Custom brokers have been traditionally playing an important role as an intermediary between trade and Customs administration. The procedures performed evolved from mere cargo transportation to the provision of complete logistics solution‚ which
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Discuss Somerset’s global supply chain. Somerset Furniture Company (SFC) was founded in 1957 in Randolph County‚ Virginia. Traditionally‚ SFC manufactured large‚ medium-priced‚ ornate residential home wood furniture such as bedroom cabinets and chests of draws‚ and dining and living room cabinets‚ tables‚ and chairs. Somerset prides itself on customer service. They believe that late deliveries to its customers would harm its credibility and result in loss of customers and excessive inventories.
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The intermodal shipping container is a large steel box that is built in a small number of standard sizes to allow transportation of goods by ship‚ truck‚ train‚ and even airplane. The container as simple of an object that it is has had a profound social and economic impact. The impact was first initially felt by actors in the shipping industry‚ particularly port workers and shipping companies. With any type of effective new technology the containers impact became much wider affecting not only the
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adequate resources. For instance‚ the Dulhasti Power Plant is in a region that has inadequate infrastructure to support such a large undertaking. Rather than simply supplying the project with raw materials such as concrete‚ wood‚ stone and steel via trucking or railway it had to rely on said shipments to be brought in by aircraft which is incredibly expensive. Another variable to harsh geographic conditions in the case of the power plant were political. Due to unrest between the separatist forces from
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west side of Chicago‚ with an estimated cost of $60 per square foot. This option of building a new facility on the west side of Chicago poses many pros and cons. The company would lose the proximity to their retail stores‚ lose the low metropolitan trucking rates‚ as well as lose the benefit of being located so close to the largest concentration of business offices in the area. The
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were forced to downsize. First it began with budget costs‚ and onto pay cuts‚ and finally downsizing of staff members. The first step in recovering a business from the plunging hit in the economy is to start making budget cuts. At my father’s trucking company‚ Churchill from Detroit‚ they began with switching to more energy efficient equipment. Churchill also cut the truck driver’s lunch fund. This was a fund set aside to make sure there was always a refrigerator full of food in the trucker’s
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“OLD SPICE: THE MAN YOUR MAN COULD SMELL LIKE” CASE KEY SUCCESS FACTORS OF THE CASE 3 C out of 5 C analysis in Marketing worked very well. 5 C are…. - Customers - Competitors - Competent - Collaborators - Context * Collaborators who are ad agencies in this case may be one of the reasons of success but I exclude it because it is hard to major how the ad design are unique and clever in a numerical way. SUCCESS FACTOR 1 “CUSTOMERS” Organize the Old Spice brand into 3 product line • • •
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