Supply Chain Management Case study of Seven-Eleven Japan Company A. Background Seven-Eleven‚ a famous convenience store‚ was established in 1973 and had its first store in Tokyo in May 1974. It was found by Masatoshi Ito while he thought that superstores were the wave of the future after a trip to the United States. The company was first listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1979. During 1985-2009‚ the numbers of store and its annual sales experienced tremendous growth that the
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ERP Localization in a Foreign Subsidiary of the K Company Ji-Ye Mao Wei Wang Mianzhen Pan Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies (MNCs) are often mandated to adopt the same ERP package used by their parent‚ but the results vary to large degrees. ERP implementation in foreign subsidiaries involves bigger challenges than at home. It is partly because of potential misfits between the software package‚ which reflects European and U.S. industry practices‚ and the local cultural
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Japan (日本‚ Nippon) is a country in Asia. It has many islands. Four of them are big‚ and the biggest is the 7th largest island in the world. This island is called Honshu. The islands are near the East Asian coast‚ in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Japanese people call their country "Nihon" or "Nippon"‚ which means "the origin of the sun" in Japanese. HISTORY In 1941‚ Japan hit Pearl Harbor in Hawaii‚ a water base of the United States and destroyed or damaged many ships and airplanes.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT ACT‚ 1999 - Economic Liberalization - FERA 1973 was reviewed in 1993 - Task Force set up - Submitted Report in 1994 - Resulted in FEMA - Changes in Economy 1) Substantial increase in Foreign Exchange Reserves 2) Growth in Foreign trade 3) Rationalization of Tariffs 4) Current Account convertibility 5) Liberalization of Indian investments abroad 6) Increased access to external commercial borrowings 7) Participation of Financial Institutional Investors
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Controlled Foreign Company Regime (CFC) Introduction to the Concept We are in the age of witnessing an exponential boom in foreign trade and a rise of giant Multi-National Corporations (MNC’s) who are trying to maximize their global presence and minimizing their tax costs. To curb one of the measures of tax avoidance by parking the profits to countries with low tax jurisdictions without actually bringing the profits to the parent company which is located in a higher tax charging country‚ the income
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Etheart ANTH 3550 Japan Tuesday‚ February 12‚ 2013 Japanese Cultural Nationalism Altering Immigrant Perception Change by Force Status minorities in Japan are those who are not educated‚ do not come from educated families‚ or have unfavorable occupations. The value and worth of a status minority in Japanese culture is rated amongst their familial/ancestral connections to rates of production and which then determines individual godliness and worth amongst a society. Ethnic minorities in Japan are Burakuin
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Rizal in Japan (Land of Cherry Blossoms) Feb. 28 – April 13 1888 • Rizal left Hong Kong on board of the Oceanic‚ an American steamer on his way to Japan. Places he went… YOKOHAMA GRAND HOTEL Places he went… TOKYO TOKYO HOTEL People he met JuanPerezCaballero • Secretary of the Spanish legation visited him in the hotel inviting him to stay in the Spanish legation. • Knowing that it is a plot to monitor him‚ Rizal accepted the offer for the following reasons: REASONS WHY HE ACCEPTED CABALLERO’S
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The Joint Stock Companies Act 1844‚ which enabled companies to be formed by "deed of settlement" and the Limited Liability Act 1855‚ established a general incorporation procedure which offered limited liability to shareholders and gave recognition to the company as a separate legal persona. By the Joint Stock Companies Act 1856‚ the deed was replaced with today’s style of constitution‚ namely the registration of the Memorandum of Association and the Articles of Association. The contents of these
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington‚ D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31‚ 2008 OR TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from to Commission File No. 1-2217 20FEB200902055832 (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) DELAWARE 58-0628465 (State or other jurisdiction of
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WALMART in Japan 1. Why‚ historically‚ has the level of FDI in Japan been so low? 2. What are the potential benefits to the Japanese economy of greater FDI? 3. How did the entry if Walmart into the Japanese retail sector benefit that sector? Who lost as a result of Walmart’s entry? 4. Why has it been so hard for Walmart to make a profit in Japan? What might the company have done differently? Japan‚ an island nation on the Pacific ocean‚ has none of the natural advantages that have facilitated
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