Strategic Management Thorntons Case Study THORNTONS PLC CASE STUDY STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT COURSE � OUTLINE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 1.0. INTRODUCTION 3 1.1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 3 1.2. CURRENT STATUS 5 1.2.1 SALES BREAKDOWN 5 1.2.2 STOCK INFORMATION 6 1.2.3 CURRENT STRATEGY 8 1.2.4 IMPROVED MARGIN AND COSTS 8 1.2.5 THORNTONS CAFÉ 9 2.0. CASE ANALYSIS 10 2.1. SCOPE OF BUSINESS 10 2.2. THE FIVE FORCES FRAMEWORK 10 2.3. STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES 12 2.3.1 RESOURCES 12 2.3.2 COMPETENCIES 12
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The Indian roads and highways sector has been a key driver of India’s growth story. With a network of over 4.1 million km‚ Indian roads carry about 60% of the total freight and 85% of total passenger traffic of the country. In the last 5 years‚ the total road network increased by about 0.8 million km from 3.32 million km at a CAGR of 4.4%‚ of which national and state highways network increased by 5‚182 km and 26‚522 km respectively. In addition‚ during this period‚ National Highways Authority of
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A customer wants to create an active standby system for Query Offloading. The Source server is an Oracle database running on Sun hardware‚ the desired target is MySQL running on Enterprise Linux. What solution would you recommend in this case? Mark for Review (1) Points GoldenGate Core (*) Streams Active DataGuard Oracle Data Integrator None of the above - This configuration can not be supported by the listed solutions Correct
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EXCEL LOGISTIC SERVICE Excel Logistics Services is a company that is in charge of 7 companies’ distribution and storage of goods. Specifically the company is Sprinflied Warehousing and Distribution Center which has many problems and errors in their processes‚ which is generating customer dissatisfaction. The major problem of this company lies in the bad offices‚ whether of quantities or wrong merchandise. This company has several flaws and yet‚ promising guests a quality of service that it was
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Overview of the BASF logistics operation in Southeast Asia 1.1 Company background 1.2 The supply chain and logistics operation of the company in Southeast Asia 2. Company’s problem identification 2.1 Lack of qualified personnel in logistics 2.2 Lack of appropriate logistics strategy 2.3 Overlapped organizational structure 2.4 Weak information system within the whole region 3. Recommendations 3.1 Changes in terms of logistics personnel 3.2 Implementation of one single logistics strategy within
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HOME DEPOT Financial Analysis The Home Depot at the end of 2000 stands on rock solid financial footing as the World’s largest home improvement Retailer. As they continue to grow in size‚ so has their outcome of success. Home Depot’s net revenues have grown 208% between FY 1995 and FY 2000. Home Depot’s growth in net earnings over the same period has been 284%. The revenue that the firm is retaining as profits is outweighing the total amount being brought into the company. In 1998‚ Home Depot was
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OF REVERSE LOGISTICS WITH IN NEW PRODUCT DESIGN: THE CASES STUDY IN CHINESE ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT (EEE) INDUSTRY ZHI YUAN WANG MSc in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management 1 INTEGRATION OF REVERSE LOGISTICS WITH IN NEW PRODUCT DESIGN: THE CASES STUDY IN CHINESE ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT (EEE) INDUSTRY BY ZHI YUAN WANG 2008 A DISSERTATION PRESENTED IN PART CONSIDERATION FOR THE DEGREE OF MSC IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ABSTRUCT
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3PL Practices in India Dr. B.S. Sahay Professor of Operations Management Chairman‚ Centre for Supply Chain Management SCM Centre for Supply Chain Management Management Development Institute Gurgaon‚ India Agenda for the Session • • • • • • SCM Some Facts Business Challenges Why 3PL in India? 3PL Practices in India Conclusions and Recommendations What should be done? Financial Improvements Percent Improvement 13.5% 12.3% 9.2% 10.5% 10.0% 10.0% 15.0% Financial Indicator Improvement in Sales
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Logistics and supply chain management are not new ideas. From the building of the pyramids to the relief of hunger in Africa‚ the principles underpinning the effective flow of materials and information to meet the requirements of customers have altered little. Throughout the history of mankind wars have been won and lost through logistics strengths and capabilities – or the lack of them. It has been argued that the defeat of the British in the American War of Independence can largely be attributed
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Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education Business Administration Discipline BAN5413 -- Supply Chain & Logistics Module 2010 – 2011 (1st Semester) Assignment 1.0 Introduction The objectives of this assignment are for students: - collating information of real firms and associating them with what have learnt in the lectures; and - applying the knowledge learnt in lectures to analyse the case‚ to identify issues/problems and/or to formulate solutions/recommendations
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