J & L Railroad 1. J & L can use heating oil futures to hedge its exposure to diesel fuel prices. Which futures position should J & L take? Explain. J&L Railroad should take a long position. They need to purchase diesel fuel in the future‚ they don’t produce diesel fuel‚ so they would want to take a future to be able to lock in the price of diesel fuel for future purchases. 2. What problems could the use of heating oil futures for hedging create for J&L? Note: I assume this question is asking
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as a small company in their basement and has grown into a giant manufacturer with the company’s products being used globally in almost all sectors‚ including automotive‚ aerospace‚ chemical processing‚ electronic‚ manufacturing‚ healthcare‚ military‚ and textile industries. W. L Gore and Associates is best known around the world for producing high performance fabrics‚ medical products and electronics using polytetrafluorethylene; an artificial fiber referred to as PTFE. The company was founded
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19 1. Worldwide Paper Company has an opportunity to take on a new project. With this project they would be considering an addition of a new on site Longwood wood yard. The yearly cash flows for this investment seem to be very good if everything remained or exceeded the assumptions on which the cash flows $18 million is not a small investment but in the long run the company catching up to get back the invested money and also allowing them to make huge profits. The company is paying a 40% tax from
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Dip Com (LM ) –SCM Tutorial 6 Text Book-Chapter Eight Discussion Questions 1. (1).Explain why lean production and Six Sigma are so important to successful supply chain management. Ans. Use of the term lean has begun to replace use of the term JIT‚ and is associated with the Toyota Production system. Lean is broader‚ although closely related to JIT‚ and describes a philosophy incorporating tools that seek to economically optimize time‚ human resources‚ assets‚ and productivity‚ while
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VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS OF GRAPE CROP FROM NASIK‚ MAHARASHTRA Submitted by Ms. Pallavi Balaso Mane Roll No. 20‚ PGDRDM 8th Batch National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj‚ Hyderabad. Executive Summary Value chain analysis (VCA) focuses on three key areas: First‚ the dynamics of information in the value chain‚ from final consumption through to primary production and input suppliers and back again. Second‚ the creation and flow of value‚ in the eyes of the final consumer‚ at each
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nature of the benzyl side chain (UPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature‚ 1983). The presence of the benzene ring determines that phenylalanine is an aromatic amino acid. Phenylalanine‚ being an essential amino acid‚ is needed by the body for many necessary biological functions‚ but cannot be produced by the body (Ehrlich‚ 2013). Thus‚ all phenylalanine taken in to the body must be ingested. Phenylalanine can be found in three different forms; D-phenylalanine‚ L-phenylalanine‚ and DL-
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Overview(larson & toubro) The evolution of L&T into the country’s largest engineering and construction organization is among the most remarkable success stories in Indian industry. L&T was founded in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1938 by two Danish engineers‚ Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren Kristian Toubro. Both of them were strongly committed to developing India’s engineering capabilities to meet the demands of industry. Beginning with the import of machinery from Europe‚ L&T rapidly took on engineering and construction
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Faster response to changing business needs through end-to-end visibility into supply chain operations This implementation won the award for innovation by the US Supply Chain Council (SCC) SCC‚ a renowned global nonprofit organization‚ has established the supply chain world’s most widely accepted framework for evaluating and comparing supply chain activities and their performance - the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR®) model. SITUATION Lack of consistent metrics‚ & reporting rules
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Value-Chain Analysis to Identify Resources and Capabilities at Under Armour The resource-based view (RBV) of a firm lies primarily in the application of bundle of valuable interchangeable and intangible or tangible resources at the firm’s disposal. For a firm to transform a short-run competitive advantage into a sustained competitive advantage requires these resources be heterogeneous and immobile. This is perhaps the biggest struggle Under Armour faces – the challenge of maintaining a differentiated
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1. J & L should hedge only some of its exposures to diesel fuel. Although there are several financial instruments available for J & L to hedge against the risk of rising diesel fuel prices‚ these instruments still have their own downsides and possibly their own risks. For example‚ the future contracts from NYMEX seems like an effective hedging strategy for J &L‚ but there are some difficulties in terms of using futures from NYMEX to hedge against the diesel prices. NYMEX does not trade
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