Case 4-3: Portland Bus Company Situation: Richard Kaplan is a buyer of Materials Department at Portland Bus Company. Reports to David‚ director of Material Department Be responsible for sourcing fabricated metal components PBC was owned by Dawe Motors First use of reverse auctions assisted by Laura Henning‚ business consultant for Bothe US operations Approximately 290 components Involving 7 suppliers Current situation Total annual purchases were approximately $250‚ and about $60 million to
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Shanzhai case solutions sunny What are the environmental factors that help drive the Shanzhai phenomenon? * In china‚ peoples are fearless experimenter’s mindset. * Eye holes in regulations specified Shanzhai folks scope to grow. * protection law of IP is very poor. * Comparatively weak‚ inconsistent or non-transparent business policy. * Shanzhai performers are very flexible & efficient vendors. What characteristics are critical to the success of Shanzhai
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Quebec and Ontario Childcare Policies Quebec and Ontario Childcare Policies A longitudinal study reveals a pattern of change in the childcare policies in Quebec and Ontario. The nature of change and their impact on the welfare of children manifest through a range of similarities and differences across the board. The pattern of change in the two regions shows some significant improvement from 1990s to the present moment. In the course of time‚ policy makers structured
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Guild Mortgage Company (“Guild”) is in receipt of your correspondence dated August 14‚ 2016 from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”). Guild appreciates the opportunity to review and respond to your concerns. Your correspondence raised concerns in relation to the processing of the assumption of your loan. You also expressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which your impound account was handled; specifically the late charges that were assessed to the account. With regards to
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Little Lamb Company hires Mary as an independent contractor to assist in the programming for a special project. Apparently‚ Mary impressed the company with her skills‚ so Little Lamb offered Mary a position once the special project is complete. Mary accepts the offer and begins working for the Little Lamb Company while using the company materials and working the same schedule as the rest of the company’s employees. After the projects full completion‚ Mary is asked to leave the company. Employer-Employee
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Villanova School of Business VSB 1002- Business Dynamics II Pharmacy Service Improvement at CVS (A) Harvard Business School Case 9-605-015 (Rev. October 20‚ 2006) Case Study Assignment Problems arose in almost every part of the fulfillment process‚ as explained below: Drop Off Staff asked for name‚ address‚ birth date‚ time of pick-up; then put script in slotted box (sectioned by hours of the day) in slot for one hour earlier than pick-up time Potential Drop Off Problem: No
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I. Statement of the Problem(s) With Effective Law Office Solution‚ Inc. growing and becoming bigger and better there is always room for improvement. Even though the ELOS has been growing the last 26 years‚ the rate of growth has slow down and ELOS is seeing more problems. Some of the local competitors have been gaining contracts that ELOS should have been receiving. Another problem is that there have been more complaints from existing clients‚ and each sales personnel is also doing more work than
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PROFITABILITY? Although the company seems to be profitable‚ it has faced shortage of cash. It happened due to increase in Accounts Receivable as well as Inventories. On the other hand‚ Accounts Payable does not increase that rapidly and difficulties regarding cash collection become evident. Furthermore‚ the cash collection cycle becomes larger (59 days in year 2003‚ while more than 70 in year 2006). QUESTION 2 HOW HAS MR. WILSON MET THE FINANCING NEEDS OF THE COMPANY DURING THE PERIOD 2003 THROUGH
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Ice Cream Case Study Teaching Notes Video: Ben and Jerry’s Ice-cream Wars 1. What was Ben and Jerry’s ‘strategy’ in the video? 2. What stimulated the strategy? 3. Was it planned or emergent? 4. Was it successful? 5. How does this case help you think about ‘What is strategy?’ Were their decisions strategic? Yes‚ because: * Affected company as a whole * About scope and direction * Long-term Resource implications * Yes‚ they had to invest 5 pounds in a “correspondence
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Kristen’s Cookie Company Key Questions 1) Washing & Mixing | 6 min | Dishing Up | 2 min | Setting the oven | 1 min | Baking | 9 min | Cooling | 5 min | Packing | 2 min | Accept Payment | 1 min | Total | 26 min | 2) The oven holds only one tray (one dozen of cookies) => at full utilization we can cook only 6 dozen of cookies per hour‚ for example after washing and mixing we have two more minutes to wait before oven will free. 26 + 10(x-1)=240 X=22.4 22 orders
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