Take-Home Exam – Marketable Securities & AR/Inventory Management Name: _________________________ Score:____________ I. Selection __________1. A company which foregoes the discount when credit terms are 4/15 net 70 is essentially borrowing money from his supplier for an additional: (A) 40 days (B) 55 days (C) 70 days (D) 85 days. __________2. A company that foregoes a discount of 1/7 net 30 is essentially borrowing money from the vendor at: (A) 1% (B) 12.29% (C) 16% (D) 52.7%. __________3
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INVENTORY PROBLEMS: 1. DAT‚ Inc.‚ produces digital audiotapes to be used in the consumer audio division. DAT lacks sufficient personnel in its inventory supply section to closely control each item stocked‚ so it has asked you to determine an ABC classification. Here is a sample from the inventory Records: Develop an ABC classification for these 10 items. 2. A particular raw material is available to a company at three different prices‚ depending on the size of the order: The cost to place an
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Inventory Management: Quantity and location of inventory‚ including raw materials‚ work-in-progress (WIP) and finished goods. Inventory management is primarily about specifying the size and placement of stocked goods. Inventory management is required at different locations within a facility or within multiple locations of a supply network to protect the regular and planned course of production against the random disturbance of running out of materials or goods. The scope of inventory management
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Application of Soft Systems Methodology By Name Course Professor University City/State Date In management‚ problematic situations often arise. Some from a need to harmonize different peoples’ perceptions‚ some from need to expand the business and others from the need to start new projects The soft system methodology is a general approach for addressing real-world difficult situations in management. It has been developed with time as a result of extensive research by Peter Checkland and Brian
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Apply quality function deployment model in after-sales service improvements: case company X Logistics Master ’s thesis Ye Tian 2011 Department of Business Technology Aalto University School of Economics Abstract This study is to apply the quality function deployment (QFD) model in the Chinese heavy construction equipment market to improve the after-sales service. The main objectives of this study are to find out how to translate the customers’ needs into technical measurements by this
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Chapter4 Result and of Findings This chapter presents findings from employee side‚ and then analyzes and discusses these findings from small business and literature review as a whole. 4.1. Finding from Questionnaire - Automated System and Manual System 4.1.1. Personal Profile Among 10 questionnaire that have been delivered‚ only 9 are collected back with all questions completed‚ from these usable surveys‚ 77.78% of our respondents are male and 22.22% are female. In term of age‚ 22.22% of our respondent
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19 Inventory Theory “Sorry‚ we’re out of that item.” How often have you heard that during shopping trips? In many of these cases‚ what you have encountered are stores that aren’t doing a very good job of managing their inventories (stocks of goods being held for future use or sale). They aren’t placing orders to replenish inventories soon enough to avoid shortages. These stores could benefit from the kinds of techniques of scientific inventory management that are described in this chapter
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Inventory Management UNIT 17 Objectives INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Upon completion of this unit‚ you should be able to: understand the meaning of inventory and identify inventory related cost parameters learn about various types of inventory policies appreciate the role of selective inventory management know the exchange curve concept for aggregate inventory planning get a feel of some mathematical models of inventory analysis perform sensitivity analysis on a type of model compute safety stocks
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Dell – Kelby Allen The just-in-time (JIT) inventory method is a method of inventory management. “The goal of these concepts‚ contrary to popular belief‚ is not to reduce inventory‚ although that ’s an appealing side benefit. Instead‚ JIT (like its imitators) is a continual process aimed at eliminating waste and solving problems throughout the supply chain” (Minahan‚ 1997‚ p. 45). Since its inception in 1984‚ Dell Corporation‚ Inc. has set itself apart from competitors through innovation and creativity
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your current inventory levels‚ but also generate future demand forecasts. This is because an inventory shortage can cause the company to lose future profits and lost goodwill. In the case of Reebok‚ the former NFL licensed jersey producer‚ many key decisions must be made to reduce inventory costs in periods of low demand while maximizing profits in periods of high demand for player specific jerseys. Using the newsvendor model to determine the optimal order quantity and leftover inventory‚ we will present
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