class. The price at the college bookstore is $65. One online site offers it for $55 and another site‚ for $57. All prices include sales tax. The accompanying table indicates the typical shipping and handling charges for the textbook ordered online. Shipping method | Delivery time | Charge | Standard shipping | 3–7 days | $3.99 | Second-day air | 2 business days | $8.98 | Next-day air | 1 business day | $13.98 | a. What is the opportunity cost of buying online instead of at the bookstore
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admit that ho had not yet reached a conclusion. The acquisition under consideration was of the vessel assets of an indirect competitor‚ Teeh-Sah Holdings. Tero-Sah operated a container carrier business in the trans-Pacific‚ Asia-to-North America shipping lanes. It had announced in late 2007 that it would exit the vessel operations business to concentrate on its much larger terminal-management operations‚ and it was selling 16 ships with an average capacity of 4‚500 TEUs1 each. Meli Marine was a
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DEPB Duty Entitlement Pass Book Scheme in short DEPB is an export incentive scheme. Notified on 1/4/1997‚ the DEPB Scheme consisted of (a) Post-export DEPB and (b) Pre-export DEPB. The pre-export DEPB scheme was abolished w.e.f. 1/4/2000. Under the post-export DEPB‚ which is issued after exports‚ the exporter is given a duty entitlement Pass Book Scheme at a pre-determined credit on the FOB value. The DEPB rates is allows import of any items except the items which are otherwise restricted for
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Hanjin bankruptcy due to financial cash flow problems. The global economic downturn in recent years severely will affect profits indirectly across the cargo shipping industry. It slows down the global trade and next‚ affects the cargo shipping industry. Fierce competition and falling prices had lead to a $5.4bn (£4.1bn) debt for Hanjin shipping company before its creditors refused to offer a new lifeline. Next‚ the company’s ships out at sea because ports say they would not accept them without being
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industry that could affect Union Pacific in the near and distance future include their competitors which is the trucking industry‚ other shipping companies‚ meeting the customer demands‚ rising fuel costs‚ desire to improve safety and security‚ abiding by the heavy government regulation. Driving forces that keep Union Pacific on edge is their competitors in the shipping market. Since barriers to entry are extremely high within
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which would afford them late afternoon pickups and next day delivery (Hill‚2013). Since small-package airfreight only went out based on the commercial flight scheduling‚ it was hard for cargo shippers to achieve next day delivery. To remedy the shipping issue cargo shippers had Smith aimed to build a system that could achieve next day delivery of small package airfreight (Hill‚2013). Today Federal Express has grown from a express delivery company to a global logistic and supply chain management
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I. Supply Chain Supply chain is the efficient movement of materials and products from the point of material sourcing to the delivery of goods to the ultimate user or consumer. A supply chain consists of all parties involved‚ directly or indirectly‚ in fulfilling a customer request. The supply chain not only includes the manufacturer and suppliers‚ but also transporters‚ warehouses‚ retailers‚ and customers themselves. Within each organization‚ such as manufacturer‚ the supply chain includes
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High | 2. Threat from Substitute is High | 3. Bargaining Power of Suppliers is Low | 4. Bargaining Power of the Buyers is High | 5. Rivalry Among existing Players is Low | * Threat of New Entry Every firm would love to invest in shipping industry due to large profits involved. However this would seem easy but practically it is lot more difficult and virtually impossible to establish in container line business. The problem pertains to large capital investments in form of vessel and
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to sixty locations throughout the United States. Express 1 started as a reseller of DHL products and has recently reinvented itself as a third-party logistics provider. It offers tremendous value to its business clientele by offering discounted shipping rates and exceptional personalized service. And now‚ after its recent launch of the E1ship web portal‚ it can offer these services conveniently from its clients’ desktops. The E1ship web portal is offered free-of-charge and allows customers to
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Designing the Distribution Network in a Supply Chain Sunil Chopra Kellogg School of Management‚ Northwestern University 2001 Sheridan Road‚ Evanston‚ IL 60208‚ U.S.A Tel: 1-847-491-8169; Fax: 1-847-467-1220; e-mail:s-chopra@kellogg.northwestern.edu Abstract This paper describes a framework for designing the distribution network in a supply chain. Various factors influencing the choice of distribution network are described. We then discuss different choices of distribution networks and their
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