Case #2: W-G-P Chemical Company John White‚ vice president of distribution for W-G-P Chemical Company‚ was preparing for the annual strategy review session conducted by the firm’s executive committee. He was charged with the task of evaluating his firm’s logistics costs and customer service capability for his firm’s packaged dry and liquid agricultural chemicals. W-G-P Distribution Systems Figure 1 outlines the existing logistics system for W-G-P Chemical Company. Four types of facilities:
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Chapter 16: Soren Kierkegaard’s Repetition Brief Biography * Soren Kierkegaard was born on May 15‚ 1813 in Copenhagen‚ Denmark. * 7th child of a wealthy businessman. * His father had special philosophical interests which had great impact on him * He was also a bright student who learned to read Hebrew‚ Greek‚Latin‚German and French at the age of 17. * His philosophy‚ which he called existentialism‚ practically applied to an examined life as opposed to the works of Georg Wilhelm
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Soren Chemicals Case Study 1. What is the addressable market size for Coracle? Is the first-year goal of $1.5 million sales reasonable? Answer: Currently there are 3 major players in the residential pool clarifier market‚ Keystone chemicals‚ Kymera and Jackson Laboratories as well as several distributors who are diluting and private lebeling Soren’s Kailan MW for residential use. Soren’s Jen Moritz estimates that these players have between 15 and 20 percent (15-20%) of the residential pool market
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the order process it is important to have the correct information provided in a timely fashion to all divisions. For integration to be successful information must be available throughout the entire supply chain. The main problem is with Woodson Chemical Company is the lack of management and communication across all divisions within the organization creating bottlenecks throughout the operations. There are several sub problems seen throughout the organization at different levels of management and
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Case 1: Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard see page 233-252 Questions for the case: 1. What does Mike Hegarty want to accomplish with the BSC ? 2. Comment on the BSC implementation at Chemical’s Retail Bank ? 3. What pitfalls need to be avoided for a successful BSC project? Balanced Scorecard Implementation Pitfalls to Avoid There are many Balanced Scorecard implementations where companies don ’t seem to get all the benefits described above. Research and experience have
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In this case I play the role of Edward Cummings‚ a senior credit representative of Joyce Chemical Company. My task in this case is to look into Eliot Manufacturing and to see if we should continue or terminate our relationship with them. If we were to continue‚ the choices would be to either have them in a program to reduce their accounts payable or to tolerate gradual increases in credit. After doing an analysis on Mr. Pound and the Eliot Manufacturing Company‚ I would recommend that Joyce
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Dow Chemical Case When Petroquímica Bahia Blanca S.A. (PBB) began the process of becoming privatized by the Argentine government‚ Dow Chemicals saw the acquisition of this company as a golden opportunity to become the leading polyethylene player in Latin America. Dow Chemical’s was already a major player in the chemicals (ethylene)‚ plastics (polyethylene)‚ and agricultural products industries holding position as a low-cost producer. Breaking each segment of their business down into
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Dow Chemical Case Question 1 Polyethylene is the world’s most widely used plastic. Polyethylene plastic’s principal application was in packaging‚ from trash bags to milk jugs. It was widely used in the manufacture of everything from trash bags‚ picnic cutlery and garbage pails‚ to plastic toys. Polyethylene also replaced glass‚ wood‚ and metal in certain applications. There were three types of polyethylene‚ Low-density polyethylene‚ High density polyethylene and Low linear density polyethylene
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Diamond Chemicals PLC (A): The Merseyside Project Late one afternoon in January 2001‚ Frank Greystock told Lucy Morris‚ “No one seems satisfied with the analysis so far‚ but the suggested changes could kill the project. If solid projects like this can’t swim past the corporate piranhas‚ the company will never modernize.” Morris was plant manager of Diamond Chemicals’ Merseyside Works in Liverpool‚ England. Her controller‚ Frank Greystock‚ was discussing a capital project that she wanted to propose
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Question 1 Issues Arising From Case The issues are the future viability of the plant for producing EPC and the long-term effects of not upgrading this production line. The additional upgrade will result in additional production‚ but as mentioned by the sales director if there is no demand for the increase in supply and Rotterdam plants excess will be added to the Mersey side quantities the plant upgrade could ultimately result in a dropping of prices to shift supply. The transport division is also
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