Headlights‚ airbags‚ and wheels theft are becoming the hottest and most stolen car items. They have found that it’s not financially related. It could be a jealous neighbor or acquaintance that will steal the wheels in spite. Basically if I can’t have them then you won’t either. As for wheels‚ I think the reason why theft is so high is because tires and rims are very high in price. The thieves can easily steal them and then place them up for sale on EBAY or other related classified ads. I actually
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I didn’t research the Beer Game itself prior to the game being played. I did read the summary provided of the game‚ but if I had done a little research on the web prior to the game‚ I would have had quite a bit of insight. It seems this game is very well known and used quite often in schools and management training to show the supply chain in action. The game has been around since the 1960’s when a group from MIT’s Sloan School of Management introduced the game as a part of a research project
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DTD 5 ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Business Research xx (2004) xxx – xxx The SERPVAL scale: a multi-item instrument for measuring service personal values Luis Filipe Lagesa‚*‚ Joana Cosme Fernandesb‚1 a Universidade Nova de Lisboa‚ Faculdade de Economia‚ Campus de Campolide‚ 1099-032 Lisboa‚ Portugal Ericsson Telecommunications Portugal‚ Edifıcio D. Henrique‚ Quinta da Fonte‚ 2780-730 Paco de Arcos‚ Portugal ´ ¸ b Received 14 October 2003; received in revised form 1 June 2004;
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Porter Five Forces Model – East Timor Freight-Forwarding industry Potential Entrants In 1999‚ when SDV entered the East-Timor market there were significant barriers that made the entrance of any logistics company very challenging. The country was almost entirely destroyed‚ there was no infrastructure and it was really hard to find qualified staff to work with. Under these difficult conditions there were hardly any companies pursuing their efforts in East Timor‚ thus leaving the market mostly
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Case number 1-1 Kiddie Land Gym Overview of the case: Starting in March Kiddie Land would begin to promote a new a new product Super Gym Outdoor children’s Exercise center. The problem or the issue was the company has never shipped something this big‚ they had to come up with ideas of how to make a profit and how to reach it to the customers. Case Questions: 1. Advantages and disadvantages of purchasing a two-wheeled trailer for each store to use for delivery of the Super Gym
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Biovail Case Part 1: Assumptions: 1. The mark-up is from the Distributor to the Wholesaler‚ and the margin is from the Wholesaler to the Retailer Biovail Distributor purchase price Wholesaler purchase price = Distributor purchase price + 400% mark-up Retailer price = Wholesaler price + 35% margin 2. We don’t know the excess space needed in the truck for the 64 gallon drums so we assumed that the 1.00 cm3 accounts for the excess space
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Port Development & Logistics (Assignment 1) Student: Zhaofeng Cen Student ID: 171446 Unit Coordinator: Peggy Chen Unit Code: JNB516 Unit: Port Management and Strategy Course: MBA (Maritime and Logistics Management) Due Date: 27 August 2012 Word Count: 1646 words Abstract This essay can be divided into two parts. The first part answered the question about the evolution of port development based on existing conceptual perspectives
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STEPS INVOLVED IN EXPORT TRANSACTION Step 1 Exporter need to apply to the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) regional office for getting Importer-Exporter Code (IEC) Number. Step 2 The exporter has to register with the concerned export promotion council in order to obtain various permissible benefits given by the government. Step 3 He has to obtain a purchase order from importer. Step 4 With export order in hand‚ the exporter starts manufacturing goods or buying them
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1. What is global supply chain management? What is the role of international logistics in global supply chain management? (p.1) * Global supply chain management refers to the complex integration of processes necessary to manage materials from their point of origin through manufacturing and shipment to the final consumer(or beyond‚ in the case of recycling) * International logistics is the international transaction‚ trades and movements of goods and services in supply chain. * Nowadays
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Article Reviews 1. Article citation Author: Ralph Henderson Year of publication: 2012 Article title: Direct-to-consumer challenges for distribution Journal: CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterl Number and date: Number 4‚ 500 E‚ Quarter 5 2012 2. Target audience for article Target audiences are practitioners who do electronic commerce and students who interested in Supply Chain. 3. Purpose of article Nowadays‚ more and more people prefer online shopping which lead to the growth of
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