(a) Compare and contrast the challenges experienced in fulfilling customer requirements in Trans-European Plastics and New Supply Chain strategies at old M&S (20 marks) (b) Discuss possible solutions with regards to analysis of performance factors such as cost‚ quality‚ speed‚ dependability and flexibility and ‘order winners and qualifiers’. (30 marks) 4. (a) elaborate on the following: Trans-European Plastics: Issues with dependability‚ distribution issues‚ storage space‚ implications
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Special Report Plastic Additive: A Techno-Commercial Profile B.G. SAMPAT E-mail: bgsampat@bom3.vsnl.net.in INTRODUCTION Every activity in modern life is influenced by plastics and many depend entirely on plastic products. All these plastic products are made from the essential polymer mixed with a complex blend of materials known collectively as additives. Without additives‚ plastics would not work‚ but with them they can be made safer‚ cleaner‚ tougher and more colourful. Additives cost money
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Order Qualifiers and Order Winners for Toyota: Order Qualifiers can be described as aspects of competitiveness where the operation’s performance has to be above a particular level to be considered by the customer. Order Qualifiers may not be the major competitive determinants of success but are important in another way. (Jones‚ Robinson 2007) Order Winning Factors are those things which directly and significantly contribute to wining business. They are regarded by customers as key reasons for purchasing
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Case 25-3 Formosa Plastics Group For many years‚ managers at Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) used a management control system with an element that was somewhat unique for a large corporation – all employees were evaluated subjectively. In making their judgments‚ evaluators looked at objective performance measures but subjectively made many adjustments for factors they deemed to be beyond the employee’s control. One effect of this system was that bottom-line profit was not even considered in the evaluations
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marketing. There are three main steps in target marketing. The first is market segmentation –dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers with different needs‚ characteristics or behavior who might require separate products or marketing mixes. The company identifies different ways to segment the market and develops profiles of the resulting market segments. There are four variables that used in analyzing consumer market segments – geographic‚ demographic‚ and psychographic and behavior variables. Today
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Who‚ in your opinion‚ is the most responsible for Eva Smith’s death? An Inspector Calls was written by JB Priestley as a means of illustrating the flaws in the society of 1945 and the consequences that these flaws could bear. Priestley exemplifies this message most notably through the characters in the play. For example‚ although Eva Smith may not necessarily be a ‘real’ character‚ she is used as a representation of the entire working class community. This is central to the play because it means
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Plastic Money One of the biggest problems with the way we celebrate festivals in our country is the resultant noise pollution. In the larger cities that anyway grapple with the problem of noise pollution in everyday living‚ public celebrations like Janmashtami and Ganesh Chaturthi only aggravate the issue. Loudspeakers‚ fire crackers and loud musical instruments are all culprits. According to a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report noise pollution is considered not only an environmental
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increase in plastic surgery. Therefore‚ 11.9 million Americans undergo plastic surgery each year‚ and out of that 11.9 million 335‚000 are teenagers and 74‚000 are under the age of eighteen! It seems like plastic surgery has become as easy as getting a haircut. Plastic surgery should not be readily available to the public like this because plastic surgery can be very dangerous‚ Americans take advantage of the procedures‚ and the surgery is not 100% guaranteed. Plastic surgery can
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Significance * Plastic bags are not renewable‚ which means they cannot be easily recycled like paper bags. They are made of petrochemicals‚ which is what makes them non-renewable and a risk to the health of the planet. They last for hundreds of years‚ all the while doing damage to natural habitats and killing animals that mistake them for food. The more plastic bags people use‚ the greater the chances of environmental damage. Effects * If not carefully disposed of‚ plastic bags can be devastating
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Current plastic bag use and disposal‚ both by consumers and through waste management activities‚ not only create environmental problems‚ but also reinforce the perception of a wasteful society. Plastic bags as litter create a visual pollution problem‚ and affect our aquatic wildlife. Many of the grocery store use the plastic bags as a tool to keep the things easy to carrying. Plastic bags aren’t just at the grocery store‚ there every where‚ landfills‚ the oceans and lakes‚ hanging on trees around
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