1. Give a brief overview of the situation at Treadway Tires. This Case present the Treadway tires’ management concern about the high foremen turnover at the Lima Ohio plant. This facility counts with approximately 970 unionized hourly employees which are supervised by 50 salaried‚ non-unions‚ floor level managers called line foremen. These foremen as First-line managers are responsible for the daily supervision of non-managerial employees at the areas of production‚ maintenance‚ material control
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Fireside Tire Company: Case Study Latrice Alston GB 570 Professor Craddock February 22‚ 2011 Fireside Tire Company: Case Study Fireside Tire Company faced with the challenge on deciding which location is more advantageous to move product using a centralized distribution center. The following locations have been selected as possible locations: Atlanta‚ Chattanooga
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Fireside Tire Company‚ a manufacturer of radial tires for sport utility vehicles‚ sells its products in the automotive aftermarket and distributes them throughout the United States. Fireside has three tire production plants locates in Allentown‚ Pennsylvania; Toledo‚ Ohio; and Macomb‚ Illinois (see map). Normally‚ Fireside ships tires from its plants to distribution centers‚ but truckload-size purchases typically are transported directly from plants to customer locations. Al shipments to a region
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Introduction The Fitzburg Tire Company’s construction manager‚ Max Bierman‚ has been working on a plant in Cuernavaca‚ Mexico. This plant is Bierman’s first assignment outside the U.S. and it is not going according to his expectations. After merely three months‚ the project is running behind schedule and overriding its forecasted budget. The occurring problems are mostly to blame on the cross-cultural differences between the United States and Mexico. The Mexican workforce do not share the fear
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and how he feels this can inhibit companies from becoming great at what they do. She also addresses Jim Collin’s second concept of Level 5 Leadership. Ashley is the Human Resources Director at Treadway and began reviewing the mission statement and vision. I had previously introduced that idea suggesting that this is where she should begin but wasn’t clear in my explanation. It seems all institutions have these statements but is Treadway living up to theirs if they have one.
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About the Lima Tire Plant Located in Lima‚ Ohio‚ the plant building encompassed over 1.5 million square feet and was situated on 128 acres of land. About 1‚120 people were employed at the Lima location: 970 were hourly employees and 150 were salaried employees. The hourly personnel at the plant were unionized by the United Steelworkers (USW)‚ which had merged with the United Rubber Workers in 1995. The Lima Plant had undergone a $100 million expansion and modernization effort in 2000‚ which enabled
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1. Case Introduction Somebody ought to stock a few of every tire‚ sell them over the phone‚ and ship them‚ thought Mike Joines when he had trouble finding the right performance tires for his sports coupe. Joines approached his father-in-law‚ Peter Veldman and help him open a retail tire store. After seven years‚ they were making so may phone orders; they closed the store and added phone lines. Veldman now is president and patriarch of Tire Rack‚ a family-owned Internet and
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Introduction "Cooper Tire & Rubber Company‚ founded in 1914‚ specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of rubber products for consumers. Products include automobile‚ truck and motorcycle tires‚ inner tubes‚ NVH control systems‚ automotive sealing‚ and fluid delivery systems." (http://www.coopertire.com/about/). The case study on Cooper mainly concentrates on the tire industry‚ and Therefore the following analysis will be based on this. Cooper Tire & Rubber co. has enjoyed much growth and
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Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) is an $8Billion dollar network of businesses involved in retail‚ financial services and petroleum operations. They had just completed a strategic plan in 2002 with a clear corporate goal "to become a top quartile performer in our market sector as measured by total return to stockholders". This mandate guided CIO Andy Wnek to create IT strategies‚ imperatives and vision of "an agile It team‚ aligned to business priorities‚ operating a simpler technical environment with
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Executive Summary Tire City‚ Inc. has petitioned MidBank for a loan in order to expand their business‚ and build a new warehouse. Through the financial statement reporting and the numbers that have been presented to me‚ I believe that this is a sound investment. The growth percentage of 20 percent per year is conceivable‚ if business stays as it currently is. The amount of debt that would need to be financed for this expansion is palatable‚ and well within the normal ranges for these sort of projects
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