Coursework
Staples Wants to Enter Africa. Help Them
Purpose
Staples, Inc. is the largest office supply company in the world. Staples has found ways to survive and actually thrive in the face of online competitors such as Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Costco that also sell a wide array of office supplies. Staples’ retail, online, and mail order delivery presence gives it a competitive edge and now, having just increased its dividend payout, Staples wants Africa.
More and more companies every day decide to begin doing business in Africa. Research is necessary to determine the best strategy for being the first mover in many African countries (i.e., being the first competitor doing business in various countries).
Instructions
Step 1 – Look for a map of Africa. (You can attach map of Africa in the paper)
Step 2- Look for demographic data on 10 African countries (same thing you can attach demographic data on 10 African countries in the paper)
Step 3- Gather competitive information regarding the presence of office-supply firms doing business in Africa.
Step 4- List in prioritized order eight countries in which you would recommend Staples to build stores. Country 1 is your best, and country 2 is your next best. Based on your research, indicate how many staples stores you would recommend building over the next three years in each county. List in prioritized order three cities in each of your eight African countries where you believe Staples should build most of its stores.
You can write 1-1/2 pages, it should be APA format, and please provide sources in sentences and also end of page.
Due Date: June 10/15
M E M O R A N D U M
To: Charles Williamson, Dale Edgel, Lowell Bradford, Clyde Cousins, Maria Trinh, Robert
Lord
From: Hugh McCauley
Re: China Relocation
Confidential
Our initial decision to locate our China operations in Hangzhou was driven largely by the fact
that our Chinese partners already had facilities there and the city’s proximity to the Qiantang
River. We thought that the river access which led on to Hangzhou Bay would be sufficient to
handle our shipping needs.
As the production volume from the China plant has increased, we are seeing that significant
savings can be had by utilizing container shipping companies such as the China Shipping
Container Lines, a branch of the China Shipping (Group) Company. Most of the container
shipping companies utilize ports in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
While the Shanghai port is only 180 kilometers away from our current location, we are incurring
additional logistical steps in shipping out of Shanghai.
• Currently, our products are trucked to a port on the Qiantang River and loaded into
shipping containers. The containers are then loaded onto barges that make their way to
the Shanghai port. The barges dock in Shanghai where the containers are offloaded
and trucked to another area of the port where they are loaded onto to the ships that will
take them to their final destina.
The hidden risks in your offshore supply chainThe Rodon Group
There are many risks when it comes to selecting OEM suppliers. Understanding them is essential to running a successful business. We’ll examine the three strategic areas that are key in your decision making: Cost, Scheduling and Compliance.
Innovative Thinking in a Business Theory-Based Strategic Experiment.docxsharondabriggs
Innovative Thinking in a Business: Theory-Based Strategic Experiment
Utilizing the same virtual organization from the measurement and reward System, design a theory-based strategic experiment based on one of the following problems associated with the organization:
Riordan Manufacturing
One of Riordan Manufacturing’s largest customers purchases a number of different styles and types of a polycarbonate drinking bottle. The formulation for this particular bottle style contains Bisphenol A. Due to highly publicized, recent news stories concerning the safety of reusable plastic containers, Riordan’s customer has advised them that it will no longer be purchasing bottles containing Bisphenol A. Some time ago, the purchasing department found an attractive price on a bulk purchase of many of the components that went into the manufacture of the bottle. Around the same time, the operations department foresaw a period of unused plant capacity in the China plant. In order to keep the plant running at peak efficiency, they had the China plant do a number of production runs of the polycarbonate bottle in the most popular sizes and colors. No one saw an issue in producing the bottles without an existing purchase order given the customer’s history of purchasing large quantities of these bottles in the past. The bottles are currently being stored at the China plant, but the warehouse space will soon be needed for other orders. The bottles have not yet been scored with volume markings or the customer’s logo.
What can Riordan Manufacturing do with the bottles?
Riordan Manufacturing uses Huffman Trucking to ship their products all over the United States. With rising fuel costs, several trucking companies have gone out of business or have substantially raised their rates. Huffman Trucking has innovated a way to stay in business without having to raise their shipping rates for customers. In turn, Huffman has also picked up many new shipping contracts from other businesses. With the increased business at Huffman, Riordan Manufacturing has noticed a decrease in their timeliness and customer service. Several orders have been distributed or picked up late, adversely affecting functioning at Riordan. What can Riordan do to solve this problem? Keep in mind that Riordan and Huffman have a 5-year contract with little room for renegotiation and Huffman continues to have the most competitive shipping prices in the country.
A majority of employees at the Pontiac branch of Riordan Manufacturing work at the production level. While the company expects a higher rate of employee turnover for those positions, they have recently seen a substantial increase in the turnover rate. In turn, production managers have had to increase their time spent interviewing and training new employees. This affects their time spent managing the day-to-day quality control, sales, and safety aspects of their positions. The managers have agreed that they must establish a way to better retain their pro.
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1. First Business Trip to Asia (Scenario)
Jeff Elliott is on a flight across the Pacific and is excited about his first business trip to Asia. Born
and raised in Alberta, Jeff is a manager for a rapidly growing Calgary-based company. His current
mission is to scout out potential locations in Asia and develop an international expansion strategy
for his company. There are many options, including maintaining the businesses head office in
Canada and sending over company representatives when necessary, or developing a separate
company in Asia and hiring locals to manage the business. Jeff's trip will take him to Japan,
Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand. He is looking forward to learning more about the
business practices and customs of each country, and he is not too worried about the fact that he
only speaks English. Jeff has heard that English is considered the main international business
language and he anticipates that most Asians will be able to speak it.
1) If Jeff's company decided to open another company in Taiwan but manage it from its
headquarters in Canada, it would be considered a ________.
A) transnational corporation
B) global business alliance
C) regional trade alliance
D) multinational corporation
2) If Jeff's company decides to open completely new operations in Thailand, Japan, and Korea,
and decides to decentralize management and decision making to the local countries, it would be
following a ________ approach.
A) multidomestic
B) global
C) ethnocentric D) multinational
3) If Jeff's company eliminated country-designated locations and reorganized based on industry
groups, it would best be described as a ________.
A) transnational organization
B) multidomestic organization
C) global business alliance D) multinational corporation
2. International Entrepreneurs (Scenario)
Jennifer and James have formed an entrepreneurial venture to develop software for banks and
other financial institutions. Their company is growing, and in looking for opportunities in the future
they decide to explore international operations.
4) As their international operations grew, Jennifer and James decided to decentralize
management and hire foreign nationals to run the business in their local countries. Their firm has
developed into a ________.
A) multidomestic
B) multinational corporation
C) global organization D) global trade alliance
5) A new and exciting opportunity has appeared that enables Jennifer and James to form a joint
venture with a bank in Japan. This partnership will involve less risk and commitment than
________.
A) exporting
B) foreign contracting
C) setting up a foreign subsidiary D) licensing
6) Jennifer and James decide to allow a company in Hong Kong to use the rights to their software,
brand name, and product specifications in return for a lump-sum payment. This agreement is
known as a(n) ________.
A) strategic alliance / joint venture
B) export alliance
C) franchise
D) foreign subsidiary
3. The European Expansion (Scenario)
As a mana.
The hidden risks in your offshore supply chainThe Rodon Group
There are many risks when it comes to selecting OEM suppliers. Understanding them is essential to running a successful business. We’ll examine the three strategic areas that are key in your decision making: Cost, Scheduling and Compliance.
Innovative Thinking in a Business Theory-Based Strategic Experiment.docxsharondabriggs
Innovative Thinking in a Business: Theory-Based Strategic Experiment
Utilizing the same virtual organization from the measurement and reward System, design a theory-based strategic experiment based on one of the following problems associated with the organization:
Riordan Manufacturing
One of Riordan Manufacturing’s largest customers purchases a number of different styles and types of a polycarbonate drinking bottle. The formulation for this particular bottle style contains Bisphenol A. Due to highly publicized, recent news stories concerning the safety of reusable plastic containers, Riordan’s customer has advised them that it will no longer be purchasing bottles containing Bisphenol A. Some time ago, the purchasing department found an attractive price on a bulk purchase of many of the components that went into the manufacture of the bottle. Around the same time, the operations department foresaw a period of unused plant capacity in the China plant. In order to keep the plant running at peak efficiency, they had the China plant do a number of production runs of the polycarbonate bottle in the most popular sizes and colors. No one saw an issue in producing the bottles without an existing purchase order given the customer’s history of purchasing large quantities of these bottles in the past. The bottles are currently being stored at the China plant, but the warehouse space will soon be needed for other orders. The bottles have not yet been scored with volume markings or the customer’s logo.
What can Riordan Manufacturing do with the bottles?
Riordan Manufacturing uses Huffman Trucking to ship their products all over the United States. With rising fuel costs, several trucking companies have gone out of business or have substantially raised their rates. Huffman Trucking has innovated a way to stay in business without having to raise their shipping rates for customers. In turn, Huffman has also picked up many new shipping contracts from other businesses. With the increased business at Huffman, Riordan Manufacturing has noticed a decrease in their timeliness and customer service. Several orders have been distributed or picked up late, adversely affecting functioning at Riordan. What can Riordan do to solve this problem? Keep in mind that Riordan and Huffman have a 5-year contract with little room for renegotiation and Huffman continues to have the most competitive shipping prices in the country.
A majority of employees at the Pontiac branch of Riordan Manufacturing work at the production level. While the company expects a higher rate of employee turnover for those positions, they have recently seen a substantial increase in the turnover rate. In turn, production managers have had to increase their time spent interviewing and training new employees. This affects their time spent managing the day-to-day quality control, sales, and safety aspects of their positions. The managers have agreed that they must establish a way to better retain their pro.
1 First Business Trip to Asia ScenarioJeff Elliott is on .pdfcbholla1
1. First Business Trip to Asia (Scenario)
Jeff Elliott is on a flight across the Pacific and is excited about his first business trip to Asia. Born
and raised in Alberta, Jeff is a manager for a rapidly growing Calgary-based company. His current
mission is to scout out potential locations in Asia and develop an international expansion strategy
for his company. There are many options, including maintaining the businesses head office in
Canada and sending over company representatives when necessary, or developing a separate
company in Asia and hiring locals to manage the business. Jeff's trip will take him to Japan,
Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand. He is looking forward to learning more about the
business practices and customs of each country, and he is not too worried about the fact that he
only speaks English. Jeff has heard that English is considered the main international business
language and he anticipates that most Asians will be able to speak it.
1) If Jeff's company decided to open another company in Taiwan but manage it from its
headquarters in Canada, it would be considered a ________.
A) transnational corporation
B) global business alliance
C) regional trade alliance
D) multinational corporation
2) If Jeff's company decides to open completely new operations in Thailand, Japan, and Korea,
and decides to decentralize management and decision making to the local countries, it would be
following a ________ approach.
A) multidomestic
B) global
C) ethnocentric D) multinational
3) If Jeff's company eliminated country-designated locations and reorganized based on industry
groups, it would best be described as a ________.
A) transnational organization
B) multidomestic organization
C) global business alliance D) multinational corporation
2. International Entrepreneurs (Scenario)
Jennifer and James have formed an entrepreneurial venture to develop software for banks and
other financial institutions. Their company is growing, and in looking for opportunities in the future
they decide to explore international operations.
4) As their international operations grew, Jennifer and James decided to decentralize
management and hire foreign nationals to run the business in their local countries. Their firm has
developed into a ________.
A) multidomestic
B) multinational corporation
C) global organization D) global trade alliance
5) A new and exciting opportunity has appeared that enables Jennifer and James to form a joint
venture with a bank in Japan. This partnership will involve less risk and commitment than
________.
A) exporting
B) foreign contracting
C) setting up a foreign subsidiary D) licensing
6) Jennifer and James decide to allow a company in Hong Kong to use the rights to their software,
brand name, and product specifications in return for a lump-sum payment. This agreement is
known as a(n) ________.
A) strategic alliance / joint venture
B) export alliance
C) franchise
D) foreign subsidiary
3. The European Expansion (Scenario)
As a mana.
HOSP4060 Hospitality Strategy Design and Execution SeminarPESTLEPazSilviapm
HOSP4060 Hospitality Strategy Design and Execution Seminar
PESTLE Assessment
Read the Fork River Brewing company case study, and from the this, identify the PESTEL factors presented in the case study.
Political
Economic
Socio-Culture
Technological
Legal
Environmental
PESTEL Analysis
HOSP4060 Hospitality Design and Execution Seminar
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PESTEL Analysis
The PESTEL framework is an analytical tool used to identify key drivers of change in the strategic environment.
A PESTEL analysis identifies key external forces that might affect an organization.
These forces can create both opportunities and threats for an organization.
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PESTEL Analysis
The aim of doing PESTEL is to:
Identify current external factors affecting an organization
identify external factors that may change in the future
Exploit the changes (opportunities) or defend against them (threats) better than competitors would do.
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Political Factors
Laws, global issues, legislation, and regulations which may have an affect on your business either immediately or in the future.
Political Factors Include:
Government Stability
Corruption level
Regulation / De-regulation
Trade Control
Tariffs /Taxes
Environmental laws
Employment laws
Health and safety laws
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Economic Factors
Taxes, Interest rates, inflation, the stock markets, and consumer confidence all need to be taken into account.
Economic Factors Include:
Stock market trends
Growth rates
Interest rates
Employment /Unemployment trends
Labor costs
Credit availability
Price fluctuations
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Socio-Cultural Factors
The changes in lifestyle and buying trends, media, major events, ethics, advertising and publicity factors.
Socio-Cultural Factors Include:
Health consciousness
Population growth rate
Attitudes towards work, leisure, career and retirement.
Attitudes towards product quality and customer service.
Lifestyles
Attitudes toward “green” or “ecological products”
Social classes
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Technological
Innovations, access to technology, licensing and patents, manufacturing, research funding, global communications.
Technological Factors Include:
Basic infrastructure level
Rate of technological change
Technology level in the industry
Communication infrastructure
Access to newest technology
Internet infrastructure and penetratration
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Environmental (Ecological)
Environmental issues either locally or globally and their social and political factors.
Environmental (Ecological) Factors Include:
Weather and weather events
Climate change
Recycling
Air and water pollution
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Legal
Legislation which have been proposed and may come into effect and any passed legislation’s.
Legal Factors Include:
Anti-trust laws
Discrimination laws
Employment laws
Health and safety laws
Consumer protection and e-commerce
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FORKED RIVER BREWING CO.: CRAFT BEER ENTREPRENEURSHIP
IN AN EVOLVING INDUSTRY
Max Stallkamp and Professors Larry Plummer and Andreas Schotter wrote th ...
In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the ability to receive discounted payments for their P&G receivables. Fibria Celulose, a Brazilian supplier of kraft pulp, joined the program in 2013 but was re-evaluating the costs and benefits of participating in the SCF program in the summer of 2015. The firm’s treasury group and its US country manager must decide whether to keep using the program and, if so, whether to keep their existing SCF banking relationship or start a new relationship with another global SCF bank.
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Please use the scroll bar labeled “Featured Executives”. Scroll down to three interviews, those of Henry Demone, Pierre Lafontaine and Alex Macbeath.
Interview information will provide below. Some information are no need to repeat in summarize. Please focus on the change event and the challenges that they are facing.
· Please answer the following questions:
For each of the interviews, please use one page maximum to summarize the change event and the challenges overcome to make it successful
Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.
Henry Demone:
Henry was born in High Liners home town, Lunenburg, NS, in 1954. A mathematician by academic training, Henry joined the Company (then National Sea Products), in 1977, soon taking over management of international sales. In 1980, he left National Sea to serve as Managing Director of a French subsidiary of Franz Witte AB, a Swedish food company and division of Volvo. Returning to National Sea in 1984 as Vice President, International, Henry was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company in 1989. At the Company's Annual Meeting in 1992, he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Henry has charted High Liner through a decade of rapid change. From its roots as a fishing company, Henry has lead the transformation of the Company to a food processor and marketer of high quality seafood and frozen pasta. He is a member and former Chairman of the Atlantic Canada Chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization, and is a director of Dover Industries Limited and the Food and Consumer Products Manufacturers of Canada.
Company Profile
· Company: High Liner Foods Ltd.
· Size: Medium
· Industry: Seafood
· Business Activity: Manufacturing
· Type of Entity: Public Corporation
· Number of Employees: 25 to 500
· Country: Canada
· Headquarters: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
· Yearly Revenue: Greater than $25 million
What is the business model of your company?
Our business model is really to be a market leader in all of the key sales channels in North America. By having the leading brand, doing unique value added products, getting critical mass so that our procurement department can buy cheaper than our competitors.
Who are the customers of your company and what customer needs do your products or services satisfy?
We deal with all of the big customers in North America, whether they're retail, food service, or club stores. Whether they're US or Canadian. The retail customers would be people like Walmart, Loblaws, Sobeys. Food service customers would be people like Sysco, Gordon Food Service, US Food Service. The club store customers would be people like Costco, Sam's Club, or BJ's in the US. What we do for our customers is we remove the complexities.
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CASE 5 2
Case 5
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Class
Institution
Date
Case 5
Key Partnerships
Key partnerships are the relationships that a business has with other business entities, government entities, or other entities that help the business model work. These can be the relationships that a business has with suppliers, manufacturers, and business partners, just to mention a few (youtu.be). Businesses usually form partnerships for various reasons. One of the reason is to optimize expenses. The other reason is to mitigate risk and uncertainties. Business entities also form partnerships to acquire unique resources.
Green Drive Logistics will form strategic alliances with manufacturing entities. These entities will be producing a part of our business product that we may not be able to produce. Green Drive Logistics will also form partnerships with its suppliers. We will build reliable relationships with our suppliers while incorporating vital characteristics such as quality, commitment, and trust to ensure a successful business model.
When forming the partnerships, Green Drive Logistics will keep in mind the following factors:
Clear partnership Agreements: We will ensure we have the right partnership agreements drafted as well as legal counsel.
Defining Expectations: Most of the time new entities fail to establish their expectations leading to so much conflict and confusion afterwards (Belyh, 2015). Green Drive Logistics will, therefore, establish its expectations and share them openly with the partners.
Win-Win Situation: We will also ensure that there is a Win-Win situation for the partnerships to be sustainable and healthy.
Impact on the Customers: When forming the partnerships, we will evaluate our value proposition and our key resources and ensure our partners are filling the gaps in either.
Selecting Partnerships: We will also ensure we select the right partnerships. As we all know some partnerships may appear profitable in theory but fail to kick off practically. Additionally, changes in the business context can also make some partnerships irrelevant. In such situations, it is important to terminate these partnerships to avoid further losses and wastage of resources.
References
Belyh, A. (2015). Key Partners in Business Model Canvas. Cleverism. Retrieved from: https://www.cleverism.com/key-partners-in-business-model-canvas/
https://youtu.be/IP0cUBWTgpY
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Student:- Reem Alogaidi
Instructor:- Eric Westreich
Course Title:- ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Date:- 05/30/2020
Business model describes the relationship between the elements and factors that make the business functional. In this discussion, we shall highlight two components of the business model with regards to Green Drive Logistics. The discussion shall highlight the manner in which these components appear in the business aspect of the organization. The two components to be discussed are Key Resource Type.
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Conceptualizing in Business- Business model and strategic planning 2
Conceptualizing in Business – Waterboard Corporation
David Greenfield
BUS/475
July 27, 2015
Susan Horvat
Conceptualizing in Business – Waterboard Corporation
My new Company will be the Waterboard Corporation, which will be an international corporation based in the United States and operate in places like America, Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Europe. This paper will discuss the mission statement and vision statement of Waterboard Corporation as well as the major guiding principles and values that the Corporation will apply the cut-throat competitive environment. Additionally, it will as well look at a division of Waterboard Corporation and then discuss the marketing strategies that will be applied by the company in trying to meet the unending needs of customers.
Water board Corporations will be dealing with agricultural services. Some of the activities that will take place in Waterboard Corporation include sugar production, citrus production, pork production and processing, commodity merchandising and flour milling (Hart 2003).
Proposed new Division for the company
The division that I want to create for Waterboard Corporation is the Cargo shipping of products across the globe. This division will enhance the transportation of the products of the company to different parts of the world. For the start of the business, the Company will own seven container vessels chartered to the corporation. Waterboard Corporation will have 900 employees particularly to this special division of Cargo shipping which will be working in various chain stores in the destined countries.
Alignment of the division to the Mission and Vision Statement
This division of the Waterboard Corporation will be customer focused and run in line with the vision and vision statement of the company. Waterboard Corporation will be a food producing and processing company which aims at offering high quality, fair priced foods and agricultural products that use natural ingredients (Hart 2003).We will view us as partners with our community, the environment, customers, and employees. Additionally, we are aiming at becoming a globally recognized corporation capitalizing the interest sustained in agricultural products across the globe. Above all, we are expecting to moderate our growth, annual profitability as well as maintaining a sense of pride and a good reputation. And for this, cargo shipping of our agricultural products will be a key tool that will help us to reach to the world, close to the consumers with our products thereby making our mission statement become a reality.
Our vision statement as Waterboard Corporation is to become a global company which clearly understands the needs of the customers across the globe by developing products and services which satisfies the interests and nee ...
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Vital Vitamins®
A College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education Case Study
Dr. Russell Meller and Janet Wolf, Virginia Tech
Developed in conjunction with Gross and Associates
August 2002
2
Project Summary
Student Teams will design a manufacturing, warehouse and
distribution center using good material handling practices.
The project will require analysis and design of material
flow from receiving through shipping, selection of
appropriate material handling equipment, and a detailed
description of the operation. The final designs will be
judged in a competition.
3
Report Format Suggestions
Cover Page - With project title and team members.
Table of Contents - With page numbers.
Executive Summary - One page or less. Brief description of problem(s),
approach, main findings and recommendations.
Introduction - Include an overview of the problem and operations. Briefly
discuss the project thrust.
Problem Statement - Concise description of problem(s) that are addressed by this
project. What is wrong? Who is being affected? Etc.
Approach and Methodology - This can have sub-sections. Justify your approach.
What other approaches were available to you? This section should contain a
literature review, with pertinent references cited from your reference section.
Describe how you approached the problem - methods and procedures, assumptions,
analysis techniques used, data sources. Why did you choose your approach?
4
Report Format Suggestions
Results - Provide a summary of numeric and qualitative results. Discussion of
results and their sensitivity to changes in assumptions. Some graphs and charts
would be good in this section. Detailed printouts or calculations should be put
in an appendix. Note, all pertinent information must appear within the body of
the report. The reader should only need to refer to the appendices to get more
detailed information.
Recommendations and Implementation - Describe a clear list and discussion
of your short-term and long-term recommendations. Follow this with an
implementation plan. Discuss benefits for implementing your recommendations,
as well as any limitations.
Conclusions and Acknowledgments.
5
Report Format Suggestions
References - (Including oral conversations, listed as “Personal
Communication.”) Note, citations should be made throughout your report
where appropriate.
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Vital Vitamins®
Case Study Background
& Objectives
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Company Profile
Vital Vitamins is a manufacturer and distributor of over the
counter vitamin supplements, specializing in sports nutrition
proteins, powders, and drinks, and weight management
products. They ship to company-operated retail stores, and
directly to consumers on internet and phone orders. They
also have a line of Vital Brand™ products, which are generic
labeled knock-offs of some of their best sellers,
manufactured in-house. Due to tremendo.
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Supply chain improvement
Student’s name:
Course title:
Institution;
Date:
Introduction
This paper will focus on the Pepsi Company. The main point of the paper will be an analysis of the supply chain and the elements which need to be improved in the supply chain to ensure the success of the organization. The essay contains the subheadings of the major points of discussion which include the overview of the company under consideration. The manufacturing and procurement department is the primary focus of the analysis since it is significantly involved with supply chain management.
Strategic overview
The company under analysis will be the PepsiCo, Inc. It is a food, beverage and snack corporation and has its headquarters in New York. The organization has interests in marketing, manufacturing and the distribution of the snack foods which are grain based and beverages among other products. The company was formed in 1965 whereby it started as a merger of Frito–Lay Inc. and Pepsi –Cola Company. The current products of this company include energy drinks, soft drinks, cereal, snacks, rice snacks, breakfast bars, side dishes, bottled water and sports nutrition. The company has various brands. Some of the brands include Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Tropicana, Sobe, Sabre, Starbucks, Fritos and Pepsi Max amongst others. Each brand has been manufactured to target a particular group of people (Company. & Company., 2012).
The target market of the Pepsi Company is everyone. It aims at making sure that its product reaches everyone in the world wherever they are. It has however laid its focus in targeting the youth who have not made their decisions between choosing its brand, or that of Coke. One can tell this from the images that they place on most of their brands. The source of competitive differentiation of Pepsi is distribution. It is clear that in most of the restaurants it is more stocked as compared to its rival Coca-Cola. PepsiCo is the second largest in the beverage and food industry with Coca-Cola its leading rival. The mission statement of the company is a performance with purpose whereby it is closely related to the strategic decision which the company takes. The changing market structure has always resulted in a change of the organization chart (Gonzalez, 2011).
The organization chart has three key features. The features include global hierarchy, functional corporate groups and offices and market decisions. Market divisions are the most prominent organizational structure. It is based on two variables which include geography and business. Regarding the geography group, Pepsi Company has units for Europe, Americans, and other regions. The market units in the organizational structure include Frito–Lay, Quaker foods, Pepsi Europe, PepsiCo Asia, PepsiCo Americas Beverages and Latin America Foods. The characteristics of the functional corporate groups and offices entail to the core f ...
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Assignment Details
Scenario:
You are member of a prisoner review board for a minimum-security facility in your state. Included among the inmates are a number of heroin addicts who were charged with possession crimes and some minor thefts through which they supported their habits.
Please include answers in your main post for the following questions:
What are the methods of treatment for heroin addiction?
What is the difference between heroin detoxification and heroin addiction treatment?
What is the best method for ensuring the heroin addict does not return to heroin abuse? Does long-term incarceration play a role?
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Assignment Details
Scenario:
You are an investigator for Child Protective Services in your community. One of the most difficult aspects of interviewing is the interview of a suspected victim of child sexual abuse. Often, the first interviewers are detectives or investigators from the police department with little or no training for interviewing child sexual abuse victims. The Commander of the Sex Crimes Unit would like to you to identify errors in interviewing by police investigators when questioning child sex crime victims about the circumstances during the alleged offense(s). The psychopathology of the suspect and the victim are very important, but the victim can be misled unintentionally by police resulting in false or inaccurate complaint information.
The Commander of the Sex Crimes Unit would like you to outline and explain the specific areas to be avoided when questioning a child as a sex crime victim.
Specifically, he is concerned with the following:
The use of suggestive questions
The implication of confirmation by other people
Use of positive and negative consequences
Repetitious questioning
Inviting speculation
In a 3–5-page paper, address the specific concerns, and explain why it is preferable to have the child interviewed by a person with the qualifications to potentially testify as an expert witness in subsequent criminal trials
.
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HOSP4060 Hospitality Strategy Design and Execution Seminar
PESTLE Assessment
Read the Fork River Brewing company case study, and from the this, identify the PESTEL factors presented in the case study.
Political
Economic
Socio-Culture
Technological
Legal
Environmental
PESTEL Analysis
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PESTEL Analysis
The PESTEL framework is an analytical tool used to identify key drivers of change in the strategic environment.
A PESTEL analysis identifies key external forces that might affect an organization.
These forces can create both opportunities and threats for an organization.
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PESTEL Analysis
The aim of doing PESTEL is to:
Identify current external factors affecting an organization
identify external factors that may change in the future
Exploit the changes (opportunities) or defend against them (threats) better than competitors would do.
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Political Factors
Laws, global issues, legislation, and regulations which may have an affect on your business either immediately or in the future.
Political Factors Include:
Government Stability
Corruption level
Regulation / De-regulation
Trade Control
Tariffs /Taxes
Environmental laws
Employment laws
Health and safety laws
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Economic Factors
Taxes, Interest rates, inflation, the stock markets, and consumer confidence all need to be taken into account.
Economic Factors Include:
Stock market trends
Growth rates
Interest rates
Employment /Unemployment trends
Labor costs
Credit availability
Price fluctuations
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Socio-Cultural Factors
The changes in lifestyle and buying trends, media, major events, ethics, advertising and publicity factors.
Socio-Cultural Factors Include:
Health consciousness
Population growth rate
Attitudes towards work, leisure, career and retirement.
Attitudes towards product quality and customer service.
Lifestyles
Attitudes toward “green” or “ecological products”
Social classes
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Technological
Innovations, access to technology, licensing and patents, manufacturing, research funding, global communications.
Technological Factors Include:
Basic infrastructure level
Rate of technological change
Technology level in the industry
Communication infrastructure
Access to newest technology
Internet infrastructure and penetratration
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Environmental (Ecological)
Environmental issues either locally or globally and their social and political factors.
Environmental (Ecological) Factors Include:
Weather and weather events
Climate change
Recycling
Air and water pollution
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Legal
Legislation which have been proposed and may come into effect and any passed legislation’s.
Legal Factors Include:
Anti-trust laws
Discrimination laws
Employment laws
Health and safety laws
Consumer protection and e-commerce
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FORKED RIVER BREWING CO.: CRAFT BEER ENTREPRENEURSHIP
IN AN EVOLVING INDUSTRY
Max Stallkamp and Professors Larry Plummer and Andreas Schotter wrote th ...
In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the ability to receive discounted payments for their P&G receivables. Fibria Celulose, a Brazilian supplier of kraft pulp, joined the program in 2013 but was re-evaluating the costs and benefits of participating in the SCF program in the summer of 2015. The firm’s treasury group and its US country manager must decide whether to keep using the program and, if so, whether to keep their existing SCF banking relationship or start a new relationship with another global SCF bank.
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Please use the scroll bar labeled “Featured Executives”. Scroll down to three interviews, those of Henry Demone, Pierre Lafontaine and Alex Macbeath.
Interview information will provide below. Some information are no need to repeat in summarize. Please focus on the change event and the challenges that they are facing.
· Please answer the following questions:
For each of the interviews, please use one page maximum to summarize the change event and the challenges overcome to make it successful
Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.
Henry Demone:
Henry was born in High Liners home town, Lunenburg, NS, in 1954. A mathematician by academic training, Henry joined the Company (then National Sea Products), in 1977, soon taking over management of international sales. In 1980, he left National Sea to serve as Managing Director of a French subsidiary of Franz Witte AB, a Swedish food company and division of Volvo. Returning to National Sea in 1984 as Vice President, International, Henry was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company in 1989. At the Company's Annual Meeting in 1992, he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Henry has charted High Liner through a decade of rapid change. From its roots as a fishing company, Henry has lead the transformation of the Company to a food processor and marketer of high quality seafood and frozen pasta. He is a member and former Chairman of the Atlantic Canada Chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization, and is a director of Dover Industries Limited and the Food and Consumer Products Manufacturers of Canada.
Company Profile
· Company: High Liner Foods Ltd.
· Size: Medium
· Industry: Seafood
· Business Activity: Manufacturing
· Type of Entity: Public Corporation
· Number of Employees: 25 to 500
· Country: Canada
· Headquarters: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
· Yearly Revenue: Greater than $25 million
What is the business model of your company?
Our business model is really to be a market leader in all of the key sales channels in North America. By having the leading brand, doing unique value added products, getting critical mass so that our procurement department can buy cheaper than our competitors.
Who are the customers of your company and what customer needs do your products or services satisfy?
We deal with all of the big customers in North America, whether they're retail, food service, or club stores. Whether they're US or Canadian. The retail customers would be people like Walmart, Loblaws, Sobeys. Food service customers would be people like Sysco, Gordon Food Service, US Food Service. The club store customers would be people like Costco, Sam's Club, or BJ's in the US. What we do for our customers is we remove the complexities.
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Key Partnerships
Key partnerships are the relationships that a business has with other business entities, government entities, or other entities that help the business model work. These can be the relationships that a business has with suppliers, manufacturers, and business partners, just to mention a few (youtu.be). Businesses usually form partnerships for various reasons. One of the reason is to optimize expenses. The other reason is to mitigate risk and uncertainties. Business entities also form partnerships to acquire unique resources.
Green Drive Logistics will form strategic alliances with manufacturing entities. These entities will be producing a part of our business product that we may not be able to produce. Green Drive Logistics will also form partnerships with its suppliers. We will build reliable relationships with our suppliers while incorporating vital characteristics such as quality, commitment, and trust to ensure a successful business model.
When forming the partnerships, Green Drive Logistics will keep in mind the following factors:
Clear partnership Agreements: We will ensure we have the right partnership agreements drafted as well as legal counsel.
Defining Expectations: Most of the time new entities fail to establish their expectations leading to so much conflict and confusion afterwards (Belyh, 2015). Green Drive Logistics will, therefore, establish its expectations and share them openly with the partners.
Win-Win Situation: We will also ensure that there is a Win-Win situation for the partnerships to be sustainable and healthy.
Impact on the Customers: When forming the partnerships, we will evaluate our value proposition and our key resources and ensure our partners are filling the gaps in either.
Selecting Partnerships: We will also ensure we select the right partnerships. As we all know some partnerships may appear profitable in theory but fail to kick off practically. Additionally, changes in the business context can also make some partnerships irrelevant. In such situations, it is important to terminate these partnerships to avoid further losses and wastage of resources.
References
Belyh, A. (2015). Key Partners in Business Model Canvas. Cleverism. Retrieved from: https://www.cleverism.com/key-partners-in-business-model-canvas/
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Instructor:- Eric Westreich
Course Title:- ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Date:- 05/30/2020
Business model describes the relationship between the elements and factors that make the business functional. In this discussion, we shall highlight two components of the business model with regards to Green Drive Logistics. The discussion shall highlight the manner in which these components appear in the business aspect of the organization. The two components to be discussed are Key Resource Type.
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Conceptualizing in Business – Waterboard Corporation
David Greenfield
BUS/475
July 27, 2015
Susan Horvat
Conceptualizing in Business – Waterboard Corporation
My new Company will be the Waterboard Corporation, which will be an international corporation based in the United States and operate in places like America, Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Europe. This paper will discuss the mission statement and vision statement of Waterboard Corporation as well as the major guiding principles and values that the Corporation will apply the cut-throat competitive environment. Additionally, it will as well look at a division of Waterboard Corporation and then discuss the marketing strategies that will be applied by the company in trying to meet the unending needs of customers.
Water board Corporations will be dealing with agricultural services. Some of the activities that will take place in Waterboard Corporation include sugar production, citrus production, pork production and processing, commodity merchandising and flour milling (Hart 2003).
Proposed new Division for the company
The division that I want to create for Waterboard Corporation is the Cargo shipping of products across the globe. This division will enhance the transportation of the products of the company to different parts of the world. For the start of the business, the Company will own seven container vessels chartered to the corporation. Waterboard Corporation will have 900 employees particularly to this special division of Cargo shipping which will be working in various chain stores in the destined countries.
Alignment of the division to the Mission and Vision Statement
This division of the Waterboard Corporation will be customer focused and run in line with the vision and vision statement of the company. Waterboard Corporation will be a food producing and processing company which aims at offering high quality, fair priced foods and agricultural products that use natural ingredients (Hart 2003).We will view us as partners with our community, the environment, customers, and employees. Additionally, we are aiming at becoming a globally recognized corporation capitalizing the interest sustained in agricultural products across the globe. Above all, we are expecting to moderate our growth, annual profitability as well as maintaining a sense of pride and a good reputation. And for this, cargo shipping of our agricultural products will be a key tool that will help us to reach to the world, close to the consumers with our products thereby making our mission statement become a reality.
Our vision statement as Waterboard Corporation is to become a global company which clearly understands the needs of the customers across the globe by developing products and services which satisfies the interests and nee ...
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Vital Vitamins®
A College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education Case Study
Dr. Russell Meller and Janet Wolf, Virginia Tech
Developed in conjunction with Gross and Associates
August 2002
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Project Summary
Student Teams will design a manufacturing, warehouse and
distribution center using good material handling practices.
The project will require analysis and design of material
flow from receiving through shipping, selection of
appropriate material handling equipment, and a detailed
description of the operation. The final designs will be
judged in a competition.
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Report Format Suggestions
Cover Page - With project title and team members.
Table of Contents - With page numbers.
Executive Summary - One page or less. Brief description of problem(s),
approach, main findings and recommendations.
Introduction - Include an overview of the problem and operations. Briefly
discuss the project thrust.
Problem Statement - Concise description of problem(s) that are addressed by this
project. What is wrong? Who is being affected? Etc.
Approach and Methodology - This can have sub-sections. Justify your approach.
What other approaches were available to you? This section should contain a
literature review, with pertinent references cited from your reference section.
Describe how you approached the problem - methods and procedures, assumptions,
analysis techniques used, data sources. Why did you choose your approach?
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Report Format Suggestions
Results - Provide a summary of numeric and qualitative results. Discussion of
results and their sensitivity to changes in assumptions. Some graphs and charts
would be good in this section. Detailed printouts or calculations should be put
in an appendix. Note, all pertinent information must appear within the body of
the report. The reader should only need to refer to the appendices to get more
detailed information.
Recommendations and Implementation - Describe a clear list and discussion
of your short-term and long-term recommendations. Follow this with an
implementation plan. Discuss benefits for implementing your recommendations,
as well as any limitations.
Conclusions and Acknowledgments.
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Report Format Suggestions
References - (Including oral conversations, listed as “Personal
Communication.”) Note, citations should be made throughout your report
where appropriate.
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Vital Vitamins®
Case Study Background
& Objectives
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Company Profile
Vital Vitamins is a manufacturer and distributor of over the
counter vitamin supplements, specializing in sports nutrition
proteins, powders, and drinks, and weight management
products. They ship to company-operated retail stores, and
directly to consumers on internet and phone orders. They
also have a line of Vital Brand™ products, which are generic
labeled knock-offs of some of their best sellers,
manufactured in-house. Due to tremendo.
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Supply chain improvement
Student’s name:
Course title:
Institution;
Date:
Introduction
This paper will focus on the Pepsi Company. The main point of the paper will be an analysis of the supply chain and the elements which need to be improved in the supply chain to ensure the success of the organization. The essay contains the subheadings of the major points of discussion which include the overview of the company under consideration. The manufacturing and procurement department is the primary focus of the analysis since it is significantly involved with supply chain management.
Strategic overview
The company under analysis will be the PepsiCo, Inc. It is a food, beverage and snack corporation and has its headquarters in New York. The organization has interests in marketing, manufacturing and the distribution of the snack foods which are grain based and beverages among other products. The company was formed in 1965 whereby it started as a merger of Frito–Lay Inc. and Pepsi –Cola Company. The current products of this company include energy drinks, soft drinks, cereal, snacks, rice snacks, breakfast bars, side dishes, bottled water and sports nutrition. The company has various brands. Some of the brands include Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Tropicana, Sobe, Sabre, Starbucks, Fritos and Pepsi Max amongst others. Each brand has been manufactured to target a particular group of people (Company. & Company., 2012).
The target market of the Pepsi Company is everyone. It aims at making sure that its product reaches everyone in the world wherever they are. It has however laid its focus in targeting the youth who have not made their decisions between choosing its brand, or that of Coke. One can tell this from the images that they place on most of their brands. The source of competitive differentiation of Pepsi is distribution. It is clear that in most of the restaurants it is more stocked as compared to its rival Coca-Cola. PepsiCo is the second largest in the beverage and food industry with Coca-Cola its leading rival. The mission statement of the company is a performance with purpose whereby it is closely related to the strategic decision which the company takes. The changing market structure has always resulted in a change of the organization chart (Gonzalez, 2011).
The organization chart has three key features. The features include global hierarchy, functional corporate groups and offices and market decisions. Market divisions are the most prominent organizational structure. It is based on two variables which include geography and business. Regarding the geography group, Pepsi Company has units for Europe, Americans, and other regions. The market units in the organizational structure include Frito–Lay, Quaker foods, Pepsi Europe, PepsiCo Asia, PepsiCo Americas Beverages and Latin America Foods. The characteristics of the functional corporate groups and offices entail to the core f ...
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Scenario:
You are member of a prisoner review board for a minimum-security facility in your state. Included among the inmates are a number of heroin addicts who were charged with possession crimes and some minor thefts through which they supported their habits.
Please include answers in your main post for the following questions:
What are the methods of treatment for heroin addiction?
What is the difference between heroin detoxification and heroin addiction treatment?
What is the best method for ensuring the heroin addict does not return to heroin abuse? Does long-term incarceration play a role?
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Scenario:
You are an investigator for Child Protective Services in your community. One of the most difficult aspects of interviewing is the interview of a suspected victim of child sexual abuse. Often, the first interviewers are detectives or investigators from the police department with little or no training for interviewing child sexual abuse victims. The Commander of the Sex Crimes Unit would like to you to identify errors in interviewing by police investigators when questioning child sex crime victims about the circumstances during the alleged offense(s). The psychopathology of the suspect and the victim are very important, but the victim can be misled unintentionally by police resulting in false or inaccurate complaint information.
The Commander of the Sex Crimes Unit would like you to outline and explain the specific areas to be avoided when questioning a child as a sex crime victim.
Specifically, he is concerned with the following:
The use of suggestive questions
The implication of confirmation by other people
Use of positive and negative consequences
Repetitious questioning
Inviting speculation
In a 3–5-page paper, address the specific concerns, and explain why it is preferable to have the child interviewed by a person with the qualifications to potentially testify as an expert witness in subsequent criminal trials
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Scenario:
You are a new patrol officer in a major metropolitan city in the center of the country. You have only been on patrol for about four weeks but notice that the officers with more time on the street have been making racially disparaging jokes about members of the poorer neighborhoods. What surprised you was the number of African-American and Hispanic officers who seemed to go along with the culture of racially biased comments. The community in which your precinct is located is crime-ridden and poor. It is largely African-American and Hispanic-American.
When you are on the street, you note that the tension between minority members of the community is very high and that it is even worse between minority officers and the minority community, who tend to view the minority officers as “race traitors.”
In addition, there are a number of combat veterans who have returned to the police department from Iraq and Afghanistan. These veterans have developed a prejudiced outlook towards the Muslim Community, which has a peaceful Mosque in the very center of the community.
Focus your discussion on the following:
Explain your viewpoint as to whether racism and religious bias are based on psychopathology of the officers or not.
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Scenario: Generally, we have considered sexual harassment actions or verbal abuse of women to be done by men. Over the past several decades, the culture of society has evolved. The diversity of sex and gender has erupted from male abuses of females based on their biology. Now, there are gender reassignments which allow for persons with the psychological inclination to be the gender other than what they were born as being possible. Further, there are a number of transgender persons who, while retaining their biological configuration, adopt the psyche and outward appearance through dress and mannerisms of what is considered to be the traditional opposite gender of their physiology.
Recently, a newly assigned outwardly female officer was found out by her teammates in a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit to actually be a biological male. Several of the SWAT team members have come to you as the SWAT Command Leader and have voiced their concern because the transgender officer uses the ladies room, wears makeup, and dresses as a woman in her civilian attire at the end of the shift. The officers making the complaint are claiming that someone with a psychopathological problem should not be in the SWAT unit. You go to the Deputy Chief with their concerns and she tells you to prepare a briefing for the SWAT members concerning the requirements for SWAT team membership and that if an officer makes the grade, he or she has the opportunity to be a SWAT officer.
In a 3–5-page paper, you must explain to the officers, including those who complained as well as those who did not complain, that the department supports the assignment of the new officer and that according to law, she must be accepted as a valid member of the team so long as she is qualified. Further, explain that transphobia is not an acceptable attitude for members of the team and that any discriminatory action on the part of officers concerning the new officer would not be tolerated and would be met with appropriate disciplinary action.
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Power’s on, Power’s Off!
How convenient is it to have electricity come right to your home? We use electricity for so many things: lighting, heating, cooling, entertainment, cleaning, food storage and preparation, and even for taking this class!
Generating electricity from any source creates varying levels of environmental damage, including ecosystem disruption, water contamination, or polluting gas emissions. If we reduce energy use, then we reduce these environmental impacts.
We make choices about our energy use based on how we feel about conservation, the environment, and convenience. Reflect on your energy use, and review the following resources:
Review the tips at this site for ideas to reduce energy use at home.
Review this site for power outage readiness.
Assignment Details:
Respond to the questions for ONE of the following scenarios:
Power’s off!
When the power goes out, explain your biggest inconvenience. What do you manage to live without?
If the power is out for 3 days or more, what are your main concerns? What are the absolute essentials? How do you know food is safe?
Explain what the best back-up source for a power outage would be (for example, solar panels, a gas-powered generator, or even a power inverter for your car).
Include 1 benefit and 1 drawback. What is your back-up plan?
Power’s on!
In the U.S., heating, ventilation, and air conditioning accounts (HVAC) for 48% of home electricity costs (DoE, 2018). Describe one behavior you can change to reduce heating or cooling energy use.
Americans pay 9% of their electricity costs for lighting (EIA, 2018a). Explain how changing all of your light bulbs to LEDs can help save energy.
On average, 18% of home electricity costs go to heating water (EIA, 2018b). Describe one way to reduce hot water use. How easy or difficult is this to do?
Deliverable Length: 200 words (minimum)
Reading Assignment
Read the following chapter sections in Environmental Science:
Chapter 9: Energy and the Environment
Environmental Science by Editorial Board
Publisher Words of Wisdom, LLC
ISBN 9781943926169
Course Code SCIE210-20
References:
EnergySage. (2018, August 2). Energy conservation: 10 ways to save energy. Retrieved from https://www.energysage.com/energy-efficiency/101/ways-to-save-energy/
Ready.gov. (n.d.). Power outages. Retrieved from https://www.ready.gov/power-outages
U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). (2018. Retrieved from: https://www.energy.gov/heating-cooling
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). (2018a). Frequently asked questions: How much electricity is used for lighting in the United States? Retrieved from: https://www.energy.gov/heating-cooling
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). (2018b). Use of energy in the United States explained: Energy use in homes. Retrieved from: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=us_energy_homes
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In 1908, playwright Israel Zangwill referred to America as a
melting pot
. Zangwill’s concept of the United States as a country where people of all cultures and nations are free to come and contribute to a common American culture remains a popular concept—even more than a century after its introduction.
More recently, the concept of the American mosaic asserts that American society consist not of melting pot in which people and cultures mix together to form a larger American culture, but as a mosaic in which ethnic groups come to the United States and coexist with other groups but maintain significant cultural and social distinctions among themselves.
Post a discussion that explores these themes by demonstrating how various cultures and ethnicities have contributed to modern American history and culture. Select 1 ethnic group, and include the following in your discussion:
Part 1
Explain a specific contribution that this group made to American society or culture.
Part 2
Evaluate the concepts of the melting pot and the American mosaic.
Which concept more accurately reflects the experiences of the ethnic group you chose? Support your assertion.
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Choose one (1) Native American tribe residing within the continental United States (Lower 48 states) at the time of first European contact. Research various aspects of the chosen tribe’s culture or history. Make sure ample historical records exist for the chosen tribe. Some tribes are not well-documented in the existing historical record.
Topics that
need
to be researched include but are not limited to:
Describing what is known of the tribe’s pre-Columbian history, including settlement dates and any known cultural details.
Describing the cultural and religious beliefs of the chosen tribe.
Describing the tribe’s history after contact, including major events and armed conflicts that may have been important to the history of the tribe in the present day.
Explaining the history of at least one historical figure of the chosen tribe and events surrounding that individual’s life
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Part I
Respond to the following:
Review your course materials and the Internet to find information on the crime data sources available for different countries and the United States. Which of the following crime data sources provides the clearest and most helpful information, and why?
Uniform Crime Report (UCR)
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS)
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Please discuss the following in your main post:
Identify the classes of employees protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Why was Affirmative Action put into place?
Do you think Title VII and Affirmative Action are still necessary? Why or why not?
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Pennsylvania was the leader in sentencing and correctional reform in the early history of the United States. Discuss what groups were associated with this reform.
Why did they want the reform?
Examine whether it was successful and if the reform brought forth further changes.
What influences did the system have on the correctional system today?
What influences have changed? Why?
Use the Internet, library, and any other resources available to research your answer. Submit a 4–5-page paper (double-spaced) to your instructor. Support your reasoning with outside sources. Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
The following will be the grading criteria for this assignment:
20%:
Discuss what groups were associated with this reform.
10%:
Why did they want the reform?
20%:
Examine whether it was successful and if the reform brought forth further changes.
25%:
What direct influences do you see from the Pennsylvania system in the correctional systems used today?
25%:
What influences have changed? Why?
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Part I
Respond to the following:
Review your course materials and the Internet to find information on the crime data sources available for different countries and the United States. Which of the following crime data sources provides the clearest and most helpful information, and why?
Uniform Crime Report (UCR)
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS)
United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS)
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Part I
Respond to the following questions:
What examples of organized crime can you find in the United States?
What factors contribute to the existence of the criminal organizations you described?
Provide examples of the ways in which the U.S. criminal justice system is dealing with the types of organized crime that you found.
What law enforcement agencies are involved?
How do those law enforcement agencies work to control organized crime?
Part II
Suggestions for responding to peer posts:
Review peers’ posts that used examples of different types of organized crime than the ones that you found.
Were some of the factors that he or she believes contributed to these crimes the same? What different factors were mentioned?
Are the methods of dealing with this type of organized crime different from those devised to deal with the type of organized crime that you found?
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Part I
Respond to the following questions:
What examples of organized crime can you find in the United States?
What factors contribute to the existence of the criminal organizations you described?
Provide examples of the ways in which the U.S. criminal justice system is dealing with the types of organized crime that you found.
What law enforcement agencies are involved?
How do those law enforcement agencies work to control organized crime?
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One thing that unites all humans—despite culture or time period—is the desire to be happy. Since the beginning of Western philosophy, philosophers have been asking the question, “How can I find happiness?” In popular culture, there are articles in magazines, newspapers, and discussions on the Internet and television about the pursuit of happiness.
Part 1
What are some of the ways that people pursue happiness?
Do you believe that it can be obtained?
Discuss with others what you consider to be an impression of the state of happiness.
Part 2
Why do you think that people differ in their interpretations of happiness?
What do your reading sources say about this?
Have you changed your perception of happiness over the years?
Discuss with 2 or more classmates their interpretation of happiness.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
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MN551:
Develop cooperative relationships with clients when teaching concepts concerning pathological states to individuals and families
Select one of the case studies below, and include discussion of your strategy for winning the patients cooperation while teaching concepts concerning pathological states to them and their families.
Requirements
Make sure all of the topics in the case study have been addressed.
Cite at least three sources; journal articles, textbooks or evidenced-based websites to support the content.
All sources must be within five years.
Do not use .com, Wikipedia, or up-to-date, etc., for your sources.
Case Study 1
Concepts of Altered Health in Older Adults
Joseph P. is an 82-year-old male living at home. He is in overall good health and enjoys taking long walks as often as possible. During his walks, he likes to stop for a cold glass of fruit juice at the local cafeteria. On cold or rainy days, he rides a stationary bicycle at home for 30 minutes to “stay in good shape.”
What physiological factors would typically increase Joseph’s risk of falling while walking outdoors?
What are the common changes in blood pressure regulation that occurs with aging?
Joseph enjoys fruit juice when he walks. Considering the renal system in the older adult, why would dehydration be a particular concern?
Case Study 2
Structure and Function of the Kidney
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1. Coursework
Staples Wants to Enter Africa. Help Them
Purpose
Staples, Inc. is the largest office supply company in the world.
Staples has found ways to survive and actually thrive in the face
of online competitors such as Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Costco
that also sell a wide array of office supplies. Staples’ retail,
online, and mail order delivery presence gives it a competitive
edge and now, having just increased its dividend payout, Staples
wants Africa.
More and more companies every day decide to begin doing
business in Africa. Research is necessary to determine the best
strategy for being the first mover in many African countries
(i.e., being the first competitor doing business in various
countries).
Instructions
Step 1 – Look for a map of Africa. (You can attach map of
Africa in the paper)
Step 2- Look for demographic data on 10 African countries
(same thing you can attach demographic data on 10 African
countries in the paper)
Step 3- Gather competitive information regarding the presence
of office-supply firms doing business in Africa.
Step 4- List in prioritized order eight countries in which you
would recommend Staples to build stores. Country 1 is your
best, and country 2 is your next best. Based on your research,
indicate how many staples stores you would recommend
building over the next three years in each county. List in
prioritized order three cities in each of your eight African
countries where you believe Staples should build most of its
stores.
You can write 1-1/2 pages, it should be APA format, and please
2. provide sources in sentences and also end of page.
Due Date: June 10/15
M E M O R A N D U M
To:
Charles Williamson, Dale Edgel, Lowell Bradford, Clyde Cousi
ns, Maria Trinh, Robert
Lord
From: Hugh McCauley
Re: China Relocation
Confidential
Our initial decision to locate our China operations in Hangzhou
was driven largely by the fact
that our Chinese partners already had facilities there and the cit
y’s proximity to the Qiantang
River. We thought that the river access which led on to Hangzh
ou Bay would be sufficient to
handle our shipping needs.
As the production volume from the China plant has increased, w
e are seeing that significant
savings can be had by utilizing container shipping companies su
ch as the China Shipping
Container Lines, a branch of the China Shipping (Group) Compa
ny. Most of the container
shipping companies utilize ports in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
While the Shanghai port is only 180 kilometers away from our c
urrent location, we are incurring
additional logistical steps in shipping out of Shanghai.
3. •
Currently, our products are trucked to a port on the Qiantang Ri
ver and loaded into
shipping containers. The containers are then loaded onto barges
that make their way to
the Shanghai port. The barges dock in Shanghai where the cont
ainers are offloaded
and trucked to another area of the port where they are loaded on
to to the ships that will
take them to their final destinations.
•
Alternatively, we could transport the products by truck to the po
rt at Shanghai where
they would be loaded into containers and then directly onto the
ships that will be taking
them to their final destinations. However, the trucking compani
es, knowing that they are
being used as an alternative to the local shipping companies to
move the same products
to the Shanghai ports, generally charge just as much as the ship
ping companies for the
same volume of goods.
We believe that the relocation of the China operations to the cit
y of Shanghai will result in
significant cost savings, will provide our operations with a more
substantial urban infrastructure
and will put us into a better position to market and ship our Chi
nese products throughout Asia
and Europe.
China Relocation Memo
4. Page 2
We have incorporated a move of the China operations to Shangh
ai within the next five years
into the strategic planning of Riordan Manufacturing and Riorda
n Industries. Please begin
drafting strategic plans for how such a move will impact your ar
eas of responsibility and how
your areas will facilitate the relocation.
Riordan Manufacturing
Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer
employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46
million. The company is wholly owned by Riordan Industries, a
Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion.
Its products include plastic beverage containers produced at its
plant in Albany, Georgia, custom plastic parts produced at its
plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and plastic fan parts produced at its
facilities in Hangzhou, China. The company's research and
development is done at the corporate headquarters in San Jose.
Riordan's major customers are automotive parts manufacturers,
aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, beverage
makers and bottlers, and appliance manufacturers.
History
The company was founded by Dr. Riordan, a professor of
chemistry, who had obtained several patents relative to
processing polymers into high tensile strength plastic
substrates. Sensing the commercial applications for his patents,
Dr. Riordan started Riordan Plastics, Inc. in 1991.
Initially, the company's focus was on research and development
and the licensing of its existing patents, but in 1992 Dr. Riordan
obtained venture capital which he used to purchase a fan
manufacturing plant in Pontiac, MI. At that time, the company's
name was changed to "Riordan Manufacturing, Inc." In 1993,
the company expanded into the production of plastic beverage
5. containers when it acquired a manufacturing plant in Albany,
GA.
The company's most recent expansion took place in 2000 when
it opened its operations in China. At that time, the entire fan
manufacturing operation was moved from Michigan to China
and the Pontiac, MI facility was retooled for the manufacture of
custom plastic parts.
Mission
Our Focus
Six Sigma, leading edge R&D and exceeding ISO 9000
standards define the attitude and abilities of Riordan
Manufacturing.
We are industry leaders in using polymer materials to provide
solutions to our customers challenges.
Our R&D is, and will remain, the industry leader in identifying
industry trends.
Our Customer Relationships
We will strive to be a solution provider for our customers and
not be a part of our customers challenges.
Long-term relationships will be sought by maintaining rigorous
quality controls, innovative solutions, a responsive business
attitude and reasonable pricing.
Our Employees
We will maintain an innovative and team oriented working
environment.
By assuring that our employees are well informed and properly
supported, we will provide a climate focused on the long term
viability of our company.
Our Future
We must be focused in achieving and maintaining reasonable
profitability to assure that the financial and human capital is
available for sustained growth.
6. Supply Chain - R & D
· R & D
· Albany, GA
· Pontiac, MI
· Hangzhou, China
The R & D Department at Riordan's Corporate Headquarters
consists of 5 product development personnel. Their job is to
research and develop the next generation of heart valves,
medical stents, and complementary medical devices. Since new
product development efforts require only a small amount of raw
materials and components to build proof-of-concept models or
initial working models of potentially new products, their
material and component requirements can be described as very
minimal. Consequently, the R & D Department does not have
the same supply chain problems as its other plants have.
Supply Chain - Albany, GA
· R & D
· Albany, GA
· Pontiac, MI
· Hangzhou, China
Plastic bottles are produced at the Albany, GA facility.
Contracts are negotiated with customers for yearly quantities of
standard and customer-unique bottles.
Regardless of the contracts it receives for yearly quantities of
bottles that each customer orders, the customers actually
provide release orders for smaller quantities throughout the year
against the yearly totals. These release orders are received at
random since each customer's requirement for bottles varies as a
function of the variability of the sales of the customer's final
products that use the bottles.
As a consequence of receiving releases at varying times the
7. Albany plant keeps a safety stock of the more popular standard
containers for those of their customers that use them. Of
necessity, the amount carried is small because of the amount of
storage space available.
It also keeps a safety stock of the raw materials used to produce
the bottles. Safety stock provides a degree of assurance that it
won't have shortages that would preclude it from shipping
orders on time. There is a trade-off between the cost of carrying
the safety stock and the cost of running out of bottles however.
Its management's decision on how much safety stock to carry
because of the associated inventory carrying costs.
A related reason for carrying safety stock is contract penalty
clauses. In this regard, while the company does not like to
accept contracts that impose a penalty if the company misses a
delivery date, it has accepted some in the past when the orders
were very large and consequently had a potential for a larger-
than-normal profit.
The company policy has always been to provide total customer
satisfaction in terms of meeting committed ship dates. The
company's average shipping metrics for the last three years
indicated that the Plant shipped at an average 96% on-time
level. Management felt that this level satisfied the objective of
providing total customer satisfaction since some shipping
delays, due to adverse weather conditions for example, were
beyond its control.
As another example of providing excellent service, at one time
in the past the plant decided to ship a small order by air freight
to meet one of their major customer's emergency need dates
rather than ship the order by normal means and having the
shipment arrive late. The Plant decided that it was important to
maintain its reputation of providing excellent customer service.
Riordan Manufacturing uses the Huffman Trucking Company to
ship all of its products in the United States. Rates for shipping a
full truckload of cargo to a single destination are lower than
shipping partial loads. Higher rates for less-than-full truckload
shipments are justified by Huffman for the following reasons:
8. · Huffman must try to find additional cargo to fill their truck to
help pay for the fuel and truck driver labor required.
· Time on the road can be longer because of the different stops
the truck must make to deliver cargo to different customers.
· Cargo is generally physically handled more frequently with
partial shipments resulting in a greater chance for damage.
The Albany plant has a good record of supplying customer
shipments on time that are relatively close to their plant but has
had some problems meeting customer required due dates in the
North and North-Eastern parts of the United States when winter
conditions set in. To keep track of its performance the Plant
maintains metrics on how many shipments are delivered late,
the amount of time the shipments were late, and the reasons.
The plant also ships large orders by train if delivery time is not
a critical factor and if the customer has the means to pick up the
cargo at the train depot at its destination.
Management is investigating whether to switch to a VMI supply
chain system.
Supply Chain - Pontiac, MI
· R & D
· Albany, GA
· Pontiac, MI
· Hangzhou, China
The Pontiac, MI facility handles the company's custom plastic
fabrication. Customization areas include the part design and the
color of the finished part.
Each custom project requires its own set of dies for the
injection molding process. The Pontiac plant has the facilities to
create new dies per customer specifications.
In general, custom parts are produced in small production runs.
However, the Pontiac facility has to maintain sufficient stocks
of a wide variety of raw materials in order to quickly respond to
customer requests for new custom plastic parts.
9. Supply Chain - Hangzhou, China
· R & D
· Albany, GA
· Pontiac, MI
· Hangzhou, China
Riordan Manufacturing's China plant operates as a decentralized
unit of Riordan Manufacturing. It prepares its own forecast of
electric fan sales throughout the world, which includes the
United States. It schedules production of these fans to meet the
forecasted sales.
The electric motors used in the fans are completely assembled
units. They are purchased by buyers in the China Plant's
purchasing department from a local Chinese company. While
this company attempts to maintain adequate quantities of
electric motors in stock to meet all its order requirements, its
on-time deliveries over the past year have averaged only 93%.
The buyers also purchase the Plant's requirements for plastic
polymers locally. The polymers, after being received, are
melted at precisely controlled temperatures and injected into
individual molds to create individual plastic parts required by
the fans. This is accomplished by means of injection molding
machines located in the production area. These capital
expensive machines control the molding processes to the
specifications of the plastic parts being produced, such as the
fan blades and fan housings. The plastic fan blades, plastic fan
housings, electric motors and other miscellaneous parts are then
assembled to create finished models of electric fans. The
assembled fans are individually packaged together with
instructions on how to use the product and stored in a finished
goods stockroom awaiting sale.
This part of the plant's business is a make-to-stock operation in
which the future demand for fans is forecasted based on taking
the average of sales for the last three years and extrapolating it
into the next year. The assumption in using this forecasting
method is that history will repeat itself within manageable
10. limits.
Orders for electric fans can be picked up at the China plant by
the customers themselves or else they can be shipped to the
customers anywhere in China. The China Plant uses a Chinese
shipping company that offers services comparable to FedEx, but
is less expensive. Orders are also shipped internationally by
either FedEx or a Chinese shipping company that competes with
FedEx. Two shipping companies are used by the China Plant for
international shipments to assure that timely delivery services
will always be available. The services both shippers offer are
very similar and their shipping charges are competitive.
The China plant also designs and develops customized electric
fan products for customers world-wide under individual
customer contracts. After the design and development of a new
electric fan is completed for a particular customer, a small
production lot of the fans is usually scheduled, but under a
separate contract. A separate contract from the development
contract is used since the final cost of the fan can only be
determined after its development is completed. This final cost is
used in estimating the cost of the production quantity. A small
production quantity is produced to statistically validate both the
design of the fan and the production process used to build and
assemble the fan, if the fan's design represents a significant
departure from the way typical fans had been designed and
assembled. This initial production can be described as a
production pilot run.
Estimates of follow-on orders for these new custom fans are not
forecasted but are based on the customers indicating what their
estimated yearly requirements will be. Since the fans are being
produced to a particular customer's unique requirements, they
are not available for sale to other customers; consequently no
additional forecasts are required. The customer's indication of
what its yearly requirements will be helps the China Plant to
estimate what their yearly resources requirements will be in
terms of production capacity, material requirements, and labor
to satisfy the customer's requirements. Customers normally
11. negotiate their yearly requirements for fans in order to obtain
the lowest price. They then provide periodic release orders for
smaller quantities against the yearly total throughout the year.
Periodic orders for quantities of fans against the contract's
yearly total however are received from customers randomly
throughout the year. This makes it difficult for the China Plant
to estimate exact material requirements in the very short term
since the orders are received randomly and are for varying
quantities. To assure that it will be able to meet any delivery
schedule its customers request, the China plant maintains a
safety stock of polymer material even though the material is
obtained locally and does not present an availability or a
delivery problem, at least for the foreseeable future. It does not
stock electric motors other than a small quantity of the more
popular types for warranty repairs, but depends on the electric
motor supplier to maintain motors in their stockroom. The
China Plant, following good supply chain management
practices, periodically provides the electric motor company with
a list of the motors it forecasts it will need throughout the year
to help the company plan which motors and how many it should
carry in its stock.
Logistics requirements for the China plant to ship products
internationally are similar to the requirements for shipping
items from the United States to China. A logistics scenario for a
shipment of items from the Riordan R & D facility, for example,
to the China Plant would be as follows:
1. Riordan's R & D Department contacts FedEx, the shipping
company they plan to use, on a shipment going to the China
Plant.
2. FedEx picks up the shipment at the R & D facility.
3. The R & D Facility provides FedEx with information on the
items being shipped including export license if required, item
descriptions, item model or part numbers, quantities, total cargo
weight, Product Duty Classification Codes, and destination
name and address. The United States Bureau of Export
Administration (BXA) under the U. S. Commerce Department
12. oversees export control and licensing in the United States. It is
mandatory that companies follow their requirements when
shipping items internationally. Originals of all documentation
are maintained by Riordan's R & D's shipping department.
Copies of all the shipping documents are also faxed to the China
Plant.
1. To determine the Product Duty Classification Code, the R &
D Facility compares the technical description of the items being
shipped against a set of technical descriptions known as both
Schedule B and as the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS)
codes. The HTS is maintained by the U.S. Government. Coding
items with duty classifications can be tricky business, but it is
essential to international supply chains to make sure that only
the correct amount of duty is imposed.
2. The code for a fractional horsepower AC motor for example
is 8501.20.2000. The code for polycarbonate plastic material is
3920.61.0000. The first six digits in each code is the code
classification. The last four digits is a country specific code.
4. FedEx delivers the cargo and documentation to a customs
broker at a United States sea port and then faxes the details of
the shipment, including shipment arrival time in China, to
FedEx in China so they will be prepared to receive the cargo
upon arrival.
5. The Broker takes possession of the cargo and the
documentation from FedEx and presents the documentation to
U.S. Customs for clearance. Dock fees or any other fees such as
channel dredging fees, if imposed, are identified and paid by the
broker. The broker collects for all such payments from the R &
D Facility when his responsibilities have been fulfilled and he
submits his bill.
6. The Broker also arranges transportation with a ship company
and has the cargo moved to the dock area along side the ship.
Note that this same procedure would be used to ship by air. The
shipping documentation travels with the cargo although copies
are usually faxed to the customs office at the destination port
ahead of time by the broker to help expedite receipt and
13. clearance of the cargo when it arrives. Shipping charges by the
ship company are billed directly to the R & D Facility.
7. The ship reaches its destination.
8. Chinese Customs examines, or re-examines the paperwork if
previous copies were received, accepts it if there are no
problems and releases the cargo, which has been or is in the
process of being unloaded, to a designated local Broker. This
Broker might be a member of the same Broker Company hired
originally in the United States or it might be a different
company. The stateside broker determines which one to use.
The Broker accepts the paperwork and cargo and submits
everything to the local FedEx carrier after making copies of all
the documents for its files. If any additional fees such as dock
fees are imposed, the Broker pays these and submits a complete
bill for his services, including any fees he pays, to the China
Plant.
9. Fed Ex accepts the cargo and paperwork from the Broker,
signs off on receiving the cargo, and delivers the cargo to the
China Plant. FedEx makes copies of all documentation for its
records.
10. Upon receiving the delivery, the China Plant verifies the
contents of the shipment while checking for damage, then
accepts the shipment and provides FedEx with a signed receipt.
Competitive Advantages Paper
Resources: Riordan Virtual Organization and Environmental
Scan Paper
Use the Riordan Virtual Organization and research from last
week’s Environmental Scan Paper for this assignment.
· Decide which competitive advantages Riordan has in common
with the companies researched last week, and estimate which
competitive strategies Riordan could use to improve innovation
and sustainability of business operations both in the United
States and in the global market.
· Explain why you chose these competitive strategies and
14. estimate how they might affect sustainability of long-term
organizational performance.
· Explain how the global market would affect the business
strategy of Riordan.
Summarize your findings in a 700- to 1,050-word paper.