The document outlines good practices, bad practices, problems, and solutions for a company. Some good practices included cost leadership, investment in R&D, and strategic alliances. Bad practices were centralized decision making, lack of coordination between departments, and not emphasizing international marketing. Problems involved prioritizing business models, supplier withdrawals, and information flow issues. Solutions proposed were to follow different business models sequentially, increase production capacity, emphasize maintenance, and improve brand building and information sharing.

2. GOOD PRACTICES
 Cost leadership as Order Winning Dimension.
 Free production line transfer.
 High investment in R&D.
 Maximum utilization of resources : 3 x 8 x 365
 Use of Total Productive Maintenance process.
 Strategic alliance with Wal-Mart and K-Mart.
 Self sufficiency in core components
manufacturing (took initiative in manufacturing
magnetrons).

3. BAD PRACTICES
 Centralized Decision Making.
 No Concurrent Engineering (Less co-ordination
between R&D – Testing – Operation).
 Exploitation of production capacities.
 Parameters for forecast was not adequate.
 No proper emphasis on PLC.
 No emphasis on international marketing
strategies and ignorant towards cultural
differences in overseas market.
 Ignorance of data records and compliances with
code of practice.

4. PROBLEMS
 Problems on prioritizing between ODM – OEM –
OBM.
 Withdrawal by suppliers.
 Demand of low volume and high variety of
products.
 Rapid wear and tear of machineries.
 OBM was a failure in overseas market.
 Information flow was slow and inadequate.

5. SOLUTIONS
 Should follow OEM – ODM – OBM.
 Should increase production capacity of
magnetron.
 Should make small scale production of various
product.
 Scheduling maintenance of machineries at
regular intervals.
 Should emphasize on brand building and adopt
good marketing strategies, overseas.
 Should follow horizontal, vertical and diagonal
flow of information (Decentralized Decision
Making).