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Question: The articles below is my classmate discussion post can you please give explanation why you agree with the articles below? According to the SEC 10-K, Procter & Gamble organizes its business into five strategic business units (SBUs) and five reportable segments as per U.S. GAAP. These segments cover Beauty, Grooming, Health Care, Fabric & Home Care, and Baby, Feminine & Family Care. The SBUS oversee global brand strategies, product innovations, and supply chain management, with direct profit responsibility for key markets termed "Focus Markets." They also drive growth in other markets, referred to as "Enterprise Markets." The MD&A discusses business performance by region, including North America, Europe, Greater China, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and India, Middle East, and Africa (IMEA), offering insights into geographical revenue contributions and market dynamics. Their largest customer is Walmart Inc. and its affiliates, which accounted for consolidated net sales of…

Technology advancements have fueled the global economy and impacted the ways in which businesses design their supply chains One cup of Starbucks coffee is comprised of materials from various countries and represents numerous supplier relationships In the age of the global village, designing supply chains is similar to conducting a massive orchestra’ achieving harmony requires strategy, planning, and impeccable execution Think about an organization’s supply chain with which you are familiar or have worked with in the past in order to discuss the following: 1 Describe the organization’s supply chain List the key components and include the key stakeholders, vendors, technologies, and if applicable, modes of transportation that are involved 2 How might you redesign the company’s supply chain for maximum effectiveness and harmony? Outline the key inputs and outputs of your supply chain and distinguish the suppliers that merit partnership status Justify their status…

Question: 4. Vanguard Office Supplies Is A Nationwide Retail Chain That Offers Office Supplies And Office Furniture. Company Management Has Decided That, From Both A Competitive And A Cost-cutting Standpoint, Vanguard Should Offer Its Own Private-label Brands For Products Like Student Notebooks, Fillers, Ledgers And Journals, Bond And Linen Paper, And Other Products. ... This problem has been solved! See the answer 4. Vanguard Office Supplies is a nationwide retail chain that offers office supplies and office furniture. Company management has decided that, from both a competitive and a cost-cutting standpoint, Vanguard should offer its own private-label brands for products like student notebooks, fillers, ledgers and journals, bond and linen paper, and other products. To accomplish this objective, Vanguard is considering the purchase of Omega Paper, a manufacturer of paper products and notebooks. A five-year income forecast for Omega is given, along with other pertinent information.…

Incorporating Stakeholder Impacts into Business SustainabilityAnalyses and DecisionsJack’s Apps Company researches, develops, and sells traditional applications (i.e., apps) formiddle-aged mobile phone device users. In an attempt to tap into the large young adult appmarket to boost sales and advertising revenues, Jack’s CFO, Daniel, is considering hiringstudents from area high schools and universities to drastically increase the innovativeness ofthe company’s apps. Specifically, Daniel hopes that Jack’s new student employee pool will makeJack’s next wave of phone apps inventions popular with young adults by providing innovativeservices, such as exchanging payments for late-night food deliveries, arranging informal datingand other social gatherings, exchanging perspectives on different professors, and identifyingunusual debit card purchase patterns to assist with early fraud detection notification. Basedon cost estimates from Jack’s finance team and surveys of its new target customers…

Strategy The table below contains the names of six companies. Required: For each company, categorize its strategy as being focused on customer intimacy, operational excellence, or product leadership, if you wish to improve your understanding of each company’s customer value proposition before completing the exercise, review its most recent annual report. To obtain electronic access to this information, perform an Internet search on each company’s name followed by the words “annual report.”

QUESTION 6 Which of the following statements would be part of a vision statement? Company XYZ is a globally recognized financial institution providing services now and in the future. ABC Memorial Hospital provides an appropriate mix of services to the residents of ABC region and surrounding areas. BCD Company makes, distributes, and sells the finest-quality widgets. To be the largest and most complete antique radio community site on the Internet.

Choice of Strategic Business Unit Hamilton-Jones, a large consulting firm in Los Angeles,has experienced rapid growth over the last 5 years. To better serve its clients and to bettermanage its practice, the firm decided 2 years ago to organize into five strategic business units,each of which serves a significant base of clients: accounting systems, executive recruitment andcompensation, client-server office information systems, manufacturing information systems, andreal-estate consulting. Each SBU is served by a variety of administrative services within the firm,including payroll and accounting, printing and duplicating, report preparation, and secretarialsupport. Hamilton-Jones’s management closely watches the trend in the total costs for eachadministrative support area on a month-to-month basis. Management has noted that the costs inthe printing and duplicating area have risen 40% over the last 2 years, a rate that is twice that ofany other support area.Required Should Hamilton-Jones…

eBook Question Content Area Unique balanced scorecards Coulson and Company is a large retail business that has a firm-wide balanced scorecard. Recently, management has discussed the need for the balanced scorecard to be more relevant to each individual department of the company. Specifically, management wants to come up with unique scorecards for its Public Relations and Inventory Management departments. For both departments, management recognizes that properly and efficiently training employees is important. For these purposes, management gathers data on the median training hours per employee and new employee performance review ratings. For the Inventory Management Department, management is focused on reducing stockouts (running out of certain inventory items) and keeping accurate inventory counts. For these purposes, the company tracks the number of back orders and discrepancies between the physical and record counts of inventory, respectively. For the Public Relations…

Outsourcing Call Centers; Strategy; Ethics; Present-Value Analysis (Chapter 12) Merchants’Bank (MB) is a large regional bank operating in 634 locations in the southeastern United States.Until 2014, the bank operated a call center for customer inquiries out of a single location in Atlanta,Georgia. MB understood the importance of the call center for overall customer satisfaction andmade sure that the center was managed effectively. However, in early 2013, it became clear that thecost of running the center was increasing very rapidly, along with the firm’s growth, and that someissues were arising about the quality of the service. To improve the quality and dramatically reducethe cost of the service, MB moved its call center to Bangalore, India, to be run by an experiencedoutsourcing firm, Naftel, which offers similar services to other banks like MB.The Naftel contract was for 5 years, and in late 2017 it was time to consider whether to renewthe contract, change to another call center…