Case Study: Strategic Aspects Of HPCL

Reflecting on the simulation one of the things that should have changed would have been changing the interval of the trucks so more of the product could have been transported from the

3. Assuming that processing starts at 7 am on a “busy” day, present the situation during such a day, by constructing an inventory build-up diagram for bins and trucks.

(3 marks) c) Determine the optimal number of bus and train travelers. (2 marks) d) Say a train strike significantly reduced the number of trains available. By how much would the train capacity constraint have to fall for the optimal solution to be altered? (2 marks)

That being said, suppliers can have some power in regards to choosing the number of stores where their product can be purchased at. This allows the suppliers to regulate their sales and stay away from the “red tape”. The bargaining power of customers impacts HBC as customers are able to influence pricing based on their buying habits. Of course, customers do not choose the retail prices offered to them, however, if inexpensive clothing were to lead the industry, retail stores would adapt to this consumer demand and offer an abundance of inexpensive clothing due to consumer preferences. These forces lead to rivalry among competitors due to the many options offered to consumers to grant their desires. These forces combine to cause strategic implications for HBC. HBC must differentiate itself from its competitors who, similar to HBC, have large annual revenue, strong and profitable supplier agreements and large amounts of capital. As well, due to competitors large sale volumes, competitive pricing is an implication which faces

The industry we have chosen is the department store-retail industry. Within this industry, we have chosen the department stores of JCPenney and Macy’s. We find this industry, as well as these two companies, interesting from a strategic perspective. JCPenney has recently undergone a massive strategic restructuring in regards to its pricing, brand offerings, and store layout, pushing it away from the typical department store strategy of discounts and coupons. Its new strategy has become much closer to Wal-Mart’s strategy of every day low prices. Macy’s, on the other hand, has restructured with a push from the economic

* Loads were picked up from location A and delivered to one of 5 warehouses, placed on another truck with optimized route for location B (software driven route optimization)

The shipping cost and/or unavailability of transportation between the plants and some locomotive locations will eliminate some of the routes due to cost inefficiency. These routes are the unacceptable routes and will not be considered for distribution from the specified plant. By removing unacceptable routes, Solutions Plus is able to build a linear programming solution to determine which plant/locomotive location combinations are optimal. Based on the shipping cost provided, the routes that are eliminated are as follows:

Hewlett Packard also known as HP was founded by William Hewlett and Dave Packard in a small rented garage in Palo Alto, California which is now known as the original Silicon Valley. HP is one of the world’s largest Information Technology (IT) companies operating on a global level. HP specializes in computers, computer systems and software. Also, in the development and manufacture of hardware, software design, service delivery as well as data storage. Identified Strategies

The latest NRSS survey identified 72 LP programs used by retailers and the most frequently used ones are listed in Figure 5. Some of the programs meet more than one objective listed above. There is a complex interaction of these programs with their varied effects on shrink reduction. This makes it very difficult for a retailer to isolate the value add of a single new program. It is even more difficult to figure out how much shrink will increase when a program is discontinued due to budgetary pressures. Large retailers have implemented almost all of these identified programs in their stores while small and medium sized retailers are having to pick and choose specific programs they believe gives them the biggest return on investment. All of these programs generate data points over time and LP organizations can harness the power of analytical techniques to combat

Based on analysis of the financials, HPL is an excellent business and shows maintainable and sustained growth. There has been growth in the areas of revenue, current assets, owner’s equity, sales and net working capital. As shown in Exhibit 4, sales across HPL retail

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The organization in this study, a multi-billion dollar warehousing and distribution company, has been housed in an old building and will be moved to a new state-of-the-art facility. This move involves the planning, organizing, staging and moving of products from one location to the other. Included in planning needs are signage, warehouse racking placement, warehouseman selector choosing routes, freezer, cooler and dry product placement. Incorporated into this move will be the necessity to deal with contractors who are completing the building as well as contacting all vendors and suppliers to inform them of the change of location and service changes during the two-day transition period. The actual moving of all products will require 16 hours, 30 employees on two shifts at two different locations.

Analyzing the industry structure that Pep Stores is part of. What was the strategic position that Pep Stores has chosen in this industry?

He asserts secondary and tertiary (and quaternary) sectors will take precedence in the economy and also employment will grow faster in these sectors. Post-industrial cities are primarily the headquarters for corporations or governmental organizations, centres of research or educational institutes, and tourism or recreation resorts. With an increasing employment in the tertiary and quaternary occupations, especially in such fields as finance, health, leisure, research, education, and telecommunications and in various levels of development. (Dutt. A, et al.

The Pacific Oil Company a well-established oil company with an assorted diversified product line including “Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM)”. (Lewicki, 2010, p. 583) As one of the pioneer producers of VCM, Pacific Oil cornered the market share for contracting, distributing and selling their niche product, VCM worldwide. One of Pacific’s longtime customers was Reliant Corporation. This partnership was more than a decade old and was strong. However, if Pacific Oil decided to further diversify its product line to include Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) a VCM derivative, “it would not want to be in the position of supplying a product competitor with the raw materials to manufacture the product line, unless the formula price was extremely