Case Study: Widgecorp

Efficient use of the statistical tool-regression will helps in deriving crucial relationship between variables that could offer significant pointers towards successful business decisions. Number crunching has emerged as the single most effective solution to pull up a declining businesses while on the other hand, the author advices customers to be vigilant in their business transactions that offer additional features at the same price. He also explains, how customer feedback extracted from market data and random surveys drives towards profitable decisions in the future for different sections of the society.

Research Question: This investigation will determine the how the amount of water (independent variable) affects the amount the amount of time (dependent variable) it takes for the Alka-Seltzer to dissolve.

CVS Health Corporation is an integrated pharmacy healthcare and head quartered in Woonsocket, RI. The President and CEO of CVS is Larry J. Merlo. The company has three segments, Pharmacy services, Retail pharmacy and Corporate. CVS was previously known as Caremark Corporation and the name was changed to CVS on September 3rd 2014.

The case involves the decision to locate a new store at one of two candidate sites. The decision will be based on estimates of sales potential, and for this purpose, you will need to develop a multiple regression model to predict sales. Specific case questions are given in the textbook, and the necessary data is in the file named pamsue.xls.

We have data out of 250 stores. The data include demographics, economics, sales of the stores, compositions of those sales as well as sales behavior per households. There are 31 variables being consider for each store and those variables range from sales,

Wahoo Inc. is a C Corporation that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April 2015. Before filing bankruptcy, Wahoo has net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards of $65,000,000 in 2009, $45,000,000 in 2010, and $30,000,000 in 2011. The company worked out a re-organization plan and one of the note holders (a venture capital firm that financed the company) with a $105,000,000 note payable will receive new common stock and the old stocks will be cancelled. The Bankruptcy Court and the creditors’ committee have accepted the plan. The fair market value of Wahoo before the ownership change was $85,000,000. Wahoo’s selected assets from the balance sheet are as follows:

The Last in first out (LIFO) liquidation Inventory valuation method was changed as Inventory level in1984, 1983 and 1984 was decreased by Harnischfeger. By adopting this process, inventory that was purchased at lower cost in previous years was sold at higher prices.

Vulnerabilities in Wolftech, the Company was entering into new power markets so there are some concerns from management with regard to their rules and regulation. So the company employees should keep security provisions and uphold their business continuity facilities by the information security standard. If not the failures may happen the severe penalties have caught up. The risk means threats + vulnerability, when those were merging together that time it has identified as a risk in organization environment. All wolftech information assets relates with every other assets so it is depends on the business continuity, which has adopted in Wolftech revenue, profit, production and their accountability. Therefore the all wolftech information assets

The purpose of this report is to provide our client, Buddy`s Floor Barn, with an assessment of how their company is doing in their sales department. The information used to make this assessment was gathered from 18 locations in four regions across 5 product lines over the last 3 quarters. Over the course of 3 months the regional managers gathered sales revenue from each of their regions in order to provide a more accurate analysis of sales revenue. The sales information was compiled in a data list and then populated in a pivot table in order to answer various questions requested by the client. The problem with this assessment is that we will only be able to provide an analysis for the 3 quarters

Companies strive to choose not only the best marketing channels, but also the best profitable channel. A profitable channel can promote and successfully sell out of a product that might not otherwise turn a profit for their producers (New Charter University 2015). “The calculations from the cost accountant for the retail segment accounts were 60 percent of sales, and for the foodservice segment accounts were 40 percent. The cost accountant believes that both channels are profitable. The accountant also believes that the company achieves an overall average gross margin of 60 percent on its sales (Bowersox, D. J., Closs, D. J., Cooper, M. B.,

The O.M Scott & Sons Company has had continued success in the grass seed and lawn care industry. The company started in 1868 as a local company in central Ohio, focused on selling grass seed only. The company saw great opportunity in the lawn care industry, so it decided tot take action. O.M Scott & Sons grew into a national company that distributed its products by mail, and eventually sold to retail stores nationwide in 1959. The company was able to grow expanding the company’s field sales force. This increase in sales force led to a continued increase in sales and profits, which allowed the company to invest in R&D more heavily. This increase in R&D led to better products, which further increased sales and profits. The objective was to service the various retailers across the U.S with adequate inventories, especially in the high seasonal peaks. This was difficult for most of the smaller sized dealers the company was selling to, so Scott had to fund the dealer inventory buildup by itself.

1. Evaluate the economics of Gulf's exploration and development program in net present value terms. How do Gulf's outlay for exploration and development compare to cash returns Gulf generates from these activities.

The procedure for this model is to collect several periods of history relating to the independent and dependent variables themselves, establish the relationship that minimizes mean squared error of forecast vs actual using linear or non-linear and singular or multiple regression analysis.

Enterprise recourse planning (ERP) is a business software that is a suite of applications intended to organize the business processes starting with planning to the point of shipping and payment. ERP operates in real time providing a shared database that supports the business process. It follows a consistent manner of tracking all aspects of the business across all functions and departments. offering so many levels for different management needs because it has the ability to customize the information as needed. This implementation paper will focus on HERSHEY FOODS CORPORATION by investigating and highlighting the reasons behind the catastrophe that Hershey foods corporation faced when implemented the ERP.

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