Introduction
The Pulp industry is a promising industry with profit margins as high as 31%. Pulp is a commodity product which is frequently traded. Demand for pulp is expected to increase world over in the coming years.
Key Environmental, structural, competitive and market forces affecting Pulp industry (See Exhibit 1)
The pulp industry has been marked by a flat growth over the past few years. Though, it is expected to pick up with demand increasing in the emerging economies such as China. The pulp producers have been known for controlling inventories releasing products to marketplace at a targeted price. But the overall market trend is changing from a supply driven market to a demand driven market. The Chilean government and free trade
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Recommendation for Horizontal Integration (See Exhibit 4)
I would support and recommend Perez to make investments to increase capacity and expand horizontally. The greatest competitive advantage of Celulosa Arauco is cost. I believe that Celulosa Arauco can take advantage of its low cost effectiveness and become a low cost leader in pulp. If Celulosa Arauco is consistently able to price their pulp lower, it will be increasingly difficult for vertically integrated companies to produce their own pulp in-house. In a commodity market it is critical to keep costs low by maintaining high production efficiencies. I would also recommend Perez to invest further in Research and Development, Forest Management and Genetics to improve the overall quality and life of plantations. Generating electricity from surpluses at the pulp mills will help it to reduce costs further. Concentrating a large amount of revenues from a single source (pulp) carries a lot of risk. Hence, I would recommend Perez to diversify into as many by-products as possible. The panels, timber and wood products market can create a buffer to maintain their margins when the pulp prices are volatile. Celulosa Arauco has an established distribution network including ports that plays an important role to reduce transportation costs. Integrating vertically into paper manufacturing will require different sets of skills and resources. Unlike pulp, paper is
abrera made his major league debut on June 20, 2003, at 20 years old; Édgar Rentería, at 19 years old, was the only Marlins player to make his debut at a younger age. Cabrera hit a walk-off home run in his first major league game, following Billy Parker in 1972 and Josh Bard in 2002 as the third player since 1900 to hit a game-winning home run in his big-league debut.
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Arauco will face constraints if they expand, but opportunities will also be available to them. A constraint would be the current demand for market pulp. The current demand is not too great. Also, the price for market pulp has been decreasing, so Arauco may not gain expected profit. A big opportunity for Arauco is they will be ahead of Aracruz in the market. Meaning that Arauco will be the leading producer of market pulp and put Aracruz behind them. Arauco is recognizable in the Latin American markets, but once it is ahead of Aracruz, it will become more recognizable and people will prefer purchasing from Arauco instead of Aracruz.
Q 1: Perform Verify and Count Commands for all three tables and identify any exceptions.
Today (2004) Pérez main problem is that he has to decide whether the company should go through a horizontal expansion or a forward integration. In others words, if the company should continue with the second phase of The Nueva Aldea project becoming the largest market pulp producer in the world and having the possibility of foregoing other large projects in the next decade or to take advantage of their low costs in pulp production by forward integrating into paper manufacturing.
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After analyzing the performance of the three companies, located in the U.S., New Zealand, and Argentina, I have discovered issues that need correction in each of the locations. First off, my analysis shows that your company’s performance in the U.S. is producing at 126% of the acceptable upper limit. Although you can look at this as successful production, continuously operating at this rate the company in this location is running the risk for saturating its market. Once the market becomes saturated with your product, this will cause prices to drop, therefore continuing to generate revenue will not be easy. Being that production is above standards I do not see a problem within the structure or the operations within the organization at this location. However, maximizing the profit margins would be the best strategy. I would recommend throttling back on production quantity by lowering labor resources, which will help increase the unit profit margin. With the information, I have gathered on this location my data shows me that with using fewer resources you can still achieve the same production performance. With cutting back on labor resources, you will be able to achieve the same goals using less human resources. As a result, the company is saving desired time and money allowing your profits to increase. I would also like to recommend utilizing the forecasting technique because this will enable managers to make the correct decisions by providing valuable information to