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The $45billion US domestic delivery market could be categorized into 2 segments. These consisted of letters weighing 0 to 2

St. Louis is the only one showing any improvement, using cost per unit shipped as the performance criterion. The cost for the first five months of 2003 was $9.97 and for the first five months of 2004, it fell to $9.07.

By 1895, Sears’s mail order business was gaining market acceptance and the Sears catalog expanded to 532 items consisting of ‘soup to nuts’ products for their customers (Sears Archive, 2012), supporting the theory that early innovators do not have a restriction on what they bring to market (Innovation Zen, 2006). Sears’s core competencies are innovation, selling, advertising, and merchandising (Sears Archive, 2012).

The company is geographically located in most major united states locations. It employs a hierarchal organizational design. One of the contributing factors to its success is the company’s success in providing a dining experience for its customers that excel in choices, price, customer service, and serving size. The company is known world-wide for its delicious cheesecakes with the key factor being the variety.

Q9. Inventory carrying costs are based on the value of the product at the time it is held in inventory. When the product in sitting in the IDC Alliance Fort Worth Distribution Center, its value is a combination of purchase price plus any transportation costs to get it from the supplier to the DC plus in-transit carrying costs. On a per-unit bases (in dollars) what is the total inventory carrying cost for the safety stock and cycle stock inventory held at the Alliance Fort Worth Distribution Center if we purchase everything from Dong Hai Supply? From CousinsAg?

330-10-30330-10-30-1 The primary basis of accounting for inventories is cost, which has been defined generally as the price paid or consideration given to acquire an asset. As applied to inventories, cost means in principle the sum of the applicable expenditures and charges directly or indirectly incurred in bringing an article to its existing condition and location. It is understood to mean acquisition and production cost, and its determination involves many considerations. 330-10-30330-10-30-2 Although principles for the determination of inventory costs may be easily stated, their application, particularly to such inventory items as work in process and finished goods, is difficult because of the variety of considerations in the allocation of costs and charges.

The company is geographically located in most major united states locations. It employs a hierarchal organizational design. One of the contributing factors to its success is the company’s success in providing a dining experience for its customers that excel in choices, price, customer service, and serving size. The company is known world-wide for its delicious cheesecakes with the key factor being the variety.

The customers, wholesalers and retailers may order in large quantities with the expectation that they will receive a greater allocation of products that are in short supply. The impact on the supply chain is significant as the forecasted demand is greatly, and unrealistically, increased with these inflated orders. Eventually orders disappear and cancellations pour in, making it impossible for the manufacturer to determine the real demand for its products

American retailer Kohl’s has become a prevalent fixture for the purchase of discounted clothing and home goods in the mid-west for over twenty-five years. The history of the company however has roots much more modest than present day market dominance would suggest. Dating back to a Wisconsin supermarket in 1946, founder Max Kohl grew his small business to the most successful chain of supermarkets in the Milwaukee area (12). By 1962 Kohl opened his first department store in Brookfield, Wisconsin where an eclectic selection of merchandise, from sporting goods, motor oil and candy, was sold (11). In 1972, the Kohl’s Company which by then consisted of 50 grocery stores, six department stores, three drug

Canada Goose has experienced steady organic growth as a niche brand, selling their product through independently owned stores. By June 2008 it was selling product in 28 different countries across North America and Europe plus two authorized online retailers. Now it has a significant opportunity to further cement itself as a market leader by placing its product with a national chain. Initially, Canada Goose considered offers from two national chain retailers. One offer came from a Canadian chain called Asmuns Place. Another offer came from Levene’s Menswear. Table 1 provides a high level overview and compares these two offers.

Freight cost was also a problem when the shipping distance expended. Both stoves and ovens were bulky and weighed well over 300 pounds each. Thus,they were very expensive to ship.Bridgewater owned a fleet of trucks which had been expanded from 5 to 10 since the addition of wood ovens to the business. Even though the fleet represented about a $2 million investment. Shipping full – load orders in compnay owned trucks was not uneconomic. But more than hald of all shipments went out in partial loads using common carriers and contract haulers. Considering traffic management.dispathing fleet costs. freignt bills. packing cost and rental charges for public warehouse space. Total shipping costs were running about 17 % of sales in 1985.

The price would determine how big of a percentage impact a $.015 per pound premium on paper purchased from dealers would be over scrap paper purchased at loading docks. Using historical information for the spot prices of scrap paper, in the 1979 to 1980 timeframe, spot prices ranged from $20 to $60 per ton. The $.015 premium becomes more of an issue the cheaper paper is available for purchase at the loading dock. At a spot price of $20 per ton or $.01 per pound, the $.015 per pound premium is 150% of the spot price. At this level, management should be focusing on casual purchases at loading docks. At a spot price of $60 per ton or $.03 per pound, the $.015 premium is 50% of the spot price. Rationalizing the premium will depend on which method is used to compute the cost per bale. When using the original cost report formula, the purchased bales were still cheaper after adding the $.015 per pound premium at all spot prices between $20 and $60 per ton. The prices for purchased bales ranged from $9.12 to $15.12 while the prices for formed bales ranged from $10.41 to $19.41. The purchased bales were more expensive at all spot prices between $20 and $60 per ton when computing costs using the formula proposed by the General Manager. Using the alternate cost report formula, total costs ranged from $10.63 to $16.63 per formed bale and $11.79 to $17.79 per purchased bale. Calculations can be found on the attached

Shipping and warehousing costs are currently assigned using tons of paper produced, a unit-based measure. Many of these costs, however, are not driven by quantity produced. Many products have special handling and shipping requirements involving extra costs. These costs should not be assigned to those products that are shipped directly to customers.

While Reed had started as a lower-end retailer 80 years ago, it had continually expanded and upgraded its stores, adding new departments and expanding higher-margin offerings like prepared foods and flowers. For two decades, Reed stores had been considered high-end in the supermarket business. In addition to a full assortment of standard groceries, baked goods, meats, seafood, paper goods, and health and beauty items and a pharmacy, a typical Reed’s featured a vast case of mostly fresh seafood, including live lobsters and crabs; imported packaged goods ranging from 27 kinds of mustard to three different brands of snails; and an array of 20 different prepared entrees available for takeaway. The chain was well-known for the quality of its produce and its emphasis on organic produce. Reed also differentiated itself by offering attractive stores, long hours, elegant (and often creative) serving-case displays, and exceptionally attentive customer service. The checkout clerks wore distinctive red aprons, greeters offered free cookies to customers on the weekend, high staffing levels ensured short checkout times, and runners shuttled bags to customers’ cars—no tipping, please.

Frances Rampar, President of Rampar Associates, drummed her fingers on the desk. Scattered before her were notes. She had to put the pieces together in order to make an effective sales presentation to Harold Wallace.