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Deer And Company Essay

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Deer & Company was founded in 1837 and headquartered in Moline, Illinois. Deer & Company is one of the leading companies that produce farm equipment, forestry equipment, construction equipment, commercial equipment, and consumer equipment. They also have other products and services such as equipment financing, power systems, special technologies and healthcare. There are 47,000 employees working for the company in 110 countries. In 2006, the company’s revenue was over $ 19 billion with total assets of more than $34 billion. Complex Parts, Inc. has been working with Deer & Company for 10 years. Complex Parts, Inc. became one of the Deer & Company’s most important suppliers that supplied with a key manufactured part requiring significant engineering …show more content…

In addition, Complex parts performance was excellent over the past year. Complex parts supplied with high quality products and services which was meeting all the requirements of quality suggestions made by Deere. Complex Parts was active in all Deer’s business activities such as weekly visit of sales engineers, participation in cost reduction strategies, staying up with Deer’s design changes, and following the Deere Product Quality Plan. However, they are under the conditional classification because of their delivery performance which was 155,000. The customer service failed to respond to the phone calls and they also failed to follow the Deere Quality Plan at their new facility. Some of the Complex Parts products not met the Deer’s target cost and reduced profits on these products. The requested price quotas not provided on time. The alternative courses of action would be considered for Complex Parts to find the supplier that can supply the same part and have a fairly good rating. Parts have to be purchased from Complex Parts and another supplier. The team should make recommendation to the project manager to keep Complex Parts as their supplier. They have to send quarterly reports to Complex Parts which provides immediate and constant

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