Fe' Nix Del Sur

If Parkland wants to achieve the aggressive growth that the board desires his ability to improve the capabilities and the operations of the company will be one of his greatest barriers. Due to the affluent nature of the customers and the possible variety in the product Parkland should focus on improving the company’s organizational capabilities. A new plant will eventually be needed but that decision can be delayed if Charles can streamline its operations. Parkland needs to institute policies that will measure productivity and develop an accurate method of forecasting sales. This will result in lower inventory carrying costs, fewer out of stock issues, and fewer backorders that need to be filled. If Charles can reduce the number of back orders and out-of-stock products it can focus on a single product line at a time which will reduce the frequency of expensive switching costs.

Tucker Hansson, the owner of Hansson Private Label, is struggling in whether to execute the $50 million investment proposed by his manufacturing team. Under this situation, the subject of this report is to evaluate the potential investment of expanding production capacity at Hansson Private Label (HBL) and make a recommendation to Tucker Hansson. In this report, I will specifically focus on analyses of the project’s free cash flows (FCFs), weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and net present value (NPV). With a sensitivity analysis, it can help us to observe how change in some key project variables

The three scenarios illustrated above clearly shows that the investment in the new machine creates greater value to the company, unless there should be some unexpected turnout in sales. By acquiring the Vulcan Mold-Maker machine Fonderia di Torino S.p.A will be able to replace labor intensive required semi-automated machines with automated machines, thus reducing medical claims. The company will also benefit from higher levels of product quality and lower scrap rates. Labor costs will be reduced by almost 298,334.4

today produce replicas based on the original artifact in California. The replicas have an authentic

For example, is there a bottleneck operation in your production process that you can expand cheaply? What is the effect of adding another oven? How much would you be willing to pay to rent an additional oven?

b. Lancers merchandise was limited before the contract, but now with mass production through the department store they will be able to fully compete with competitors in the market. The company would no longer have to worry about the scarcity of authentic artifacts because they would be mass producing.

In order to meet customer demands for higher product quality, to comply with federally-mandated environmental regulations, and to reduce production costs, HCC must spend $2,000,000 within the next three years to upgrade equipment. The upgrade is expected to result in production efficiencies that will lower material and labor costs by reducing defective products, process waste, in-process inventory, and production man-hours through simplified work processes. It has been over a decade since significant modifications were made to the production facilities. Those changes were mostly technical in nature and did not substantially alter work processes or reduce overall employment. The average productivity gain in the industry for the past five years has been 3% per year. Financing for the loan to purchase the equipment

a) bring down the costs and make the fabric profitable even at the price of FF15, and much more profitable at FF20. Material, material spoilage, direct labour and direct department expenses are not the ones I can achieve any savings, these are already as lean as possible (considering the current equipment; the future modernisation might change this picture). Indirect department costs (the only fixed ones) are already scaling down nicely as the production volumes are raising, so that area is again not the one I should concentrate on. General overhead varies only very

decide to move its office or production somewhere else (overseas), where the cost of labor is more

Mr. West should reach out to the parent company for funding. With all of the work done with Mr. Spinks and the accountant he should be able to present them with the necessary information to back up his decision to both move forward with the project development and upgrade the equipment. If, in the end, they cannot come up with the funding necessary then the budget committee needs to start over and manage to work the budget out so that the equipment that most direly needs to be replaced can be and the project can move forward even if it takes longer than originally planned. He has to move forward with both the equipment upgrades needs now and the development of the new product. Only with both can he guarantee that they can last throughout the next few years until the product development in

Being acquainted with a mass merchandiser could ruin the company’s image so loyal customers who frequently purchase Fe’nix’s items may start searching for artifacts that are imported through dealers that only sell “authentic” pieces

This case is similar in many ways to some other cases I studied before on another program. One example is the Spin Master company case, which described their effort to find a Chinese manufacturer to manufacture their latest product. Two things I remember about this case was cost and production capacity. The cost table provided by one the suppliers was questionable, because it showed a much lower figure

This case is discussing the U.S. paint industry and especially the case of Jones Blair Company under the direction of Alexander Barrett. This industry contains almost 600 paints firms and is divided into three broad segments: architectural coatings, original equipment manufacturing coatings, and special-purpose coatings where each segment serves a specific need. Jones Blair Company produces and markets architectural paint and original equipment manufacturing coatings under the Jones Blair brand name. In addition to manufacturing a full line of architectural paint, the company sells sundries under Jones Blair brand name but not produced by their firm. Jones Blair Company divided the market, which contains more than 1200 outlets, into

The primary issue at hand involves the relevant cost of a set of replacement parts. The parts, however, range from those that are totally manufactured and ready for sale, to those that have not yet been manufactured but for which raw material is on hand, to those that have not yet been manufactured and for which no inventory of raw material exists. The case solution turns in large part on the use of contribution analysis. However, the concepts of sunk costs, opportunity costs, and product substitution are prominent aspects of any reasonable analysis.

Provide your critical evaluation, should Furnware increase its workers or invest in new equipment or both and why?