Ncb Office Products Inc. Case Analysis

NCB is a manufacturer and distributer of a wide range of office products. In Canada, NCB uses several distributers in different regions. One of the major distributers is Harrison Stationary and Office Supply LTD. Harrison had distributed NCB’S products for over 50 years and NCB was the largest supplier of Harrison. In January 2003 Harrison was acquired by the president of the company and four senior officers. Most of the acquisition cost was financed by bank loans. Since the acquisition, Harrison had difficulties to pay NCB for the goods and the account receivable reached to unacceptable level. In September 2005 the Harrison account was 156 days old and amounted to $ 4.4 million. In

I met with Jon and Fred Hoppe on February 11 concerning Jon’s allegation that he was being harassed by his Principal. We reviewed the material he provided in some detail and I advised Fred and Jon that I didn’t feel that there was sufficient evidence to make out a claim for harassment under the contract or any other statutes. I provided Jon with some strategies to protect himself going forward, including reviewing his personal file and keeping a calendar of events on a regular basis. In the course of the discussion, Jon mentioned that they had discovered a program on his computer that was some sort of a tracking program and Fred said that he would look into that or provide me with the name of the program and we could check with our IT people

The report provides the analysis of the Harrison Company. The company financial conditions reveal that the company profitability has declined in the last three years making the company to face challenges in settling its short-term obligation. For example, Harrison Company has not been able to settle suppliers' payment on time as being stipulated in the contract agreement. The company deteriorating financial conditions has also made the company todecline the costs of marketing campaign in the last three years. With the implementation of various strategies to improve the company financial conditions, the report forecasts that the company will generate sales totaled $295 Million in the next five years compared to the company sales of $48 Million in the last year.

(If the company produce the BB first, the company will buy 4000 labor hours, and it will use 2500 for BB and the remaining hours to produce WRM = 1500.

Some of the potential sources of concern that Ron is likely to encounter when he begins to make calls on his customers in downtown Los Angeles will be confusion in the beginning. His previous customers knows him from selling copy machines so when he is making calls to potential buyers he will now be representing Mid-town Office Products. Many would think that selling office supplies to major firms is a piece of cake but not knowing if that company has a supplier that they deal with and trying to sell their own supplies can be hard.

As wholesale liquidators, we have helped many wholesalers in turning liabilities into assets in America. There is no need to store unsold goods and products into warehouse you can

In addition, I would design a strategic transportation plan that coordinates inbound and outbound shipments to reduce transportation costs and improve service levels. The warehouse will be designed

Outsourcing the warehousing functions: In this option, all warehousing actions will be outsourced to Global Logistics (GL) and distribution will start from main warehouse at

Jones over forecasts his inventory and has a low inventory turnover ratio. This drastically increases his accounts payable, as he isn’t able to pay due to low cash inflow. His account’s payable increased by nearly 9 percent in 2006. Nearly half of his current assets are in inventory. Also Jones isn’t able to take advantage of the cash discounts offered by his suppliers due to his slow cash collection process. In order to perform well, the company must improve its inventory system and its cash collection policies.

 Good distribution concepts with no one store more than 6 hrs. away from warehouse.

Our approach was to facilitate the demand with respect to the market. We penetrated the market by building factory in Fardo and building warehouses to the respective regions, Caleopeia, Sorange, Entworpe, Tyran. Another component that we had to consider was finding the optimal cost to increase market share and increase our profit margin. Discussion on the logistics will be discussed thoroughly, which affected our decision points and our overall outcome. There are a few questions we needed to answer before we built a road map to our strategy i.e. figuring out where to build the factory and warehouse, estimate the demand of the four regions and Fargo region, should we change capacity, adjust ordering point with respect to quantity, and also

MediSys is a U.S.-based medical device manufacturer. It has been developing IntensCare project, a new medical system for monitoring patients in intensive care units. This project represents the most ambitious move in the company’s 10-year history. The company had invested large finances in this project and the market eagerly awaits its launch. The product development team consisting of people from several functional areas of the company, has been working on the product for six months but is now facing significant problems with the product design, clinical testing, meeting the production deadlines, and their own group dynamics. The pressure had also increased because of competitors also planning to launch similar products within the year. Several team members are concerned about meeting the team 's goals. The relationship between team members is quite tense and it doesn’t promise much progress.

Outsource warehousing to Global Logistics (GL) which will provide a centralized warehousing in Atlanta: Goods will be transported in bulk from Waltham to Atlanta and GL would take responsibility of inventory-control and delivery to the customers. This way SG would not have to bear the warehouse rental charges and could focus on increasing sales and develop newer products to meet customer needs.

To increase sales a company may relax their credit polices “review the relationship between sales and receivables to determine if receivables are increasing more rapidly than sales” (Schroeder, Clark, &Cathey, 2009, p. 158).

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