Case study Introduction Clifton Industries Ltd. is a relatively small but independent company within the Berbeck Industries Group. Its purpose is to supply a range of products to aircraft manufacturers and its mission is to manufacture electromechanical products for NA and European markets and electronics products for NA market. As can be seen from the SWOT analysis in Appendix A, the company’s current core competencies are skilled labour and diverse manufacturing capabilities. Clifton’s main products are European electromechanical products (“old OE”) and spares and repairs, but due to predicted decline in future sales of these products, Clifton had begun producing electromechanical products (“new OE”) for the N-American market as well …show more content…
Clifton Industries has taken over three US aerospace companies and developed a set of only 8 “modular” designs in its attempt to break into the NA market. Contracts in NA are ten times the European equivalents with orders being multi-sourced and penalized for late deliveries. 2 MANF 9471 Case study Companies are motivated to expand globally in order to expand their markets within a limited product range, beyond that possible in their own national economies. The most common approach is to approach worldwide markets with standardized (or in this case modular) products. Such markets are most commonly created by consumers that prefer lower priced standardized products over higher priced, customized products. The five forces (for the NA electromechanical product): • • • Clifton has low bargaining power with suppliers as this is a new product which isn’t yet manufactured in mass numbers. Clifton has low bargaining power with its customers due to the nature of contracts. There is high rivalry between existing players, as there are already 4 large US based companies. This manufacturing process will initially operate as a small batch process due to the opening stage of the product life cycle. The frequency of repeat orders while maintaining flexibility to produce both modular and custom products respectively are what justify this process choice. If this product range is to survive in the NA market, the process will have to increase
Outsourced almost 87% of production activities involving spare parts while maintaining core competencies like R&D, design, quality control and key trademark
Her success has recently come in 2011. My plan is to open a second sleep study in San Antonio, Texas. Roxanne will continue to manage the center in Corpus Christ and will help me virtually manage the San Antonio location. Because Roxanne has the information needed to model her sleep center it will be much easier to open up my own sleep evaluation center based on her proposal.
The organization strategic plan consists of addressing clinical quality, growth, and becoming a larger part of the community, and providing long term value. The annual report states the following strategic goals (Bon Secours, 2012):
"Total Quality Management (TQM) is a participative management style that stresses total staff commitment to "customer" satisfaction (Eskimo, 2001)." Quicken Loans utilizes TQM along with the other management styles to provide the high quality of service to their clients. Quicken Loans expresses Total Quality Management in their ISMs. The ISMs Are: Obsessed with finding a better way, Responding with a sense of urgency is the ante to play and Every client. Every time. No exceptions. No excuses (Quicken Loans, 2008). These three ISMs express the care of their clients and illustrate the things that need to be done to ensure that TQM is still effective and efficient within the organization. Quicken Loans focuses on creating a lifelong relationship with
Dissimilar sources plan altered steps involved in the planning process, but in this case I will discuss on seven steps that are involved in the entire process. The first step is goal setting. This basically involves coming up with the main objectives and goals that the company wishes to establish within a particular period of time. It is a very important section because the company will operate with a view of the goal in mind, if it is not clearly established, and then the business could lose direction along the way. After goal setting, we have development of the planning premises, where the plans are prepared and any underlying conditions defined. This is where there is an assessment of the environment and any constraints or
1 two major market areas: The first was to supply products of a type similar to our current electromechanical designs to North American aircraft manufacturers. The second was to design and manufacture electronic products for Europe and North America.
De Havilland is a Canadian aviation company that is in the process of determining how to contract out the supply of its flap shrouds and equipment bay doors for its Dash 8 aircraft. Its current supplier, Dollard Plastics is believed to be charging a large premium over market price and for that reason, a completive tender was issued to test De Havilland’s hypothesis. After receiving bids from 9 companies, a strategic review of De Havilland’s options and alternatives was conducted. Based on this review, it is recommend De Havilland ceases its contractual relationship with Dollard and instead enters into a contract with Marton Enterprises. Although entering into a contract with Marton puts forth the issue of whether or
Sustainability should be the goal with Halcon under the firm’s mission to provide an unparalleled safe transportation system. A solid source strategy with effective and efficient support exchange will secure Halcon’s sustainability. The supply process within a source strategy creates the ability to meet requirements needed for each project design throughout the firm forming a cross-functional system that is sustainable. A complex cross-functional system contains an outsourcing of MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations) activities with Halcon. The following essay will demonstrate areas of improvements with the supply process by identifying spend types, identifying capabilities of global business, integrated distributions strategies,
The organizations that will be discussed are Century 21 Powerhouse Realty where I am employed at as a real estate agent and the Disney organization, which is an organization that has adopted total quality management. In the following paragraphs I will evaluate my organization’s mission, vision, goals, and objectives as well as discuss the relationship
Dominating the commercial aircraft market for decades, Boeing is considered to be the most highly competitive U.S aerospace industry. “U.S. firms manufacture a wide variety of products for civil and defense purposes and, in 2010, the value of aerospace industry shipments was estimated at $171 billion, of which civil aircraft and aircraft parts accounted for over half of all U.S. aerospace shipments. The U.S. aerospace industry exported nearly $78 billion in products in 2010, of which $67 billion (or 86% of total exports) were civil aircraft, engines, equipment, and parts” (Harrison, 2011). However, its position of influence has lessened in recent years. This is due to its main competitor, Airbus, who in recent years has made significant
Strategic Planning is one of the most fundamental factors in the success of an organization. This research project will discuss the importance of strategic planning as well as the different components of strategic planning. Many organizations fail to accomplish their goals and tasks due to the lacking of strategic planning. In order for their businesses to be successful, organizations need to be well informed about how the strategic planning process works.
Boeing adopted the radical change approach for designing and developing the 787 Dreamliner not only to attempt to create new aircraft through the innovative design and advanced material, but it also drastically changed the production process. With a $10 billion dollar project in mind, the goal was to reduce the financial risks involved as well as the new product development cycle time. Meanwhile, Boeing produced a remarkably complicated supply chain that included greater than fifty partners in over 100 locations all across the globe. In addition to the complicated supply chain, they experimented with various firms in diverse areas to align complementary skill sets. Furthermore, this was the first time the company outsourced the two most crucial parts of the plane, the wings and the fuselage.
Our firm has set out to Internationalise its operations by opening to different facilities One in China Assembling and Maintaining Aircraft Engines and the other in Europe fabricating turbine blades for Aircraft
Founded in the basement of Frank Hasenfratz, Linamar has grown exponentially from the single lathe to the highly globalized company that it is today. Today the company is a multi-billion dollar one that operates over 40 manufacturing facilities in 12 different countries. Coming from very humble beginnings, in 1964 Frank started a one man operation, the name Linamar derived from the names of his daughters and wife. By 1980 the company had built 6 manufacturing facilities. In the next 10 years, they continued to build 13 more facilities and celebrated their 25 years of business. Over the next 20 years Linamar would go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange, establish Linamar transportation and open its first sales office in Asia. The upward trend continued and more facilities were built, as the company continued to expand in different countries. There is no denying that going forward, Linamar will continue to grow both here in North America and abroad. Human Resources will be a critical in ensuring that these processes go smoothly.
Automotive Builders, Inc. (ABI) is a company that consistently changed its production lines and strategic goals relative to the needs of the times, starting out producing diesel engine parts for tractors in the 1940’s, switching over to the production of parts for military vehicles during World War II, and then, after the war, settling into its current placement in both the automobile and tractor industry. Due to the downturn in the economy and stiff and superior competition in both quality and price rising up from the Japanese who had recently entered into the industry, ABI is trying to find productive and innovative ways to improve sales and guarantee placement as the number one company in its