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Fidget spinners are the newest trend that kids are obsessed with. However, these toys have many negative qualities to them. Kids should not have fidget spinners. Fidget spinners, while originally made to help kids with medical problems like ADHD, are now a distraction. They also are dangerous. Children all over the U.S. have been sent to hospitals because of incidents involving these toys. Not only are they a choking hazard, but they are overhyped by kids everywhere. The children who actually need them can not get to them because they are sold out everywhere. These dangerous, distracting, and over-hyped toys should be taken off of shelves immediately.

John Deere Component Works (JDCW), subdivision of John Deere and Co. was in charged specifically of the manufacturing of tractor component parts. The demand for JDCW’s products had problems due to the collapse of farmland value and commodity prices. Numerous and constant failures in JDCW’s competition for bids, alerted top management to start questioning their current costing methods. As an outcome, the analysis has to be guided to research on the current costing methods with the intention of establishing legitimacy and to help the company in adopting a more appropriate costing system.

The second level is applying the traditional level 2 evaluation criteria of quality, quantity, delivery, price, and service. Quality is a main issue Victoria will need to analyze from each supplier. It is important that the supplier cannot only keep up with today’s demands, but also future demands and technology upgrades for their products. An assessment of the supplier’s management and financial aspects will need to be conducted. This will be a good indication of how effective their supply chain is, especially when dealing with multiple tiers of suppliers. Victoria must take into consideration the price quote she received, relative to how many times they can deliver a week and how long it will take them to receive their shipments.

The budget analysis shows that the labor hours of the firm are higher than the budgeted amount. As such, the firm needs to evaluate the cost benefit analysis of making or buying their products. To make this decision, various factors need to be considered. Before making the decision, Peyton needs to evaluate the marginal costs and revenue of making versus buying the products. The firm should take the option which provides the highest marginal profit which is the

Each alternative must be clearly identified. The key advantages and disadvantages of each alternative must be listed and thoroughly discussed. The compare and contrast (pro and con) assessments of each alternative must be done against the decision criteria previously listed and discussed. A matrix format may be used in order to more accurately compare each of the alternatives. If multiple decision criteria are being used, weighting of each of the criteria must be applied. It is also important to look at the short and long term results of each alternative, and to assess the best, the worst, and the most likely outcomes for each alternative. Qualitative and quantitative analysis will be required. It will also be necessary for the student to use the various supply chain management tools and techniques learned throughout the certificate program to determine those possible outcomes.

4.Given the 4 areas of the company, choose some supply chain processes and suggest appropriate performance metrics.

However, as a new member with a new product, electronic product in North American market, the reputation is also an important attribute. Especially, quick delivery time is a key attribute for this company, due to the demand of quick delivery in all markets. Moreover, the manufacturing process of the new product, electronic product, on which our company will definitely focus, has a lot demands. Such as, technology, innovation and quick delivery time even the ability to make the product be the first one appearing in the market (other company, which is developing the same product, may become our competitive opponents). Especially, technology is predicted to play the most important role in the manufacturing process. On the other hand, the traditional cost system has a lot of limitations. Traditional costing system focuses on the cost reduction and the efficiency, particular the products with relatively few standardized components; Clifton, however, produces a wide range of airplane components. In addition, nonfinancial aspects of

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Starting from a company of less than 75 workers and owning less than 20,000 SCU for production, research, quality assurance and conduct warranty work Off The Chain Bikes has doubled the plant capacity and hearing doubling the workforce within two short years. The company is successful by targeting and capturing lucrative market shares by heavily investing in the desired technical specs and design styles of one of the most influential Racing bikes. Our keen ability to thoroughly research market demands, predicting competitive strategies between the four market majority shareholders by reviewing and interpreting the marketing reports and our aggressive design and development plans have significantly increased our market share and increase shareholder value. Our core competencies and strategic goals will be realized by carefully following our established plans and aggressively price our bikes to increase total market share.

7. Though numbers given in the cost data can not be contested, I would definitely contest the way total cost has been computed. The item 345 department operates within a large manufacturing facility that churns out number of other products too. Hence judging the profitability of item 345 on the basis of total cost is not practical.

Conversely, looking at the income statement for PMWL, operating income shows healthy gains of $45,862, which means the operating expenses are significantly lower in comparison to AWBL’s. However, PMWL’s cost of goods sold appear abnormally high, which makes an investor question whether this company is at it’s maturity phase in the product life cycle, and how much additional capital is necessary to bring this figure down to a number that leverages economies of scale and allows for profit maximization.

John Deere Component Works (JDCW), subdivision of John Deere and Co. was in charged specifically of the manufacturing of tractor component parts. The demand for JDCW’s products had problems due to the collapse of farmland value and commodity prices. Numerous and constant failures in JDCW’s competition for bids, alerted top management to start questioning their current costing methods. As an outcome, the analysis has to be guided to research on the current costing methods with the intention of establishing legitimacy and to help the company in adopting a more appropriate costing system.

The success of Harley Davidson (HD) is due to the American motorcycle icon’s effective Strategic Management. HD’s vision, mission, goals and objectives strive to exceed the requirements of its main stakeholders. Although these needs are not always met, the company has unique relationships with is stakeholders. The company stays on course with its strategic plan, despite the economy and the decline of American manufacturing and what might be considered its dwindling U.S. consumer base.

Place: Loctite should expand their distribution network. Currently they only have about 71 general distributors (285*.25 from p. 4) and 43 specialty distributors (285*.15 from p. 4). One of Loctite’s main objectives is to expand their market share to 35% in the SIC industries (20-39). So they should partner with distributors that specialize in the SIC industries (20-39). They should first partner with distributors that specialize in industries with the largest instant adhesive usage. This means that Loctite should first find distributors in the metal products, machinery (33-35) and electrical (36) industries because they use the most instant adhesives. There are about 15,070 instant adhesive users in the (33-35) industry (102,523*.147 from Exhibit 1). Loctite will want to research what a good end-user company to distributor ratio is in that industry then use that to find how many distributors they want to partner with. I am going to assume Loctite should use one distributor for every 100 end-user companies and that Loctite wants to

| * Outstanding core competencies in design and racing * Engagement of Yamaha’s employee’s toward the satisfaction of the end consumer