...AMBA 640 / AMBA 640 HYBRID COURSE MATERIALS ASSIGNMENTS Acme Mexico City and Application of World-Class Operations and Information Systems Management Techniques and Production Planning and Strategy for Toyota North America (Version 06/01/15) Background Information for Acme Mexico City Acme Home Improvements, Inc. was founded in 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. By mid 2015, the company had 125 stores along the US East Coast from Florida to Maine. Its annual sales are currently ~$5,400,000,000 with $280,000,000 net income. The average store is about 100,000 square feet with an additional 10,000 square feet of outside garden center. The stores typically carry 40,000 different products from 5,000 vendors worldwide. Major US competitors include Ace, Home Depot, Lowe's, and TruValue. All four operate already in Mexico. 1 In the interests of seeking greater profits and buffering against downturns in the US market, Acme has determined to follow these and other competitors to Canada and Mexico. In the latter, it has established, in accordance with Mexican law, a joint venture with local interests, known as Acme Home Improvements de México, SA de CV ("Acme de México" or "Acme Mexico City"). (SA de CV = Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable, a Mexican corporate form.) There are five major product groups within each Acme store: plumbing and electrical supplies, building materials, hardware and tools, seasonal and garden/yard items, and paint, flooring and wall coverings. Each store...
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...|Project Title: Project Management Plan for Acme de Mexico | |Project Start Date: January 15, 2012 |Project Finish Date: January 15, 2013 | | |Project Objectives: To construct a Project Management Plan for the Acme de Mexico for the development of a new store in Mexico City. In the | |interest of seeking greater profits and buffering against downturns in the US market, Acme has determined to follow Home Depot and other | |competitors to Canada and Mexico. In the latter, it has established, in accordance with Mexican law, a joint venture with local interests, | |known as Acme Home Improvements de México, SA de CV ("Acme de México" or "Acme Mexico City"). | | | |The store’s design must include the five major product groups: plumbing and electrical supplies, building materials, hardware and tools, | |seasonal and garden/yard items, and paint, flooring and wall coverings. In addition, each store has a store manager, assistant store manager,| |bookkeeper, an information systems manager and an assistant, a manager for...
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...ACME Home Improvement Acme Home improvement mexico city ------------------------------------------------- project Management plan Team 2: Lisa Vidal Joshua Aaron Emhoff Valeria Kolison 10/23/2012 Table of Content 1. Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 2. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 3.1 Purpose of Project Management plan 3.2 Marketing……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 3. Scope management……………………………………………………………………………………………………………7 4.3 Work breakdown structure…………………………………………………………………………………….7 4.4 Deploment plan……………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 4. Schedule/time managemnt……………………………………………………………………………………………11 5.5 Milestones……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12 5.6 Gantt chart…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12 5. Cost/budget management…………………………………………………………………………………………….12 6. Quality management………………………………………………………………………………………………………14 7. Human resource managemnt……………………………………………………………………………………….15 8. comunicationmanagement……………………………………………………………………………………………20 9. risk Management………………………………………………………………………………………………………………21 10.7 risk log………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….24 10. issue management……………………………………………………………………………………………………………28 11. procurement management……………………………………………………………………………………………34 12. appendix a project management plan approval……………………………………………………….37 ...
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...8/20/2014 Discussion Activity #4 Instructions - AMBA 640 9044 Managing Projects, Operations, and Information Systems (2145) Discussion Activity #4 Instructions Basic Instructions: During Weeks 8 and 9, working in teams under the leadership of a student CIO and Assistant CIO, the section drafts an information systems management (ISM) plan for Acme Mexico City. In doing so, the section completes the work tasked as Assignment 4 in the Four Assignments Package to be found in Content/General Information. Additional Instructions: In view of our time constraints, this will be a draft ISM plan. Acme corporate headquarters will have standards, policies, and expectations with which Acme Mexico City (AMC) must comply. These may be hypothesized. Acme Mexico City will need to support both store-internal and -external IS needs Internal needs will include support of at least store Business processes and operations Decision mak ing by employees and managers Strategies to gain competitive advantage Human resource needs External needs will include at least: Reporting to Acme corporate Meeting Mexican and US government regulatory requirements Fulfilling supplier and customer expectations in this business sector in Mexico City Any format that logically and succinctly addresses that above needs may be used A sample IM (=ISM) plan for a health services organization follows below. It is deliberately for such an organization because: Health services is another important business sector supported...
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...Introduction In the expansion of Acme Home Improvements to Mexico City, an information system management plan needs to be established in order to oversee employment and management, as well as meet the needs of Acme’s stakeholders including employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders and investors. The plan has a goal of improving aspects such as sales and marketing, budgeting, planning, hiring and training all while using technology to assist in the assignment of roles, and to discover correlations between profits, performance, and competitors. System Objectives & Information Requirements of Stakeholders The goals and scope of the Information Systems plan is to identify how the plan will help each stakeholder group obtain the necessary information, data, and equipment required in order to complete the tasks associated with each group. A stakeholder is someone that has put a level of trust and interest into a business, project, or idea. Regarding the Acme Mexico City project (AMC), the stakeholders consist of those employed by AMC, buyers of the product, suppliers, and their shareholders and investors. All of the needs of the stakeholders will be met by the AMC information system, which will help to organize departments such as human resources, marketing, operations management and sales. Human Resources is defined as a department which “maintains policies, plans and procedures for the effective management of employees” (Baltzan, 2011). This includes the hiring and...
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...Instructions: • During Weeks 2 and 3, each student group decides how to construct and make ready to open the new Acme Mexico City (AMC) facility tasked as Assignment 1 in the FOUR ASSIGNMENTS PACKAGE found in Content/General Information. In doing so, each team prepares a report to include a team work plan (TWP), a project charter (PC), and a project management plan (PMP) for the facility. •The project charter and team work plan, in pdf format, are due by the end of this week, in two succinct reports. Unless your section professor states otherwise, the PC is worth 10% of the W3TA grade, and the TWP is P/F and must earn a Pass, through improvement if necessary. •The project management plan, the majority of which is to be submitted in pdf format, should have the major plan sections specified in the assignment. The scheduling piece of this project management plan is submitted as an attached Microsoft Project Plan – that is, as an mpp format file. This piece includes a Work Breakdown Schedule (WBS) and a Gantt chart which shows all major products of the project and a complete critical path. Additional Instructions: See our grading rubric. In sum, to be on task and thus earn an 85 for this assignment, to be submitted in your Group, at the ends of Weeks 2 and 3, be timely and ensure that your team submission includes, clearly labeled, each of the tasked items: •Team Work Plan - this will be in pdf format and is due at the end of Week 2 - it will be graded pass / fail (the latter...
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...Acme Consulting Sample Business Plan What follows is a complete business plan for a hypothetical company. It includes tables and charts embedded in the text, as they would be generated by Business Plan Pro, although because of HTML considerations they are not identical. Business Plan Pro is a product of Palo Alto Software. Click here to order and download. 1. 0 Executive Summary Acme Consulting will be formed as a consulting company specializing in marketing of high technology products in international markets. Its founders are former marketers of consulting services, personal computers, and market research, all in international markets. They are founding Acme to formalize the consulting services they offer. [pic] 1. 2 Mission Acme Consulting offers high-tech manufacturers a reliable, high quality alternative to inhouse resources for business development, market development, and channel development on an international scale. A true alternative to in house resources offers a very high level of practical experience, know how, contacts, and confidentiality. Clients must know that working with Acme is a more professional, less risky way to develop new areas even than working completely in house with their own people. Acme must also be able to maintain financial balance, charging a high value for its services, and delivering an even higher value to its clients. Initial focus will be development in theEuropean and Latin American markets, or for European...
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...NewAge BIOTECH Enter the Business Name BUSINESS PLAN Business Plan Prepared By Gerald Sawyer, PhD. Enter your full name Enter your title Enter the company name Enter the company address Enter City, State, and Zip Code Enter the phone/fax number(s) Enter your e-mail and Web addresses Date Prepared January 200B Enter Month and Year Insert your company’s disclaimer and confidentiality notice. Consult with your attorney as to the wording. The information contained herein is furnished on the condition that it is solely for internal use, for evaluation and planning purposes only, and this information shall not be disclosed, duplicated, used in whole or in part, for any other reason whatsoever. TABLE OF CONTENTS To jump directly to any title listed in the Table of Contents, hold down CTRL and then click the title. TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Executive Summary 5 The Company 5 The Market 5 Competitive Analysis 5 The Product/Service 5 Value Proposition 6 Marketing and Sales Plan 6 Management and Organization 6 Financial Summary 6 Investor Summary 6 The Company 8 Name and Location 8 Facilities 8 Legal Form of Business 8 Employees 8 Company History 8 Marketing Plan 9 Industry Profile 9 Current Size 9 Growth Potential 9 Industry Trends 9 Other Characteristics 10 Sales Channels...
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...NewAge BIOTECH Enter the Business Name BUSINESS PLAN Business Plan Prepared By Gerald Sawyer, PhD. Enter your full name Enter your title Enter the company name Enter the company address Enter City, State, and Zip Code Enter the phone/fax number(s) Enter your e-mail and Web addresses Date Prepared January 200B Enter Month and Year Insert your company’s disclaimer and confidentiality notice. Consult with your attorney as to the wording. The information contained herein is furnished on the condition that it is solely for internal use, for evaluation and planning purposes only, and this information shall not be disclosed, duplicated, used in whole or in part, for any other reason whatsoever. TABLE OF CONTENTS To jump directly to any title listed in the Table of Contents, hold down CTRL and then click the title. TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Executive Summary 5 The Company 5 The Market 5 Competitive Analysis 5 The Product/Service 5 Value Proposition 6 Marketing and Sales Plan 6 Management and Organization 6 Financial Summary 6 Investor Summary 6 The Company 8 Name and Location 8 Facilities 8 Legal Form of Business 8 Employees 8 Company History 8 Marketing Plan 9 Industry Profile 9 Current Size 9 Growth Potential 9 Industry Trends 9 Other Characteristics 10 Sales Channels...
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...Colgate: Focused For Global Growth Speeding Powerful Brands Worldwide ■ Achieving Greater Profitability ■ Succeeding Together ■ 2001 Annual Report Another Year of Strong Performance Dollars in Millions Except Per Share Amounts 2001 2000 Change Unit Volume Worldwide Sales Gross Profit Margin Earnings Before Interest & Taxes (EBIT) Percent of Sales Net Income Percent of Sales Earnings Per Share, Diluted Dividends Paid Per Share Operating Cash Flow Percent of Sales Return on Capital Number of Registered Common Shareholders Number of Common Shares Outstanding (in millions) Year-end Stock Price ■ ■ ■ +5% $9,427.8 55.1% $1,834.8 19.5% $1,146.6 12.2% $ $ 1.89 .675 17.0% 29.7% 40,900 550.7 $ 57.75 $ $ $9,357.9 54.4% $1,740.5 18.6% $1,063.8 11.4% 1.70 .63 16.4% 26.4% 42,300 566.7 $ 64.55 +.7% +70 basis points +5% +90 basis points +8% +80 basis points +11% +7% +4% +60 basis points +330 basis points –3% –3% –11% $1,599.6 $1,536.2 Every operating division participated in the strong 5 percent unit volume growth. Colgate achieved its sixth consecutive year of double-digit earnings per share growth. All key profitability indicators set new records: gross profit margin, EBIT, net income, operating cash flow and return on capital. ■ ■ Continuing sales would have increased 5.5 percent if not for foreign currency translation. The dividend rate was increased by 14 percent in 2001. Colgate-Palmolive is a $9.4 billion global company serving people in more than 200 countries ...
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...What a marketer want???? N how he get there???? Types of marketing… Societal marketing Traditional marketing Word of mouth Sales promotion Gorilla marketing Viral marketing n so n so on….n what not…many more YYYYYY DY NEED TO STUDY ALL DEZ…YYYY…ITNI CARE TO HMRI HMRY PARENTS B NHI KRTY…JTNA YE LOG KRTY HY… R DEZ REALLY THE CUSTOMERS OR THE PROFIT????? TOPIC…….BIRD EYE VIEW OF HOW P & G TACKLES ITS CUSTOMERS…. SUBJECT….MARKETING MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY…..SADAF, FARAH ,MARYAM,RUBINA DATE OF SUBMISSION…30 APRIL 2014 SUBMITTED TO….MAAM SADI AZIZ Mahatma Gandhi > Quotes > Quotable Quote “A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so. CUSTOMER PSYCHOLOGY……HOW IMPORTANT FOR A MARKETER TO STUDY????? Companies use marketing to promote and sell their products or services, and consumer behavior is how consumers act and respond in the retail environment. In order for a company to create a strong marketing campaign, it is important to understand how and to what the consumer will respond. This relationship between marketing and consumer behavior involves studies, focus groups, psychological analyses and other methods of studying the market for a particular...
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...Applied SOA Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies Mike Rosen Boris Lublinsky Kevin T. Smith Marc J. Balcer Wiley Publishing, Inc. Applied SOA Applied SOA Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies Mike Rosen Boris Lublinsky Kevin T. Smith Marc J. Balcer Wiley Publishing, Inc. Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-22365-9 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, (317) 572-3447, fax (317) 572-4355, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: The publisher and...
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...Case Study-1 Jack Nelson’s Problem Chapter-1 Introduction to Human Resource Management Page: 1 * The case is all about the necessity & functions of HR unit in a local bank. In this bank Jack Nelson is a member of board of director and Ruth Jonson is an excellent employee. As Mr. Nelson was very much curious about how Jonson operate her machine, she briefly gave an idea about it. Speaking with the in-charged supervisor of a branch of this bank Nelson found that something was wrong inside the branches. But unfortunately it was not known to Jonson. Jonson found out the main problem and it was high employee turnover. In this bank selection time of employee is very short and at the same time the new employer quit their job in a very short time. All branch supervisors hire their new employees without communicating with the home office or other branches. During the time of development of opening, the supervisors tried to find a suitable employee to replace the worker who had quit. After visiting the 22 branches, the finding is that problems are similar mostly. Nelson wondered about the movements that he should take and the home office steps. The more he thought about the matter, the more perplexed he became. The problem is as much as complex that he couldn’t put his finger on that problem and he did not know the actual place whether to report his findings to the president. * Most of the experts believe that there are five basic functions that all managers perform...
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...------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2—The External Environment: Opportunities, Threats, Industry Competition, and Competitor Analysis TRUE/FALSE 1. The health-related concerns in the general environment facing Philip Morris International are part of the physical segment. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Medium REF: 36 OBJ: 02-01 TYPE: comprehension NOT: AACSB: Ethical & Legal understanding | Management: Ethical Responsibilities | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing the task environment 2. The external environment facing business stays relatively constant over time. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: 34-35 OBJ: 02-01 TYPE: comprehension NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge & Analytical Skills | Management: Environmental Influence | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing the task environment 3. Demographic, economic, political/legal, sociocultural, technological, global, and physical are the seven elements comprising the industry environment. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Hard REF: 38 (Table 2.1) OBJ: 02-02 TYPE: knowledge NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge & Analytical Skills | Management: Environmental Influence | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing the task environment 4. Firms can directly control the elements of the seven segments of the general environment. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: 37 OBJ: 02-01 TYPE: comprehension NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge...
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