...Week 1 Case Study Austin Wood Products Week 1 Case Study – Austin Wood Products Introduction Austin Wood Products is a company based out of Austin, Texas, specializing in custom doors, frames, molding, and entry systems. The company currently employs 130 people, 120 of which are production employees. Their facility houses production, raw/component/finished inventory, administrative and corporate services, and their own local distribution operation. Being so highly immersed in the custom housing market of Austin and its many surrounding cities, much of the current production and material needs are based upon current trends in the housing and construction industry. This makes it more challenging to house an adequate stock of raw material, as production needs could potentially change faster than the company can anticipate. (Benton, Jr., 2014) Being able to meet customer desires with a fully customized product has always been the pride of Austin Wood Products. However, this presents many challenges for the company at an operational level, particularly in inventory and purchasing management. An estimated 87 percent of all purchases are raw lumber for production, yet there is no formal cycle count, material handling, or material resource planning procedure established within the company. Austin Wood Products conducts a physical inventory once a year, but it does not actively maintain accurate inventory records the rest of the year. According to Dave Pope...
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...A Case Study on Austin Wood Products A Case Study Presented to the Faculty of the Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business Decision Sciences and Innovation Department De La Salle University - Manila In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course SUPPMAN K31 By Herrera, Lorenzo V. 11224738 Kehyeng, Charise Jessica T. 11144394 Larracas, Danielle Dominique G. 11134917 Lim, Ma. Anna Emanuelle N. 11107669 Zialcita, Raphael Paolo Prof. Willy Cuason September 16, 2014 I. CONTENTS: Summary of Findings Background Information Problem Statement if there are any Analysis of Alternatives Detailed Recommendations Answer to Case Questions Learnings II. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: As seen in the case of Austin Wood Products, although the company is profitable and offers a variety of high quality products, there are a number of flaws and problems that the company face in different functional areas related to purchasing and supply management. One dilemma would be that the inventory and stock room operations are having a hard time keeping track and managing inventory and stock. There is no system that efficiently keeps track of how much inventory is at hand, what kind of lumber or materials are available in the stockroom, how much of the inventories are being taken by the workers, where they are, and whether or not certain inventories are missing. In other words, there are no records of the movement...
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...fast-paced environment, the quicker one can move, the better one can play the game. The businesses of today are competing to be the fastest and most efficient, and at the same time not compromising the accuracy and precision of the information used, as it can serve as a competitive advantage for their company. Having optimal business processes will ensure being a step ahead of others and the sustainability of the business. Through this business case, the group will present improving the current process in the production department of Austin Wood Products (AWP). AWP is a manufacturing company that puts prime in its specialization on custom-made doors. Starting as an in-house business, the AWP has grown into a 90, 000-square meter company that can no longer run with the accustomed practices. Currently, AWP is experiencing complications with its inventory system that is hampering the ideal, optimal performance of the company. II. Summary of Findings A. Methodology The case was analyzed thoroughly by the researchers. It was clearly stated in the case that the main problem of the company is its lack of a formal inventory system. The sales of the company and the continuous demand of the customers for their products is going well. It’s just that the workers of the company are having a hard time monitoring the inventory of raw...
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...Case Title: Austin Wood Products The Role of the responder: Dave Pope, the plant Manager. Objective: The purpose of this report is to review Dave Pope’s concern about the company’s lumber stockroom operations. The stockroom situation was interfering with the productivity. To add with this, the President announced that the production levels would increase by 20% during the next month. Our objective is to fix this stockroom problem so that Dave would be able to meet the President’s demand of increase in productivity. Key Issues: * Stockroom operations. The company’s lumber stockroom operation was a big concern. There was in no way to know what was available before you get to the storage area. Because of that the metric was only a 50% chance of obtaining the needed lumber for the job. The stockroom situation was also interfering with the inventory. * Organizational structure. The company’s organizational structure was another issue. The company was organized in an old way and needs to be reorganized for better performance. * Maintaining Inventory records and changing demands. AWP did not have any formal inventory management system in place to maintain raw materials and finished goods. The inventory count is done manually and takes two days. They were completely not maintaining any inventory record whatsoever. The nature of demand also was difficult to predict as it varied from one year to the next. The metric was that the inventory turnover which relates inventory levels...
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...Case Title: Austin Wood Products The Role of the responder: Dave Pope, the plant Manager. Objective: The purpose of this report is to review Dave Pope’s concern about the company’s lumber stockroom operations. The stockroom situation was interfering with the productivity. To add with this, the President announced that the production levels would increase by 20% during the next month. Our objective is to fix this stockroom problem so that Dave would be able to meet the President’s demand of increase in productivity. Key Issues: * Stockroom operations. The company’s lumber stockroom operation was a big concern. There was in no way to know what was available before you get to the storage area. Because of that the metric was only a 50% chance of obtaining the needed lumber for the job. The stockroom situation was also interfering with the inventory. * Organizational structure. The company’s organizational structure was another issue. The company was organized in an old way and needs to be reorganized for better performance. * Maintaining Inventory records and changing demands. AWP did not have any formal inventory management system in place to maintain raw materials and finished goods. The inventory count is done manually and takes two days. They were completely not maintaining any inventory record whatsoever. The nature of demand also was difficult to predict as it varied from one year to the next. The metric was that the inventory turnover which relates...
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...Constitution. The Texas Supreme Court and Texas Court of Appeals has a bifurcated appellate system at the highest level. Civil case appeals by the Texas Supreme Court, which also maintains the responsibility for licensing attorneys. For appeals on criminal cases those got to The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. In times where the Death Penalty is in question cases are automatically and directly appealed to this court, bypassing the intermediate appellate court level. Jurisdictions between the two are not shared; all civil cases go to the Texas Supreme Court hears all civil cases while the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears all criminal cases. However, there is one area where the Texas Supreme Court impacts criminal law which is juvenile law. Juvenile proceedings are considered civil in nature; so, the Supreme Court hears such cases. As a general rule, the Texas Supreme Court defers to the Court of Criminal Appeals when it comes to interpreting the Texas Penal Code in juvenile cases. The state of Oklahoma and Texas are the only states where this type of appellate system is at the highest level. The state of Texas has 14 Courts of Appeals, which have intermediate appellate jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases. Each court has between three and 13 justices there are a total of 80, the number is set by local statute. All cases are heard by a three-justice panel unless a hearing en banc is ordered. The Texas Legislature is who determines which counties are...
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...ANTEBELLUM TEXAS. In the drama of Texas history the period of early statehood, from 1846 to 1861, appears largely as an interlude between two great adventures-the Republic of Texas and the Civil War.qqv These fifteen years did indeed lack the excitement and romance of the experiment in nationhood and the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy. Events and developments during the period, however, were critical in shaping the Lone Star State as part of the antebellum South. By 1861 Texas was so like the other Southern states economically, socially, and politically that it joined them in secessionqv and war. Antebellum Texans cast their lot with the Old South and in the process gave their state an indelibly Southern heritage. When President Anson Jonesqv lowered the flag of the republic for the last time in February 1846, the framework for the development of Texas over the next fifteen years was already constructed. The great majority of the new state's approximately 100,000 white inhabitants were natives of the South, who, as they settled in the eastern timberlands and south central plains, had built a life as similar as possible to that experienced in their home states. Their economy, dependent on agriculture, was concentrated first on subsistence farming and herding and then on production of cotton as a cash crop. This meant the introduction of what southerners called their "Peculiar Institution"-slavery.qv In 1846 Texas had more than 30,000 black slaves and produced an even larger number...
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...Austin Wood 1. Hot Debate (pg. 4) 1: Yes, the ordinance is lawful. This is because many people put a greater priority on the person they are talking to when they are looking down at their phone. This prevents further car accidents from happening. 2: No, because there was little to no information to back the argument up. 3: Some changes in the ordinance that might make it a better law would be is if there was more information to back up the ordinance for different scenarios or reasoning. 2. Think Critically About Evidence (pg. 9) 6: Yes, the driver should not have been going as fast as he was and should have been able to stop before hitting someone. 7: You can get a restraining order in order to get the car driver away from you. 8: You can sue the band for the cost it would to book them and then for the estimated amount it would cost to book another band. 9: The end cost of how much it would cost the band to take up the other concert would be less than the total cost of the lawsuit. 3. Think Critically About Evidence (pg. 15) 9: State, because it would be most likely based on the states laws 10: Constitutional Law would be the governmental body that would make the determination. 11: The valid speed limit would be 55 mph because the state law has superiority. 12: No, the doctrine of stare decisis does not bar the U.S. Supreme court from changing the law declared in Plessy v. ferguson. 13: No, because they are...
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...Brooke Reitenbach & Kilee Showers Mr. Michaels Pd. C Commentary A poet who took definition as her province, Emily Dickinson challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, she experimented with expression in order to free it from conventional restraints. Like writers such as Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she crafted a new type of persona for the first person. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry, like those in Brontë’s and Browning’s works, are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. Like the Concord Transcendentalists whose works she knew well, she saw poetry as a double-edged sword. While it liberated the individual, it as readily left him ungrounded. The literary marketplace, however, offered new ground for her work in the last decade of the nineteenth century. When the first volume of her poetry was published in 1890, four years after her death, it met with stunning success. Going through eleven editions in less than two years, the poems eventually extended far beyond their first household audiences. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson...
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...Biranchi Poudyal Freelance Writer, Researcher Enrolled in Department of English Tribhuvan University Contact Information: Bhadrabash, Kathmandu Email: bantipd78@gmail.com Contact no: 977 9849447364, 9810009182 Dance In Fire In late 1980s, a person named Chandra committed suicide by hanging himself from peepal tree nearby his house. It was an "ill-timed," "unnatural" or "bad omen" death. Consequently, his family and other close relatives frequently encountered problems of dealing with his spirit; they were uncertain that the appropriate performance of the morgue rituals would be effective in altering his bad spirit (kacho bayu) into good spirit (pako bayu). -—an expert in dealing with spirit was consulted by Chandra‟s brother. As many suspected, the incineration and morgue rituals had failed to alter his spirit into forefather soul and Bayu Utarnu ritual should be carried out to sooth his upset spirit. The Bayu Utarnu for Chandra‟s ghost began under the headship of a prominent spirit consultant. It comprised, nightly ritual during which the religious expert, using heavy mantras and chants, convinced the Bayu to possess intimate male allies, who performed as a spirit agent.. After this, the ritual reached its climax, the ceremony known as ‘khali khane’. On the chosen night, the possessed agent performed dance on burning coals of holy fire, thereby altering the ghost into a Pako bayu who would no longer invite ill luck to his family and relatives. Through choosen agent‟s body, Chandra‟s...
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...Collaboration to Build Healthier Communities A Report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America Wilder Research Wilder Research Wilder Research Report prepared for the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America by Paul W. Mattessich, Ph.D. Wilder Research Saint Paul, Minnesota Ela J. Rausch, M.P . .P Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minnesota With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation June 2013 Creating Healthy Communities Cross-sector partnerships are sparking widespread action to improve community health COATESVILLE , PA SEATTLE, WA Access to healthy foods Access to preventative care and healthy housing LOS ANGELES , CA Quality early child care and education CHICAGO, IL Data and evidence to build health into all policies and practices MIAMI , FL Opportunities for physical activity and healthy living health community development • community development finance • community planning • early child care/education • human services • housing Introduction “ Building a healthier America is feasible in years, not decades, if we collaborate and act on what is making a difference.” —Robert Wood Johnson Foundation In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation convened a commission of nonpartisan leaders to identify opportunities to improve the health of all Americans by creating environments that protect and actively promote health. Their report, Beyond Health Care:...
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...Professor Fisher English 101 17 June 2016 Rickets: Disease not Disability Have you ever met someone who walked with a sway-like walk? How about legs that are bowed outwards at the knees? More than likely your answer is no. Maybe you have heard of Rickets? However, not many people have. So, what exactly is Ricketts? Wikipedia defines Rickets as a “defective mineralization or calcification of bones before epiphyseal closure due to deficiency or impaired metabolism of vitamin D, phosphorus or calcium, potentially leading to fractures and deformity” (Wikipedia). Rickets is passed genetically from the mother to the child via blood. Females do not develop the signs and symptoms of Rickets, however when passed down, the males will. Which is my case. I was diagnosed with Rickets at an early age, but this has not stopped me from living life to the fullest. Take a journey with me through the struggles and trials I have overcome so far. I was born on December 30, 1989 in Germantown, Maryland. Although my mother was aware of her genetic deficiencies that could potentially be passed on to me, I lived a seemingly normal life until I was roughly 4 years old. My mom worked long hours during the day as a teacher for a charter school and my father worked as a hotel maintenance man. I had two older siblings, who were born without Rickets, and a little brother who was developing his own symptoms. My parents started to notice my legs were beginning to bow outwards at my femur. Tests were ran and...
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...Graze Craze The market for grass-fed beef | Food Business News 10/14/15, 5:35 PM Login Search Advanced Search | Search Tips Home News Columns Events Resources Magazine Home > News > Consumer Trends News Business Graze craze: The market for grass-fed beef Food Safety 4/10/2015 - by Larry Aylward Consumer Trends Share This: Regulatory Purchasing Search for similar articles by keyword: [Beef] Financial Performance Food Service / Retail International Research Most Popular Supplier Innovations Read New Product Launches Shared Comments 1 Is a spin-off in store for Yum! Brands? 3 The hard sell behind organic, nonG.M.O. production 4 Farm Burger, an Atlanta-based chain that offers grass-fed burgers, opened its fifth SupplySide West exclusive: Protein surges on 2 Archive Tate & Lyle gains steam from Brazilian acquisition, sucralose 5 Slideshow: New products from Mondelez, Hostess, Barbara’s location in Berkeley, Calif. ( more ) In December, California-based quick-service chain Carl’s Jr. rolled out the All-Natural Burger, although it could be called the Take-Notice Burger. People have taken notice of the menu addition to the chain’s more than 1,000 outlets because Carl’s Jr. is the first major fast-food chain to introduce a grass-fed beef burger. The meat industry has taken notice of the All-Natural Burger because it’s another sign that grass-fed beef is becoming...
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...Executive Summary This assignment is about the ethical aspects of the two organizations chosen by me which are McDonald and KFC. I have done some research about the definition of business ethics, the history of these both organization, evaluate and analyst the ethical and unethical business practices of one company compared to the other company within the same industry and also applied 4 relevant ethical theories to these both organizations and also how they use it. Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Definition of Business Ethics 3 1.0 Introduction 4 1.1 KFC’s History 4 1.2 McDonald’s History 5 2.0 Evaluation and Comparison of Business Practices in the Ethical Aspects between McDonalds and KFC 6 2.1 Prices 6 2.2 Food Packaging and Environmental Recycle 7 2.3 Public Relationship 8 2.4 Working Condition 9 3.0 Application of 4 Relevant Ethical Theories is Analysis which is: 10 3.1 Communitarianism 10 3.2 Justice 11 3.3 Ethics of Care 12 3.4 Rights Theory 13 Conclusion 14 List of Referencing 15 Bibliography 15 Definition of Business Ethics Business ethics is the applied ethics discipline that addresses the moral features of commercial activity. In practice, however, a dizzying array of projects is pursued under its rubric. Programs of legal compliance, empirical studies into the moral beliefs and attitudes of business people, a panoply of best-practices claims, arguments for mandatory...
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...Employment Law Compliance Plan Employment Law Compliance Plan This memorandum is in response to the request sent to Allen and woods consultancy company from Bradley Stonefield the founder of Landslide Limousines in Austin, Texas. The company is expected to employ around 25 employees during the first year of service. The memorandum will list different employment laws that apply locally, state wise and on federal level. These laws should be applied when hiring and employing employees in order to prevent any misconduct leading to lawsuits. The memorandum will incorporate the fines and penalties that are applied when violating employment laws. Landslide Limousines must adhere to all federal laws at all time. Equal employment opportunity (EEO) Landslide Limousines must start by identifying the success criteria for each position in the company. The candidates applying to different positions should be selected based on these criteria to avoid discriminating them. No candidate shall be rejected because of a group that he or she belongs to, such as age, race or gender. To summarize, Landslide Limousines, must make sure to avoid the following two forms of discrimination: 1. Unequal (disparate) treatment 2. Adverse impact (unintentional) discrimination The Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871 These laws were made following the provisions of the thirteenth and fourteenth Amendments. They are summarized as follow: “The Civil Rights Act of 1866 grants all citizens the right...
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