...Baosteel Group could increase its output as the new company had the permission to build a new 10-million-ton steel-making base in Zhanjiang City. The new base in Zhanjiang City was promising as it would solve the lack of steel-making facilities in Guangdong, save money due to the shorter distance to Australian iron ore sources and face a ready market with Honda’s and Toyota’s manufacturing facilities demanding their flat rolled steel. They needed, however, to modernize the enterprises, eliminate the obsolete capacity and shut down environmentally critical operations. Besides the favorable effects of the Guangdong project it also raised difficult governance issues. The first issue was how and whether to respond to minority investors in the Baoshan listed subsidiary who were asking why the project was being pursued by the Group and not the listed company. Baosteel officials decided to develop the project under the group in order to not harm the performance of...
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...FE to Delay Decision on $3.6 Billion Steel Plant in Vietnam Masumi Suga and Yasumasa SongDec 07, 2012 1:48 am ET (Updates with closing share price in fifth paragraph.) Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- JFE Holdings Inc., Japan’s second- biggest steelmaker, will push back a decision on whether to build a $3.6 billion integrated steel mill in Vietnam, its first outside Japan, as it assesses competitive risks. “We initially said a conclusion will be reached by the end of this year, but we’ll need a bit more time,” Eiji Hayashida, president of steel unit JFE Steel Corp., said in an interview Dec. 5 at the company’s Tokyo headquarters. “Things won’t go smoothly until we make sure that we’ll beat the competition as many projects are being lined up to build new mills in southern China and Vietnam.” JFE’s plan is part of a push to be closer to customers in markets where demand is surging for Japanese products such as cars. The company’s challenge will be to cope with the high cost of setting up a plant at a time when China’s slowing economy is causing a glut, said Shinya Yamada, an analyst with Credit Suisse Securities Japan Ltd. “It’s no use to go ahead with the project when the industry is struggling with excess steel supply,” said Yamada, who has an outperform rating for JFE shares. “The risk is high.” JFE rose 0.9 percent to 1,310 yen in Tokyo, paring the stock’s decline this year to 6 percent. The key Nikkei 225 Stock Average has gained 13 percent since Jan. 1. Feasibility...
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...Customer Complaint has a good value to Company I absolutely agree with the customer's complaint is the seat of Baoshan remark. Because the customer's expectations for the company's products, so after the purchase when there are errors found naturally upset, so ask the company, so the company should be careful to understand customers are not satisfied with the place, and make improvements. Customer complaints for many reasons, there may be a lack of local products, by handling customer complaints, you can make yourself a better understanding of the manufacturing process and product features the company's products. For example, I was the Secretary for the sales of instant noodles, soup packets may be left behind in the production process, customers will naturally not happy after opening the product, so you can reflect on the vulnerability of production to the person in charge of production, strengthening quality management. Another error is that the package instructions or instructions for use and the actual different, because a lot of customers when the company will follow the steps set out to do. If the effect can not be made as scheduled, the customer naturally unhappy after opening the product, they can take packing instructions or use the opportunity to learn whether there are deficiencies. If the effect can be made as scheduled, it can be personally taught the proper use of the customer; Ruoguo failure to make timely results, requires the company responsible immediately...
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...sign a peace treaty. But by the time this peace treaty was concluded in 1978, China's focus on the Soviet threat led to the inclusion of an "anti-hegemony" statement. In less than 30 years, China had signed an anti-Japanese treaty with the Soviet Union, and a treaty having an anti-Soviet component with Japan. From the 1970s into the 1980s, economic relations were the focus of relations between China and Japan. Despite concern in the late 1980s over a trade imbalance, the volume of Sino-Japanese trade showed no sign of declining. Relations suffered a setback in 1979 and 1980, when China canceled or modified overly ambitious plans made in the late 1970s to import large quantities of Japanese technology, the best-known example involving the Baoshan iron and steel complex in Shanghai. Lower expectations on both sides seemed to have created a more realistic economic and technological partnership by the late 1980s. Chinese relations with Japan during the 1980s were generally close and cordial. ...
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...AB311 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Course Outline for Seminar Groups 3, 5 and 8 ONLY Semester 2 of the Academic Year 2012-2013 Instructor: Clive Choo, awechoo@ntu.edu.sg Learning & Teaching Methods This course is structured in a seminar learning format, where a 4-hour seminar is conducted every week for a total of 13 sessions. Each seminar is intended to inform and equip students with the conceptual tools to synthesize, evaluate and analyze strategic or ethical issues. In addition, seminar activities have been developed to provide opportunities for students to sharpen their critical thinking and ethical reasoning skills through: 1. Case analyses, where students apply the conceptual tools that they have learnt in the seminar to critically analyze different strategic issues. 2. An ethical reasoning exercise (given in pages 7 and 8) where students can apply ethical concepts. 3. A critical thinking exercise where students could analyse specific case study issue with theoretical framework and concepts. 4. A group project, where each student group generates a strategic audit report of a publiclylisted firm. See pages 8 and 9 for details. 5. Collaborative learning, where students work in a group and participate in class discussion so that they learn to defend and/or integrate different perspectives on strategic issues in a critical manner. 6. A final exam, where students apply their knowledge of course material learnt throughout the course in an integrative manner. 1 Course Assessments...
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...INTRODUCTION IKEA is a Swedish company registered in the Netherlands which was founded in Sweden in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture (such as beds, chairs and desks), appliances and home accessories. Since its inception, the IKEA company Vision has been “To Create A Better Everyday Life for the People†by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford them because IKEA believes that home is the most important place in the world. IKEA work hard to achieve quality at affordable prices for their customers through optimizing their entire value chain, by building long-term supplier relationship, investing in highly automated production and producing large volumes. Their visions also goes beyond home furnishing. The IKEA website contains about 12,000 products and is the closest representation of the entire IKEA range. There were 470 million visitors to IKEA’s websites in the year 2007 to 2008. As of January 2014, IKEA owns and operates 349 stores in 43 countries and was visited by some 583 million shoppers. IKEA also run a Foundation for Fighting Child Labor and Promoting Education that oversees IKEA’s global philanthrophy to improve the lives of children living in extreme poverty. HISTORY IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943 by 17-year old Ingvar Kamprad, who began by peddling useful items to neighbours on his bicycle. The company’s name is an acronym...
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...Abstract Potassium (K) and nitrogen (N) are two major nutrients in crop production. A deficiency of either one or both of these nutrients causes yield loss. In the specific case of tobacco production, both nutrients play a key role in controlling important quality parameters such as leaf color, texture, hygroscopic properties, combustibility, sugar and alkaloid contents. Monitoring N applications thoroughly for form, quantity, and timing of application is a prerequisite in modern agriculture. As in other field crops, balanced N-K fertilization enhances tobacco growth and improves the uptake of both nutrients, which in turn reduces nitrate losses during and after the cropping season. The importance of K on mineral nutrition in tobacco production in terms of yield and quality is presented. The role of K in determining the chemical composition of tobacco leaf is now well established. K content of dry matter must reach 2 to 2.5 percent and chloride (Cl) content must remain below 1 to 1.5 percent in order to ensure good maturation, perfect combustibility and a good taste. The paper reports several pot and field experiments carried out in France, China and Cuba, in which various factors affecting yield and quality of the tobacco crop were studied including dose, source, and timing of potash applications. The effect of the combination of various potash forms (potassium sulphate, potassium chloride, potassium nitrate, potassium bicarbonate) with two N sources (nitrate...
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...OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT GROUP PROJECT Report on the Operations Management strategy of Xuan Hoa Furniture and IKEA Prepared for Prof. Noel By - Group 7 - Lê Quang Anh Đỗ Thị Hà Anh Vũ Kim Phượng Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Linh Nguyễn Thị Thùy Linh May 22, 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Operational management is line management of organizations that highly affect the company’s performance. It is a business function that organizes, coordinate and control the resources needed to produce a good, operational management is a business process to create highest level of efficiency and value add. Operations management is a dynamic field and presents exciting new issues and challenges for operations managers. This is also a very important coursework for everyone of us who want to become a successful leader in the future. For that reason, after completing a 3-week Operations Management course, we – Group 7 would like to present a report about our findings on the comparison of the operations management strategy between 2 companies on the field of furniture manufacturing and retailer: Xuan Hoa Furniture and IKEA. Our report is divided into 9 main parts, each one represents a strategic Operations Management decision. And every main part will be broken into 2 part: one from Xuan Hoa Furniture and one from IKEA. 1. General Introduction 2. Operations Strategy 3. Product Design 4. Managing Quality 5. Process Strategy 6. Location Strategy 7. Human Resources and Job...
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...LARGE POWER TRANSFORMERS AND THE U.S. ELECTRIC GRID Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability U.S. Department of Energy April 2014 Update Large Power Transformers and the U.S. Electric Grid This page intentionally left blank. DOE / OE / ISER April 2014 ii Large Power Transformers and the U.S. Electric Grid FOR FURTHER INFORMATION This report was prepared by the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the direction of Patricia Hoffman, Assistant Secretary, and William Bryan, Deputy Assistant Secretary. Specific questions about information in this report may be directed to Dr. Kenneth Friedman, Senior Policy Advisor (kenneth.friedman@hq.doe.gov). Tiffany Y. Choi of ICF International contributed to this report. The U.S. Department of Energy would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their contribution to this report: ABB American Transmission Company Bartley, William H., Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, A member of the Munich Reinsurance Company North American Electrical Reliability Corporation Ontario Power Generation Scott, Daniel U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Department of Homeland Security U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Cover photo sources: Large power transformer photo: Siemens.com High-voltage transmission lines photo: Utilities-me.com DOE / OE / ISER April 2014 iii Large Power Transformers...
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...����������������� ���������� ����� ���������������������������������������������������� ��� ��������������� ������� � �� ����� ����� ����� UBINIG Unnayan Bikalper Nitinirdharoni Gobeshona In English it means Policy Research for Development Alternatives. It is essentially a policy advocacy and research organization that implement the ideas which come out of research works in the form of various programmes and projects. The implementations are elements of living interaction with the community. Contact: 5/3 Barabo Mahanpur, Ring Road, Shaymoli Dhaka - 1207, Bangladesh Phone: 811-1465, 329-620 e-mail: ubinig@citecho.net CWEARC The Cordillera Women’s Education Action Research Center It is a non-governmental organization engaged in organizing, education and services among indigenous women in the Cordillera Region, Philippines since 1987. CWEARC is presently working together with Innabuyog in empowering the indigenous women of the Cordillera through organizing, capacity building and advocacy on indigenous women’s issues. At the same time, CWEARC assists community-level women’s organizations address their socio-economic needs and problems. Contact: #16 Loro Street,Dizon Subdivision, Baguio City Email: cwerc@mozcom.com PEAC Pesticide Eco-Alternatives Center The mission of PEAC is to reduce the use of harmful pesticides in China and to promote alternative ecological forms of pest control, and eventually protect the human health and ecological health for sustainable development...
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