...Butler Systems Case Study Student’s Name BUS/612 Professor’s Name Date Butler Systems Case Study Students were asked to read and provide a brief summary for the Butler Systems Case Study in the class textbook. Assuming the role of the Vice President of Operations, an evaluation of the battery shortage problem will be provided, a proposal of potential actions that should be taken to mitigate the situation will be clarified with recommendations. A summary of the organization’s role in qualifying and selecting potential suppliers will be given with reasons for the recommendations (Benton, 2014). Summary Butler Systems Case Study The Butler Systems case study in the text describes the contractual relationship between the Butler Systems and SDX. Butler System’s VP of Operations discovered that instead of maintaining inventory to accommodate a 90-days operation, the company has been operating with only a 20-day inventory for operations; demand has increased for the HD-5 battery by competing international companies. This situation is a deal-breaker for the two companies, who are voiding the contract because the original agreement has been broken along with delivery time and pricing discrepancies (Butler, 2014). Potential Actions and Solutions Butler Systems has done a great job maintaining good relationships with the company’s suppliers. According to Benton (2014), maintaining supplier relationship is critical to the success of the organization....
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...Case Study: Butler Systems Name: Professor: Course title: University: Date Due: Butler Systems Case 6: Brief summary of the case and main points The case in question involves Butler Systems Company, which is in a binding contract with SDX Company. Butler Systems specializes in the manufacture of power conditioning equipment as well as environmental control systems and relies on battery supplies from SDX. Butler Systems uses HD-5 battery as the main component for emergency supply system (Benton, 2010). SDX is in a five-year contract with Butler Systems for the supply of batteries. However, SDX has not supplied adequate quantities of batteries to Butler Systems for two months. Moreover, SDX changed their battery prices without informing Butler Systems early enough as their contract agreement requires. This shortage of batteries and change in battery prices has affected Butler Systems operations. As the VP of Operations, what is your assessment of the battery shortage problem? My assessment of the battery shortage problem is that SDX Company is failing to meet its contractual obligations regarding battery supplies to Butler Systems. The contract requires the supplier to ensure it observes a service rate that is complete and satisfying (Benton, 2010). From the contract agreement between Butler Systems and SDX, the obligation of the supplier is to ensure it provides a 90-day battery supply. Contrary...
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...Butler Systems Butler Systems is a manufacturer of environmental control systems and power conditioning equipment. Butler is the world’s leading supplier of computer support systems and the largest supplier of precision air-conditioning and power protection systems. Butler sales exceed $1 billion. The HD-5 battery is the primary component for the EPS (emergency power supply) system. The vice president of operations is concerned about the low HD-5 battery inventory. There is currently a 20-day supply of batteries. A 90-day supply is the normal inventory level. Butler has not received a battery shipment in two months. Last week when the buyer discussed the problem with SDX, the battery supplier, it was revealed that the contract price would be doubled and that the current contract with Butler is now null and void. Questions: 1. As the VP of operations, what is your assessment of the battery shortage problem, and what actions would you take and why? 2. What is the buying organizations role in selecting and qualifying potential suppliers? Case 12: Hoosier Pride Construction In addition to the cyclic down turn in the construction industry HPC was facing a serious problem. The employee benefit costs have increased at approximately three times the rate of increases for wages alone (19 percent versus 6 percent yearly) from 2000 to 2001. In particular, the employee health insurance costs increased from $2,584 per employee per year in 2000 to $4,316 in 2001. The insurance premiums...
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..."The Butler Act, passed by the Tennessee legislature in 1925, is the most famous of the various statutes to restrict the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Not only did it lead to the notorious Scopes Trial that summer, but it remained a dramatic symbol of the antievolution movement in the United States for several decades. The Tennessee Academy of Science played an important role in the Scopes case at the appellate level, submitting an extensive legal brief challenging the law's constitutionality. The Tennessee Supreme Court nonetheless upheld the statute in 1927 while overturning Scopes' conviction on a technicality. In the years that followed, occasional efforts to repeal the state's antievolution law surfaced in the legislature,...
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...Project 1 Case Analysis CCJS321 The two cases I have chosen to analyze for Project One is the Max Ray Butler aka “Iceman” cybercrime case and the Albert Gonzalez cybercrime case. I have chosen these two cases because they both had significant impact on the computer forensics field. Both of these cybercrimes are similar in nature because both deal in credit card and identity theft on the grandest scale. Max Ray Butler and Albert Gonzalez were brought to justice after many years of a cyber-forensic investigation that went through a network of multiple U.S. agencies; including the FBI, US Secret Service and US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) a Department of Homeland Security who were all networked together at the National Computer Forensic Training Academy in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Both of these men were given the longest prison sentences ever handed out by a judge for computer crimes of their notoriety and magnitude. Finally, they both set a blue print for digital forensic investigators of the proper procedures to follow in order to capture future want-to-be crime lords. Max Butler aka “Iceman” was a white-hat hacker that went rogue. His story is that, “he was a good hacker hired by the government to test the security of one of their websites, while doing that job he installed a backdoor to their system that would allow him to come in later so he could make some fixes to the system on his own time. Well of course this second part of the...
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...Drawing on our readings so far in Marxist, cultural, and gender theory, I think historians, have struggled with the relationship between social structures (class, symbolic systems, language, gender, etc.) and individuals. The struggles stem from our understanding of the world, society, and life experiences. Throughout history, what we know is primarily based on theories and knowledge created historically and predominately by men of certain nationalities and economic status. History, like society, has been male-dominated and culturally distinct theorizing and knowledge has excluded women and other groups from traditional theorizing and knowledge building methods. When used in research, methods, and action, such theories and understanding ignored...
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...Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, UK Received: August 2001 Revised: October 2001; June 2002 Accepted: July 2002 Abstract This case highlights the differences in the pro tability possible when different customers are in receipt of substantially the same product. It provides the opportunity to develop a customer portfolio, along the lines of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) portfolio matrix, as part of a customer pro tability analysis. Keywords: customer pro tability, BCG matrix, delivery policy, portfolio pro le, purchasing pattern, inventory holding The case Derrick’s Ice-Cream Company is located in modern premises and manufactures and distributes 30 different ice-cream product lines from its suburban base in the UK. The products are distributed by Derrick’s own eet of refrigerated trucks to six major wholesale distributors. Annual sales are currently around the £10m level, distributed among the wholesalers as indicated in Table 1. Derrick’s control about 35% of its metropolitan market, but this shrinks to less than 10% in outlying areas where there are many small competitors. Derrick’s will usually hold up to four weeks of stock in their central cold stores to meet the distribution requirements of their six major customers. The cold stores cost Table 1. Market shares for six customers Customer Ardron’s Wafers Butler Ices Cahill’s Cones Donleavy Ices England Wedges Frankston Chocs Others Total % Sales 19 12 25 9 14 20 1 100 * Address for correspondence:...
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...essay argues posing foucauldian postmodernism of Judith Butler against Baudrillardean post modernism of Arthur and Marilouse Kroker with analysis on both their ideas on gender including sex and sexuality. This essay also argues that these two approaches are fully flawed for a number of important reasons. This essay offered an argument on the ideas of two of the most prominent postmodernists in the field of ‘Gender’ including sex and sexuality namely Judith Bultler and Discussion Postmodernism of Judith Butler Judith Butler is one among the most influential proponent of postmodern practitioner of gender including sex and sexuality. In Gender Trouble It is stated that identity of gender constitutes the very expressions which are its results and does not go beyond the expressions of gender. Butler does not consider gender as an appropriate social as well as natural expressions of a sexed body, but it is a fluid identity which is always in a deferral state ad does not exist fully at any given point of time (Norris, 2010). She does not believe in the notion of a stable and essential identity of gender manifesting itself by way of external activities instead of the radical view which is anti-foundationalist meaning the doer is variably e constructed through and in the deed. Butler goes beyond the idea that gender did not exist prior to performance instituted by culture and questions it through the givenness of the body. Butler assumes that heterosexuality is an intrinsic oppressive...
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...Rhetorical Strategies in Butler’s “phylosophe” and Brook’s “Honor Code” Judith Butler and David Brooks both use the similar method of telling a story at the beginning to convince their audience that what they are saying is true. Judith Butler, a philosopher, in a youtube interview, “phylosophe” (2007), argues that society has a severely deep fear relating to gender norms. Meanwhile, David Brooks, a columnist, in “Honor Code” (2012), from The New York Times claims that the education system is to blame for the increase of males failing each year, not the males themselves. While Butler tells an anecdote, Brooks uses an allusion which both are stories that get the audience involved, appeals to pathos and logos, which is when the author tries to affect the audience’s personal feelings and tries to persuade the listener through deductive reasoning, and uses tone, the attitude of the speaker and the effects it has on the audience. Butler begins by...
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...The 2004 Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CRVA) the has been marginally successful according to (Boland & Butler, 2009). We now see more victims being able to voice their case as a means of providing the court with the way these crimes have affected them and their families. Meaning that this act has provided victims with more rights, more treatment and services to address the violations or conditions suffered because of criminal acts, the voice of the victim is still somewhat suppressed and even excluded (2009). Often times the voice of the victim is excluded to protect the rights of the defendant. Some may argue that victims can now claim more restitution, damages or even inform sentencing by being able to attend sentencing hearings and express some thoughts and contentions, the CRVA still victimizes victims (Trueblood, 2011, p. 605). My personal stance is that I would like to see the victims' rights more favored than that of the defendant. Mostly because I feel it is the victim and their family that will suffer more than the defendant, especially in case that involves murder or homicide. Often times the defendant gets life in prison for these types of crimes and if that is the outcome the defendant and his or her family still have the ability to see one another or talk to each other. The victims never get that time back. In these types of cases I think it especially important to hold the victims' rights to a higher standard. In some ways, it is far less formidable...
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...Abortion is a very controversial social issue that has existed for many decades. The controversy behind this issue is caused by the different views that people and societies have regarding abortion. The social science disciplines of political science and religion will be used in getting a better understanding of the opposing views of abortion. In discussing the religious aspects of abortion, this paper will focus on the Jewish and Catholic views of abortion and how the two faiths effect an individual s decision upon having an abortion. When discussing the political controversy regarding abortion, this paper will discuss the abortion laws in Canada and the United States as well as the pro-choice and anti-choice movements of abortion. Society is greatly affected both socially and politically by abortions due to the different moralistic views regarding abortions and the controversies surrounding abortions. What are the views of the Catholic and Jewish religions on having abortions and how do their different views effect society? How is society effected by the political controversies behind abortions? Religion and Abortion Abortion is an issue that causes extreme divisions among various religious groups due to the laws of the religions, in particular, those of the Jewish and Christian religions. The Jewish religion is based on the belief in one G-d as well as respecting the laws that G-d imposed on the Jews. The Jewish people are expected to do what is just and merciful in the...
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...Health Care Reform Part I Health care spending in the United States is among the highest of industrialized nations (Health Policy Education, 2011). Health care reform found its roots in the 1900s when just prior to that physicians were caring for hospitalized patients without charge. Today it is a main political issue tipping the scales toward a presidential election. Team C chose this topic because of the serious nature and as future managers, leaders in health care administration; a greater understanding is required. This team seeks to discuss three major points in regard to health care spending, such as unnecessary spending, options if health care reforms fail, and ongoing coverage for ongoing care as it relates to macroeconomics and also propose three solutions identified within the research, respectively, information technology, influence of pricing and allocation of services, and prevention. Background Health care expenses in the United States were in excess of $2.3 trillion in 2008. Accounting for three times as much spent in 1990 and eight times that spent in 1980. According to Kaiseredu.org (2010),”This equated to $7,681 per resident and accounted for 16.2% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)” (Background). Below is a graph taken from Kaiser.EDU.org, which depicts how dollars were spent in regard to health care 2008. Today health care costs account for 16% of the nation’s GDP. On an individual basis, per capita, the cost is twice that of other major...
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...First and foremost, in my mind it proves that the court systems could be manipulated even back then. So, this was a staged case involving a substitute teacher that was allegedly teaching about the Darwin Theory. Tennessee had previously passed the Butler Act and per that he was in clear violation of the law. This case was the test case to prove the unconstitutionality of the Butler Case. The law stated that teachers could not teach evolution instead of the biblical ideas of man’s creation. The American Civil Liberties Union decided that this was against the constitution and decided to do a test case. This case would become known as the Scopes Trial. Scopes agreed to be the subject of the test trial. The case got much more interesting when Mr. Darrow called upon the opposing attorney to the stand. The trial got so big it was the first trial to be played out over the radio. After 9 days Scopes was found guilty. The case went to the Supreme Court where they decided that the Butler Act was constitutional. Scope did however get his case thrown out due to a...
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...International Management II (Core Competencies) Case Study Bank of America (A) by Alexander Beil Christoph Hillgärtner Florian Schlegelmilch Harvard Case Study: Bank of America List of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Introduction / Definitions Overview “Bank of America” Product development processes Strength and weaknesses of the systems Learning through experimentation Conclusion / Learnings Summary Questions for group discussion References 1 Harvard Case Study: Bank of America 1. Introduction / Definitions Description of the case study “Bank of America (A)” * The case study describes how Bank of America is creating a system for product and service innovation in its retail banking business. Emphasis is placed on the role of experimentation in some two-dozen real-life "laboratories" that serve as fully operating banking branches and as sites for testing new ideas and concepts. Focuses on: 1) 2) 3) how learning from experimentation can be maximized; incentive and reward systems that motivate employees to experiment in "life" environments; the challenges of managing innovation in an industry that eschews risks, failure, and change. *Reference: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=603022 Harvard Case Study: Bank of America 1. Introduction / Definitions Process: which activities are to be taken, in which order* Organization: who (person, team or department) is involved (who is responsible for what)?*...
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...International Management II (Core Competencies) Case Study Bank of America (A) by Alexander Beil Christoph Hillgärtner Florian Schlegelmilch Harvard Case Study: Bank of America List of Contents 1. Introduction / Definitions 2. Overview “Bank of America” 3. Product development processes 4. Strength and weaknesses of the systems 5. Learning through experimentation 6. Conclusion / Learnings 7. Summary 8. Questions for group discussion 9. References 1 Harvard Case Study: Bank of America 1. Introduction / Definitions Description of the case study “Bank of America (A)” * The case study describes how Bank of America is creating a system for product and service innovation in its retail banking business. Emphasis is placed on the role of experimentation in some two-dozen real-life "laboratories" that serve as fully operating banking branches and as sites for testing new ideas and concepts. Focuses on: 1) how learning from experimentation can be maximized; 2) incentive and reward systems that motivate employees to experiment in "life" environments; 3) the challenges of managing innovation in an industry that eschews risks, failure, and change. *Reference: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=603022 Harvard Case Study: Bank of America 1. Introduction / Definitions Process: which activities are to be taken, in which order* Organization:...
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