...Summary of the Case Study The Container Store, an American store, holds their position for several years at the top of Fortune magazine’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work for’. The company was established in 1978 by Tindell and Garrett Bonne. The structure of the company stores were split into different sections like kitchen, laundry, office with their individual showcase. The company had a fundamental HR philosophy behind their ongoing success. Their philosophy was reflected in their activities and practice used which helped to develop an excellent organizational culture. The company provided huge effort and time to recruit and select employees by HR staffs. The firm spent enough time training its employee. They paid higher salary than other retail stores. The company was committed to provide excellent career opportunity for employees. The managers of the company used to keep constant communication with their employees, play as more team leader than supervisor. Sales at the firm have increased 20–25% each year. On HR measure, the employee turnover rate has averaged 15–25% yearly, compared to the 100% rate common in retail jobs. Obviously, the Container Store has the “right package” that enables its employees to be significant contributors to its success. General overview of the Company The Container Store: the original storage and Organization Store The Container Store established by Kip Tindell (Tindell), Garrett Boone (Boone), and John Mullen in...
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...Pierre Kitts | Integrated Logistics Case Study 1 | March 2, 2014 Case Study 1 – Buttons Limited Canadian Distribution System Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 4 Initial Stocking of Stores 6 Figure 1 - Average Transit Time by Ocean Container from Manufacturing Plants to Canadian Stores 8 Figure 2 – Initial Stocking of Stores via 40 FT Ocean Containers to DC’s. 9 Full Distribution System Buttons Canada 10 Figure 3 - Average Transit Time by Consolidated Air from Manufacturing Plants to Canadian Stores 11 Figure 4 – Full Canadian Distribution Flow Chart: Consolidated Air into DC’s Replenishment of Stock 12 Canadian 3PL 13 Incoterm 15 Modal Selection 17 Distribution Centre (DC) 18 Distribution 19 Communications Internal 20 Communications to 3PL 22 Customs 23 Conclusion 24 Executive Summary Buttons Limited, is a global clothing retailer, and has targeted Canada as a new market for expansion of their lines of affordable, but stylish clothing, by opening up eight new stores in the country. Two stores will be situated in Vancouver British Columbia, three in Toronto Ontario, and three in Montreal Quebec. A very simple and straight forward distribution solution is recommended. One that will use the same flow chart process for both ocean carriage, for the initial startup and stocking phase of the program (see Figure 2, page 9), and the air consolidation replenishment of stock phase (see Figure 4, page 12). This system will be providing savings with...
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...Dermavescent Laboratories, Inc. Case Study Group Case Study from Text Strategic Marketing Problems Dermavescent Laboratories, Inc. Marketing Management Case Study Problem Identification Phoebe Masters, new product manager, “has to decide whether to introduce a new package design for the company’s Soft and Silky Shaving Gel. The major questions were whether a 5.5 ounce or 10 ounce aerosol container should be introduced and whether she would approve additional funds for a market test.” (pg. 210) “Timing is critical because the incidence of women’s shaving would increase during the spring months and reach its peak during the summer months.” (pg. 210) The idea for the new package design is a result of the following reasons: 1) unit sales for Soft and Silky Shaving Gel had slowed and plateaued in recent years. 2) Soft and Silky Shaving Gel sales had grown and were a strain on manufacturing capacity. (All Soft and Silky product line products have grown—stressing manufacturing capacity.) 3) Dermavescent Laboratories, Inc. had no manufacturing capacity expansion plans for the next three years. 4) Aerosol packaging had become the dominant design for women’s shaving creams and gels. Industry, Market, and Buyer Analysis The market for women’s shaving cream and gels has been small compared to men’s shaving cream and gels. Industry sources estimate the U.S. dollar value of women’s “wet shaving” products to be about $550 million in 2005, at manufacturers’ prices and...
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...International Journal of Applied Engineering Research. ISSN 0973-4562, Volume 8, Number 16 (2013) pp. 1871-1878 © Research India Publications http://www.ripublication.com/ijaer.htm Case Study of Solid Waste Management at a College Campus Abhilash Krishna, Krishna Nandanan, Pradeep Kumar S.S. and Srihari K.S. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, India. Abstract This paper examines the technical, economic and environmental aspects of the waste management techniques practiced at an educational campus in South India. It encompasses the entire spectrum of waste collection, segregation, reuse, recycle, incineration and landfill. An in-depth analysis of this process has been done as it helps to both emulate and improve this complex yet essential practice. The study involves interaction with people directly associated with this process by which a clear understanding of the technical and management aspect of the entire process can be obtained. It has also provided a substantial amount of raw data regarding the amount and types of waste generated, labour, cost and other related aspects. Appropriate suggestions and justifications had been put forth to improve the efficiency of the system. Keywords: Bio-degradable waste, compost, non bio-degradable waste, waste management. 1. Introduction A sample population of 8000 people in a 450-acre college campus had been considered. The college campus is located in a nondescript village...
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...of the Trucks Transit in Marsa Maroc Terminal Dr. Youssef Boulaksil Fall Term 2013 Executive Summary The container terminal is a flat modal form that binds the ship to truck, train or to another vessel in the case of transshipment. This connection is done via interfaces: truck / area inter exchange, train / buffer zone, ship / dock. Thus, the major container flows are channeled to or from this system are the result or the source of a multitude of internal flow system (sorting, inspection, shifting, connection, full containers, empty containers). These flows are treated with different tools and different locations around the terminal. That means, the container terminal is to optimize the processing of massive volumes of containers in order to achieve economies of scale (749,000 TEUs'' 20-foot equivalent'' per year), improving the use of resources and more special equipments that are expensive. In fact, responsible for handling division have the prospect of having a solution to balancing and optimization of the supply chain through the design of equipment used (tractors) to import and export in delivery to the end customer. My final project study is in the heart of this approach. It has as an objective, the study of solutions that meet the diverse needs. To do this, I had some operational research to minimize the process of delivery of containers to customers. Then, I implemented a simulation of the problem, with Siman-Arena software, allowing the validation of...
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...Case Study of Solid Waste Management at a College Campus Abhilash Krishna1, Krishna Nandanan2, Pradeep Kumar S.S.3, Srihari K.S.4 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, India. abhilash.krishnadbz@gmail.com1,krishna_92@hotmail.com2,sspk1992@gmail.com3,srihariks12@gmail.com4 ABSTRACT This paper examines the technical, economic and environmental aspects of the waste management techniques practiced at an educational campus in South India. It encompasses the entire spectrum of waste collection, segregation, reuse, recycle, incineration and landfill. An in-depth analysis of this process has been done as it helps to both emulate and improve this complex yet essential practice. The study involves interaction with people directly associated with this process by which a clear understanding of the technical and management aspect of the entire process can be obtained. It has also provided a substantial amount of raw data regarding the amount and types of waste generated, labour, cost and other related aspects. Appropriate suggestions and justifications had been put forth to improve the efficiency of the system. Keywords - bio-degradable waste, compost, non bio-degradable waste, waste management. 1. INTRODUCTION A sample population of 8000 people in a 450-acre college campus had been considered. The college campus is located in a nondescript village in South India. In such a populous community, generation of large amount of wastes...
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...They are distinguished by the support space that is required for each laboratory or group of laboratories. Fume hoods, as well as biosafety cabinets and laminar flow hoods, are used in all areas of bioscience research. Storage for chemicals (solvents and acids) must be provided in accordance with applicable codes. Physical Sciences Laboratories Physical science laboratories are distinguished from other types of laboratories in a number of ways. First, there is only a small amount of built-in furniture. Second, there is abundance and a variety of electrical power. This, of course, is due to the fact that in most physical sciences research labs the floor space is occupied by an array of apparatus and instrumentation, both home-built and store bought. Almost all of this equipment requires power of varying voltage and amperage... Power and piped services are usually provided from an overhead suspended service carrier. Medical A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are done on clinical specimens in order to get information about the health of a patient as pertaining to the...
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...solutions to help get Parvaderm back on track from their past few years of disappointing sales. There are two decisions to be made by Parvaderm Corporation. The first is whether to get rid of their current tube packaging or introduce a 5.5-ounce or a 10-ounce aerosol container to the current product line. The second is to see if it was necessary to add additional funds for a market test. This is all part of the bigger question of introducing a new package design for the Soft and Silky Shaving Gel. The Soft Silky barnd was introduced in 1991, when aerosol packaging wasn’t widely known, however: since 1999 aerosol has become the dominate packaging for women’s shaving cream. Analysis and Evaluation Since Pavaderm's Soft and Silky Shaving Gel sales had not risen but instead have declined over the past few years, there was definitely room for improvement. Courtwright proposed the new package plans and as the newly appointed manager, Phoebe Masters ultimately had the final call on the new packaging and the spending of additional funds. Masters approved Courtwright to spend $35,000 to conduct the marketing research tests on customer responses. Courtwright hired a marketing research firm to conduct four focus-group studies. Two groups consisted of current Soft and Silky users, and the other two consisted of users of shaving cream, users other than Soft and Silky, and users of soap and water. The six principal findings were: 1. Customers and non-customers we unanimously in favor of the...
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...cpd.na Acknowledgements The Unit for Continuing Professional Development wishes to thank those below for their contribution to this support guide: Ms Alina Hambelela Angula Mr Simson Shaakumeni Ms. Laetitia Willemse Ms. Agatha Lewin Mr Simson Shaakumeni Author Content Editor(s) Instructional Designer Technical Care of Template Quality Controller Water Contents About this support guide 1 How this support guide is structured ................................................................................. 1 Course overview 3 Welcome to Water (Natural Science and Health Education) ............................................ 3 Water (Natural Science and Health Education)—is this course for you? ......................... 3 Study skills ........................................................................................................................ 4 Need help? ......................................................................................................................... 5 Getting around this support guide 6 Margin icons ...................................................................................................................... 6 Unit 1 8 Water: Grade...
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...first 200 words to give you marks and the first 500 words (100 times 5) to give you marks for a 5 mark question and so on. Answer should be written in clear & simple language using bullet points & paragraph structure to put your points across. For Institute Use only PAPER RECEIVED DATE MARKS OBTAI ED TOTAL MARKS OUT OF Note :-All students shall sign the following pledge on each assignment and sheet: examination answer “I have not violated the Institute Honor Code during this assignment/examination.” All GEA community members pledge to report known violations of the GEA Honor Code. Signature _________________________ Garuda Education Academy MARKS : 80 SUB : SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT N.B.: 1) Attempt any Four cases 2) All cases carries equal marks. CASE 1 1. MANAGING GROWTH AT SPORTSTUFF.COM In December 2000, Sanjay Gupta and his management team were busy evaluating the performance at SportStuff.com over the last year. Demand had grown by 80 percent over the year. This growth, however, was a mixed blessing. The venture capitalists supporting the company were very pleased with the growth in sales and the resulting...
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...ORGANIZATION IN TANZANIA Case Study of Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA), Dar es Salaam PREPARED BY: MHONZWA BEATRICE SUPERVISED BY: KAZIBILA YOTHAM N. A Research Report to be submitted in Partial Fulfillment of requirement for diploma in procurement and logistics at TIA 2014 CERTIFICATION AND COPYRIGHT I, MHONZWA BEATRICE declare that this field report is my own work and the information I give is true that it has not been submitted for diploma student to any other college, Institute or University. May God help me. It is not allowed to copy part or whole material in this writing without permission from the author. Signature: Name: Mhonzwa Beatrice Supervisor’s Signature: Name: Kazibila Yotham N. Date: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost I thank God almighty for without his grace any of this could not be possible. I hereby acknowledge the contribution of various people who in one way or another made this work as easy as possible. I extend my thanks and appreciations to my beloved brother Mr. Claus Mhonzwa and my sister in-law Mrs. Klaus. I appreciate their contribution and that I let them be blessed for their moral and material support during the whole period of my study. My friends for their company and opinions in my journey of studies. I am also grateful...
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...Report on Summer Placement Conducted at GENO PHARMACEUTICALS LTD Pharmaceutical Complex Tivim Industrial Estate, P.O. Karaswada, Mapusa, Goa By TRAZEL DIAS Roll No. 1332 St. Xaviers College, Mapusa – Goa Stores Learnings & Research. The stores department at Geno Pharmacueticals is headed by Mr.Sunil Azgaonkar. He takes care of the over all activities of this department. Mr.Sunil Azgaonkar was very kind in sharing his knowledge with me and also in givingme an overview of how the stores department at Geno Pharmacueticals functions. The stores department is the heart of any organisation. It is where all the issuing and receiving takes place. The marketing department first gets the orders that are generated .i.e is how much sale has to be made. Later on the production planning control department does the job of finalising how much has to be produced, they have something called a production programme which helps them know according the amount of tablets,capsules,liquids or ointments that have to be produced. Next step is where the stores department issues an indent to the purchase department to make the necessary purchases of the raw materials required for production. The purchase department inturn will approach approved suppliers or vendors and place a purchase order. Once the materials are received from the approved vendore and suppliers they are sent to a room called the ‘re-dusting’ room. In this room all the materials are cleansed for eg: if...
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... and they come in a small variety of six to eight inches in length. They come in a striped pattern of white and primary colors. It is made of mainly two materials; polypropylene and polystyrene, making the piece compressible yet hard enough not to be torn. The elixuum was found in a suburban city, not far from Canada, which was the fastest freezing place that the ice-age took over. Fortunately, we found the tallest structure there, making it possible for our research team to break through easily. The part of the structure which broke through easily was an oculus opening on the roof, which led us to this area surrounded with barricades of mini-food plants of different flavors and qualities. Everything was in place and frozen, or in some cases fallen and broken, at the last dynamic point of action. All seemed to be an average day...
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...points) In the Maturity stage, market attention is directed toward holding market share through further product differentiation and finding new buyers. Examples used in the case study included applying to different markets such as children and families, and the development of new flavors. 2. In what stage is Greek yogurt? (5 points) Greek yogurt is in the Growth Stage of the product life cycle. This is represented by its market share in 2007 of only 2% which grew to today’s 36% of the yogurt industry. This also includes the ever increasing revenues gained by Chobani, Yoplait, Fage and other companies selling Greek yogurt. 3. Describe the perceptual benefits of Chobani’s packaging. (6 points) In their early years, Chobani could not afford to advertise so the packaging including the label, shape, color, graphic, and actual container were of much importance. Ulukaya shows a lot of attention to detail in their packaging because he knows his main perceptual benefit is connecting with customers. The container the company uses is wider than typical yogurt brands to make it look bigger than others. Also using shrunken on sleeves to provide sharper, more appealing colors added to the connection. Another perceptual benefit used was cost reduction when he outsourced, contacting the Columbian supplier to make his containers, although they ended up spending about $250,000 regardless. 4. Tell me one specific thing in this article that you found interesting or surprising. (5 points) Overall I...
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...nations and thus facilitated globalisation (Levinson, 2006). The aim of this discussion is to present the nature of containerisation and how the innovative use of containers transformed overtime. This case study will draw up real world examples on logistics on a global scale. The latter half of this discussion will explore the advantages of using containers to transport goods via sea, road and rail. Containerisation Containerisation is an inter-modal system which has been used over half a century to transport the universal cargo and non-bulk products in containers which are reinforced steel boxes (ECMT, 2005). The ease of using containers allows the flexibility to use a multi-modal system to transport the containers through road, rail, sea and air (Lowe, 2005). These containers are regulated by the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) body which sets the foundation to ensure the containers are eligible to be loaded and conserved unharmed onto container ships, railroad cars, planes and trucks. Containerisation has revolutionised the logistic industry in imports and exports, in transportation of goods to a degree that it has diminished costs to an insignificant point in the twentieth century. One of the justifications for this inter-modal system was to expand storage capacity within the steel containers so that it can maintain space for economies of scale (Wetherly & Otter, 2008). History & Change...
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