...sales added to understand unit volumes at a high level. The sales flavors regular, markdown, promotional and clearance sales KPIs are planned individually including the average retail price of the sales type. In-season plan updates recalculate open-to-buy budgets based on trend. With that the analysis of business trends to identify variances to plan are possible on a weekly basis and allow stakeholders to take action. Merchandise Planning – OTB and Unit Flow Plan The merchandise Planning includes several workbooks for the different levels of the article hierarchy. The workbooks look very similar, but addressing different roles in the organization, like VP of Planning, Planning manager, merchandise manager, or however your organization is set up. One very nice feature is, that the solution provides you flexibility depending on your set-up, if you have planners for all the different levels (you remember: division, department, class and subclass), or if you just want to plan for example on division and break it down from there to class and subclass. All workbooks consist of two worksheets – one for open-to-buy plan and a second one for the unit flow plan based on average unit...
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...Mastering Orders Process and the Troop Leading Procedures in an Academic Setting Planning is one of the most important time management techniques. We use plans as a sequence of steps that help us achieve a desired end state. If you have a plan it will minimize the effort and time it will take to achieve any goal (UNC, 2015). Of course your plan will change periodically as things come up, and your initial goal may require you to do something different depending on external factors, but it is always good to have some kind of plan. Depending on how important the task at hand is, planning can be extremely crucial and obligatory (UNC, 2015). In the Army we use many different methods of forming a plan to prepare, execute and assess a mission. As a cadet in the military going to school full time, I am able to implement these same methods used in the Army to develop a strategic plan to successfully get through college (UNC, 2015). So, first things first, we have the troop leading procedures and the orders process. Both of these methods are very similar, they both help execute a mission, through planning and preparing which will also help assess the mission to make future missions even more triumphant. The main difference is that the troop leading procedures are the process by which you prepare your unit to accomplish a tactical...
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... |HSM/270 | | |Program Planning and Grant Proposal Writing in Human Services | Copyright © 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides practical knowledge in program planning, grant proposal writing, and program evaluation. Students will examine the planning process from conceptualization to implementation and evaluation. Also discussed is how to locate private and public funding for human service programs and agencies. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Yuen, F. & Terao, K. (2003). Practical grant writing & program evaluation. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole—Thomson Learning. All electronic materials are available on...
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...Axia College Material Appendix B Personal Financial Planning Worksheet Directions: Based on your readings and discussions in class this week, answer the following questions completely. 1. The process of creating a detailed plan to meet your financial needs and prepare for the future is called: a. Developing goals. b. Personal financial planning. c. Collecting financial information. d. Personal finance. 2. Which of the following is not one of the five major steps of the financial planning process? a. Analyze your current finances. b. Establish and implement your plan. c. Collect and organize your financial information. d. Reevaluate and revise your plan as needed. 3. Which phase in life is commonly associated with focus on marriage, family, purchasing a home, and career development? a. Teenage years b. Between your 50s and 60s c. Late 20s through your 40s d. During retirement 4. Which of the following are some benefits of having a college degree that can affect your financial planning? a. The potential to make a higher salary b. Jobs with retirement plans and benefits c. The ability to receive promotions and wage increases d. All of the above 5. Which of the follows elements of a comprehensive financial plan discuss analyzing future needs, such as saving for retirement or college funding for dependants? a. Building wealth b. Securing basic...
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...Sales & Operation Planning Adrian Rader American Public University Kristopher Bradshaw Sales & Operation Planning Sales and operation planning sets the foundation for any successful business. In order to succeed a company must be prepared from the beginning and set the groundwork or procedures it will follow. From customers to sales and marketing to developing, the sales and operations planning is designed to set up all the plans for every aspect of the business. The process in done is phases and tasks must be done before everyone can come together at the first meeting. Meetings must be set up well in advanced to allow everyone involved adequate time to prepare their part of the meeting. The process has been becoming more prevalent with businesses as they see the importance of this step. It is important early on that everyone knows their role. In the mid-1980s, Oliver Wright developed the sales and operations planning process. “He essentially recommended to his manufacturing clients that they get Sales plans from their Sales organizations to use as a basis for production planning” (Lapide, 2014). The tasks that must be done before the first meeting are simple. The people who should be part of the process need to know in order for them to prepare for the first meeting. The dates need to be set for first yearly meetings to allow for adequate preparations. If the company is going to use technology, the software must be tested to make sure the accuracy is correct...
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...Axia College Material Appendix B Personal Financial Planning Worksheet Directions: Based on your readings and discussions in class this week, answer the following questions completely. 1. The process of creating a detailed plan to meet your financial needs and prepare for the future is called: a. Developing goals. b. Personal financial planning. c. Collecting financial information. d. Personal finance. 2. Which of the following is not one of the five major steps of the financial planning process? a. Analyze your current finances. b. Establish and implement your plan. c. Collect and organize your financial information. d. Reevaluate and revise your plan as needed. 3. Which phase in life is commonly associated with focus on marriage, family, purchasing a home, and career development? a. Teenage years b. Between your 50s and 60s c. Late 20s through your 40s d. During retirement 4. Which of the following are some benefits of having a college degree that can affect your financial planning? a. The potential to make a higher salary b. Jobs with retirement plans and benefits c. The ability to receive promotions and wage increases d. All of the above 5. Which of the follows elements of a comprehensive financial plan discuss analyzing future needs, such as saving for retirement or college funding for dependants? a. Building wealth b. Securing basic needs c. Establishing a firm foundation d. Protecting wealth and dependants 6. People...
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...Axia College Material Appendix B Personal Financial Planning Worksheet Directions: Based on your readings and discussions in class this week, answer the following questions completely. 1. The process of creating a detailed plan to meet your financial needs and prepare for the future is called: a. Developing goals. b. Personal financial planning. c. Collecting financial information. d. Personal finance. The answer is B, It prepares you for the future and your financial needs. This includes in it developing goals, and more so the answer is B. 2. Which of the following is not one of the five major steps of the financial planning process? a. Analyze your current finances. b. Establish and implement your plan. c. Collect and organize your financial information. d. Reevaluate and revise your plan as needed. The answer is C, this is not a major step of the financial planning process. 3. Which phase in life is commonly associated with focus on marriage, family, purchasing a home, and career development? a. Teenage years b. Between your 50s and 60s c. Late 20s through your 40s d. During retirement The answer is C, This is where everything most of the time begins. At this age more things start to happen in our lives and we start to think about or focus on all of these things. 4. Which of the following are some benefits of having...
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...LAB’S MODULE: FORECASTING In this exercise, you will learn how to create forecasts for a product group through SAP. SAP provides a complete set of forecasting tools that can be used in a number of sales and operations areas. The most flexible set of forecasting tools are provided in the Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) transaction. The flow of the forecasting flowchart can be seen below: [pic] 1: Create Product Group |Purpose of Exercise | |To assist with Sales Order Planning you firstly need to create a Product Group. Product groups (product families) support high-level | |planning. A product group combines other product groups and materials. | |Menu Path |Logistics ( Production ( SOP ( Product Group ( Create | |Trans Code | | The Create Product Group: Initial Screen appears. 1. Type KidBikeGrp### in the Product group field. 2. Type ### Sport & Fun Kid Bike Prod Grp in the Description field. 3. Type DL00 (Plant Dallas) in the Plant field. 4. Type ST (items) in the Base Unit field. 5. Check that Materials radio button has been selected. ...
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...Time Management My Schedule Sat 8:00-9:30 9:30-11:00 11:00-12:30 12:30-2:00 2:00-3:00 3:30-5:00 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thru Log101 Comp101 Log101 Comp101 Bus101 Stat101 Bus101 Stat101 Page | 1 Time Management Table of Contents My Schedule.................................................................................................................................................. 1 Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 2 The Four-List Method of Time Management ................................................................................................ 3 1. 2. 3. 4. The daily “the Things to Do” list - ..................................................................................................... 3 The Weekly calendar -....................................................................................................................... 3 Monthly/semester goals- .................................................................................................................. 3 Long term goal list- ........................................................................................................................... 4 Tips for Time Management ........................................................................................................................... 4 Attempting...
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...actions necessary for attaining goals”(Daft, 2012). Ultimately Coach Carter and the basketball teams goal is to attain an education and win basketball games while doing so. In the Harvard Business Review, Mastering the Management Systems, they describe five steps of planning which are: Develop the plan, Translate the plan, Plan operations, Execute the plan, and Monitor and Learn. Coach Carter developed a plan by using the contract as his mission statement. This contract gave all the players the necessary information they needed to be successful on and off the court. He even explained to them how they should speak to each other and the coaches, as well as telling them were they should sit in class. Once the mission statement is stated he plans how to accomplish these goals. Planning once again becomes an important factor. The movie Coach Carter is based in a low-income neighborhood, where dropouts were what the kids ended up doing, where there were not a high percentage of graduates. This type of environment made it very difficult for Coach Carter to operate and have the support needed to follow through with his plans and goals. Contingency planning is what Coach Carter had to learn how to do. Contingency planning according to Richard L. Daft, “defines company responses to be taken in the case of emergencies, setbacks, or unexpected conditions”(Daft, 2012). At one point in the movie Coach Carter, the team...
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...FORECASTING The essence of port traffic forecasting is to find out: (a) What kinds and tonnages of commodities will move through the port? (b) How will these commodities be packaged and carried as maritime cargo? (c) What ship types, tonnages and frequency of calls will this result in? Traffic forecasting requires a combination of commercial and economic knowledge and the mathematical techniques are of minor importance and can often be omitted entirely. Far more important is the need to bear constantly in mind the very high degree of uncertainty in any forecast, and to take steps to minimize the risk which this causes. Any forecast of future trade will be uncertain, and ports are particularly vulnerable in view of their long planning time-scale and limited ability to influence demand. All forecasts should be linked with the overall national development plans. Furthermore, maritime trade is going through a period of rapid change which critically affects the volumes and types of traffic likely to use any port. Errors in forecasting can be serious, and the consequences of overestimating and underestimating are not equal. To over-build may add only a few dollars, at most, per ton to freight costs, but to under build may cause congestion leading to additional costs of $100 per ton. Even when all precautions have been taken to reach realistic and well-reasoned forecasts, the remaining uncertainty usually produces a wide variation of possible levels of traffic when projected...
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...leaving behind. Although things seem small we I do not know the impact without measurement. Although any change may not be significant at first it is definitely a step in the right direction. Another key driver is the idea of leaving behind something better, I want to know that I did my best to try and preserve the beautiful earth and eliminate unnecessary chemicals and pollutants so future generations can live happily. Who is your business planning team? Who should be involved in your planning process? As of right now my business planning team is my group, which consist of Taylor, Sammi, and Alex. During out meeting we have bounced ideas off one another and really believe that they can be very beneficial and influential down the road when some more serious planning takes place. I will probably also have my Dad and Grandpa involved since I am trying to make our family business more sustainable and they are obviously very knowledgeable about the budget and equipment where I lack some knowledge. How will you use your business plan? I am planning on presenting my business plan and ideas to my Dad when it is complete. My plan is to make his business more sustainable in hopes he will seriously consider some of my ideas, and put some of them (or all of them) into practice. My Values (1.1) Personal Values My personal values include trust, friendship, integrity, ambition, accuracy/attention to detail, compassion, and competence. I feel like these fit along...
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...Reflection Summary Team D: Priscilla Valladares, Adam Bennett, Areg Hoshiar, Gregor Tashkaplyan, Laura Luna MGT/230 January 5, 2014 Christopher Pahl During week two our class objectives were to learn about planning function of management, analyzing various factors that influence strategic, tactical, operational, and contingency planning. As well as analyzing the effect that legal issues, ethics, and corporate social responsibility have on management planning. As discussed by Team D, we most certainly agree that we learned the stated, not only as a team, but as individuals. We all come from different walks of life and backgrounds; this diversity is what makes working together as a team so great. We all agree that we can apply what we learned to our professional or personal lives. Analyzing week two, we agreed that we had an inside look on what the six steps are during the planning process. These steps are situational analysis, alternative goals and plans, goals and evaluation, goals and plan selection, implementation, and finally monitor and control. We agree these steps are most important in the planning process and play an important role in setting up alternative goals and plans. We also concur it is a good idea to have an alternative plans, in case the original plan falls through the cracks. Having a backup plan is a great way to run a business and minimize risk. Areg from our team shared an example of how he has applied this to his life, when he was coaching basketball...
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...manner. There are three stages to the writing process. The three stages are planning, translating, and reviewing. Planning is a composing process during which you generate information and strategies, as well as set goals and solve problems. Translating is the execution of plans into writing that others will understand. Reviewing is the process in which you evaluate ongoing writing plans and translations. Together, these three stages make up the writing process. In my professional life, I have used the writing process many times. Being in the military, there are many schools that you have to go to in order to advance your career. One of the last schools you attend is the Senior Leaders Course. During this school, one of the tasks that must be completed in order to graduate is to write an essay on a specific issue in today’s military. This paper is very important. Not only is it a requirement to graduate, but it also helps distinguish who will graduate with honors and who will not. The topic I chose to write about during the Senior Leaders Course was the quality of this generation’s soldier against soldiers that had joined the military in the past. The requirement was 2-4 pages, ensuring that you had enough accurate information to support your stance. I used a specific process for this writing assignment in order to turn in a successful paper. First, I had to plan. During the planning process, I spent three days collecting information and taking notes of ideas...
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...primarily concerned with the production of goods and the provision of services, and (2) the operations function typically involves the greatest portion of the organization’s human resources and is responsible for a large portion of the firm’s capital assets. This course introduces the strategic and tactical decisions involved in production operations management. It focuses on the concepts and tools that are used in making decisions as well as trends and global best practices related to the planning and design, operation, and control of production operations systems. VI. COURSE OBJECTIVES: 1. To enable the students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the production/operations function and to appreciate its role as well as its interdependence with the other functions in the organization. 2. To equip the students with the key concepts and tools of decision-making in production/operations management. VII. TEACHING METHODOLOGY: 1. Lecture/Class Discussions 2. Problem Solving 3. Case Analysis 4. Group Discussion...
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