...Supply Chain Network Analysis and Design: Location Analysis PROC 5820 7 May 2014 Summary The principal thesis of this paper is to discuss location analysis and its role in supply chain network analysis and design. The emphasis of site location is of strategic importance to all organizations seeking to maximize profits and minimize costs. The logistics/supply chain network design has six major planning steps in the process of designing a comprehensive logistics/supply chain network: The first step is to define the logistics/supply chain design process. The second step is to perform a logistics/supply chain audit. The third step is to examine the logistics/supply chain network alternatives. The fourth step is to conduct a facility location analysis, followed by the fifth step, which is to make decisions regarding network and facility location. The sixth and final step is to develop an implementation plan. Location analysis is also discussed in terms of the advantages and disadvantages of globalization and major location site factors. The discussion then describes the methods for evaluating major location site factors and making location decisions based on the evaluation. The paper concludes with discussing different modeling approaches and the need for comprehensive planning. (Reid and Sanders, 2010) (Coyle, J., Langley, C., Novak, R., Gibson, B. 2013) Introduction As stated by Jeff Karrenbauer...
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...PROP 6200: Development Prototypes Zara’s Dillema Write Up Sumeet Sohal 213299268 The Plan: Live at home until 2018 to save enough funds for down payment and avoid mortgage insurance. Have at least $75,000 for the down payment, closing and transaction costs, new furniture and other unexpected costs. Get $50,000 assistance from parents for down payment. Monthly Net Income: $90,000 Gross, $65671.50(After Taking Out Personal Taxes: $21,754, CPP 2,480, EI $931) Assets (Present): None .Liabilities (Present): Student Debt ($25,433) + Credit Card Debit ($5,064) Based on the evaluation of Zara’s criteria, current financial situation and overall circumstances, Zara should purchase a one bedroom + den unit (574 sqf) in SQ2 located at Queen Street West and Spadina Ave. The condo, situated in Alexandra Park neighbourhood, is home to several retail stores and home to young professionals which fit Zara’s criteria fairly well. Zara is concerned that she will be “house poor” if she purchases a condo at the present time. However, after a closer look at her savings for initially staying at home until the possession date in mid 2018, she will have enough funds for a decent size condo unit and not be house poor. To ensure that Zara was making the right decision, a closer look at relevant facts including the macro environment, personal financial situation and preferences, and options would be appropriate. Experts are predicting that the Toronto...
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...Chapter 9: Capacity Planning and Facility Location Overview This chapter defines capacity planning and location analysis and explains the steps and factors considered when making these types of decisions. The relationship between capacity planning and location analysis is described. The use of decision support tools for capacity planning and location analysis is described. Answers to Discussion Questions in Textbook 1. Explain why capacity planning is important to a business. Having the wrong level of capacity causes negative effects. Too much capacity means that are costs are higher than they should be since we are paying for more land, equipment and a larger building than we need. Not enough capacity negatively affects the level of service provided to our customers. 2. Explain the differences between design capacity and effective capacity. Design capacity is the maximum output that can be achieved using temporary measures, such as overtime and subcontracting. Effective capacity is the maximum output that can be achieved under normal conditions, including realistic work schedules and regular staff levels. Effective capacity is usually less than design capacity. Effective capacity is what we can achieve over long periods of time, while design capacity can be reached on a short-term basis. 3. How is capacity utilization computed, and what does it tell us? Capacity utilization is the actual output divided by the capacity times 100%. It...
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...Since the first encounter of Neanderthal skulls, scientists could not come to a conclusion on the exact link between modern humans and Neanderthals (textbook 274). However whether or not there exists a link before the Neanderthals came into contact with modern humans, it is not unreasonable to say that the two species interbred with one another since they did live in close proximities. In addition, through the emerging technology for analysing DNA, and skeletal comparisons, there is evidence that leads to a conclusion that the Neanderthals and modern humans did in fact interbred. The Neanderthals and modern humans appear to have co-existed until as recently as 24,000 years ago (Txtbook 274). Not only did they co-existed, there is evidence...
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...pharmacy with personal and professional service with their pharmacy needs. Goals: Financial 1. To break even financially in the first year of business without suffering any financial loss 2. To turn a 20- 25% profit in the next three years 3. Gain the financial stability to become a 24 hour pharmacy if the service is needed. Non-Financial 1. Within 5 years be able to expand to other semi- isolated neighborhoods in the area 2. To expand our services to Durable Medical Equipment and Compounding 3. Have the ability to staff 2 pharmacists and four pharmacy technicians. Competitive Advantage: The Apothecary will provide services in close proximity to semi- isolated neighborhoods, as well as personal and unprecedented customer service. SWOT Analysis: | Strengths | Weaknesses | Internal Forces | • Close proximity | • High start-up costs | | • Personal Service | • New business to owners and customers | | • Many convenient services | • Serving a small area | | • Competitive prices | • Expensive staffing | | • Individualized drug regiment | | | Opportunities | Threats | External Forces | • Population is mostly older | • Other larger pharmacies | | • New prescriptions written every day. | • May lack the money to negotiate contracts with drug wholesalers | | • Excellent and convenient location | • Getting certified by the...
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...Cluster Analysis & Factor Analysis 325-711 Research Methods 2007 Lecturer: Jeromy Anglim “Of particular concern is the fairly routine use of a variation of exploratory factor analysis wherein the researcher uses principal components analysis (PCA), retains components with eigenvalues greater than 1 and uses varimax rotation, a bundle of procedures affectionately termed “Little Jiffy” …” Preacher, K. J., MacCallum, R. C. (2003). Repairing Tom Swift's Electric Factor Analysis Machine. Understanding Statistics, 2(1), 13-43. DECRIPTION: This session will first introduce students to factor analysis techniques including common factor analysis and principal components analysis. A factor analysis is a data reduction technique to summarize a number of original variables into a smaller set of composite dimensions, or factors. It is an important step in scale development and can be used to demonstrate construct validity of scale items. We will then move onto cluster analysis techniques. Cluster analysis groups individuals or objects into clusters so that objects in the same cluster are homogeneous and there is heterogeneity across clusters. This technique is often used to segment the data into similar, natural, groupings. For both analytical techniques, a focus will be on when to use the analytical technique, making reasoned decisions about options within each technique, and how to interpret the SPSS output. Slide 2 Overview • Factor Analysis & Principal Components Analysis • Cluster...
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...Content 1. Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 4 1.1 Market Potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 4 1.2 Business Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Summary of Business Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . 5 2. Company Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1 Business Features And Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.1 Product Differentiation – Close Proximity . . . . . . . . . . . . … 7 2.1.2 Product Differentiation – Mass Tuition For All Subject. . . . 7 2.2 Start-Up Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3 Pricing Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.4 Revenue Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3. Competitive Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.1 Demand Effect – Changes of Prices and Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.1.1 Demand Effect - Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.1.2 Demand Effect – Preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.2 Supply Effect – Changes on Price and Quantity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.2...
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...security purposes and prevention from person’s intrusion without permission (Conference & Khosrowpour, 2001). There are many authentication mechanisms used to authenticate a user before accessing a restricted resource or place such as password s, personal identification numbers (PINs) fingerprints. This system uses a person’s identification card to either grant or deny access to the dormitory. Authorizations are structured in this system in such a manner that only users whose identification numbers appears in the database of the dormitory members control list are granted access and the rest denied. The system comprises of three major parts; control panel (highly reliable processor), electronic proximity reader and a security camera system. The electronic proximity reader reads data from the user’s identification card inputs it into the control panel where it is verified against the database of access control list (Conference & Khosrowpour, 2001). The security camera records users at the entrance and sends the data to the control panel where the records are kept...
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...Customer Clusters as Sources of Innovation-Based Competitive Advantage Vishal Bindroo, Babu John Mariadoss, and Rajani Ganesh Pillai ABSTRACT The authors examine the effect of customer clusters on a firm’s innovation. They argue that knowledge leveraged from customer clusters can help the firm develop innovations. The authors specifically concentrate on the effect of a firm’s geographical proximity and diversity of customer clusters on innovation outcomes. In addition to showing the importance of customer cluster proximity on firm innovation, they explore the effect of customer cluster heterogeneity on innovation in an international marketing environment. They test the theoretical model using multicountry data (N = 288) drawn from the U.K. innovation survey implemented by the Economic and Social Research Council, which collected the data across five European countries. Theoretical constructs operate largely as hypothesized and explain a substantial proportion of the variation in the different innovation outcomes tested. Keywords: radical innovation, customer cluster, cluster heterogeneity, proximity, innovation speed I nnovation is frequently acknowledged as the source of organizational renewal and growth, the primary source of competitive advantage (Porter 1990), and central to marketing strategy (Varadarajan and Jayachandran 1999). Because innovation is linked to superior financial performance and survival ability of firms (Agarwal, Cockburn, and McHale 2006), creating and...
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...London to a redeveloped business park at Canary Wharf. The current lease of the offices in London was due to expire in 4years and the firm was growing fast in clientele and employees exceeding the London office’s capacity hence space constraints. A decision is imminent. The organization needs to occupy and maintain offices that would portray a premium brand image and provide a conducive working environment for the employees. The relocation to Canary Wharf is a gamble. However, the Clifford Chance London offices is a historic and traditional corporate location with the best services, prestige and comfort associated with the central business district of London. Most critically, relocation away from Central London would affect proximity to key clients, courthouses, litigation offices all of where the most critical Clifford Chance businesses are conducted. Clifford Chance LLP’s Priorities Peter’s objectives are clearly evident from the problem statement. The firm needed to provide space that: Offered the highest quality work environment in order to provide a conducive work environment to keep and attract talented employees and Convey the firm’s heritage of prestige and top notch legal services to the growing clientele hence maintaining a leading position in the law business. Courses of Action The London offices cannot remain in the same location due to the growth rate of the organization hence the courses of action open to...
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...encounter of the Neanderthal skulls, scientists were unable to come to a conclusion on a precise link between modern humans and the Neanderthals (Bonvillian and Miller 2013:274). However, whether or not there is an existing link before the Neanderthals came into contact with modern humans, it is not unreasonable to say that the two species interbred with one another considering that they lived in close proximities. Furthermore, through the emerging technology in analysing DNA and skeletal comparisons, there is evidence that leads to a conclusion that the Neanderthals and modern humans did in fact interbreed. The Neanderthals and modern humans appear to have co-existed until as recently as 24,000 years ago (Bonvillian and Miller...
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...Analysis the reason that I fall in love with my girlfriend from the psychology concept Recently, I got a lovely girlfriend. We feel so happy and sweet in this relationship. Some people believe that having close relationship because of sentimental fate. But I think this is not only fate. Now I am going to explore the reasons using the idea of interpersonal attraction. I think many different types of theories of interpersonal attraction can explain about close relationship in my life. The interpersonal relationship is the need of some affiliation to keep relationship with friend or family. We seek people with some similar situation for the relationship. Interpersonal attraction is that we like those who give us maximum rewards at minimum cost .The first factor of reward theory affecting interpersonal attraction is proximity. By definition, it means the degree to which people are geographically close to one another, plays a central role in determining who we like. (Robert S. Feldman, 1992, p.199). Now I will apply the factors to check the relationship between my girlfriend and me. We met in a Japanese restaurant, Watami in this summer holiday. We worked in the same restaurant and we are also part time waiters. Now we study in the same school. I guess that there is an opportunity for us to develop a close relationship. It is because we could meet each other easily and quickly. Also, it is easy for us to find the subject to chat. It can make our relationship closer. According...
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...the study defined the area surrounding the Nigerian city of Kano as peri-urban because its close-settled character separated it from both the less-dense rural hinterland and the considerably denser city. They noted that landholdings were much smaller than in rural areas (as cited in Marshall et al., 2009). In Mortimore and Wilson’s definition of the peri-urban, they focused on the ‘mosaic’, that is variety of land-use patterns, the accessibility of this area to the city, the variation of household incomes, the proximity of markets, the availability of farm labour and the possibilities of off-farm employment (Mortimore and Wilson (1965) as cited in Marshall et al., 2009). Forty years on from this work by Mortimore and Wilson, the peri-urban is still conceptualised as a heterogeneous mix of urban and rural features. Douglas (1999), in his review of African peri-urbanisation stated that three scales of analysis can be drawn from existing works on the theme. First that African peri-urbanisation has been portrayed in organic terms – as an outgrowth of the primate city in response to the inability to cope with rising urban population. According to this scale of analysis, the peri-urban zone develops within proximity to and maintains close ties with the central city with the majority of its population still dependent on the central city for its sustenance. This study depended on GIS/Map analysis to explain that more informed understanding of urban growth in the fringe settlements are...
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...Effect of border proximity on school performance in imperial County abstract Education in Imperial County, from the elementary to the high school level, always ranks among the lowest in the state. This constant underperformance might be due to the high level of minority enrollment throughout the county. This paper uses census and other government data along with school accountability report cards to show that border proximity negatively impacts the performance of a school. While economic and immigration factors are probably not the only reason for this, this paper uses state testing reports and population demographics to compare the schools side by side and account for the difference in school achievement. 1. Introduction The economy of Imperial County ranks among the lowest in the state. This, in turn, reflects heavily on the level of academic achievement in the three main high schools. In addition to this, the county is also home to a large immigrant population, attributed to the proximity with Mexico and large farming sector. However, it is interesting to note the difference in school performance and how they relate with how far away they are from the international border. Taking a number of factors into account, we should observe a lower level of achievement in the school closest to the border. This paper attempts to examine the relationship between school performance and immigration. Specifically, does the higher level of minority students affect academic...
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...Historically, print news has focused on the importance of text and where images have been used, little attention is given to the function of these images in conveying news discourse. However, the relationship between the verbal and the visual deserves further attention. Images have a powerful impact on a viewer’s response towards news and this impact cannot be created by text alone. A critical examination of three recent news events (see appendix) and analysis of the images that they utilise, reveals the communicative functions and the connotative force that is carried in news photography (Bednarek and Caple 2012, pg. 57). By studying these photographs through analytical frameworks, we see that images embody much more than what is depicted within a frame and in fact they “have been worked on, chosen, composed, constructed and treated according to professional, aesthetic and ideological norms” for the purpose of engaging with their audiences (Bednarek and Caple 2012, pg. 57). Prior to our analysis of the three articles, an overview of the analytical frameworks that will be used and their contribution to our understanding of news reporting must be investigated. News articles embody two different semiotic systems, language and image, which share an intersemiotic relationship (Bednarek and Caple 2012, pg. 121). Research of this relationship focuses on the textual strategies deployed in the newsroom to elicit responses from the audience, the words help drive the pictures while the...
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