...OPNS 430, 71 Professor Bassamboo Summer Quarter 2007 CRU Computer Rentals Due: June 27, 2007 By: Hima (Bindu) Batchu JoAnna Thomas (Bowen) Ashwini Jambekar Rebecca Martin Ivana Ruffini Asheesh Seth [pic] [pic] Questions #2 The decision to launch a sales drive this year can lead to financial growth for the company. CRU must look at their overall operations to insure the company can meet the sales demands from the sales drive initiative. Their current computer rental operation is a long process that consists of many buffers. It is imperative that CRU focus on the computer rental return to computer availability for rent process. With this Return Unit priority, CRU should find ways to reduce the number of buffer waiting periods. The following gives specific recommendations for the steps in their process that warrants improvement and the added benefit to the organization: Action Plan: Quality: • Upon receiving rental return, accurately classify computers so that time is not lost reconfiguring units that need repair. • Instill a Quality Assurance group to inspect incoming and outgoing units. This will reduce time spent on classifying units as available for rent or in need of repair. • Perform maintenance testing on rental units during re-configuration and pre-configuration to reduce computer rental downtime relating to repairs. • CRU should invest in an automated order entry system for repair parts...
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...CRU Computer Rental Richard Sarkis, General Manager for CRU Computer Rentals, was studying the sales and financial figures for the first quarter of 1997 and was at a loss to explain the numbers. After a period of declining sales towards the end of 1996, sales had picked up over the last quarter. However, profitability continued to decline and was in fact worse than 1996. Richard had scheduled a meeting with his Vice Presidents for sales and operations and was wondering how to proceed. He had asked them to come prepared with data for the meeting. Background CRU is one of two national computer rental companies. It was started in 1990 and has seen its business grow rapidly. CRU purchases CPUs, monitors, printers and other peripherals and rents them out for long term leases as well as short term rentals. Duration of leases range from 1 day to 2 years in some cases. CRU’s 1996 revenues totaled about $15 million. The majority of CRU’s customers fit into one of the following categories: • large corporate accounts that want to stay on the cutting edge of technology and replace their machines every year and thus lease for that duration, • consulting firms and smaller business customers requiring a computer for the medium term, typically 2 to 4 months, • participants in trade shows who require a short term rental for the duration of the show. Customers expect short lead times in this business (typically one to two days) and place a high value on quick, accurate delivery...
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...Executive Summary CRU is one of two national computer rental companies. It has seen rapid business growth since it started, in 1990. CRU purchases CPUs, monitors, printers and other peripherals and rents them out for long term leases and short term rentals. It has a customer base consisting of large corporate accounts that want to stay on the cutting edge of technology and require long term rentals, consulting firms and smaller business customers who require medium term rentals and trade show participants who require short term rentals. CRU has two main warehouses or Mega Centers at Naperville, IL and Fullerton, CA and has 23 local retail centers located throughout the country. Problem Statement and Recommended Solutions In 1996, CRU had revenue of $15 million when the units were being rented at the rate of 1000 units per week. The average weekly revenue per unit for rentals averaging 8 weeks was $30. But in 1997, the rental markets began to decline and in the first quarter of 1997, the demand at CRU fell to 600 units per week leading to a big drop in utilization. This came as a shock to Mr. Sarkis, General Manager for CRU Computer Rentals, who had always tried to ensure that utilization never dropped below 50%, and got him into thinking of ways to bring up the figures. After considering different options, Mr. Sarkis and the VP of sales decided to offer some customer incentives to bring up the demand and also offer extra bonus payments to the sales staff for new demand generated...
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...CRU COMPUTER RENTALS CASE CRU Computer Rentals Flow Chart Customer Receiving Repairs Pre-Config Repairs Status 24 Status 41 Config 30% 70% 15% Ship Status 32 Ship CRU situation last year: TABLE 1: process flow data | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Customer | Receiving | Status 24 | Status 40 | Stored orders | Suppliers | Status 41 | Status 42 | Status 20 | | (rented units) | (received units) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thoughput | 1,000 | 1,000 | 700 | 405 | 405 | 405 | 405 | 405 | 1,000 | (units/week) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Inventory | 8,000 | 500 | 1,500 | 1,000 | 500 | 405 | 905 | 500 | 2,000 | (units) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Flow time | 8.00 | 0.50 | 2.14 | 2.47 | 1.23 | 1.00 | 2.23 | 1.23 | 2.00 | (weeks) | | | | | | | | | | | Customer term = 8 weeks, Demand = 1000 units/week | | | | | | | Number in black are given and number in red are calculated using Little's Law | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Number of units on rent = 8,000 * Total number of Units owned by CRU (total inventory) = 14,405 * Utilization achieved= 8000/14,405 = 55.5% * Average time spent by a unit in each buffer is the average flow time per buffer calculated in the table 1 * Revenue per week = 8000...
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...A STUDY ON INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES OF ISLAMI BANK BANGLADESH LIMITED PREFACE Bank is a part and parcel of the modern economy of any country. Like any other countries in the world banks play the most crucial role not in the economic but also the social, political environment in Bangladesh. Even it is wise to say that the financial sector of Bangladesh is solely dominated by the banking sector, because the non bank financial sector of Bangladesh is yet to develop to desired level, although it is growing very rapidly. The invention of banking based on Islamic shariah is a relatively new concept in the global banking arena. Now a day the Islamic Shariah based banks are not operating only in the Muslim countries but also in non Muslim countries with the same level of faith and efficiencies parallel to the conventional interest based banks. Even in some cases some of the Islamic Shariah based banks has exceeded their competing traditional banks in terms of service quality and some other key financial indicators. In Bangladesh Muslim constitutes more than 80% of her total population. These people possess strong faith on Allah and they want to lead their lives as per the instructions given in the holy Quran and Sunnah; the way shown by the prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Sm). But no Islamic banking system was developed here up to 1983. The Traditional banking sector was fully based on interest. This is why most of our religious...
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...Chapter 9 Ethanol Policy and Ethanol Politics David S. Bullock28 The United States is currently passing through one of the most exciting and controversial periods of its energy history. With the US military caught up in armed conflict in the Middle East, and with global warming looming in the minds of many expert scientists as the world’s greatest environmental challenge, a common belief is that it is more important than ever that the US develop sensible and far-sighted energy policy. Politicians’ claims aside, the politics of energy policy are rarely about what is best “for the country.” When government sets energy policy, some people gain, and others may lose. The politics of energy policy, then, are not simply, or even generally, about how to make the nation as a whole better off. Rather, the politics of energy policy are very much about interested political groups struggling against one another. This type of “special interest” politics is nothing new, and not unique to energy policy. Nevertheless, it is widely held among average Americans that the political activities of special interest politics are often bad for the nation as a whole. Because public information is a democracy’s best weapon against harmful special-interest politics, in this chapter we hope to accomplish three goals: 1) to present an outline of the “nuts and bolts” of U.S. ethanol policy; 2) to use economic analysis to examine the effects of ethanol policy, presenting arguments to cut through much of the...
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...Fundamentals of Database Systems Preface....................................................................................................................................................12 Contents of This Edition.....................................................................................................................13 Guidelines for Using This Book.........................................................................................................14 Acknowledgments ..............................................................................................................................15 Contents of This Edition.........................................................................................................................17 Guidelines for Using This Book.............................................................................................................19 Acknowledgments ..................................................................................................................................21 About the Authors ..................................................................................................................................22 Part 1: Basic Concepts............................................................................................................................23 Chapter 1: Databases and Database Users..........................................................................................23 ...
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...Dream Dare Win www.jeywin.com Annual Report 2007-08 Ministry of Finance Government of India Dream Dare Win 1 www.jeywin.com Dream Dare Win www.jeywin.com FOR PUBLIC CONTACT PURPOSE: Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs North Block, New Delhi - 110 001 Phones: 23095120, 23092453 Website: http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_eco_affairs/index.html Department of Expenditure North Block New Delhi - 110 001 Phones: 23095661, 23095613 Website: http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/index.html Department of Revenue North Block New Delhi - 110 001 Phones: 23095384, 23095385 Website: http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_revenue/index.html Department of Disinvestment Block 11 & 14, CGO Complex Lodhi Road, New Delhi -110 003 Phones: 24368528, 24368523, 24368044 Website: http://www.divest.nic.in Department of Financial Services Jeevan Deep Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi 110 001 Phones: 23748721, 23748734 Website: http://www.finmin.nic.in Dream Dare Win 2 www.jeywin.com Dream Dare Win www.jeywin.com Contents Paragraph No. INTRODUCTION Page No. 1 CHAPTER - I Department of Economic Affairs 9 Economic Division 1 11 Budget Division 2 12 Capital Markets Division 3 15 Infrastructure Division 4 19 Fund Bank Division (including UN Branch) 5 23 Foreign Trade Division 6 26 Aid Accounts & Audit Division ...
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...Collins W ith CD English for Exams Grammar for IELTS Fiona Aish & Jo Tomlinson \ ■L& 11 * . ; P O W E R E D BY C O B U I L D ■ t; j ju B P H Contents Unit 1 O 2 Topic Grammar focus Holidays and travel Free time Exam Page number Grammar practice Sub-skill Simple tenses Present sim ple, past sim ple and present perfect Speaking Part 1 W riting Task 2 6 Continuous tenses Past continuous, present continuous, present perfect W riting Task 1 Reading 10 continuous 3 Fame Past N arrative tenses: past perfect and used to/would Reading Listening Section 2 14 Education Future 1 Witt and going to Listening Section 1 Speaking Part 3 18 The Internet Future 2 Present continuous fo r future and future perfect Listening Section 2 Reading 22 The family Word order and punctuation Subject + verb + object and punctuation W riting Task 2 Speaking Part 2 26 7 The environment Subject/verb agreem ent S ingular + p lu ra l nouns/verbs and determ iners Reading W riting Task 1 30 8 Food Countable/ uncountable nouns Countable and uncountable nouns Speaking Part 2 Listening Section 1 34 9 Employment and finance A rticles Using a, the or no article W riting Task 1 Reading 38 10 Youth Linking words and signposting Giving...
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