...Introduction: Donner Company, a customized printed circuit board manufacturer is facing three main problems: productivity, quality issues and delayed deliveries. We start analyzing with a diagram showing information flow beginning from the customer placing the order to the delivery of that order can be represented as below. Customer places order Customer places order Estimate Labour and Material costs Estimate Labour and Material costs Prepare and submit bid Prepare and submit bid Check & Verify Design Check & Verify Design Detailed specifications and factory order by Altmeyer Detailed specifications and factory order by Altmeyer Normal Normal Customer accepts bid? Customer accepts bid? Yes Yes Promise delivery time Promise delivery time 1 day from bid accept-ance 1 day from bid accept-ance Rush Rush Scheduling & processing of order Scheduling & processing of order 4 days from bid accept-ance 4 days from bid accept-ance 2 days 2 days No No End End Material specifications by Schnabs Material specifications by Schnabs Delivered to customer Delivered to customer Send order to purchasing agent Send order to purchasing agent Shipping the order Shipping the order Instruct purchasing agent & procure material Instruct purchasing agent & procure material Blue print, factory order sent to Flaherty Blue print, factory order sent to Flaherty Blue print, factory order sent to Flaherty Blue print, factory order sent...
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...Harvard Business School 9-689-030 Rev. December 11, 1998 Donner Company In October 1987, Edward Plummer, president of the Donner Company, was reviewing the company's position prior to planning 1988 operations. strip: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material The Donner Company manufactured printed circuit boards to the specifications of a variety of electronics manufacturers. Each board consisted of a thin sheet of insulating material with narrow metal strips (conductors) bonded to its surface. The insulating sheet acted as a structural member and supported electronic components connected by the conducting strips. In the customer's plant, assemblers (human and/or automated machinery) positioned electronic components in the predrilled holes in the board, soldered them into place, and then installed the board in the final electronic product. insulation - insulating material: a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity At the end of 1987, there were 750 printed circuit board manufacturers in the United States. These manufacturers could be classified either as captive or contract manufacturers. Large electronics firms, such as IBM, AT&T and Digital Equipment, produced much of their own requirements in captive board shops. When large quantities of simple technology boards, or small quantities of fast turnaround prototype boards were required, these customers would usually subcontract production to contract manufacturers...
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...INtroduction The three-year old Donner Company has positioned itself well within both the small volume, customized (contract) printed circuit boards market as well as the large volume, generic (captive) printed circuit boards market. Large electronic firms (AT&T, IBM) produced their components in captive shops, while smaller sized companies, or when large and small quantities of simple technology or fast turn-around prototype boards were required, these requests usually are fulfilled by contract shops. With a company that is managed primarily by engineers, Donner’s core competency was, obviously, its engineering expertise, and it produced specialized circuit boards known as “soldermask over bare copper” (SMOBC) boards. Donner positioned itself to manufacture these boards to small and large electronic firms and management envisioned it as one of the industry leaders. With 750 competitors in the US alone, and a market that is volatile, Donner’s ability to anticipate and resolve design problems and prototype techniques enabled it to maintain its competitive edge. However, this competitive edge has been compromised by poor on-time delivery and high rate of product return, in addition to planning and manufacturing problems that caused bottlenecks, shifting bottlenecks and improper utilization of labor. These problems began to hamper the overall performance of the firm, and management started evaluating the company’s position and different strategic policies. 1....
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...Donner Company - Operations Analysis Contents Objective 2 Business Context of Donner Company 2 Problem statement 2 Process Flow Diagram 2 Organization Structure 3 Situation analysis 4 Alternates before Donner 4 Recommendations 4 Exhibits 4 Objective The objective of the assignment is to analyze the operations of Donner Company, to find out the problems faced by the company and give recommendations addressing these problems Business Context of Donner Company * Donner Company, founded in 1985, manufactured printed circuit boards to the specifications of a variety of electronics manufacturers competing with approx. 750 printed circuit board manufacturers in the country. * President of Donner Company, Edward Plummer was concerned about productivity, quality and delivery problems as the current difficulties which the company faced. Problem statement 1. Draw the process flow diagram for a normal order that goes through the production system at Donner. 2. What orders [by way of batch size] would you schedule on the CNC drill? On the CNC router? 3. What is the capacity of the Dry Film Photoresist area? How does capacity change with order size? 4. What is the standard labor time for an order of one board? 8 boards? 200 boards? 5. What are the problems faced by Donner? 6. What are your recommendations to address these problems? Process Flow Diagram Organization Structure Situation analysis 1. Production...
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...For this Task I choose an excerpt from “Ordeal by Hunger the Story of the Donner Party”. I feel this particular piece of Non-Fiction gives us an eyewitness account of the tragic events suffered by the participants of the 1846 expedition to California by the Donner Party. The book is written by George Stewart who was a novelist and a professor of English at the University of California Berkeley campus. Stewart wrote mostly fiction but ventured into some non-fiction historical work on occasion. Mr. Stewart paints a very descriptive picture of the events as the search party reached the camp. He tells us that as Mr. Cody and Clark reached the first camp, they witnessed sighting Jean Baptiste who was carrying a severed human leg. (Stewart, 1936) Mr. Baptiste, upon sighting Cody and Clark, threw the leg back in the hole that contained the body of Jacob Donner. (Stewart, 1936) Stewart give’s a description of the condition of the body like that of a modern day police report. He describes facts like, the arms and legs are severed, the trunk is sliced open, and the heart and liver are missing. (Stewart, 1936) The book was written in 1936 when writers did not use strong descriptive language like that. I feel Stewart overtly described the scene to draw more attention to the story and sell more books. The descriptions didn’t need to be detailed to the point they were for the reader to understand the story. Stewart’s subjectivity was that of an author describing the story to...
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...The Donner Party was a group of individuals trying to create an improved existence for their selves. The leaders were two prosperous brothers Jacob and George Donner. Their group was traveling out west like many others looking to start a new life with new opportunities but things turned out to be much worse than they expected. The party had to face challenges along the way that left them struggling to stay alive and well. The Donner party left Springfield, Illinois on April 16, 1846 with about ninety migrants and one wagon per every three individuals. Their plan was to reach San Francisco, California a place full of new and prosperous opportunities. They left almost two weeks after another group with the same intentions, and were the last wagon group to depart for the year from Springfield. People in Springfield had said that even the previous party of wagons had left to late to beat the harsh California winter. The trip was supposed to take four months but then things turned much worse for the Donner Party. The Reeds and Donners were given a letter from one of Hasting’s solicitors warning them to expect trouble from Mexican authorities and Native Americans in California. He advised them to stay...
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...The Goonies/ Formal Organization I. Hierarchy of Authority a) Mikey- the leader, knowledge of the treasure and story of the treasure, desire to fix the problem (he knew Chunk would drop the framed map, Chester Copperpot, holds the dab loon), persistent in his desire to find the treasure b) Data-Gadgets c) Chunk-reluctant member; recruitment(Sloth) – knows the Fratelli’s are bad; reluctant “ I don’t want to go on any more Goonie adventures”; his reluctance leads to him being left behind; d) Mouth- Spanish translator e) Brand thinks he’s in charge because he is the oldest II. Pattern of Reporting relationships a) Each person that is involved with the group reports somewhat to Mikey. Mikey reports to no one but his older brother b) The idea of the Goonies seems to be Mikey’s idea and anything involved regarding the group gets run by him. c) Mikey has little control of reporting relationships and is trumped to a degree by his older brother III. Formal measurement, evaluations, and control systems a) the formal measurement of the group would be if they succeed in fending off the developers and if they find one-eyed Willie’s treasure. b) division of activities are based on individual strengths- interactions are not required but wanted by the individuals c) Control of the group is informal based on the members have little knowledge of what tasks they’ll be performing next d) Fratelli’s...
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...The Donner Party was a group of 90 people from the eastern part of the United States. In 1846 the party set out to California from Springfield, Illinois, and Independence, Missouri. They wanted to go to California because of the abundant amount of land. Unfortunately, they had ba leaders and wrong information. There were many decisions made that would become the downfall of the Donner Party. They would not all survive one of these decisions and only thirty-seven would make it to California. The Donner Party started out very unprepared for their journey to the West. They left on their trip with everything they would need to do what they were used to doing. They even had supplies for starting a school in the West. Sadly, most of the Donner...
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...With these developments, it is obvious that conflicts between parties of different nationalities occur and liability to tax on income of foreigners especially among those engaging in trading venture. Whilst the laws affecting domicile and residence may be sufficiently settled, it is paramount for courts to pursue a detailed analysis to ascertain specific preliminary issues so as to avoid controversial rulings. Courts often handle numerous financial cases that involve what can be best described as foreign or international elements. In such cases, court must decide whether it has the jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 to make a decision on such cases. In the event that it is determined that the court is invested with the jurisdiction to determine the case, the court has to consider whether there is a system of law in foreign country that also has the jurisdiction to handle the case. As it was addressed in the case Attorney General of New Zealand v Ortiz [1984] AC 1, these benefits and costs to either party if the case resolution is made in foreign country as compared with the apparent country should also be a subject of concern. [1] Legal systems in most countries around the world adopt community property regime, which takes effect at the inception of marriage or at the time of divorce. For instance, California and Massachusetts in the United States have adopted community property regimes that support equal division of assets upon divorce. However, this provision...
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...Adapted from Bernhardt & Kinnear (1988). Cases in marketing management, pp. 6-16. Plano, TX: Business Publications, Inc. Pay careful attention to the following points. They are often used by instructors to evaluate either a written or oral analysis. 1. Be complete. Each area of the situation analysis must be discussed, problems and opportunities identified, alternative presented and evaluated using the situation analysis and relevant financial analysis, and a decision must be made. An analysis that omits part of the situation analysis or only recognizes one alternative is not a good analysis. Second, each area must be covered in-depth and within insight. 2. Avoid rehashing case facts. Every case has a lot of factual information. A good analysis uses facts that are relevant to the situation at hand to make summary points of analysis. A poor analysis just restates or rehashes theses facts without making relevant summary comments. 3. Make reasonable assumptions. Every case is incomplete in terms of some piece of information that you would like to have. A good case analysis must make realistic assumptions to fill in the gaps of information in the case. For example, the case may not describe the purchase decision process for the product of interest. A poor analysis would either omit mentioning this or just state that no information is available. A good analysis would attempt to present this purchase decision process by classifying the product and drawing upon real life...
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...are given. It is understandable then that we should seek out more opportunities to apply our skills and make more positive impacts within our jurisdictions. It is this general attitude that led us to get involved in investigating cold cases. How We Got Started Mark had, for several years, been consulting with our Coroner’s Division as a forensic anthropologist. During this time he came to learn that there were numerous coroners’ cases in which the identity of the decedent was unknown. These cases were kept in three-ring binders on a shelf in the Sergeant’s office. Over the years, in the course of this forensic work, we would discuss these cases and the progress that was being made on them. The conversation usually ran along the lines of us asking “any luck with that 1980 homicide victim?” and the sergeant answering “well, we’ve gotten so many new cases that I haven’t been able to even look at it yet.” This went on for a few years and through two different sergeants. One day we, as a crime analysis unit, were brainstorming about how we could broaden our “client base”, as it were. We had been successful in integrating ourselves into our Investigations Bureau and had been involved in numerous major cases. And, of course, we had always been active in producing tactical and strategic analyses for our patrol personnel. But we knew that we could be doing more, particularly given the size and responsibilities of our agency. It was during...
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...BUSINESS CASE Presented to the Accountancy Department De La Salle University In partial fulfillment Of the course requirements In ACCTBA2 (C33) March 2, 2015 A stakeholder is typically concerned with an organization delivering intended results and meeting its financial objectives. In general, a stakeholder can be one of two types: internal (from within an organization) or external (outside of an organization). The stakeholders in this situation are Lanie Marquez and Tim Rodriguez who are also partners in the retail distribution business and their capital contributions are as follows P500,000 and P300,000 respectively they are an internal stakeholder since they are also the owners. The total Capital of both stakeholders is P800,000 and with a monthly salary for both partners at P15,000 on the assumption that both of them will contribute to manage the business equally. Assuming that both managed the business equally the total salary for the year for Lanie and Tim are P180,000 each. They share profit and loss equally and no interest will be given on capital contributed. The problem for this situation is that Lanie is starting to get concerned with the behavior of her other partner Tim. He only manages the business 50% of the time, which will mean that his salary of P15,000 will need to decrease by also 50% since he does not manage the business equally with his partner. The business has seen a downturn in the profit outcome and for the current financial...
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...Ralph’s Grocery and United Food and Commercial Workers Union The case that I chose for the week 6 critical thinking assignment concerns Ralph’s Grocery Company, located in California. It applies to this week’s material due to the fact that the case involves unlawful suspension and discharge of an employee, as reviewed by the National Labor Relations Board. Background In May 2011, Vittorio Razi was an employee at Ralph’s Grocery and was suspended and terminated after he refused to take a drug test without first consulting with his UFCW Local 324 representative. The company (Respondent) says that on the day in question, Razi’s behavior was in question, acting nervous, anxious, agitated, and slurred speech. After a couple managers discussed the...
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... Many people wonder why their own teeth stain so easily. The enamel on your teeth and chromogens are what stains your teeth, but what exact beverage stains teeth the most? I chose this topic because I was curious to know what stains teeth the most. It affects us daily because it could rot your teeth or you can’t pick up hot chicks anymore. So what causes teeth to stain? The temperature causes teeth to expand or contract making it easier for stains. So hot and cold drinks affect that. Color in foods and beverages come from chromogens. Chromogens are intensely pigmented compounds that stick to teeth enamel. Chromogens cause a lot of trouble when they mix and react with other stain causing and stain promoting factors. Tannis may be natural or synthetic tannis is another factor that stains teeth. Tooth enamel is porous making it extremely susceptible to stains. The darker the liquid the darker the stain. There are some examples that stain teeth. Not only sodas bad but also Gatorade. Beets are bad for you also. Mostly cause they’re concentrated. Berries dark skins stain teeth. Ketchup is also really bad because of its bright red color and high levels of acid. Dark liquids and sauces you put on your foods also stain teeth. Colored candy and popsicles both contain colorants that will transfer to the teeth and embed in the porous enamel. Fruit juices, especially grape and cranberry, leave a colorful tinge on the teeth and tongue. Colored sodas instantly discolor teeth. The citric acids...
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...efficient investigative products and services. As a result, the coverage requirements for ANACI and NACLC investigations have been enhanced to support a common content baseline for all agencies. Note that these enhancements apply only to those ANACI and NACLC cases submitted on an SF 86. The purpose of this FIN is to provide you with information concerning what case coverage changes have been made. The case price adjustments necessary to support these changes will be reflected in the FY 2007 case prices. ANACIINACLC Cases Currently, listed and developed issues which are identified in ANACI and NACLC cases (for non-DoD customers) are not pursued beyond the normal scope of the investigation. These cases are returned to the requesting agency so that the agency may decide whether to adjudicate the case based upon the information in hand, conduct additional follow-up themselves, or request a Reimbursable Suitability Investigation (RSI) from FISD to cover the additional issues. Beginning with FY 2007, expansion of these issues will become a standard part of both the ANACI and NACLC products. Effective October 1, 2006, issues apparent at scheduling or developed during the course of the investigation and which fall within the 5-year case coverage period, unless otherwise noted, will be expanded upon according to the following chart (exception: issues which are known to have been covered in previous investigations, or which would reasonably have been expected to...
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