...North West Company Case Analysis North West Company Case Analysis Barry McLeod, Director of Procurement & Marketing Ken Claudel, VP of Logistics & Supply Chain Issue Identification Barry McLeod is currently faced with the decision to recommend a supply chain strategy to Ken Claudel as to whether or not implement localization at North West. This is a pull stategy approach as opposed to their current push model. North West is facing low inventory turns which is affecting their inventory costs and warehousing costs. They lack accuracy in forecasting and have long lead times for most of their products and especially in their more remote store locations. Barry needs to decide to implement localization or not, and if not, then have a plan B in mind for how to address the issues listed above. Environmental & Root Analysis: Category Management * Winnipeg Category Managers analyze trends, place orders and allocate products to stores. They are disconnected from customers and what their preferences are. * POs submitted at least 4 months in advance of popular selling periods * Category managers worked with store managers to review the previous year’s lineup, order and actual sales * Historical averages and next year’s forecasted growth, estimate demand at company level. Not done at the store level, there are large differences between consumer preferences in Alberta and Yellowknife. * General merchandise category: non-food, home furnishing, apparel, footwear, luggage… Too wide...
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...VENDOR INFORMATION MANUAL Revised: March 21, 2011 For more information contact Supply Chain Services or your Category Manager The North West Company 77 Main Street Winnipeg MB R3C 2R1 Canada Phone: (204) 943-0881 Fax: (204) 934-1495 Visit our Internet Web Site at www.northwest.ca NWC Vendor Information Manual Table of Contents Introduction....................................................................... 7 Merchandising.................................................................... 8 Displays......................................................................................................................................8 Price Increases ...........................................................................................................................8 Production Information Changes ...............................................................................................8 Vendor Agreements ...................................................................................................................8 Invoicing...................................................................... 9-12 Distribution Centre Invoice Procedures .....................................................................................9 Direct Ship Invoice Procedures ...............................................................................................10 Additional Invoicing Requirements ..............................................................
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...North West Company Case Analysis Barry McLeod, Director of Procurement & Marketing Ken Claudel, VP of Logistics & Supply Chain Issue Identification Barry McLeod is currently faced with the decision to recommend a supply chain strategy to Ken Claudel as to whether or not implement localization at North West. This is a pull stategy approach as opposed to their current push model. North West is facing low inventory turns which is affecting their inventory costs and warehousing costs. They lack accuracy in forecasting and have long lead times for most of their products and especially in their more remote store locations. Barry needs to decide to implement localization or not, and if not, then have a plan B in mind for how to address the issues listed above. Environmental & Root Analysis: Category Management * Winnipeg Category Managers analyze trends, place orders and allocate products to stores. They are disconnected from customers and what their preferences are. * POs submitted at least 4 months in advance of popular selling periods * Category managers worked with store managers to review the previous year’s lineup, order and actual sales * Historical averages and next year’s forecasted growth, estimate demand at company level. Not done at the store level, there are large differences between consumer preferences in Alberta and Yellowknife. * General merchandise category: non-food, home furnishing, apparel, footwear, luggage… Too wide...
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...learning in this case. I have worked to maintain good grades for almost twelve years now. To throw all of that away and not further my education with college would be a gigantic snafu on my part. A college degree is basically a necessity in today’s world. Also, personally, I want to learn all that I can. I may not always show it in school, but I really love learning. The University Of North Carolina School Of Law is my college of choice mainly because I wish to leave West Virginia. My older siblings go to Fairmont State and West Virginia University, and they are both prospering well; though often times they have difficulties focusing on their schoolings with the party atmosphere. Granted, I know that there are other West Virginian colleges besides West Virginia University, the party atmosphere is not the only thing that turns me away. I want to see the world and try as many new things as possible; this ambition is never going to be achieved by residing here in the mountains. Living away from home, but not extremely far sounds exciting to me. The University Of North Carolina School Of Law in Chapel Hill, North Carolina is one of the most prestigious and respected Law Schools in America. I...
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...budget is around ￡30,000 , 80% comes from partnership , 10% from bank loan , 10% comes from someone else. ii. The aims and objectives of the business For our services, we aim to respond our customers demand for properties satisfyingly and provide high quality estate agency services to the public. All the services are based on professional estate consult and intimate knowledge of property. For our social status, it is a start-up company for everybody so we aim to gain reputation in the first financial year and make normal profit in the following year then make profit in the third financial year. iii. The business environment (competitor analyses) Swot is used by us to analyze the business situation that we are in. S-Strength. The strength of our business is that the service and properties that we provided is based on the economic environment of different part in London. Such as we offer high quality service and property in the south-west, providing special student accommodation in north-east...
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...The Current Status and Future Prospects of the Third Party Logistics Industry in North America: The 2015 3PL CEO Survey Dr. Robert C. Lieb Professor of Supply Chain Management D’Amore-McKim School of Business Northeastern University Boston, MA Dr. Kristin J. Lieb Associate Professor of Marketing Communications Emerson College Boston, MA January 2016 The Current Status and Future Prospects of the Third Party Logistics Industry in North America: The 2015 3PL CEO Survey This paper is based upon a 2015 survey of the CEOs of 15 of the largest thirdparty logistics companies serving the North American marketplace. The survey was the 22nd iteration of this annual study, and it addressed such topics as the major dynamics driving change in that marketplace and the opportunities and problems facing 3PLs in that region. It also focused on such issues as the recent wave of largescale mergers and acquisitions in the 3PL industry, shipper and 3PL problems related to labor problems at West Coast ports, E-commerce marketplace dynamics and their impact on 3PLs, Amazon’s continued expansion into logistics services and the possibility of Uber offering 3PL-like services. The CEOs also provided one-and three-year forecasts of company and regional 3PL industry revenue growth, while identifying the major changes they believed would occur in the regional 3PL industry during the next year. The implications...
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...Rivalry Among Existing Firms Trains • Duopoly system in Singapore, train services (Mass Rapid Transit) dominated by SBS Transit and SMRT Trains. • Currently 4 major ‘lines’ in Singapore, namely Circle Line, North-East Line, East-West Line and North-South Line. • Though the train services were owned by Land Transport Authority of Singapore, the trains are operated by two operators, SMRT Corporation (SMRT Train) and ComfortDelGro (SBS Transit) • Dominated by SMRT Corporation, they operate the Circle Line, North-South Line and East-West Line. The remaining North-East Line is operated by SBS Transit. Taxis • Initially with only 3 major operators for taxi, this had since increased to 7 taxi operators. • Major operators in Singapore are ComfortDelGro (includes CityCab, Comfort, Yellow Top), TransCab and Taxi by SMRT Corporation (known as SMRT Taxi). • The other operators with less than a fleet of 2,000 taxi are UnionCab, PrimeCab, Premier Taxi and SMART Cab. • With the increasing number of companies into the Taxi Industry since 2004, possibilities are there might be an increase in Taxi Operators in Singapore. Buses • Numerous of operators in Singapore whom offer public and private bus services. • Focusing into the public bus sectors, dominated by SMRT and SBS Transit. • SMRT covers a limited of the public bus service sector, offering less than 100 routes (bus services) and with a limited fleet of 991 buses • As compared to SBS Transit, the latter offers more than...
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...Analysis (Michael Porter’s 5-Forces Model) ------------------------------------------------- Rivalry Among Existing Firms * Trains * Duopoly system in Singapore, train services (Mass Rapid Transit) dominated by SBS Transit and SMRT Trains. * Currently 4 major ‘lines’ in Singapore, namely Circle Line, North-East Line, East-West Line and North-South Line. * Though the train services were owned by Land Transport Authority of Singapore, the trains are operated by two operators, SMRT Corporation (SMRT Train) and ComfortDelGro (SBS Transit) * Dominated by SMRT Corporation, they operate the Circle Line, North-South Line and East-West Line. The remaining North-East Line is operated by SBS Transit. * * Taxis * Initially with only 3 major operators for taxi, this had since increased to 7 taxi operators. * Major operators in Singapore are ComfortDelGro (includes CityCab, Comfort, Yellow Top), TransCab and Taxi by SMRT Corporation (known as SMRT Taxi). * The other operators with less than a fleet of 2,000 taxi are UnionCab, PrimeCab, Premier Taxi and SMART Cab. * With the increasing number of companies into the Taxi Industry since 2004, possibilities are there might be an increase in Taxi Operators in Singapore. * * Buses * Numerous of operators in Singapore whom offer public and private bus services. * Focusing into the public bus sectors, dominated by SMRT and SBS Transit. * SMRT covers...
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...North West Company Executive Summary North West Company is facing a unique situation where inventory turnover is way below the industry average, and there are gaps between actual customer demand and procurement process. The result is aging inventory and stock outs during peak season. Heavy discounts of up to 75% are provided to push the products to the customers. This contributes to revenue loss and decline in profits. Long lead times from 3 to 6 months also contribute to low inventory turnover as replenishment orders cannot be fulfilled during peak season. The localization strategy is helpful as it address issues of actual demand by the store managers, but there would still be a gap between actual customers and company and threats arriving from bullwhip effect. Also, long lead times would still exist after implementation of localization strategy. This issue would need to be addressed as well as fulfillment of orders during season needs to be done in case of stock outs. Accurate forecast development with collaborative efforts with customers would help reduce some dead stock and help in planning future stock products. Issue Identification Consistent low inventory turnover at North West Company is the primary issue which is way below the industry average that concerns the company decision makers to work on localization strategy or some other way which might help the company to reach target company turnover of 3.0 to 3.5. Currently the strategic focus is on push side, where...
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...write them in an ethornogophy. Fred dads was a scientist, did well in biology. Expanding your own experience, adventures, see things that most people wouldn’t see other perspectives. Let’s listen to Dr. Regna Darnell tell us more about linguistic anthropology Began with Boaz who taught himself linguistics when he wanted to study languages that had not been written before he had done fieldwork with them. First eskimo, later various north west coast languages. Do it yourself linguistic in terms of field work. Out of all his students, Saphir was the only one who came out as a professional’s linguist. But in the late 19 century there was no professional linguist so up until 1925 founding society of The Linguistic Society of America (LSA). The linguist were in language departments, mostly german or they would do anthropology or working with American Indian and making up linguistics. Tribe North American Indians, linguistics is what made people close to one another, similar. Migration patterns and relationships. Sound changes. Culture hisorty of north America. A general characteristic of post-colonial states is that they are politically and economically weak. Let's listen to Dr. Robert...
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...The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation originally established as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. Article 2 of the Treaty of Fort Laramie of April 29, 1868 described the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation, as commencing on the 46th parallel of north latitude to the east bank of the Missouri River, south along the east bank of the Nebraska line, west to the 104th parallel of west longitude. However, The Great Sioux Reservation comprised all of present-day South Dakota west of the Missouri River, including the sacred Black Hills and the life-giving Missouri River. However, under article 11 of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, the Great Sioux Nation retained off-reservation hunting rights to a much larger area, south of the Republican and...
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...Case Study Analysis of Victor Brand Introduction Victor India Limited was established in 1989 as a public Limited Company for manufacturing cocoa based products. It launched its own brand of chocolates in three categories: moulded ,enrobed and eclairs. The company launched its cocoa based cocoa based brown milk beverage brand in 1996 but it did not do well in the market.In 2000 company initiaed a brand building program to revitalize the brand.The focus is on the beverage based product Victor Plus. Problem Statement Victor India Ltd (VCIL) could sell only 250 tonne of their cocoa based brown beverage brand with very low market share in a high potential market. Even company could not use its production capacity fully despite having large installed production capacity. The company thought they could achieve at least 75% of forecast sales of 500 tonne of Victor Plus, but the sales data determine otherwise. Many of the respondents do not consider ‘Victor’ as a national brand and dealers explicitly stated that they do not rate the brand and Company is at disadvantage in term of branding cost. Diagnosis of the Solution: STP: Segmentation: Households constitute 60 percent of the total market moreover, considering that upper middle-income category and above form the major market for this product category, with the rest constituted by the institution segment where company could promote Victor Plus as an alternative to beverage like cold drinks or coffee. Targeting: ...
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...The South and the West Ramiro Headges University of Phoenix Hist/120 Patricia Cox November 06, 2013 The post-Civil War South has been called the “New South.” In what ways did it succeed in reinventing itself? In what ways did it fail? Shortly after the war, the Southern part of the country was distressed, in order for the south to be self-reliant all over again it would need a large amount of money along with a considerably amount of rebuilding. Economically and architecturally they could succeed in reinventing itself. Almost 35 years since the war, it was noticed that the growth of iron, steel, and textile manufactories in the South became apparent. Primarily, railroads lead the Southern industrial growth. Even with the Southern growth and prosperity they, could not relatively compete with the North in regard to improvements or gross. With nearly four millions freed slaves who resided in the Southern part of the country and a large number of white people who lived in poverty, business owners benefited of the fact that it was plenty of cheap labor. The South deprived itself from a strong industrial growth simply because the white man inability to work together with freed slaves. The white man feelings against the freed slaves was still view as inferior and were increasingly getting worse. It got to the point that Blacks...
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...Reliance Communications Limited (commonly called RCOM) is a major Indian telecommunication company headquartered in Navi Mumbai, India. It is the 16th largest operator in the world with more than 128 million subscribers. RCOM, founded by Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932–2002), is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of [pic]64,000 crore (US$13.6 billion), cash flows of [pic]13,000 crore ($2.8 billion), and a net profit of [pic]8,400 crore ($1.8 billion). The Equity Shares of RCOM are listed on Bombay Stock Exchange Limited and National Stock Exchange Limited. The Global Depository Receipts and Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds are listed on Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Singapore Stock Exchange respectively. | | Background It ranks among the top 5 telecommunications companies. Retrieved 2010-04-14. in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers. The company has established a pan-India, next-generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the next-generation IP-enabled connectivity infrastructure...
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...WESTLAKE HOME FURNISHINGS LTD CASE (Case to be used for Class Discussion on Tuesday, Aug.19) 1. Analyze the North American home furnishing industry using both Porter's 5-forces and the PEST models.(Book 1 Chapter 3) 2. Oualitatively, what are the possible advantages and disadvantages of Bowman accepting his customer's price reduction proposal? Do you think Bowman should proceed with the reduction? Why or why not? 3. What other recommendations might you propose or support to improve West Lake's performance? Richard Ivey School of Business The University of Western Ontario IVEY 9B07M071 WEST LAKE HOME FURNISHINGS LTD. Ken Mark wrote this case under the supervision of Professor Charlene Zietsma solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal without its written permission. Reproduction this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright of ...
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