...S w 907A12 LOBLAW COMPANIES LIMITED: PREPARING FOR WAL-MART SUPERCENTERS1 Veronika Papyrina wrote this case under the supervision of Professor Kenneth G. Hardy 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 of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2007, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2009-05-15 In early February of 2007, Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw), the market share leader among Canadian supermarket operators, announced that it would write down its earnings by about $900 million. This revaluation was related to the company’s decision to close 19 of its Provigo grocery stores in Quebec in 2007. Retail analysts suggested that poor operations at Provigo stores as well as stiff competition from Metro Inc. and Sobeys had negatively affected Loblaw’s performance...
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...HEB in Canada 1.3 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF CANADA Canada is one of the countries that shares more than just a border with America. United States is Canada’s primary trading partner. Canada is the largest foreign energy supplier to the U.S. Canada and America has similar western values. Most Canadians are urbanized. Per land mass, Canada is the second largest country in the world. Canada has two official languages; English and French. 1.4. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF HEB HEB was founded in 1905. The first store was located in Kerrville TX. Although HEB has been around for over 100 years, they are still going strong in the state where it originated. Other than Texas, HEB also has store locations in Mexico. HEB has a combined total of over 340 stores in Texas and Mexico. HEB also employs about 76,000 people in the communities that it serves. 2.0 CANADIAN MACRO ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS: PEST ANALYSIS Just like any other country, completing an analysis of Canada’s macro environment will be inadequate without making use of a PEST analysis. With the use of PEST analysis, HEB will better understand four important aspects of Canada economy. The term PEST analysis is an acronym that stands for four major four macro-economic factors. They are Political, Economic, social, and technological factors. The analysis will help in understanding Canada’s current market situation. Specifically, PEST analysis will help HEB in strategic and business planning, entry strategy...
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...Sarah Imam Loblaw’s vs. Wal-Mart Bus 485 Executive Summary Food retailing is a huge industry, you from Loblaw’s certainly know that, but other competitors know that too. Wal-Mart is one of those competitors who understand that as well. The food industry is the type of industry where you can be very large at one point and can suddenly disappear under the pressure of competition. Wal-Mart has entered the Canadian market a couple of years ago and I would like to thank you for the opportunity to inform you about how they work and what upcoming possible threads are they bring along. I will also inform you about their weaknesses, where Loblaw’s can take advantage of. Loblaw’s sells the best possible food quality products and provide the best service for their customers. Wal-Mart however, formerly known as large discount department shop, wants change. Possible threats are growing competition on store size, location, innovation, customer loyalty, the overall image, the offer of products (different products) and off course the prices of products. The food industry is crowded and always moving, but Wal-Mart seems to have the lowest cost and the lowest prices. Wal-Mart put a lot of effort in making sure they will be the most innovative chain, but in that in combination with wanting to be the cheapest is a difficult combination. They have managed to do so over the last years. Important to notice is that their emphasis is not only on food but also all the other products...
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...Currently Riordan Manufacturing has several different offices and each office is using a different type of system, but there is not a central system that monitors each of the satellite offices and their production. To assist Riordan become more efficient, they will need to implement a central system to monitor both individual and overlapping system usage. They should create a Data Center in the corporate office that monitors all of the current systems in place. This will allow Riordan Manufacturing to understand how their business is functioning and how application are used more often and which are not utilized enough, helping to determine if they should upgrade or discontinue the use of a system. Each department uses different applications; some of the applications interface with one another and other are stand alone. Riordan also currently has a lot of manual processes, for example how they submit daily inventory records. With the overall updates that our team has posed have more automation will assist Riordan to increase their production and accuracy. We can implement an application that can be used by all of the centers in order to maintain the inventory across the board so the managers are able to see what is in high demand in specific locations. Having an overall view of the inventory will be beneficial to the entire company. If the marketing department has he ability to see the inventory usage then they will know where they need to market certain products better. We...
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...Malaysian Minister for performance, Sri Idris Jala called on Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms in his office today on 10 PerformAnce has become key driver of success in democracy. PLM-N government got the mandate on account of its performance in Punjab. Now, we want Federal Government to be high performance driven to beat the challenges Pakistan faces. Pakistan can learn a lot from Malaysians experience of performance delivering and monitoring in public sector. Inaugural meeting of joint cooperation committee (JCC) of China-Pakistan economic corridor was held between Chinese delegation led by Mr. Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice chairman National Development and Reforms Commission (NRDC) and representatives of different ministries led by Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms. Chinese delegation comprised high government officials and prominent entrepreneurs. Malaysian Minister for performance, Sri Idris Jala called on Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms in his office today on 10 Performance has become key driver of success in democracy. PLM-N government got the mandate on account of its performance in Punjab. Now, we want Federal Government to be high performance driven to beat the challenges Pakistan faces. Pakistan can learn a lot from Malaysians experience of performance delivering and monitoring in public sector. Inaugural meeting of joint cooperation committee (JCC)...
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... | | |Shipsim Inc. | | | | | | | To: Susan Rodriguez, Robert Jones, Vincent Mirmina, Joyce Rivard, and Peter Kaminski From: Ruby Mills: Project Management Officer CC: Michael Chadukiewicz: Chief Executive Officer Date: December 30, 2011 Re: Preliminary Scope of Work for the Office Relocation Project Introduction/ Project Overview Shipsim Inc. was recently awarded a contract to provide ship simulators for one of the major cruise lines in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The main purpose of this memo is to inform the entire staff of Shipsim Inc. about the relocation from Boston to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where the company is opening a new branch. This re-location project is designed to involve a number of issues and strategies which are categorized into Business Need, Product/service description, the strategic plan, project justification and lastly measurable project objectives (Bailey & Leland, 2006; Guffey & Loewy, 2010). All the staff who work in different departments are required to execute their roles so that...
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...Description of the business Décor is a family owned partnership business. The business is involved in the manufacturing of office furniture and commercial and residential hard surface work tops. Mission Statement Décor Products is committed to providing quality and affordable products and services to meet the evolving needs of our valued customers. Décor Products will “go the extra mile” to ensure that our customers are satisfied every time. Justification of the location Décor Products is located in Arnos Vale area. It is considered a relatively good location for a number of factors some of which are: •That area is rapidly becoming more commercialized •It is not in the mass confusion of town allowing for good parking facilities. •It is a relatively central location within the country making it easy to distribute goods. Selection of appropriate labour At Décor Products the labour force is made up mainly of semi-skilled and skilled labour. Persons employed are operations manager, salesman, accounts clerk, receptionist, secretary, accountant, workshop manager and joiners. Skilled joiners are necessary to produce the quality finished goods as referred to in the mission statement. Sources of fixed and working capital Things such as: commercial office building, motor vehicles and office equipment are funded by jointly by Bruce Barrow and First Caribbean International Bank. Working capital comes form the sales of products manufactured. Role of the entrepreneur The...
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...John Weaver BIS/220 Introduction to Computer Application and Systems Instructor: Michael Clough October 2, 2012 Types of Electronic Commerce Activity Electronic Commerce has really taken It’s place in history. Millions of electronic transactions are taking place daily all across this world of ours. This is even happening as we sleep in our beds at night. As the demand rises for more Transactions at a higher rate of speed, the cost itself goes up as we have to purchase new and improved hardware and software systems. These new systems will handle the extra amount of supplies that are being manufactured, sent, sold and auctioned not only here in the United States but across this world of ours. Some of these transactions are when a consumer, such as my wife orders something from Walmart or QVC and it is sent directly to our home. Another would be like when the US NAVY buys parts for their ships from a company like Honeywell, and they send these parts to the Navy. We also find consumer’s...
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...an effort that I was going to lead. The project goal was to develop a solution such that an associate’s desktop will be available anytime, anywhere and from any device (laptop/tablet PC or even mobile phones). Multiple teams were identified to contribute towards the final goal. A process was defined whereby there would be strong accountability and systems were setup to review the progress on a weekly basis. The teams were told by the top management in the room that we must adhere to complete transparency and ensure full communication across all the teams. The project was a huge undertaking and due to the timelines everyone involved understood that we would be working under some additional work pressure. This project was initiated by the Office of the CIO (Chief Information Officer) and had visibility at the highest level because it would affect Staples’ associates globally and involved approximately $30 million. I recently joined Staples Corporation. Staples has an unique culture that I have not seen in previous companies that I have worked at. I will attempt to analyze the culture, specifically the artifacts, espoused values and assumptions as defined in “Organization Culture” (Schein, 1990) at Staples Corporation and align the cultural attributes to my personal characteristics. Based on this, I will attempt to show...
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...# Problem No- 01. Ray Neal decides to open a computer programming service, which he names SOFTBYTE. 1. On September 1, 2002, he invests tk. 15000 cash in the business. 2. Softbyte purchase computer equipment for tk. 7000 cash. 3. Softbyte purchase for tk. 1600 from Acme Supply Company; computer paper & other supplies expected to last several months. Acme agrees to allow Softbyte to pay this bill in next month; in October. 4. Softbyte received tk. 1200 cash from customers for programming services those it has provided. 5. Softbyte receives a bill for tk. 250 from the daily news for advertising but postpones payment of the bill until a later date. 6. Softbyte provides tk. 3500 of programming service for customers, cash of tk. 1500 is received from customers and the balance of tk. 2000 is billed on account. 7. Expenses paid in cash for September are store rent tk. 600, salary of employees tk. 900 and utilities tk. 200. 8. Softbyte pays its tk. 250 Daily News advertising bill in cash. Remember that the bill was previously recorded in Transaction No. 5. 9. The sum of tk. 600 in cash is received from customers who have previously been billed for services in Transaction No. 6. 10. Ray Neal withdraws tk. 1300 in cash from the business for his personal use. # Solution:- SOFT BYTE’S TABULAR ANALYSIS (FOR THE MONTH END; September 30, 2002) |Tran. |ASSETS ...
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...To: Employees at Richmond Investments We are everywhere our main Canada with 15,000 employees. The Norwalk office has an internet connection to all the remote offices, which the management share application information at the corporate office. We want to expand our operations in the Canada and other countries. We want to have 30,000 employees in 20 countries. Since we are expanding we need to have a policy set in place. If this policy is broken there will be disciplinary action up to termination, depending on the violation. We will have to have remote access to all the other locations. Remote access means we will use a Virtual Private Network(VPN).We will also have Virtual Network Computing technology, meetings all over the world is like dynamite is the summer or even fireworks you got the downlow. Setting all this up will require a Wide Area Network (WAN). A WAN is everywhere thought out the world they are taking over. discretionary access control list (DACL). Equals credencials. Do you want to go dancing. It ACL identifies the user and either allows or denies the user the I like fish file they requested f they want to get access to more files the user must fill out a request form get it signed by their supervisor and turn it in to the help desk. We will be using an openDNS will block tons of site to eat bacon and burgers. We will have tons of homework and this class rocks so much and we do all day time to go to work thirty three seconds brush our teeth hope this...
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...Pre-course Assignment – NDAS Case Study Question 1 The current level of office automation at NDAS varies with each department. The company is also in the process of upgrading its computer systems to improve performance and reduce costs. The Payroll Department has a minicomputer on which it runs the payroll twice monthly. The Sales and Marketing department has a desktop computer for each account representative. All the computers are connected to a LAN, which serves only the Sales and Marketing department. The Accounts Receivable Division has recently replaced its old minicomputer with a more powerful microcomputer. This new server supports databases for both customer billing and bad debts. The Accounts Payable Division maintains its vendor database on an older minicomputer. It is in the process of downsizing to a powerful desktop server. The vendor database contains billing information of NDAS and ODI. The Accounts Payable Division is also responsible for payroll. Employees in Accounts Receivable and Payable divisions have PCs on their desks. The Fleet Maintenance Division has no computers and processes all its information manually. The Dispatch department, which is part of Fleet Maintenance, also processes its work manually. This division is responsible for bundling incoming packages and preparing them for overnight delivery. The Dispatch department is most in need of a network. The various branches and agents of NDAS are located far apart - there may be delays...
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...Paper Carnival (Lights come up on the interior of an old office space. Papers clatter the one solitary desk in the Corner of the room a man sits behind it typing away. The tile floors are a dirty shade of lime green and, the walls have yellowed from age. A Delivery man with a low brow expression enters UR. Packages in hand) Delivery man: I have a delivery here for A Mr. Haven can you sign for this? (The delivery man hastily hands the clipboard to an older Gentleman well dressed in all white sits behind the only desk.) Man in white: Ah. No, sorry. I’m afraid there’s been bit of a mistake (The man in white folds his arms an smiles in an eerily, but warm fashion) Delivery man: No there’s been no mistake it’s printed right here on the door and here it is again on my delivery route. (The man in white gets up from his desk he gently takes the clipboard and crosses USR towards the door) Man in white: Ah I see the mistake this is the law office of Heaven (The man in white walks back downstage and hands the clipboard back to the delivery man then sits back down behind his desk.) Delivery Man: Oh I’m terribly sorry I’d…I’d better be off now. (The man’s resolves softens as he begins to walk away. The man in white looks up) Man in white: I take it grammar wasn’t your strong suit in school Mr. Glover (The delivery man sets his packages down and turned his attention to the man in white) Delivery man: How did you know my...
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...JP Energy Receptionist Procedures Revised 4/7/12 Morning Prep Lobby Turn on lights, tidy up front entry and place newspaper on front desk. Straighten chairs and magazines and make sure décor and awards are dust free. Refill candy dishes with chocolates and hard candies. Keep conference rooms off reception tidy. Lower and straighten chairs, mats and coasters neat, wipe and clean white boards and ipads. Office Space All of the glass offices next to Accounts Payable need to be checked daily to ensure there is no writing on the white boards and trash is picked up, chairs are straightened, lowered and mats and coasters neat. Kitchen Arrive 15 min early to prep and restock kitchen. Right fridge must me filled with drinks which are locked in lower cabinets in island. Drinks are to be lined up neatly and separated by type. Snack containers on counters refilled with bulk snacks located in bottom cabinets. Restock plastic cups located in bottom cabinet. Restock coffee, teas, sweeteners, located in top cabinet above coffee. Restock both 16 and 20 oz. coffee cups, as well as stirrer and wrapped straws. Keep plates, bowls, utensils, and paper towels stocked. Refill hand soap and dish soap. Dishwasher should be run once a week and items put away. All boxes to be left in service elevator to keep area free of clutter. Straighten all chairs at bar and seating area. Keep all water jugs put away in cabinets. Coffee Room Coffee room is located off Bakken Conference...
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...Job Code: SMAA/25 | Revision Date: 01/2015 | Job Grade: CG 5 | Job Summary Performs administrative and office support activities for the HR office. Duties include maintaining personnel files, performing administrative functions for the office personnel, assisting the public and employees with personnel questions, following company policy when dispensing information, reviewing and processing forms for personnel changes, monitoring staff time and payroll items, handling the HR director’s calendar, handling office mail, filing, typing as requested, answering phones, and other duties as assigned. Key Responsibilities Schedule appointments for employees, director, and customers Distribute incoming and outgoing mail File personal files and incoming or outgoing correspondence Answer incoming phone calls and direct to the appropriate channel Support employees and clients to dispense correct information Collect timecards and payroll to input time and attendance Demonstrate knowledge of company policies and correct information Welcomes all clients and employees to ensure comfort upon entering the office. * . Qualifiers Knowledge of general filing system and document filing protocol Knowledge of managing calendar Typing (50 wpm, 100% accuracy) Excellent English writing skills (structure, grammar, punctuation) Computer skills Microsoft Office skills/experience Ability to file and retrieve files with 100% accuracy Ability to understand correspondence formatting...
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