...CASE ANALYSIS About Cottrill Cottrill is one of the largest corn refining companies that operated in the U.S. and Canada. The plant at Columbus, Ohio has been operating for 20 years with more than 100 employees and it produced supply inputs like high fructose corn syrup, starch and glucose, to varying industries like baked goods, beverages, etc. Judy Stevens is the purchasing supervisor at Cottrill and a current initiative in the department is to reduce the working capital, with a target of $300,000 per year. Tallant Paging System Tallant is an international wireless company that offers paging service compatible with the ProductionMessaging software system, a system currently used in Cottrill plants. The software detects any unusual conditions such as heat failure and sends out a warning message to a pager, which notifies the appropriate technicians. About one warning per week is usually reported as a message to a maximum of 20 pagers. Concern with Tallant Paging Service 1. No direct contact at Tallant at the time of emergency. Only a toll free number can be reached with a long wait on hold until a agent attends the call. One hour of downtime at the Columbus plant costs an estimate of $200,000. 2. Dissatisfied customer service by Tallant that takes more than a month to replace a broken pager. 3. The current pager rented from Tallant was no longer available due to discontinued model. A similar pager costs $150 per pager. Saxton’s Proposal Natalie Hopkins, sales...
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...Case Study Report I. Statement of the problem A. Definition Judy Stevens, the purchasing supervisor of Cottrill Inc. plant in Columbus, Ohio, has the problem with reducing the working capital of her company $300,000 annually. Judy is not satisfied with Tallant pager service provider because of the price and level of service. She has been given a proposal from Saxton. Saxton offered an opportunity for Cottrill to reduce the expenses on the pager maintenance and support service, but the pager system couldn’t be switched smoothly due to problems with software compatibility, while downtime costs remain high. Judy faced dilemma about choosing between old reliable supplier with poor expensive service and new appropriate but inexperienced one, carrying downtime risks. B. Analysis Pricelist | Tallant | Saxton | Monthly fee for airtime (per pager) | $16.95 | $13.95 | Monthly fee for phone number (per pager) | $1.95 | None | Monthly fee for equipment rental (per pager) | $11.90 | None | Yearly maintenance fee (per pager) | $60.00 | None | Service provided (no additional cost) | 1-800 # help line | Direct sales representative | ------------------------------------------------- Annual cost of Tallant service: ------------------------------------------------- Monthly: 20*(16.95+1.95+11.90) = $616 ------------------------------------------------- Yearly: 20 * 60 = $ 1200 ------------------------------------------------- Total:...
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...established in the mid-1800s and was the one of the largest corn refining operations in North America. The company operated six wet-milling plants, four in the United States and two in Canada. The Columbus plant had been operating for over 20 years and employed more than 100 people. Cottrill’s purchasing department had to ensure that the plant ran efficiently and was responsible for replenishing a variety of supplies at the plant, ranging from chemicals to communications equipment. A current initiative for Cottrill, and particularly for the purchasing department, was reducing the level of working capital. This had been a focus in the purchasing department for over two years, and the departmental target was an annual decrease of $300,000. The majority of Cottrill’s products were manufactured through a continuous flow process. Therefore, downtime at the Columbus plant was extremely costly and was estimated at $200,000 per hour. In an attempt to minimize plant downtime, management implemented an automated software program and an electronic pager system 12 years ago. The software program, called Production Messaging, monitored Cottrill’s equipment. The plant had a total of 20 pagers, and this number included a variety of different models. SPECIFIC PROBLEM: Several recent events had caused Judy to become dissatisfied with the current arrangement with Tallant. In June, Judy contacted Tallant with a routine request to replace a broken pager. Judy was dissatisfied with Tallant’s service...
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...between Cottrill’s ProductionMessaging software and Saxton’s hardware. These snags required reprogramming and reworking of the pagers to establish connectivity and resolve the issue. Judy was unsure how this would impact buy in with the systems group and what the implications of these events would be going forward if she accepted the proposal. Some issues surrounding Cottrill, Inc. are whether the proposal from Saxton is compelling enough to prompt a switch. While Saxton offers a cost structure that is only a fraction of what Tallant, Cottrill’s current supplier is offering for the 20 pagers they use, the savings pale in light of the money the company may have to spend to complete the switch. Furthermore, Saxton does not include guarantees that the low initial price offered won’t suddenly rise sharply after a time. The service issues Judy was experiencing with Tallant, Cottrill’s current supplier were more of a disappointment than an actual problem. Another issue lies with the systems group, they may not feel a sudden switch is warranted. Additionally, there is an area of ambiguity surrounding Saxton’s proposal as to whether the company had the wherewithal to handle the technological requirements of Cottrill’s accounts. It is also unclear from the proposal if Saxton has any experience at all with in-plant wireless systems. Cottrill currently experiences one warning per week from the current paging system....
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...• Smart, connected products offer exponentially expanding opportunities for new functionality, far greater reliability, much higher product utilization, and capabilities that cut across and transcend traditional product boundaries. • The phrase “internet of things” has arisen to reflect the growing number of smart, connected products and highlight the new opportunities they can represent. • What makes smart, connected products fundamentally different is not the Internet, but the changing nature of the “things.” It is the expanded capabilities of smart, connected products and the data they generate that are ushering in a new era of competition. • The first wave of IT, during the 1960s and 1970s, automated individual activities in the value chain, from order processing and bill paying to computer-aided design and manufacturing resource planning. • The second wave of IT enabled coordination and integration across individual activities. It allowed firms to closely integrate globally distributed supply chains • The third wave, IT is becoming an integral part of the product itself. Embedded sensors, processors, software, and connectivity in products, coupled with a product cloud in which product data is stored and analyzed and some applications are run, are driving dramatic improvements in product functionality and performance. • Smart connected products have three element: Physical, Smart, and Connectivity. Physical components comprise the product’s mechanical and electrical...
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...Hey friends, We know there is a lot of excitement in the community surrounding the Lollipop updates for the One, and for good reason. We are just as excited as you are. We never intended to keep you waiting. Unfortunately, we ran into some unexpected roadblocks. First, there was an unforeseen OS signing issue, which has recently been resolved. Our camera module had stability issues on Lollipop, and we had to rebuild it for compatibility. Several other crucial drivers, including our Wi-Fi drivers, also needed to be updated to work flawlessly with the upgrade. Admittedly, it took a little more time than we had planned, but we only release updates that we are proud of; that means refusing to take shortcuts or deliver sub-par experiences. With all of that in mind, here are the official release dates for Android Lollipop on the OnePlus One: CM 12S: The official OTA update for the OnePlus One will be released on or before March 30, 2015 OxygenOS: The official release of our own Lollipop-based ROM will be available for download on or before March 27, 2015 To show you how serious we are about this commitment to our community, we are prepared to put our money where our mouth is. If we miss either one of these deadlines, we will give away five (5) 64GB OnePlus One devices to our fans. Reply to this thread to be eligible. It’s our little way of saying thank you for being patient and for joining us on our journey to create amazing, user-driven experiences. Never...
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...GOD HATES US ALL GOD HATES US ALL HANK MOODY with Jonathan Grotenstein Simon Spotlight Entertainment A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2009 by Showtime Networks Inc. Showtime and related marks are registered trademarks of Showtime Networks Inc., a CBS Company. All rights reserved. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Pocket Books Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. First Simon Spotlight Entertainment trade paperback edition August 2009 SIMON SPOTLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or business@simonandschuster.com. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com. Designed by Jaime Putorti Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress...
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...Essay om krimiens popularitet _______________________________ A crime is in many ways one of the most important genres. It's usually about a man or woman who is on quest to find the truth of an event or an issue. In the thriller it will be good almost always lined up against evil.In the beginning when the first crime novels were written around the beginning of 1800, they were mostly written for sheer entertainment without having put special types of criticism up, or a particular message. There is and has always been a kind of crime to be solved by the given detective. This criminal is, thus committing the crime, is almost always first get to know who is towards the end of the thriller. It is one of the elements that appear in a crime, like tightening torque, which helps to build a mood for the reader.In crime fiction is typically a lot of social criticism involved. It may be because the author clean'd like to build a social explanatory framework. All this because the perpetrator often breach the rules. There are the novels used a lot of different investigators, for example, an anti-bureaucratic detective who themselves often and often break the law to solve a case. Some crime genre looks and you experience the story from the detective's point of view, which one follows his investigation of the crime. However, there are a few crime novels, which instead follows the perpetrator's point of view, and thus it is an entirely different view of history you...
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...productions until now! I was pleasantly surprised by both plays and did thoroughly enjoy them, as I was a theatre student myself in middle and high school. In The Next Room was the first play I ever saw by FIU theatre and I really believe that the director did a great job executing the play. I was happy to see one of my own sorority sisters up on stage, Michelle Antelo as Mrs. Givings. She was able to project herself very well and kept me engaged with the play throughout the entire show. Antelo greatly contributed to the success of the show. Her acting made it easy for me to suspend my disbelief in order to successfully get involved with the given circumstances of the play. It was clearly noticeable the extra time she put into her character and there was much evidence of preparation. The blocking the actors used on stage was very well thought out and it was also noticeable that all involved equally did their part to make the show a success. Antelo’s character, Mrs. Givings was an emotional one in the play. Antelo’s fascinating was of embodying these emotions are what kept me engaged throughout. I bring up her projection again because to me, it was powerful and it was one of the main things that stood out about her as an actress. She made her character believable and the chemistry her and her husband, Dr. Givings, had on set was a recipe for success in this production. Antelo’s beats were clearly evident and her changes were effective. Again, it was her vocal tension that kept...
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...A Comparison of the tale of “Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp” and the Disney Movie Aladdin: A Cultural Study According to N. J. Dawood, the translator of The Thousand and One Nights, “Aladdin has been retold or presented to so many different generations all over the world that it can perhaps be rightly described as the most renowned story invented by man”. Interestingly enough, “Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp” was not part of the original collection of stories that composed The Arabian Nights. No one knows exactly when a given story is originated, but it is obvious that some stories circulated orally for centuries before they actually were collected or written down. The story of Aladdin appeared for the first time in Antoine Galland’s (1646-1715) translation of the Thousand and One Nights, the first major European version. Before Galland, there was no known Arabic version of Aladdin and his lamp. The first Arabic version showed up after Galland’s version and very well could have been translations of Galland’s French version. One of the more recent and most popular versions of “Aladdin” was an animated feature produced in 1992 by Walt Disney Pictures. Aladdin made over $217 million in revenue in the United States, and over $504 million worldwide. Even though the American film and the medieval Arabian tale share common elements and are both plotted around a young impoverished boy named Aladdin, the moral lessons they offer differ in ways that can be described through the values...
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...herself from the rest of her village after her father’s death, the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper having to spend all her time in the a room she hates because of her disease, or the narrator of Acquainted with the Night strolling through the nightly city all by herself in solitude. All of these stories contain the very popular theme of loneliness and isolation,which are shown using various literary devices of each author’s choosing. Throughout the whole story of A Rose for Emily, the setting seemed to be very eerie and unnatural; the author gave the readers a feeling that made them almost sense the loneliness emanating from the protagonist, Miss Emily:“That was two years after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart-the one we believed would marry her-had deserted her. After her father’s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all” (53 Faulkner). This made it known right...
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...John Green and David Levithan use foreshadowing to give away portions of the plot in Will Grayson, Will Grayson. In the text, two boys by the name of Will Grayson - One going by Will solely while the other prefers Grayson - meet under unfortunate circumstances. Will had been tricked into a relationship under false pretenses. He was dating a boy online by the name of Isaac only to have it revealed on the day of their planned face-to-face date that it had been Will’s friend Maura all along. She had used the name Isaac and had orchestrated the entire thing, puppeteering with Will’s emotions, to out him as gay. Green and Levithan foreshadow this exchange through Maura's speech. During the high point in Isaac's and and Will’s relationship, Maura comes in several times confronting him on topics that, originally, seem odd for her to even...
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...the thieves find him there, and kill him. When his brother does not come back, Ali Baba goes to the cave to look for him, and finds the body, bringing it home. With the help of Morgiana, a clever slave-girl in Kasim's household, they are able to give Kasim a proper burial without arousing any suspicions about his death. The thieves, finding the body gone, realize that somebody else must know their secret, and set out to track him down. The first several times they are foiled by Morgiana, who is now a member of Ali Baba's household, but eventually they are able to ascertain the location of Ali Baba's house. The lead thief pretends to be an oil merchant in need of Ali Baba's hospitality, bringing with him mules loaded with 40 oil jars, one filled with oil, the other 39 with the other thieves. Once Ali Baba is asleep, the thieves plan to kill him. Again, Morgiana discovers and foils the plan, killing the 39 thieves in their oil jars by pouring boiling oil on them. When their leader comes to rouse his men, he discovers that they are dead, and escapes. The lead thief, disguised as a merchant, befriends Ali Baba's nephew (who is now in charge of the late Kasim's business), and is invited to dinner at Ali...
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...when it comes to stealing. They start to think things through instead of just going at it. The striking thing about that scene is that it shows the children enjoying the scene and having fun, while Antoine and his friend are in the corner plotting with evil thoughts, not enjoying the show. 2) One street scene that I found that interested me was at 24 minutes into the movie, after Antoine had left the carnival. While walking with his friend through the streets, he saw the once beautiful place of what was known as Paris (it’s still beautiful, just not as much as before), as well as his mother, while she was making out with a man who wasn’t her husband. Just this scene alone portrays that in the 1950s, Paris wasn’t the best place to be. Although it was pretty, it was also very busy and crowded on the streets. Anything could happen. 3) One scene I found visually stunning was the carnival scene where he was in the spinning ride. Although I may be wrong, but I feel as if the director included that scene to give an insight of how Antoine’s mind is and he's foreshadowing the rest of the film. The spinning of the ride refers to how Antoine is a confused kid just trying to get through. At one point of the ride, he is completely upside down. That is when his life turns for the worse when he’s sent off to boot camp/military school. The end of the ride is him banging on the door with excitement and walking out with a huge smile on his face. That’s foreshadowing how he escapes the camp...
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...Core Huamnities 201 Arabian Nights Universal Themes Images and Techniques Used Arabian Nights, also known as One Thousand and One Nights is a story which revolves around a Persian king who just married a new bride. However, he discovers that his wife was unfaithful and has her executed. As a result, all the women in the kingdom are declared unfaithful. Shahryar (the king) begins to marry a sequence of virgins from the kingdom and has them executed the next morning. In due course, the vizier, who is entitled with the responsibility of providing the virgins, can no longer find any more virgins in the kingdom other than his daughter Scheherazade. She offers herself to be a bride to the king despite objections from her father. On the night of their consummation Scheherazade starts to tell the king a story but does not get to finish it. The king is therefore forced to delay her execution in order to hear the conclusion. On the next night, she tells the king another story and this turns into a series of stories that go on for one thousand and one nights (Haddawy 16). Universal Theme Immortality The Arabian Nights comprises of a sequence of stories which do not have an ending. The passing on of the tales is universally seen as a means of preservation. Scheherazade used the narration of stories as a way to preserve her life she further interwove the endings of the stories with the beginnings of the new stories thus giving them a sense of infinity. She told the stories night after...
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