...Parker Earth Moving Consulting Executive Summary Customer Requirements Parker Earth Moving Company (PEMC) is a producer of high-quality earth moving equipment used in homes and in small-business landscaping industries. PEMC must manufacture 30,000 units per month or 90,000 units for the quarter (University of Phoenix, 2011). Producing such numbers requires PEMC to use Subcontractor A or Subcontractor B and make them work 6 instead of 5 days of the week and add a third shift to their work day. In addition to making these numbers work in the amount of work days, PEMC needs to keep in mind all costs to keep minimal losses. PEMC has hired ABCS2 Consultants to provide solutions to help enable PEMC to meet its production needs and recommendations to improve productivity (University of Phoenix, 2011). How ABCS2 Determined the Requirements ABCS2 has determined that there are three specific requirements PEMC must address. The first requirement is the limited space that PEMC has available for production and storage of its inventory. The second requirement is the amount of staff needed to meet production needs and customer satisfaction. Supply chain management consists of managing the flow of information through the supply chain and making it more responsive to customer’s needs. The final requirement is the period of time to train the employees for production of the Ultramover. Proper utilization of Subcontractor A and Subcontractor B manufacturing companies could allow PEMC to produce...
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...To: Parker Earth Moving Company From: ABCS2 Consultants Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Re: Parker Earth Moving Company Consulting: Technology Recommendations Message: Parker Earth Moving Company needs to make drastic improvements to the current technology to become more efficient, competitive, and fiscally responsible to ensure the organization is successful moving forward. Currently the organization is not utilizing technology in operations management to the fullest potential and unnecessary work with human error is occurring. To avoid costly accounting mistakes, additional work hours, and scheduling challenges ABCS2 recommends technological changes that will help the PEMC. Informational technology has evolved over the years and goes back to the earliest days of humanity in which communication was done through the drawing system in the Pre-mechanical Age (3000 B.C. – 1450 A.D.). The next eras advanced informational technology and systems stages in the Mechanical Age (1450-1840), The Electromechanical Age (1840-1940). The Electronical Age (1940-Present) has been a time of constant innovation. In 1946, The First High-speed, General –Purpose Computer using Vacuum tubes was developed by John Mauchly and K. Prosper Eckert but could not store its programs. Improvements continued through the following years including the creation of operations systems. In recent years, informational technology has changed the way global businesses are operated and managed. The...
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...Running Head: PARKER EARTH MOVING COMPANY RECOMMENDATION Parker Earth Moving Company Recommendation Amanda Duarte ISCOM 305 August 18, 2011 R. Sell Parker Earth Moving Company (PEMC) is in the business of providing high-quality small earthmoving equipment for home and small business consumers. In an effort to grow its business, PEMC has developed a new navigational device called the Ultramover. The Ultramover was designed for personal and small business use and is intended to sell for $129.95 per unit. The Marketing and Sales Department has forecasted the first quarter sales to be 30,000 units. However, it was recently discovered that forecasted estimate was incorrect. Through thorough analysis it has been determined that the actual demand target for the Ultramover is expected to be 30,000 units per month, and 90,000 units per quarter. As a result of this new information, PEMC has hired this consulting firm to provide solutions that will enable PEMC to meet its production needs. The purpose of this paper is to provide those recommendations for improved productivity (University of Phoenix, 2011). Determining the Needs of the Customer In order for us to determine the needs of PEMC we must first have a clear vision of the company’s analysis data for the Ultramover. Through this review of the data, we have determined that PEMS currently only has the capability to produce ten thousand units of the Ultramover each month by operating two production shifts...
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...Parker Earth Moving Company Consulting: Session Three John Flynn, Lakeidra Haygood, Dwann Herron, Rosy Manivong, and LaTasha Snowden ISCOM/305 June 13, 2011 Kairo Hannon Memorandum TO: Parker Earth Moving Company FROM: Team B Consulting DATE: June 13, 2011 SUBJECT: Business Process Improvements Parker Earth Moving Company’s (PMEC) foreign competition has caused the company to reduce market share. The percentage has declined from 47% to 29% and PEMC has suffered losses of 3%, 7%, and 11% in the last three years. Team B analyzes the current operations and activities of PEMC to determine the best way to achieve profitability. Business Process Recommendations Recovering losses and achieving increased profitability requires PEMC to implement several operations management principles. Beginning with redefining the organization’s vision and mission statement; internal stakeholders such as management and employees should acknowledge and work toward the organization’s objectives together. Managers can work collaboratively on creating a work breakdown structure, further clarifying primary tasks, and creating strategies for each business unit. A balanced scorecard can highlight each department’s key performance indicators, goals, and results. Implementing a work environment based on the Kaizen model for continual improvement encourages employees and managers to work on solutions rather than conflicts. Employees can help establish where and when production interruptions...
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...Empresa Parker de Remoción de Tierra; Consultoría Nuestro equipo es parte de la industria experta, que pertenece a una empresa de consultoría muy importante a nivel mundial. La compañía Parker Earth Moving Company ha pedido a nuestro equipo un analizar en la gestión de la operación del sistema para mejorar su proceso. Nuestro equipo tendrá que llevar a cabo una serie de sesiones de consultoría para la compañía Parker Earth Moving Company en el que se harán recomendaciones para mejorar el proceso de la empresa. Nuestro equipo tomara en consideración los siguientes puntos; Las necesidades de los clientes a través de los datos proporcionados por los clientes. Se discutirá cómo determinar las necesidades de los clientes. En adición se dirá como subcontratista A, y subcontratista B satisfacerla las necesidades del cliente. Para suplir la demanda y necesidad de los clientes se tiene que hacer los ajustes necesarios para lograr producir las 30mil unidades. Ya se tienen los dos subcontratistas quienes producirían las 20mil unidades restantes. Luego restaría, contratar los empleados necesarios y darles el “training” en el menor tiempo posible. Esto sin dejar de ser una fuerza laborar que cubra todos los requisitos para cuando los mismos vayan al proceso de manufacturación lo hagan con la mínima supervisión. El resto es crear un buen producto y lograr posicionarlo de acuerdo a las especificaciones y con mínimos defectos. Luego del posicionamiento, otro punto importante...
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...Parker Earth Moving Company Team B Week 3 Parker Earth Moving Company is learning how to optimize its operational performance. The company is looking to make these changes through process improvement and outsourcing. The initial steps PEMC will begin to make are to implement a new ordering system that uses a continuous inventory system with reorder points and reorder quantities established in the programs software, thereby creating an automatic order processing. Secondly, PEMC is looking into forwarding some of their support work to two different contractors and this paper will evaluate the two contractors and make a recommendation for the company. Finally, the PEMC management team must also make preparations for the potential of a natural disaster, which will involve adjusting the reorder points and the reorder quantities. Parker Earth Moving Company (PEMC) is working on a continuous inventory a system which has a reorder point. The determinant of when to order in a continuous inventory system is the reorder point, the inventory level at which a new order is placed (Russell & Taylor III, 2009). The formula for the reorder point is the rate of demand per period times lead time. PEMC can produce 10,000 units per month during a five day work week, which comes out to actually 20 days a month given four weeks in a month. This means the company can produce 500 units in a day. The reorder point can be determined using the following formula: Reorder point = (demand per period)*...
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...different aspects of physics involved, but today only acceleration, speed, and velocity will be discussed. People talk in terms of physics everyday without even knowing that is what they are discussing. For example, “speed” limit, how quickly a car can “accelerate,” and when they add a direction, they are actually talking about the velocity of a vehicle because velocity has a magnitude and direction, not just magnitude. According to Barry Parker in Issac Newton School of Driving, “you are accelerating and decelerating most of the time when you take a trip through the busy streets of a city, either by stepping on the gas, braking, or turning the steering wheel.” Basically, if someone gets in the driver seat of a car and drives, that person is changing the acceleration, speed, and velocity of the car that is being driven. A speed is just the scalar, magnitude with no direction, of velocity. The velocity has direction and magnitude. To find the velocity of the car, one needs to know the speed and the direction in which the driver is deciding to drive. As Parker states, with every turn a driver makes, the vehicle changes direction. This means that the vehicle is changing velocity along with acceleration. To change the acceleration, the velocity would change...
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...Real Since the beginning of higher thought there has always been an internal struggle within the very depths of man that wondered “What is Real”. For centuries all men have tried to define and analyze this for many different reasons, to predict the future, to know where we came from, to manipulate and control. After all the time that man has been on Earth many different ideas and theories have developed on this topic but this still has been one of the most universally debatable issues. Reality is dependent on each individuals own interpretation of what is real in terms of our sensory experience, personal perceptions, and own individualistic beliefs. Edwin Abbott wrote a great analogy about our dimensional experience in Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Many subjects are approached in this book but the most interesting was the concept of dimensions. He starts off describing that we live and apply logic in dimensions; the first dimension consists of points that can produce a single line, the points live in the first dimension and therefore cannot grasp the perception of the next dimension. The second dimension consists of moving lines which turns into shapes along two axis’, this dimension can fully understand the first dimension but yet again the next dimension is inconceivable. In the third dimension the same idea is applied, the shapes formed along the second dimension are moved and twisted into, as we perceive it, three dimensional shapes that are multisided and multifaceted...
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...Life of Pi &Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth Call to Adventure- (E) Pi’s father acts as a bearer of sudden or dramatic news as he announces that they will be moving to Canada, the family must take their journey by sea. (Q1) “It was announced to us one evening during dinner. Ravi and I were thunderstruck. Canada! If Andhra Pradesh, just north of us, was alien, if Sri Lanka, a monkey’s hop across a strait, was the dark side of the moon, imagine what Canada was. Canada meant absolutely nothing to us. It was like Timbuktu, by definition a place permanently far away.”(46). (E)This decision from his father did not please Pi. (Q2) "We did not want to go" is what Pi had said, not wanting to leave India (98). Despite his disagreement, the ultimate decision was in his father's hands. This was a call to the adventure of a journey across the Pacific, one which starts on a ship but ends on a lifeboat. The Ordinary World- (E) Pi lives a very comfortable life with his family in a zoo where he enjoys the luxury of being surrounded by what he calls one of the most beautiful places in the world. This world of comfort is his ordinary world (Q1) “To me, it was paradise on earth. I have nothing but the fondest memories of growing up in a zoo. I lived the life of a prince. What maharaja’s son had such vast, luxuriant grounds to play about? What palace had such a menagerie?” (9) (E) He learns to understand animal and their behavior. Pi also grew up admiring and engaging in Hindu, Islamic, and Christian...
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...Life of Pi Theme of Religion At times, Life of Pi reads like a defense of religion. Has science proved religion wrong? Here's a protagonist who believes passionately in both zoology and religion. What about the fact of multiple faiths? Don't these faiths contradict each other, cause wars, and other problems? Here's a protagonist who is Muslim, Christian, and Hindu – all at the same time. The book defends not only the common spirit behind these three religions, but the rituals and ceremonies of each. It's as if all three religions find harmonious common ground in this character. Seems unlikely, but then again, the protagonist argues passionately that the miraculous happens in our darkest moments. Quote #1But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. (1.4.14) | Do zoos incarcerate animals in confined spaces and make them miserable? Pi doesn't think so: "Certain illusions about freedom" tempt us to this conclusion. In actuality, an animal's life in the wild is more circumscribed than "a knight on a chessboard" (1.4.8). Predator-prey relationships restrict the animal's movement. A zoo enclosure is actually more like a hearth for an animal: a place of comfort and rest. Likewise, most people think of religion as a restrictive...
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...Opening Exam Directions Welcome to Manhattan GMAT's simulated exam platform! This platform is designed specifically for the Internet Explorer web browser. (Other browsers may work but are not explicitly supported.) In order to ensure an optimal simulated experience, please adjust your browser window so that you can see all of the buttons on the bottom of the exam interface without needing to scroll down. You should NOT see an active vertical scroll bar on the right of your browser window. If you do see an active vertical scroll bar on the right side of your browser window, go to the VIEW menu at the top of the Internet Explorer window, then select TOOLBARS, and uncheck as many toolbars as necessary to eliminate the active vertical scroll bar. After doing this, you will no longer need to scroll down to see the buttons on the bottom of the exam interface. At the end of the exam, you may go back and re-check these toolbars to return to your normal view. If you have any questions, please contact us at techsupport@manhattangmat.com or call 800-576-GMAT (4628). Good luck practicing! Note: GMAT is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admission Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this test preparation service. AWA Essays In the Analytical Writing Assessment, you will be asked to write 2 essays. You will have exactly 30 minutes to write each essay. In the first essay, you are requried to analyze an argument. Your task is to critique the argument, not to present...
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...Acclaim for Yann Martel's Life of Pi "Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel, it's a finely twisted length of yarn— yarn implying a far-fetched story you can't quite swallow whole, but can't dismiss outright. Life of Pi is in this tradition—a story of uncertain veracity, made credible by the art of the yarn-spinner. Like its noteworthy ancestors, among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick and Pincher Martin, it's a tale of disaster at sea coupled with miraculous survival—a boys' adventure for grownups." —Margaret Atwood, The Sunday Times (London) "A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient, this novel is an impressive achievement. . . . Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master." —Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "[Life of Pi] has a buoyant, exotic, insistence reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe's most Gothic fiction. . . . Oddities abound and the storytelling is first-rate. Yann Martel has written a novel full of grisly reality, outlandish plot, inventive setting and thought-provoking questions about the value and purpose of fiction." —The Edmonton journal "Martel's ceaselessly clever writing . . . [and] artful, occasionally hilarious, internal dialogue . . . make a fine argument for the divinity of good art." —The Gazette "Astounding and beautiful. . . . The book is a pleasure not only for the subtleties of its philosophy...
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...started with the crossover-records (songs) that originated in one market but succeeded in another. Of course examples existed before this time period but mainly started in the 50s. Frequently there were R&B songs that started to gain popularity on the Pop charts. Basically each genre had its own Billboard Top 100 chart, so for an R&B song to make it onto the Pop top 100 was very impressive and never happened before the 1950s. Be familiar with the crossover examples listed in the book as they may be on a test. Early Crossover Hits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYO263wui1w Lloyd Price-“Lawdy Miss Clawdy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxtbQdGXfI The Crows-“Gee” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJcGi4-n_Yw The Penguins-“Earth Angel” The Majors which we talked about last class noticed the interest in crossovers and of course moved to capitalize on the interest. They began producing their own crossovers. These became known as cover versions or covers. The difference between the crossover and covers: crossover was not necessarily intended to be popular in multiple markets, while the cover did plan on being hits with multiple groups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0WlsaGvorw Darrell Glenn-“Crying in the Chapel” 1953 Composed for Darrell while he was in High School by his father Artie. Early Covers:...
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...Yann Martel: Life of Pi life of pi A NOVEL author's note This book was born as I was hungry. Let me explain. In the spring of 1996, my second book, a novel, came out in Canada. It didn't fare well. Reviewers were puzzled, or damned it with faint praise. Then readers ignored it. Despite my best efforts at playing the clown or the trapeze artist, the media circus made no difference. The book did not move. Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team. It vanished quickly and quietly. The fiasco did not affect me too much. I had already moved on to another story, a novel set in Portugal in 1939. Only I was feeling restless. And I had a little money. So I flew to Bombay. This is not so illogical if you realize three things: that a stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature; that a little money can go a long way there; and that a novel set in Portugal in 1939 may have very little to do with Portugal in 1939. I had been to India before, in the north, for five months. On that first trip I had come to the subcontinent completely unprepared. Actually, I had a preparation of one word. When I told a friend who knew the country well of my travel plans, he said casually, "They speak a funny English in India. They like words like bamboozle." I remembered his words as my plane started its descent towards Delhi, so the word bamboozle ...
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...Most people generally accept that as a country, America was founded on religions principals. Many of the writings of the founding fathers, including our own Declaration of Independence, include religious doctrine as not only the partial justification for our separation from mother England but also as a part of the vision of how our new nation would be successful. Over time, our society and culture have changed so that today, even though people claim to be religious, religion is certainly not as main stream in our culture as it once was. By better understanding our society in colonial America, how the denominational makeup of churchgoers has changed, how our legal system has both protected and not protected religion’s presence in our daily lives, the influence of different organizations and social movements on religious practices and perceptions, the change in how Christians are perceived and finally the changes in the message that the church is preaching the reader will be able to understand not only how America has changed but also how contemporary Christian leaders and organizations are trying to remain relevant and consistent with God’s word. Colonial America & Our Founding Fathers From the settling of our nation to the Revolutionary War, religion was much more a part of mainstream society. The pervasive nature of religion had an impact on those who led the fight for our freedom. The period of history leading up to the Revolutionary War is commonly referred to as the...
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