...in the local economy. Two years of recession meant two years of poor loans, and First State fell into deep trouble. To limit and reduce overhead expenses, there were some extensive layoffs. A new executive management expected rapid, better results with fewer resources. Everyone at First State feared being fired even though the bank was inching back to improved profitability. There was still the pressure to “perform—or else.” Lucy Winters managed the six-person Spring Hill Branch for First State. Spring Hill, fully equipped with an ATM and a freshly redesigned lobby, stood in the parking lot of a new suburban mall. The mall, anchored by a store from the largest grocery chain in the area, included about 20 different small retail stores. In addition, a major hospital was located just down the street, and a large manufacturing plant (with about 3,000 employees) was situated in a convenient, nearby industrial park. Many of the branch’s customers worked at those locations. Lucy was promoted to her current job about 18 months ago. She had been serving as an Assistant Manager at another branch in the region until that time. During the past year and a half, Lucy had learned her job as a manager well. She enjoyed her work and did an effective job. “I used to enjoy it, in any case,” she thought to herself. She was sitting at her desk at 6:00 p.m., looking at the night closing in. “I just wish I could leave here once before 5:30. These layoffs really hurt, the pressure is too...
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...CULTURE SHOCK Selection Antropologist have coined the term “cultures shock” to describe the effect that immersion in the strange culture 1____ 1.) Options 1. has upon the visitor who is unprepared 2. is having on the unprepared visitor 3. has on the unprepared visitor 4. has in the unprepared visitor 5. have on the unprepared visitor 1. is replaced by new ones 2. were replaced by new ones 3. are being replaced with new ones 4. replaced by new ones 5. to be replaced by new ones 1. have the comforting knowledge 2. have the comfortable knowledge 3. have the knowledge that is comforting 4. are comforted through the knowledge 5. find knowledge comforting 1. returning to them 2. to return back to 3. when they return back 4. to return to 5. waiting for their return 1. produced from the great accelerated 2. produced of the greatly accelearated 3. a product produced by the greatly accelerated 4. a product of the greatly accelerated 5. a product of the great accelerated 1. It rises from 2. It arose from 3. It arises from 4. It has risen from 5. It has been rising from It is what happens when familiar psychological Clues that help an individual to function in Society are suddenly withdrawn and ___2____ That are alien and incomprehensible. But most travelers ____3____ that the culture 2.) 3.) Will I be there ____4____. The victim of future 4.) ____5____ rate of change within a society. 5.) ____6____ the superimosition of a new culture 6.) But its impact is ____7____ ...
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...Blue Moon Tonight is a full astrological blue Moon. A blue Moon usually only occurs if it is the second one in a single month. This blue Moon is an astrological one because the Moon has been stuck in Leo and Aquarius since the last full Moon on July 22nd. It is what is called a seasonal blue Moon It will present the third of four full moons to fall in the same season. A season is defined as the period of time in between a solstice and an equinox – or vice versa. This full moon is the third of four full moons to take place in between the June 2013 solstice and the September 2013 equinox. That makes the August 2013 full Moon a Blue Moon! This Moon is also called the Sturgeon Moon or the Corn Moon. This Aquarius full Moon has an extra bit of creative magic with the Sun in Leo. The time is potent to follow our hearts to create new pathways. There is a simultaneous shedding and emerging as we focus to ground our visions into form. Some deep activations happening as well so we must move with the changes, allow what wants to come forth, and trust our inner knowing and guidance. Your enthusiasm, idealism and creativity could be at an all-time high. You could be bursting with new ideas. You could have sudden insights. You can move from breakdown to breakthrough. You are experiencing a transformation in consciousness. Sometimes your growth can feel weird and strange when you are no longer connecting to your past. But truly, the old way of living no longer works for you. You are...
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... The transportation time from Vancouver to the European DC is five weeks. The plant sends a weekly shipment of printers to Europe. Therefore, the lead time is L=1+5=6 weeks and review time T=1 week. Based on the data in Exhibit 13.14 in the textbook, we use Excel to calculate the average monthly demand (mean) and the standard deviation for each version of the printers (Exhibit 1). In order to calculate the standard deviation of demand over the review and the lead time, we use the formula below: σT+L=√((T+L)) σ2d Therefore, we can get σT+L for each version, which are listed in the exhibit 2. 1. Develop an inventory model for managing the DeskJet printers in Europe assuming that the Vancouver plant continues to produce the six models sold in Europe. Using the data in Exhibit 17.13, apply your model and calculate the expected yearly investment in DeskJet printer inventory in the Europe DC. Answer: 1. In order to calculate the yearly investment in DeskJet printers, we calculate the yearly investment of the printers separately and then add them together to get the total yearly cost. There are 6 versions of the printers, which are A, AA, AB, AQ, AU, AY. The total factory throughput time through the PCAT and FAT stages is about one week. The transportation time from Vancouver to the European DC is five weeks. The plant sends a weekly shipment of printers to Europe. Therefore, the lead time is L=1+5=6 weeks and review time T=1 week. Based on the data in Exhibit...
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...In the month of September there were many different phases of the moon. The phase of the moon during September 1- 4 was the waxing gibbous. During this time the moon is not fully illunminated but is getting close to a full moon phase. On the days of September 5-7, the phase of the moon was a full moon. A full moon is when the moon’s face is fully illuminated. September 8-12 was the phase of waning gibbous. During waning gibbous, the portion of the moon that we can see shrinks or wanes. September 12-14 was the third quarter phase. In the time of this phase the moon is half illuinated. On September 15-18 was the waning cresent phase. During this phase the moon appears to be in a cresent shape. September 19-20 was the new moon phase. In this...
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...Phases of the Moon Exercise In this exercise, you will investigate the cause of the phases of the Moon. The figure below shows an orbital diagram of the Earth-Moon system as viewed from above the Earth's North pole. Light from the Sun is coming from the left. Note that the drawing is not to scale. Section I Shade in the part of the Moon that is in shadow and the part that is unobservable from Earth in each of the eight numbered positions. The first has been completed as an example. (Use dark shading for the shadow, light cross-hatch for the unobservable side. The possible answers are given in Section I Answers below) You do not need to scan or upload your shaded drawings, just fill in the answers. [pic]Type Answers here 1. O 2.A 3. G 4. B 5. F 6. C 7. D 8. E Section I Answers [pic] Section II Record the phase and appearance of the Moon in Table 1 for each of the eight positions in the diagram. (Again, the first has been done as an example.) Also determine the Moon's elongation. The elongation refers to the separation between the sun and moon in the sky. For example, the full moon and sun are separated by 180 degrees. Note that if you know the Moon's elongation, you know its phase, and vice versa. Use the phases in Section II Answers on next page. Again, you do not need to scan your drawings. |Position 1 |Position 2 |Position 3 |Position 4 ...
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...Case Study: The Global Sourcing Wire Harness Decision Calvin Smith Westwood College Professor Rivers MGMT 350 2/8/15 The Global Sourcing Wire Harness Decision 1. Quote 1 Original Wire Quote: Unit price = $30 * Packing costs = $.75 per unit * Tooling = $6,000 onetime fixed charge * Freight cost = $5.20 per hundred pounds Yearly Unit Cost = ((monthly demand*12) * (unit cost + packaging cost)) + tooling charge Yearly Unit Cost = ((60000)*(30+.75)) + 6000 Yearly Unit Cost = (60000*30.75) + 6000 = $1,851,000 Yearly Unit Cost = $1,851,000 Unit Cost = Yearly Unit Cost / Yearly Demand Unit Cost = $1,851,000 / 60,000 Unit Cost = $30.85 Yearly Freight Cost = # of units * unit weight * freight cost Yearly Freight Cost = 60,000 * 10 * .0520 Yearly Freight Cost = $31,200 Unit Freight Cost = $31,200/60,000 = .52 Total Unit Cost = Unit Cost + Freight Cost Total Unit Cost = $30.85 + $0.52 Total Unit Cost = $31.87 2. Quote 2 2. Happy Lucky Assemblies Quote: * Unit Price = $19.50 * Shipping Lead Time = Eight Weeks * Tooling: $3,000 Yearly Unit Cost = ((monthly demand*12) * (unit cost + packaging cost)) + tooling charge Yearly Unit Cost = ((60000)*($19.50+.00)) + 3,000 Yearly Unit Cost = (60000*19.50) + 3000 Yearly Unit Cost = $1,173,000 Unit Cost = Yearly Unit Cost / Yearly Demand Unit Cost = $1,173,000 / 60,000 Unit Cost = $19.55 Monthly Freight Cost = $41,366 Unit Freight Cost = $41,366/5000 = 8.28 Total...
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...The Moon is a vast, elegant, and mysterious celestial object of the sky. Although it doesn’t take an expert to measure the Moon, but everyone, who has some knowledge of the sky, is able to do this task. As an assignment for my Astronomy 100 class, I had a choice of projects and chose the moon. The project had me find measurements of the position, phase, and the appearance of the moon. From my window adjacent to my bed, I made observations of the moon, but as the moon made its orbit around the Earth. I couldn’t see the moon from my current position, so occasionally I moved position from my bedroom window to the outside. The night is cool and grand, but never knowing the weather; the sky could be clear, cloudy, or raining, but I don’t think I had a rainy day, so I had perfect weather throughout. Cloudy days often happened, but the moon is bright and sometimes helped me locate the moon; on the other hand, I couldn’t see the moon so I had to use a website my professor provided us. Keeping up with the date and rarely skipping days, it was smooth and I was able to view the moon even if the weather and the appearance of the moon changed over time. Beginning on October 27, 2014 to November 17, 2014 while some days where skipped. I was able to see a Waxing crescent, first quarter, Waxing gibbous, Waning gibbous, Waning crescent, and especially a Full Moon on November 6, 2014, and about becoming less to more brighter or vice-versa, but the intervals from New to Full moon was zero. ...
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...As the Moon decreases in size, it goes from full to dark, The moon is in her Crone aspect and this is a time of letting go, it is also a time of completion. The moon is waning as it gets smaller again, after the full moon. As the moon seems to disappear in the sky. Like the waxing moon phase, it lasts about 14 days. Goddesses associated with this phase of the moon are Callieach, Banshee, Hecate, Kali, Morrigan. The Waning Moon will slowly reduce in appearance on its way towards the New Moon Phase. The Waning Moon is the point of time where the Moon appears to get gradually smaller, similarly with the Waxing Moon there is a Gibbous phase of this process known as the Waning Gibbous. The Waning Gibbous is the point between the Full Moon and half way through the process of the Moon becoming the Crying Moon, once the first quarter of the Moon has gone out of sight it transforms from the Waning Gibbous Moon to the Waning Moon. Instead of pulling energy in, we are pushing energy out. some Pagans, Wiccans and Witches do not like working with the Waning Moon because a lot of the time it focuses on the negative energy, however I feel that all of us need to remove negative things from our life, be it people or influences or emotions. this is NOT working negatively, you are getting rid of negativity. It is importnat to remember the Law of Three, of course. Any time we send out negative energy we need to balance things out with positve things. So if you are working negatively you should...
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...in its orbit around the Earth. The diagram below shows the sun's light coming in from the left. The moon's location is marked at several points in its orbit. These are the points the moon was at when the sketches above were drawn. Identify each position with the letter of the corresponding sketch. Use the letters from the diagram in question number 1 above. D A B C E F F 3. Is there a dark side of the moon? If so, why? Yes, because the sunlight never shines on one-half of the moon. 4. How long, in days, does it take the moon to complete one cycle of phases? 29 days (19 hours) 5. If the moon is full today what phase do you expect it to be at in a week? 3rd Quarter 6. If the moon is full today what phase do you expect it to be in one month? Full 7. When the moon crosses the western side of the horizon plane it is rising / setting (circle one). 8. When the moon crosses the eastern side of the horizon plane it is rising / setting (circle one). 9. How many days are there between New Moon and Full Moon? 14 days 18 hours 10. Approximately how many days are there between Full Moon and Third Quarter? 8 days 11. Is it ever possible to see the Moon at noon (12pm)? Yes 12. Pause the simulator and use the drop down menu in...
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...Source: Hilton & Plat 2015 Case Study Chapter 6 Cost Estimation Organization Period Expenditure Cost Behavior : : : : ABC Donuts Tasty Sdn Bhd Jan 20XX - Dec 20XX Utility bill Semi Variable Account Classification / Visual-Fit Method / Cost Estimation MethodHigh Low Method / Least Square Regression : Method Ledger Expenditure Utilities Cost Monthly Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TOTAL $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 5,100 5,300 5,650 6,300 6,400 6,700 7,035 7,000 6,200 6,100 5,600 5,900 73,285 Cost Estimation Method Activity or Cost Driver dozens of bakery items number of sold per month customers per 75,000 8,000 78,000 8,100 80,000 9,000 92,000 10,000 98,000 11,000 108,000 10,000 118,000 12,000 112,000 9,000 95,000 8,000 90,000 7,500 85,000 10,000 90,000 15,000 1,121,000 117,600 Cost Estimation Method Engineering Method Using relevant research techniques, the production team has conducted a research from ground up trying to identify whether utlities is actually affected by level of activities. Base on the research performed, production research team has identified various activities that is related to usage of utilties. Among the activities are: 1. Administrative activities use of computers 2. Kitchen activities using high level of electricity on kitchen appliances and water for baking donuts 3. serving customers activities at the front line also requires usage of utilities including air-conditioning, lighting to display case Hence, it may be concluded...
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...Cost Structure The cost structure for WeSoccer is separated into 3 major areas: the application development cost, the maintenance cost and the promotional cost. The total estimated cost will be 117 million Yuan. For details of the breakdown, please refer to Appendix 2. The maintenance aspect would contribute 98% of the total estimation which includes the broadcasting license fee and the daily operation/maintenance cost. The digital broadcasting license which TenCent Sports acquired at 115 million Yuan for the 2015 -2016 season will be absorbed by WeSoccer. Furthermore, to deliver extensive data analytic of the football match, soccer expert and celebrities will be hired for blogging and editorial writing. To develop the MVP, WeSoccer will integrate the WeChat platform and the TenCent Sports application in order to deliver high quality live streaming of the Premier League with social interaction. The development cost refers to the one-off interface development of the WeSoccer application and the Research and Development cost (“R&D”) for future enhancement. Due to the fierce competition in soccer live streaming, it is curial for WeSoccer to avoid user attrition and enhance user experience. To allocate the R&D resources effectively, the 80/20 rules will be applied. 80% of the R&D cost allocated annually will be used on existing feature enhancement such as the live streaming technology enhancement and the remaining will be used for customer feature request and...
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...history of Six-Sigma The roots of Six Sigma as a measurement standard go back to Carl Frederick Gauss (1777-1885) who introduced the concept of normal curve. Six Sigma as a measurement standard in product variation can be traced back to the 1920´s when Walter Shewhart showed that three sigma, from the mean is the point where a process requires correction. As history would seem to have it, the beginnings of Six Sigma really come from 1979 when an exasperated Motorola executive named Art Sundry said, at a meeting, “The real problem at Motorola is that our quality stinks!”. Apparently, this statement led to series of activities that in turn led to the discovery of the crucial correlation between higher quality and lower development costs in manufacturing products of all kinds. The problem was that the common thought was that quality initiatives simply cost too much money. What Motorola realized is that if these initiatives were done right, improving quality would actually reduce costs. Motorola decided to take the approach that high quality products should actually cost less to produce. Motorola reasoned that the highest quality producer should be the lowest cost producer. THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF SIX-SIGMA What is Six-Sigma Six-Sigma has at least three different meanings depending upon the context; there is not one answer to what is Six-Sigma. The first answer to what is Six-Sigma is that it is a management philosophy. Six-Sigma is a customer...
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...XXXXX America: North Las Vegas Training Needs Assessment HR421 – Employee Training and Development Instructor- By: Steve Flatt XXXXX America: North Las Vegas Training Needs Assessment XXXXXX America is the sub-corporate division of XXXXX International, a global corporation associated with the design, manufacture and development of electronic, defense, industrial and Medical products. Within the corporate structure of XXXXXXXXXXXX America, their newest site, known as a green site sue to its non-supported and total adaptation of the facility, is the North Las Vegas Site. This factory has been in operation since January of 2011 and is the single manufacturing plant for industrial size solar panels, measuring 60Ft x 60Ft. As the design and development of this product increases, the plan in the next year is to add over 500 employees to the site headcount. As with all XXXXXXXXXXX sites, the corporate culture and policies are expected to be enforced with one unique task. XXXXXXXXXXXXX has what is commonly known as the “XXXX culture”, and one of its roots is LEAN manufacturing. What is unique about LEAN is the concepts and training can be replicated but the actually process is unique at each location. Currently the location has a core team of approximately 7 senior managers, Plant, Program, Facilities, Materials, Human Resources, Engineering, and Business Excellence and 90 direct and indirect labor employees focused on the set up,...
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...Become A Certified Quality Specialist: Six Sigma Certification Would you like to find employment in just about any industry while assisting with improving quality and increasing efficiency? Do you enjoy working with statistical methods and verifiable data instead of having to rely on guesswork or assumptions? If so, obtaining Six Sigma certification can help to give you a competitive edge in the job market. Not only can certification improve your scope of knowledge, but you will also be able to bring valuable skills to any job, such as the ability to save time, resources and cost. Six Sigma is a process that is beneficial for many different industries and the skills you learn by becoming certified are always in high demand. Six Sigma Certification Information...
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