...these impacts, and how these stakeholders concerns affect the company. Cement is considered to be one of the most useful materials ever developed by man due to its strength and durability. However by virtue of its chemical and mineral composition as well as its manufacturing process cement production is deemed to have quite a significant environmental and social impact on its various stakeholders in a variety of ways and at varying degrees. One strategy that has been developed to help assess the extent of this impact is the use of a life cycle Assessment tool. The life cycle assessment is a systematic way of compiling and examining the inputs and outputs of energy as well as materials used in the manufacturing of a product or service as well as the environmental impacts directly attributed to the manufacturing process of that product or service throughout its life cycle. The life cycle of a product comprises the manufacturing process from raw material extraction, through to materials processing and manufacturing, all the way to distribution, usage, maintenance and disposal or recycling. One company that has been at the forefront of Cement production over the years has been Heidelberg Cement. Heidelberg cement having been in operation for over 140 years is one of the world’s largest building materials companies. It is a multinational building materials company head quartered in Germany having presence in more than 40 countries with over 51,000 employees in 2,500 locations...
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...What are the issues staring at Joseph Ziggundu? What should he do? How should he go about doing them? General issues: * He is a management trainee and this is his first operating assignment. * There is a lack of information of UCC’s previous production or sales volumes, profitability, raw material needs, sales outlets etc. * KIDB did not specify an operating budget as it was recently saddled with extra businesses like UCC. * He is not aware of the processes followed in manufacturing the candles. * The quality of the candles depended on the precision of the manufacturing process. A small error in measurement would damage the candles. Hence care had to be taken during the manufacturing process. Finance issues: * The daily operating costs were not known. * Uncertainty about the value of the assets such as the mould frames, property etc. * The candles were under-priced compared to the surrounding areas as the Government had fixed the sales price of the candles. * Ascertaining the profitability of the company(and hence if the business is sustainable). * Determining the requirement of capital investment in the business. HR issues: * Details of the workforce like number and their skill level etc. * Relegation of roles and responsibilities. * Fixing daily working hours and the rigor of labor expected from the employees. * Fixing the daily wages of the workers. Marketing and distribution issues: * Meeting the high demand...
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...Introduction H&M, a clothing company from Sweden. Being popular with its fast-fashion clothing, it is divided into three departments for men, women and children. And it has become the second largest clothing retailer and producer in the world. H & M wants to contribute to the society and the environment, so it implemented many projects and took many measures. For example, it has cooperated with UNICEF setting a project to protect the rights of some poor children all over the world (H&M and water. n.d.). Although H&M asserts that it is an ethical firm, there are still controversies exposed by the news. A Greenpeace campaigner, Frauzel, (2011) wrote a report to expose that H&M’s suppliers discharge toxic water into China’s rivers, and that H&M’s clothing contains hazardous substances and chemicals, even the children’s clothes. The following paragraphs will analyze the unethical issue and give the solutions and evaluations. The case The situation and key fact H&M has become a second largest fashion retailer, but it is criticized by the campaigners many times, such as in 2011, Frauzel (2011) reported that the clothes from H&M contained an amount of hazardous substances, such as nonylphenol, ethoxylates (NPEs) and the toxic nonylphenol (NP). Because these clothes contain chemicals, the water which is used for washing clothes would also contain chemical substances at the same time . And then the suppliers discharged the polluted water into China’s rivers, which can devastate...
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...Here comes an overview of our organization in several aspects: 1. Products/Services • Automotive & Transportation o We supply and develop functional materials and solutions that enable vehicles to be built and to operate more efficiently. o Our product range includes engineering plastics, polyurethane and specialty foams, coatings, pigments, catalysts, axle and transmission lubricants, fuel additives, coolants and brake fluids, as well as battery materials. • Human and Animal Nutrition o Our products help to produce more efficient and environmentally friendly foodstuffs and nutritional products. • Paints & Coatings o Raw material for Architectural and Decorative coatings. o Raw material for Automotive and Commercial Vehicle coatings. o Raw material for Industrial coatings. 2. Our Customers • Our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into five segments: Chemicals, Performance Products, Functional Materials & Solutions, Agricultural Solutions and Oil & Gas. 3. Our Purpose and Goals • Why- our Purpose o We combine economic success, social responsibility and environmental protection. Through science and innovation we enable our customers to meet the current and future needs of society. o The world population and its demands will keep growing and we will need the resources of almost three of our planets to meet the demands of the population. o We see three major areas in which innovations based on our...
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...Describe the entire product life cycle of a textbook( with social-ecological impact) Product life cycle of textbook (Paper Life Cycle, 2011) Step 1 (Forest) Firstly, the producer will seek materials for making papers, the woods is the main material of making papers. The manufacturers will purchase lots of woods from the supplier of trees to progress their papers. So that the, supplier will cut down the trees from the forest instead to supply to the producers. When these happened, if the landowners failed to practice sustainable, this will cause the failure of sustainability of managing forest and damaged to the environment heavily (Life Cycle, 2011). Step 2 (Transportation) Secondly, after harvested the trees and clean up and get the woods ready for deliver to the paper manufacturer. The woods would be store in an inventory before gather up and transfer to the manufacturers. This step requires the machine to arrange and pick to the transportation or inventory which is man power hardly to do. The woods will deliver to the manufacturer accordingly to the quantity of order. During this step, the social impact toward the society could be offered job opportunity and not much impact to the environment (Life Cycle, 2011).. Step 3(Paper Making) Thirdly, the process is to remove all of the bark from logs. Afterward chipping the logs, we cook the wood chips in a large vessel under pressure with heat and chemicals. When the cooking is complete, the pulp is...
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...Environmental Management Systems | I declare that all material in this assignment is my own work except where there is clear acknowledgement or reference to the work of others and I have complied and agreed to the University statement on Plagiarism and Academic Integrity. | Constant Title | page | a) Identify a company and discuss the following: (10 marks)i) Background of the company ii) Introduction to the services / products of the company | 3 | b) Identification of the potential environmental impacts that maybe caused by the services / products of the company. (10 marks) | 4 | c) The company’s environmental management system (EMS) [Strategies to reduce the Environmental impacts]. (10 marks) | 6 | d) How the company’s EMS benefits the environment. (10 marks) | 7 | e) The advantage of having EMS in the company. (10 marks) | 8 | f) Alternatives ways to improve environmental performance of the company beside the approach stated in company policy. (10 marks) | 9 | References | 10 | Adidas, one of the largest companies in the world, the story start in Bavaria, Germany. A man call Adi Dassler the founder of Adidas in the age of 49 on August 18, 1949 has started the company with 47 employees in Herzogenaurach. Until today the company have 67 years history, Adidas AG is German sportswear manufacturer and beside that they also produce others products such as...
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...the struggle that Nike’s one director took to catch the market of china and the reasons behind the failure of the project. Tom Clarke, the president of Nike knew that many people could not afford nike’s product due to high price and for this reason they were losing many potential customers. So in 1998 he began the development of world shoe project that was intended to emerging markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America and command Hartge to handle the project. Nike used a triple-bottom-line consideration to be able to give answers to the shareholders and people about economic, social and environmental issues. The world shoe line project was manufacturing products in china and took a business model of ‘local for local’ where local raw materials and local Nike’s manufacturing factories were used to manufacture shoes and sell them only in china. Hartge found out exclusive design for the shoes so that the manufacturing cost could be reduced. Hartge classified the market in five tier and targeted mainly tier three who were developing with high potential customers. But after doing so many things Hartge could not compete with the local producer because of their low cost and low price. Again there was no formal marketing plan to introduce the world shoe lone among retailers and customers. The distribution channel in china was very poor which made obstacle in the way of world shoe’s market. The retailers were fragmented and very hard to contact at a time. The retailers did not know the...
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...(Author Speak: Search Magazine) The growing case for group collaboration for SMEs in India R. Narayan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Power2sme, examines how group procurement of supplies for manufacturing can jumpstart growth for the SME sector in India. Imagine a scenario where you can easily procure the best price for the raw material you need to manufacture automotive OEM parts or for construction needs or for manufacturing or raw material for precision engineering. Maybe you need Chemicals & Additives or Inks or Paints, or Polymers or Cement. Whatever your requirement, Buying Clubs that collect buyers and suppliers on the same platform can help manufactures fight several problems at the same time. This includes the acute problem of economical and quality supply of raw material for the manufacturing sector, putting in place a consistent and sustainable supply chain and freeing yourself from the constant worry of ensuring supply of raw material. You could ask, how will buying clubs help the SME sector overall to grow. First let’s take a quick look at where the SME sector is at today. Today, there are an estimated 35 million SMEs in India (Source: firm Zinnov Management Consulting). Together they employ 42 million people and contribute to a stunning 45 percent of our industrial input and 40 percent of India’s total manufactured exports . (Source: SME Chamber of India). All this adds up to a sector that contributes upto 8 percent of India’s GDP (Source: SME India.net)...
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...INTRODUCTION Sustainable economical growth requires the safe resources of raw materials for industrial production. Currently, the most frequently used industrial raw material, petroleum, is neither sustainable, because of its limited supply, nor environmentally friendly. While the economy of energy can be based on various alternative raw materials, such as wind, sun, water, biomass, as well as nuclear fission and fusion, the economy of substances fundamentally depends on biomass, in particular, biomass from plants. Special requirements are placed on both the substantial converting industry as well as research and development regarding the efficiency of raw materials and product lines as well as sustainability. “The development of biorefineries represents the key for the access to an integrated production of food, feed, chemicals, materials, goods, and fuels of the future” PRINCIPLES OF BIOREFINERIES Fundamentals Biomass is similar to petroleum as a complex composition. Its primary separation into main groups of substances is appropriate. Subsequent treatment and processing of those substances lead to a whole palette of products. Petrochemistry is based on the principle of generating from hydrocarbons simpleto-handle and well-defined chemically pure elements in refineries. In efficient product lines, a system based on family trees has been built, in which basic chemicals, intermediate products, and sophisticated products are produced. This principle of petroleum...
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...face value of the coins being produced. In order to follow that unique cost ceiling, the researchers follow the concept of simultaneous design by being involved in initiatives to improve materials being used in both coins and dies. Then due to high inflation rate, the face value of the coin is exceeding the cost base of the raw material and with the help of using the concept of simultaneous design, the Royal Mint quickly mitigated the risk by changing the composition of the 2 Pound and 1 Pound coins to a steal core with an electroplated copper outer layer and has significantly reduced the unit cost and it added expected lifetime by using a less expensive metal base. II. Background The Royal Mint has a cost ceiling that the cost base of the material must be less than the face value of the coin being produced. In order to follow that unique cost ceiling, the Royal Mint implemented the Concept of Simultaneous Design to research on how to further improve the materials being used by both coin and die to extend its period of use and to mitigate the risk of high inflation rate of the raw materials. III. Key Problem Based on our findings, we found out that the Royal Mint is a “Asset-Intensive Business” because the minting industry requires a lot of assets like money, raw materials, and equipment to operate. Also, the Royal Mint can be...
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...minor design differences. These products require the same basic raw materials and are processed on the same set of machines. DEMAND The orders are received by the marketing department and are cumulated into three categories (A, B and C). The demand forecast for year 2011 is given in Table 1. Table 1: Demand for 2011 in Thousands of Units | Product | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | A | 7 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 8 | B | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 4 | C | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | Product A has the highest demand among the three products while B has the second highest demand. The product demand rises around the second half of the year and even surpasses the total maximum production capacity of the company which is 19,000 for 2 shifts. The amount of raw material required for each product is the same. Therefore, it is assumed that one unit of raw material is required for each one unit of finished product. The cost of raw material is $ 6.00 per unit. In addition to the basic raw material, the cost of other supplies is $ 1.00 per unit of finished product. The ordering cost is $ 1,500 per order and the inventory carrying cost is $ 0.15 per unit per month. There are 15,000 units of raw material in stock at the start of the year and there are no outstanding orders.The lead time for receiving the material is one month. This means that an order placed in any month will be...
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...repare a 3 –Sigma chart for both production processes using the new and standard material (use of quality report in “Delta Plastics, Inc, Case A.” chapter 5. See attached excel Charts for this answer. Discuss whether or not both processes are in control and what conclusion may be drawn. I tried to put the statistics together to have an overall perspective of the defects since most of them fall in the category of attributes rather than variables. I then took into consideration the 20 days as the period of observation rather than the four weeks. A P-chart methodology would rightly describe the products presented as good or bad because it is not a quick fix quality management system. After developing control limits with control P-charts to be able to understand the overall proportion of defects, I noticed curiously that both processes seem to be in control whereas from a first glance at the figures of the defects of the two materials, one has the impression that the new material is completely out of place for any serious business venture. Our problem was to determine whether there is a major shift in the process that is resulting in the alteration of that process. When we consider individual items, as for example, the cracks or the air bubbles, the process appears not to be in control. These particular defects virtually double with production from the new material. This is the source of the trauma that Jose is now experiencing. In the final analysis, we can conclude that...
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...sales@rooppolymers.com Purchase Order (Raw Material & Components) ECC_NO.: AACR7268JXM002 Division.: II Range: IX Vat Tin No: 06651909285 PAN: AACR7268J Vendor Name : 3M INDIA LIMITED (V3-0001) Address : 48-51,ELECTRONICS CITY HOSUR ROAD PO No Amd.No W.E.F. : : : RM213-14/92 0 30/04/13 PO Date Amd. Date : : 30/04/13 31/05/2013 Email : Phone : Yours Ref : mr Fax : Dear Sir, We are glad to issue our Purchase Order for the following item/s. Sl. No. 1 Quot Ref. ITEM Code RRMVITOX0005 Description VITON RUBBER 2181 : Valid Upto Our Contract Person : KARAN SINGH Phone : Email : Process UOM Qty Weight 50.00 As Finished. KG Rate Desc. (Rs)/ Unit (%) Matl / Pros 1471.50 Amount Rs 73,575.00 Amount Rs Seventy-Three Thousand Five Hundred Seventy-Five Only Freight Packing/Forwarding Insurance Delivery Type Excise Remarks Payment Term Paid At Party own expense Nil Urgent Basic Excise Cess Hcess Vat/Cst Surcharge 73575.00 @% 2.00 @% 1.00 @% 0.00 @% 0.00 @% V 0.00 0.00 Dispatch Instruction By Road D.D. CHEQUE As Applicable ADVANCE Grand Total : 73575.00 Remarks For ROOP RUBBER MILLS LTD.(IDC) Checked By ( SURESH SINGH ) ISO Documnet No. -: FMT/PUR/03 Verified By ( SURESH SINGH ) Authorised Signatory ( SURESH SINGH ) Instructions: Any Discrepancy in Order should be communicated within 24 hours. Else it will treated as "Accepted by You". Material to be supplied alongwith Dimensional Inspection...
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...in giving the competitive advantages. Mission Statement Fortune Mobility Solutions is a mining corporation in hopes of becoming successful in the mining industry. The corporation mission is to mine resources for customers needing it for building material. Our goal is to find and mine the best material that will reach our customers high criteria and needs. We are based highly around our customers and the resources we mine. Fortune Mobility Solutions sees everyone in the corporation, from management, to employees, and customers as family. We keep our values as a family and take the time to get to know our customer. We want to be able to provide our customer the best material we can offer. The love of finding materials to be used and turned into something wonderful such as, buildings, tools, transportations, and more. Here at the Fortune Mobility Solutions, we mine to change the world. Vision Statement Fortune Mobility Solutions goal is to become the number one raw material provider. There are many ways to achieve that goal, but out is to become that number one without losing sight of our mission statement. Fortune Mobility Solutions provide raw materials and continue to mine what customers need. We also provide other raw material customers may find...
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...Sample Exam Question Answer Q3 The classification of industrial products can be classified into materials and parts, capital items and supplies and services. Materials and parts are industrial goods that become part of the buyer’s product. It consist of raw material such as farm products and natural products and manufactured materials and parts such as component material that need to be processed further and component part that is a finished product with no further change in form. Capital items are industrial goods that contribute to the production of the finished product. It includes installations such as buildings and fixed equipment’s which are the major purchases of the business and accessory equipment, which aid in the production process such as portable factory equipment and office equipment. The last classification of industrial products is the supplies and services. Supplies are made up of operating supplies which is the convenience product in the industrial market and services is made up of business advisory services and maintenance and repair people. Q6 One of the four characteristics that distinguish services from physical goods in the context of products is the intangibility aspect of service. It cannot be tasted, heard, felt, seen before the purchase of the product. For example, the result of cosmetic surgery can only be seen after the surgery is done. Next, service has the characteristic of inseparability. The service cannot be separated...
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