...Limited Overview India’s Economic Growth and Opportunities for Commercial Vehicles Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles Limited 2 3 4 Eicher Trucks & Buses Volvo Trucks India Eicher Engineering Components & Eicher Engineering Solutions Heavy Duty Breakthrough Medium Duty Engine Project 5 6 Royal Enfield Financials Investor Presentation 2 Eicher Motors Limited – Journey so far… India’s first tractor rolls out of Eicher factory in Faridabad Forms JV with AB Royal Enfield motorcycles acquired Enters HD trucks segment Volvo of Sweden; transfers CV business to the JV 1959 1984 JV with Mitsubishi Motors to make ‘Canter’ trucks 1991 1993 JV with Mitsubishi ended, enters MD bus segment 2002 2005 Divests tractor and allied businesses to focus on CV and motorcycle businesses 2008 Investor Presentation 3 Moving forward... 1 Eicher Motors Limited - Journey So far... 2 3 4 Eicher Motors Limited Overview India’s Economic Growth and Opportunities for Commercial Vehicles Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles Limited Eicher Trucks & Buses Volvo Trucks India Eicher Engineering Components & Eicher Engineering Solutions Heavy Duty Breakthrough Medium Duty Engine Project 5 6 Royal Enfield Financials Investor Presentation 4 Eicher Motors Limited Overview Retail Investors 11.8% Institutional Investors 24.6% Volvo A.B. 8.4% 55.2% Promoter Group 45.6% EML 54.4% Volvo Eicher...
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...Strategic Report for Ford Motor Company Rhett Dornbach-Bender Bill Slade Joe Thorpe April 20, 2009 Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) Table of Contents Executive Summary .......................................................................................................................... 3 Company Overview........................................................................................................................... 4 History ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Business Model and Market Overview......................................................................................... 5 Competitive Analysis ........................................................................................................................ 7 Internal Rivalry................................................................................................................................. 7 Supplier Power ................................................................................................................................. 9 Buyer Power ..................................................................................................................................... 9 Entry and Exit................................................................................................................................ 10 Substitutes ....................................
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...[pic] Blekinge Institute of Technology Ronneby-Sweden School of Management June 2005 Do organizations have IT Strategies? A Study on how organizations describe their IT Strategies. Masters Thesis in Business Administration (FED 006) Author Stephen Rupia Lyabandi Executive Summary Title: Do organizations have IT Strategies? A Study on how organizations describe their IT Strategies. Author: Stephen Rupia Lyabandi Tutor: Anders Hederstierna Problem: The research problem of this study is lack of insight on how organizations describe their IT strategies in relation to other strategies. IT strategy continues to be a major challenge for Information Technology intensive organizations and managers. Over the last two decades, the way researchers on information systems have viewed and analyzed IT strategy in organizational systems has not significantly been modified. Recent studies show that one of the main problems is that the concept of IT strategy has been around for nearly two decades and although many organizations have been using it, the meaning and reference of the idea remains elusive. Those who have attempted to define it have not reached an agreement. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to define the problem and explore whether organizations...
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...Bastian Steppin LDR:460 Professor: Dr. Kecia Edwards April 2014 IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK IN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY This paper focuses on effective teamwork and how important it is for the automobile industry. This Industry is very fast moving and one false decision can cost millions of dollars for the company and can cost thousands of peoples jobs in case that the company goes bankrupt. The carmakers are on search for every cent that they can safe during the research, development, and also during the production process of a new vehicle. Of course, there are different ways to cut the cost in this industry. One way would be to use cheap and low-quality metals, another way would be to use cheap and less skilled employees. However the problem with these two approaches would be that they would harm the quality of the final product. The customer usually wants a high quality car for a low price and also low using cost. Therefore, the idea of using cheap and low quality metals, and also assembling the car by using unskilled and cheap labor, would finally result in the loss of customers and therefore the loss of business. The right way to do it is to find the right balance between price and quality. This right balance is very important for the companies and effective teamwork helps them to accomplish this goal. If a company does not use its resources in the most effective way and also does not use effective teamwork, then it will eventually suffer from its decisions. For...
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...TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT TOOLS ADOPTED BY THE VOLVO COMPANY Submitted by, Sharath 4SX12MBA52 MBA Section ‘C’ Submitted to, Mr. Karthik. K Lecturer MBA department Sahyadri College Date of submission: 17-04-2014 Table of Contents 1.0 Company introduction 4 2.0 Total quality management meaning 4 3.0 six sigma concept 4 3.1 steps taken by to Implement it 4 4.0 PRQP Advanced production quality planning 8 4.1 Responsibility’s in APQP 9 4.2 APQP Planning 9 4.3 APQP Review 10 5.0 Quality management in PPAP (production part approval process) 11 6.0 The 8D framework 12 6.1 Background of 8D 12 6.2 What is 8D? 12 6.3 The 8 discipline 12 7.0 The QJ process 14 7.1 Identify new QJ 14 7.2 Open New QJ 14 7.3 Investigate QJ 15 7.4 Develop solution 15 7.5 implement solution 16 7.6 Follow up 16 8.0 poka-yoke 17 9.0 Specification paper 17 10.0 Warning light 17 11.0 Scanner 17 Table of Figures Figure 1: six sigma improvement process transactional tasks 6 Figure 2: Process Input and Output 7 Figure 3: An example of APQP planning 10 Figure 4: This picture illustrates how to match Volvo GDP at part level with supplier 11 Figure 5: chart showing PPAR process 12 Figure 6: The eight steps in 8D 14 Abstract Maintaining quality in production...
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...Information Technology (IT) and E-commerce in general as well as in selected industry. For this report, the selected industry is Volvo. The applications of information technology and changes in supply chain using e-logistics are discussed elaborately in this report. This report also clearly draws about the supply chain strategy used in Volvo. In addition, use of electronic commerce is well discussed followed by the uncertainties faced by the Volvo and the overcoming of uncertainty by Volvo. This report ends up with the conclusion. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 3 APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE 4 BENEFITS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPLY CHAIN 5 LITREATURE REVIEW ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 6 CHANGES IN SUPPLY CHAIN USING E-LOGISTICS 7 ABOUT VOLVO 8 SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY OF VOLVO 9 APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN VOLVO 11 APPLICATION OF E-COMMERCE IN...
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...Managing Foresight for Innovation in Large Firms Lina Bakker & Linn Johansson Summary Corporate foresight has the potential to create competitive advantage by providing strategic orientation and supporting future insights. As humans we apply foresight every day by anticipating the future and preparing for it. Yet, in a corporate context the concept has been much less explored. There is a lack of research covering how to organise for foresight, particularly in an innovation setting. The purpose of this study was therefore to examine how large companies can manage foresight. This was investigated in a qualitative research with the means of multiple case studies and expert consultation. The findings of this study show that managing and organising for foresight in large firms can be done on the basis of two approaches, formal or informal. This is based on theory and has been extended and modified in this study. The formal approach builds on structure and processes whereas the informal approach is based on the corporate culture. Which approach is more suitable depends on the existing structures and culture in place, as well as the desired outcome of foresight. 1 Introduction Today’s business environment is defined by rapidly changing technology and intense competition, in which innovation has become a critical success factor to sustain competitive advantage. More and more companies are searching for strategic orientation and feel the need to support more future insights to...
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...Case Study of the Acquisition of Swedish Volvo by Chinese Geely Author: Lieke Wang Supervisor: Thomas Danborg Master's Thesis in Business Administration, MBA programme February 2011 Abstract The acquisition of the famous Swedish Volvo by the unknown Chinese Geely has attracted a lot of attention in the world-wide medias, particularly in Sweden and China. It is the largest overseas acquisition ever by a Chinese company, which marks a beginning of a new era that the fastest growing China has become a superpower in the world economy. Because this acquisition is such a complex business where two involved companies are so much different, it is of high interest to make a case study of this in the business research area. The thesis begins the study by looking at the basic facts of these two companies: the products, market, finance situation, brand and technology, etc. It was found that these two companies have very little in similarity, but a huge difference in product segment, technology and brand, inter-culture, language, etc. Therefore, there is no immediate cost saving through the integration of two companies and the sharing of the common components, which indicates that the risk of failure of this acquisition is relatively big. However, there do exist some opportunities lying ahead. The most obvious opportunity is the possible rapid expansion in the growing Chinese market as Volvo’s second home market. To be successful in China, Volvo must address several issues: quickly establish...
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...ABSTRACT The essay was written to provide an overview of the topic of job enrichment and its relevancy to the modern world organizations. The job enrichment was defined as a vertical restructuring method by virtue of giving the employee additional authority, autonomy, and control over the way the job is accomplished. There were many authors who talked about this topic differently by using different viewpoints. This also contained the job enrichment related theories such as the Hackman and Oldham’s Job Characteristic Model and the Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory. Job Characteristic Model was described five core job dimensions leading to three critical psychological states, resulting in work-related outcomes. They were identified as skill variety, task identity, task significance autonomy and feedback. Final outcomes should be identified as; job satisfaction, employee motivation, low absenteeism, high performance and low employee turnover. Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory was completely different type of model which discussed about hygiene factors and motivation factors. According to Herzberg, intrinsic motivators such as challenging work, recognition, and responsibility produce employee satisfaction. At the same time absence of extrinsic hygiene factors such as including status, job security, salary, and fringe benefits produce dissatisfaction. The advantages and disadvantages of job enrichment program were evaluated based on different criteria’s. According to Cunningham and Eberle...
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...Kumar | 1514013 | 2 | Hari Sharma | 1514017 | 3 | Pranal Dongare | 1514033 | 4 | Souveek Bose | 1514053 | 5 | Sujatha Krishnamurthy | 1514057 | 6 | Vinod Vijayakumar | 1514070 | Industry Overview Performance of commercial vehicles industry in India is one of the most important indicators as well as enablers of economic activity. Commercial vehicles account for 3% of the total domestic market for automobiles in India1. The net sales turnover for this industry in FY2014-15 was 72,264 cr. and the number of units sold was 6.15 lakh units2. The industry is segmented into Goods and Passenger vehicles with each segment further divided into LCVs (Light Commercial Vehicles) and M&HCVs (Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicles). A detailed classification of commercial vehicles can be found in Figure 1. Figure 1: CLASSIFICATION OF commercial vehicles Source: CRISIL Research, 14-Mar-2015 report Three major domestic players, namely Tata Motors, Mahindra and Mahindra and Ashok Leyland, dominate the industry. Strong positive outlook and space for growth has enticed foreign players, such as Volvo, Daimler and Isuzu Motors, to make an entry into the market. The existing players as well as the new entrants are looking at collaborations and joint ventures (Ashok Leyland-Nissan, Volvo-Eicher) with a view to consolidate their respective positions in the industry. There is renewed focus on high-end technology to create a product differentiation and provide better value for the customers...
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...customer segments Segmentation Assumptions: * Consumers differ from one another in some respect which could be used to divide the total market into homogeneous groups * Selected segments can be isolated from the remainder of the market to enable targeting with a distinct market offering Segmentation can be performed by answering the following questions: * Where? (Geographic) * Who? (Demographic) * Why? (Psychographic) * How? (Behavioural) Geographic Segmentation is based on: * Continents * Countries * Regions or cities * Counties, provinces or states * Neighbourhoods Example: McDonalds Aloo Tikki and Chicken Maharaja Mac Geographic segmentation is useful because it: * Provides a quick overview of differences and similarities between consumers based on the geographical location * Can identify cultural differences between geographical units * Takes into consideration the climatic differences between geographical units * Recognizes language differences between geographical units Demographic Segmentation is based on: * Age * Life cycle stage (baby boomer, Gen X, Gen Y, Married, Bachelor and etc) * Income (socio-economic) * Social class (socio-economic) Example: Lego Toys Geo-Demographic Segmentation CACI market analysis group developed ACORN (a classification of residential neighbourhoods), that uses 40 variables to identify. For example: which consumers within a specific neighbourhood earn and buy...
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...COLLISION WARNING WITH AUTO BRAKE A REAL-LIFE SAFETY PERSPECTIVE Erik Coelingh Lotta Jakobsson Henrik Lind Magdalena Lindman Volvo Car Corporation Sweden Paper Number 07-0450 ABSTRACT Automotive safety has gained an increasing amount of interest from the general public, governments, and the car industry. This is more than justified by traffic accident statistics, as each year around 1.2 million people die due to road traffic accidents. For these reasons safety remains a core value of Volvo Cars. This paper presents some of the latest active safety developments within Volvo Cars. Rear-end collisions are common accident scenarios and a common cause of these accidents is driver distraction and thus not reacting in time. No vehicle system is a substitute for the most important safety feature in any vehicle: the driver. However, Volvo is harnessing innovative technologies to help alert drivers to avoid potential collisions and reduce the potential impact speed when a collision cannot be avoided. One of those systems is Collision Warning with Auto Brake where the area in front of the vehicle is continuously monitored with the help of a longrange radar and a forward-sensing wide-angle camera fitted in front of the interior rear-view mirror. A warning and brake support will be provided for collisions with other vehicles, both moving and stationary. Additionally, if the driver does not intervene in spite of the warning and the possible collision is judged to be unavoidable; intervention...
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...gases or we can get it from waste sludge and biological waste like chicken and pig manure or from landfills. Using methane to operate machinery or a car would reduce the greenhouse gases by 25 percent because it uses less carbon dioxide. Methane is a dry gas so it does not dilute the engine oil making the engine oil last almost for the life of the car. This is because the combustion of methane is around 97 percent compared to gasoline being 27 percent. The rest of the gasoline (73 percent) goes out the exhaust and pollutes the air and releases carbon dioxide. With methane the exhaust will contain a little of water and the rest carbon dioxide. Methane gas is growing alternative fuel in other countries like Germany, Sweden, and Italy. Volvo came out with a car in 1995 that had both a methane tank and gasoline tank for back up. The bio-fuel cars have a five-cylinder engine and the maximum power output is 140 hp with both fuels. The price on the car is a little higher then regular cars but using methane means less operating costs....
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...INTRODUCTION: * COMPANY OVERVIEW: Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational consumer goods company, was formed in 1930 as a result of a merger between British Soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Union. The merger was beneficial to both companies as palm oil was a major raw material for both margarine and soap and could be imported more efficiently in larger quantities. * ABOUT SUNSILK: Sunsilk is a hair care brand, primarily aimed at women, producedby the Unilever group. Sunsilk is Unilever·s leading hair carebrand, and ranks as one of the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate's´billion dollar brands". Sunsilk shampoos, conditioners and otherhair care products are sold in 69 countries worldwide. Sunsilk is sold under a variety of different names in marketsaround the world including Elidor, Seda and Sedal. The brand isstrongest in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and is thenumber one hair care brandin India, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Bangladesh, SriLanka and Thailand Sunsilk was first launched in the UK in 1954 and by 1959 it was available in 18 different countries. Since this product has launched it’s increasing its growth rapidly. From 1954 it increasing its market value and earning profit more than 40 billion euro per year. Sunsilk introduced in 1989 with three variants related to hair type endorsement of a hair stylist was the first step in building the image of brand as health care expert. With thecompetition of local and multinational...
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...[pic] Risk Analysis Project Contemporary Auditing By: Diane Lovett Table of Contents Industry Overview………………………………………………………………….2 Corporation: History………………………………………………………………………………5 Mergers and Acquisitions ..……………………………………………………….6 Directors & Executive Officers ..…………………………………………………6 Brief Overview………………………………………………………..……………6 Business Segments…………………………………………………………………7 Competition…………………………………………………………………………9 Governmental Standards………………………………………………………….10 Corporate Governance ...…………………………………………………………11 Legal Proceedings…………………………………………………………………11 Trends & Strategies……………………………………………………………….12 Risks………………………………………………………………………………..13 Risk Factors……………………………………………………………………….15 Analysis of Financial Statements and Ratios…………………………………..16 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………..…….17 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………19 Attachments: A – Income Statement for 5 Years B – Balance Sheet for 5 Years C – Horizontal Analysis of Income Statement D – Horizontal Analysis of Balance Sheet E – Company’s Rations compared to Industry Averages Industry Overview: The automobile industry is comprised of companies that design, manufacture, engineer, assemble, and market automobiles and motorcycles and provide leasing and financial services. Industry performance is closely linked with economic performance. The auto industry represents one of the largest segments of the U.S. economy. The U.S. industry is dominated by the Big Three, General Motors, Ford...
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