AGGREGATE PLANNING Overview of aggregate planning activities An organization must plan its manufacturing activities of variety of level and operate those as a system .Planning help to know where to go, the aim of the organization, the goal, the objective and how these can be accomplished. Planning involves the process of forecasting, budgeting and choosing among alternative. In planning, there are time dimensions which can be classified into long, medium and short range. 1) Long range planning:
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Activity Based Costing (ABC) is best known for its appilcation in computing product costs, but firms also find it useful in determining the cost of serving customers and as a basis for evaluating the profitabilty of a specific customer or group of customers. Why is this important? Most managers agree that 80% of their profits come from the top 20% of their customers and most important, the bottom 20% of their customers are unprofitable. For example, to compete with Walmart,Best Buy works hard to
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what would be the appropriate time to isolate and recognize a direct material price variance? A. When material is issued. B. When material is purchased. C. When material is used in production. D. When production is completed. 2. Which of the following is the most probable reason a company would experience an unfavorable labor rate variance and a favorable labor efficiency variance? A. The mix of workers assigned to the particular job was heavily weighted towards the
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Destin Brass Products Destin Brass produces three products used for water purification systems: valves, pumps and flow controllers. They are seeing high competition in the pumps market while competitors are reducing the prices on pumps. Because they do not have any design advantages to their product, they feel they need to follow the market and lower their prices as well. A meeting was held to discuss the declining profits and a proposal to change their overhead allocation method was proposed
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Airborne Express Group 2: Melody Mohns, x2010mpy@stfx.ca Laura Moreira-Andrews, x2010myw@stfx.ca Patrick Hale, x2010ofw@stfx.ca Abigail Weber, x2010nez@stfx.ca Conner Cameron, x2010oon@stfx.ca Patrick Gormley, x2010asx@stfx.ca | | April 4th, 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 paragraphs or less Written to CEO Respectful, professional tone Outline core issues, analytical approach taken by team and key recommendations Include all team members’ names TABLE OF CONTENTS
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Academic Session: 2008-2009 ------------------------------------------------- Supervisor: Mr.Manoj Pongubhati Course Title: Msc computer systems and networking Mode of Study: Full Time ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost I would like to dedicate my thesis to my parents and want to thank Prof. Mr. Manoj pongubhati, my research dissertation supervisor, for giving me an opportunity
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UNIT 8 HUMAN SYSTEMS RESOURCE INFORMATION Structure 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 Objectives Introduction Information: Some Basic Guidelines Human Resource Information at Macro Level Human Resource Information at Micro Level Effective Human Resource Information System: Some Approaches Why Computerise Personnel Records and Information Systems? Computer Applications in Human Resource Management: An Overview Let Us Sum Up Clues to Answers 8.0 OBJECTIVES
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globalisation has positive, innovative, dynamic aspects, it also has negative, disruptive, marginalizing aspects (UNDP 1999). Over the past 30 years, globalisation had brought new dimensions to the traditional economic thinking around trading trade. The existing of globalisation causes impacts in economic, political and social in the 21st century. Globalisation had rise tremendously since the advance of technology, science, and transport. Industries are moving to different country every second just from
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d. all of the above. Answer: d Difficulty: 2 Objective: 1 43. Place the following steps from the five-step decision process in order: A = Make predictions about future costs B = Evaluate performance to provide feedback C = Implement the decision D = Choose an alternative a. D C A B b. C D A B c. A D C B d. D C B A Answer: c Difficulty: 2 Objective: 1 44. The formal process of choosing
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Corporation is a aircraft, automotive and agricultural equipment manufacturing company operating with three plants. Due to an increase in government contracts there is a need for setting up a new plant, as there is no space and labor available in the existing plants. The two options available with the company for setting up the new plant are Kimberly Street and Hampton. The evaluation
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