16% | 14% | 8% | -11% | Moto 300 | 10% | 27% | 7% | 0% | Moto 450 | 29% | 11% | 17% | 6% | SALES(% change) | 20% | 22% | 7% | -5% | * Both the Enduro bikes sales figures show elasticity. Enduro 250’s percentage change shows 37 percentage points decrease. * Enduro 550’s percentage decrease in sales in 11. * These bikes’ sales performance is worse than others. Moto 450 is the best sold product. International and domestic trends: * As the company has not grown foreign markets properly
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[pic] |BOSTON COLLEGE |CARROLL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT | | Managing Customer Responsiveness at Littlefield Technologies – Spring 2007( Background It is now nine months later, and Littlefield Technologies has developed another DSS product. This product also is expected to have a 268-day lifetime. Littlefield once again has contracted with your operations management consulting team to manage their operations for this new product. Management Strategy
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Case Background Cambridge Science Pharmaceuticals (CSP) is an international health care company that develops, manufactures and markets products that treat metabolic disorders, gastrointestinal diseases, immune deficiencies and other chronic and acute medical conditions. In April of 2008, CSP’s latest product Metabical, which was a new drug that had been clinically proven to be effective at achieving weight-loss in moderately overweight individuals, had just received FDA approval as the first prescriptive
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Monopolistic competition (MC) is the market structure of restaurants in Miami, FL. Monopolistic competition is a market structure in which many firms sell a differentiated product into which entry is relatively easy, in which the firm has some control over its product price and in which there is considerable non price competition. In Miami there is a large number of full service restaurants , 34,000, for the city’s population of 2.5 million. In monopolistic competition (MC) there are a large
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The Goal is a very compelling novel. Novel, HUH!! Who ever heard of a novel about a production plant? Well, Eli has made the production managers have quite an epiphany. In one book he might have changed the whole world of cost accounting. Eli approached the production world with a common sense view. Using just one goal, making money, he referenced every activity to it. Eli said, "I view science as nothing more than an understanding of the way the world is and why it is that way." You see, Eli is
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Everyone’s gasoline problem The price of gasoline has varied widely from a current low of $3.98 a gallon to a high of $4.21 approximately ten weeks ago. In order to appreciate the reason for this fluctuation it is important to understand that the price of gas, like other commodities, is determined by the relationship of supply and demand. Since gasoline is a relatively inelastic product, the price alone does not have much bearing on the demand. Rather, other non-price determinants such as personal
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time, and stirring. Mechanisms/ Structures: Hexane Maleic anhydride Cyclopentadiene Summary of Key Data: Mass of Maleic Anhydride- 1.088g Melting Point of first product: 105-109 C Melting point of first product redone (after being put into oven): 138-141 C Mass of Cycloadduct: 0.748g Melting point of Cyclo-Adduct (was put into oven for 10 minutes): 164-168 C Sample Calculations: None needed for this experiment Results: This experiment had two different work-up
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and also have introduced the next generation of customer service innovation by bringing an open technology platform. The first priority for McDonalds is to deliver best restaurant experience for the customers, for that McDonalds used Point of Sale software. The Point of Sale software is a computerized cash register that the retailers use to calculate the sales and operate the cash drawer. The POS software adds up total sales, figure out the state sales tax, calculate the change back from the amount
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Checkpoint 5 Complete Exercise 9.13 (The Video Game Satisfaction Case) on page 357 in your textbook A. H0 ≤ 42 versus Ha >42 b: z = (42.954 - 42)/(2.64/√64) = 2.891 Z values at 0.10 = 1.28 - Reject 0.05 = 1.64 - Reject 0.01 = 2.33 - Reject 0.001 = 3.09 - Accept Since we are dealing with the right side of the curve the z values are positive. c: Z = 2.891 therefore right side = 0.0019 Left side = 0.9981 Since p is = 0.0019 it less than 0.10, 0.05. 0.01 but greater
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CHAPTER 12 operation management DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. THE ADVENT OF LOW-COST COMPUTING SHOULD NOT BE SEEN AS OBVIATING THE NEED FOR THE ABC INVENTORY CLASSIFICATION SCHEME. ALTHOUGH THE COST OF COMPUTING HAS DECREASED CONSIDERABLY, THE COST OF DATA ACQUISITION HAS NOT DECREASED IN A SIMILAR FASHION. BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS STILL HAVE MANY ITEMS FOR WHICH THE COST OF DATA ACQUISITION FOR A “PERPETUAL” INVENTORY SYSTEM IS STILL CONSIDERABLY HIGHER THAN THE COST OF THE ITEM. 2. The standard
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