of the sale for both the hardware (devices) and for the truck monitoring services. Service contracts generally have a duration of 12 months and are billed monthly. Service and devices are sold at standard rates, but discounts are offered depending on the number of units purchased and placed in service. The discounts do not appear to be unreasonable. Standard pricing for the services and devices is as follows: Product or Service Price Truck Finder Device $15,000 per unit, MSRP Truck Finder
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airport resembled more of a disused Primary school that sticks in my mind about my arrival, it was the Smiles. The most honest, genuine smiles in all the world. The taxi Journey to my camp for the night was like an interrogation. I bombarded the taxi driver with questions about every aspect of my new environment. I wanted to know everything! “Why was that man giving that goat a piggy back?”, “Is that the school that Madonna is
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consumers and the demand calculation technology at the firm. The Uber app is available for iPhone/Android devices and uses GPS from the requested pickup destination to display a map of all available Uber cars in the area. Uber calculates the nearest driver and plots your pickup time accordingly. Each driver is also given an iPhone with an app to manage incoming customer requests. Therefore, Uber drivers know exactly where they should go, instead of driving around and looking for customers. The demand
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essential to the customers, like the Night-shift clerk and the Delivery truck driver. These two positions impact the consumer on different levels, unlike the night-shift clerk the delivery driver has little contact with the client. A delivery truck driver and night clerk are entry level positions. The night clerk ensures that all customers are serviced and that merchandise is readily available for purchasing. Delivery truck drivers are responsible for ensuring products are in the store for the client. Customers
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approximately 3,000 team members and generated about $500 million in sales. The company faced intense competition in all of its market segments —digital service units, modems, network management systems and services, multiplexers, and channel extension devices. No competitor had more than one-third of any market, each product market had a different leader, and, in most cases, five or six competitors represented 95% of the market. The company's headquarters was located in Largo, about midway up the western
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The implementation of Activity Based Costing (ABC) in Chinese refining manufacturers Table of contents 1. Introduction 2 1.1 Research background 2 1.2 domestic and foreign research status 4 1.2.1 Activity-based costing development process 4 1.2.2 Status quo of Activity-Based Costing Development and Application in China 6 1.3 research contents 8 2. Related theories 9 2.1concept of ABC 9 2.2 rationales 10 2.3 difference between ABC and traditional costing
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[pic] Mobile devices and applications have become the go-to tools for logistics and transportation professionals looking to stay connected and manage their supply chains from anywhere. In a field that is all about getting goods where they need to be quickly and cost-effectively, it's no surprise that mobile applications and devices are fast becoming must-have tools for logistics, supply chain, and transportation professionals. A range of new supply chain mobility devices and applications helps
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Tom Gause 4/22/13 Unit 4 research paper: Port Expander “A port expander is a hardware device designed to utilize more than one device on a single port at one time.” In layman’s terms, this can also be called a “splitter.” There are many different types of port expanders, but they can be narrowed down to two major groups; internal, and external. They are generic devices that will function no matter where they’re installed. Internal port expanders attach to your motherboard, and the user will
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While this opportunity is very helpful to most people who have lots of information they want to store on different devices. Businesses are becoming more cautious of the fact that all this information is at risk, when stored through third party services. Today, almost all companies 94 percent have worries about employees mixing personal and business data on their mobile devices, according to a survey published by online-backup provider EVault in January. ( Lemos et al., 2013) What people do not
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Activity-Based Systems: Measuring the Costs of Resource Usage Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan Robin Cooper is a Professor at the Claremont Graduate School and Robert S. Kaplan is a Professor at the Harvard Business School. This paper describes the conceptual basis for the design and use of newly emerging activity-based cost (ABC) systems. TVaditional cost systems use volume-driven allocation bases, such as direct labor dollars, machine hours, and sales dollars, to assign organizational expenses
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