CHINA SOURCING GROUP: DELIVERING ON TIME China Sourcing Group (CSG) una empresa fundada en 1912 en la ciudad de Nueva York, especializada en productos de primera calidad y de regalo, y cuya base de operación se encuentra en Estados Unidos; en 2004 decide abrir una oficina de abastecimiento en Shanghai, a la cual se le dio la responsabilidad de suministrar proveedores en China y en Asia del Sur. La oficina de Shanghai estaba encargada del abastecimiento, del desarrollo de productos, auditoría y
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FINAL PROJECT: Chapter 1: Page: 23 Case Study: National Air Express 1. Is the productivity measure of shipments per day per truck still useful? Are there alternatives that might be effective? The productivity can be measured by the number of stops covered by each driver. I think measuring shipments per day per truck is still useful. It helps to keep on track with the amount of services that can be offer on every day basis and with the area covered by each driver. By doing that, the company can
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Q1: 1) Do you have centralized or decentralized purchasing system? Single purchasing department or or plant level purchasing departments, individuals make their own decisions? • Centralized Q2: Do you use electronic procurement system? • No Q3: Do you outsource production of your products? • Yes Q4: What percentage do you outsource? 100% - all products are made in China Q5: What are the reasons for outsourcing? • Cost advantage Q6: Do you plan to insource • No Q7: What criteria are important
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Joseph Juran Joseph Moses Juran (December 24, 1904 – February 28, 2008) was a Romanian-born American management consultant and engineer. Dr. Joseph Juran is considered to have had the greatest impact on quality management after W. Edwards Deming. He is principally remembered as an evangelist for quality and quality management, having written several influential books on those subjects including the Quality Control Handbook and Managerial Breakthrough. In 1941, after discovering the Pareto principle
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ISO-9001 A brief overview What is ISO? ISO (International Standard for Organization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies. These federations form the member bodies of ISO. ISO prepares standards that can be adopted by various organizations to bring uniformity and universality to its structure and processes. The standards are set through ISO technical committees. Each member body interested in a particular area or subject can be part of the technical committees. Governmental
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Introduction…………………………………………………..…… II. Statement of the Problem…………………………………..…... III. Objectives of the Case Study………………………………..…. IV. Methodologies and Approaches…………………………….… V. Analysis of the Case a. Qualitative Tool: Fishbone Diagram………….…. b. Quantitative Tool: Decision Tree Analysis……. VI. Alternative Courses of Action (ACAs) c. Alternative Course 1……………………………..… d. Alternative Course 2……………………………….. e. Alternative Course 3……………………………
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Cameron Walburg Evan Zamora Jeff Dean Juliet LaChappell Nicole Skubic Tyler Cramer Tyler Ford A Contents I. Executive Summary..................................................................................................................... 1 II. Columbia’s Past and Current Strategies..................................................................................... 2 Past Strategies.......................................................................................
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Project and Risk Management 1. Introduction This brief examines two projects created for a similar purpose but with different outcomes. The Airwave project was a national project designed to upgrade and integrate communications for and between police forces in the UK (Comptroller and Auditor General, 2002; p2). This project was regarded largely as a success, although it was not without its problems. By contrast, the FiReControl (‘Firecontrol’) project was designed to improve the ‘resilience
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Taguchi methods and poka-yoke methods are applied to quality design in services. 5. Construct a "house of quality" as part of a quality function deployment project. 6. Construct a statistical process control chart for service operation. 7. Use a fishbone chart in a cause-and-effect analysis. 8. Compare and contrast the quality program features espoused by Philip Crosby and W. Edward Deming. 9. Describe the features of an unconditional service guarantee and its managerial benefits.10. Discuss the
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Stanley Blanc Mrs.Lage English IV 3/12/14 Pygmalion Stereotype & Social Class Essay This play was written in order to challenge the social class system which is "Upper Class" "Middle Class" "Low Class", along with stereotypes and sexism. In this Era it was to be believed as the Victorian times, where the Rich were separated from the poor while they are there polar opposite, from money, clothing, lifestyle, the riches way of speech compared to the poor. The Rich speak more than one language
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