|Financial Statement Analysis | |Working Capital | |Working Capital is more a measure of cash flow than a ratio. The result of this calculation must be a positive number. It is calculated | |as shown below:
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how to present the plan. Operating and Capital Budgets A Sample Manufacturing Budget for First three Months (P000s) | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Projected sales (units) | 50 | 60 | 70 | Desired ending Inventory | 3 | 2 | 6 | Available for sale | 53 | 62 | 76 | Less: beginning inventory | 0 | 3 | 2 | Total production required | 53 | 59 | 74 | A Sample Operating Budget for Three Months (P000s) Expense | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Rent | P10 | P10 | P12 | Utilities | 3 | 3 | 3 | Salaries
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chain executives including myself have not properly framed the supply chain value proposition to them. After years of justifying supply chain investments to various CEOs and Boards based on improving and sustaining product availability, driving inventory productivity, and driving transportation and warehousing cost productivity, I found linking supply chain performance to shareholder value creation still missing. Over time, economic profit strongly correlates to increasing shareholder value in public
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stocks 940 incoming parts used in the production of finished goods. Inventory ordering and control has been handled by the existing, long term staff for many years. There is no complete inventory control system in place and not all parts are kept on computer records. Inventory accuracy relies on intermittent physical counts by company employees. The plant is currently running at a 10% out-of-stock rate on raw goods inventory. Analysis There are several options that Wriston has to consider
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CASE CONTEXT Advanced Medical Technology Corporation (AMT) developed, manufactured, and sold scientific medical instruments, needles and catheters that allowed rapid and less invasive access to a number of different organs and vessels. These products represented an alternative to a traditional surgical procedures and allowed analysis or corrective treatment with less risk and trauma and at a lower cost. An example of the products was catheters that could be introduced into a blood vessel
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production process, the company focuses on every detail in the finished goods process and ensures that everything must run in a full capacity and efficiently which includes software application, updating machinery and equipment, maintaining lean inventories;
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Product vs. Service Supply Chain Whether tangible products or intangible services, both manufacturing and service industries use different inventory strategies to deliver quality end results to consumers. Supplying a service or a product impacts forecasting and resourcing decisions in different ways. The objectives of the service industry remain similar to the manufacturing industry, fulfilling wants or demands of customers are impacted by the strategies that organizations choose to follow. In
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The first step in devising an effective supply chain is to consider the nature of demand for your product. For this many aspects are important: Product life cycle, demand predictability, product variety etc. But any product can be broadly classified into as either a Functional Product or an Innovative Product based on their demand patterns. Root cause for ineffectiveness of any supply chain is the mismatch between the type of product and the type of supply chain. Functional Products are
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the best way to undertake this order while meeting the production needs of orders already in the pipeline as their current capacity is insufficient to meet the additional demands. To further complicate the situation, Kuiper's production planning, inventory tracking, and supply chain management systems are inadequate to meet the demands of increased production. Benchmarking strategies are excellent resources to appraise the decision that Kuiper Leda can make when having alternative solutions based
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Executive Summary We believe that the reason for the company’s shortage of funds is that most of its cash/funds are “tied” up in inventory and A/R, along with the fact that even though the company is having significant sales growth, it’s not been able to leverage the economies of scale by being able to reduce operating expenses or purchasing expenses (Total COGS). All of this is leading to significant needs for short term loans and the interest expense on these loans is only making the matters worse
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