Logistics Planning for Supplier Base Reduction - understanding Supplier Base Reduction’s role in purchasing A case study at Alfa Laval AB Authors Fabian Karlsson Sebastian Eriksson-Ritzén Supervisors Ala Pazirandeh Markus Ekendahl ii Acknowledgements This thesis completed our Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Faculty of Engineering‚ Lund University. We initiated this study by expressing a wish to write
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Executive Summary Nestle is the world’s largest food manufacturers that enjoys a good reputation in the world due to the high-quality of their products. One of its famous products is Nescafe‚ which has over 70 year’s history and is one of the world’s leading coffee brands. Currently‚ the potential competitors of Nestle are Maxwell‚ KreisKaffee (direct brand competitors).The key strengths of Nestle are excellent quality‚ well-known brand with loyal consumers‚ the capability of scientific research
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Hausser Food Products Company is well known for its production of infant food. It controled approximately 60 percent of the market and continued to increases sales every year until the baby bust in 1980. This was the first time that Hausser started to see a decrease in sales. The marketing department has focused its efforts to increase sales. Currently‚ they have divided the country into seven geographical regions‚ each with a sales manager who reports back to the district level. The first step
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Cor porate Social Responsibility in Supply Chain Management: A Case Study on NTUC FairPrice Cooperative Ltd Singapore Written by Chua Ker Sin Senior Executive Singapore Compact for CSR With contributions from Ms Evelyn Sue Wong Advisor‚ Research and Publications Singapore Compact for CSR Case Study: Singapore The case was developed with the cooperation of Singapore Compact for CSR solely for educational purposes as a contribution to the Project entitled “New Corporate Procurement
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Context: I. Brief Description of Industry: Nestlé is a multinational company based in Switzerland. Nestlé operates in food industry. In 1905‚ Nestlé was formed as a result of a merger between a Swiss and English company which was established in 1866. Initially‚ Nestlé started to offer condensed milk formula and milk related products to customers (Nestlé‚ 2013). Later on‚ it expanded its offerings to other food related items. Gradually‚ Nestlé grew and made significant success stories. In the
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Introduction The parade of corporate accounting scandals of the last decade‚ with lion’s share occurring in 2002‚ has developed deep antipathy and distrust towards corporations and their reporting practices‚ and casted doubts on the opinions of audit firms. As majority of these accounting frauds occurred in the US (See Appendix)‚ there was a widely-held view that rules-based accounting standards have allowed failure of large corporations like Enron and World Com‚ since US GAAP is perceived to
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line‚ to assist in his questions regarding the company. He found several sites‚ which could possibly question the ethics of the company‚ as well as the culture in which this company represented. In order for Benji to make a decision‚ he will need to base his decision on many critical factors. These factors may include: offers from other corporations‚ the ability to work within the business ethics of New Gen. and the culture of New Gen. Understanding business ethics will be useful
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Uses Business Intelligence to Manage its Online Grocery CASE 1 VIDEO CASE Systems SUMMARY FreshDirect is the largest online grocery firm in the New York market‚ and one of the largest in the country. With more than 250‚000 customers ordering over 8‚500 products every day‚ the company faced severe logistics and management decision making issues. To solve these issues‚ FreshDirect adopted a comprehensive enterprise data base system from SAP which utilized a number of business intelligence
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Kudler Fine Foods is committed to designing and implementing an organizational reward system that will promote and incentivize the goals of the organization. Human Resources will examine the challenges in planning and administering a pay system which includes understanding economic and legal factors that determine pay levels‚ align compensation strategy to general business strategy‚ develop systematic pay structures‚ and address key policy issues (Casio‚ 2006). Kudler Fine Foods organization rewards
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Chuck and Don’s Pet Food Outlet commits their employees to “do the right thing” for their customer base (ChuckandDons‚ n.d.). Can one company build success on this strategy alone after starting out training and boarding pets? An evaluation of the market and completion and the pricing and retail strategy implemented by this company offers insight into the potential for Chuck and Don’s success. Market Situation How smart is it for a specialty company limiting itself mostly to pet food for dogs and cats
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