...important to not combine these two stages into one. By specifying the need first then identifying the options to meet the need allows for lower cost and better or more innovative solutions. Also if a supply professional believes that more opportunities exist to improve the commercial equivalent presented by designer they must bring it to the designers’ attention. This involvement prevents the hassle of trying to reverse a design decision after it’s made. The example the book used was two pieces of wood. We say “I need a nail to nail these two pieces of wood together,” instead of “I need to fasten these two pieces of wood together.” There are many ways to fasten the wood together, nailing is just one way. Using a bolt, screw, or staple are other methods of fastening the wood together. Interpret the value to the organization when early supplier involvement (ESI) is implemented effectively. Early supplier involvement (ESI) is valuable to the organization, it ensures that what is specified in the needs is procurable and represents good value. ESI can help identify any possible issues, eliminate unnecessary costs early on, encourage innovation, and improve project organization. . References Johnson, P. F., Leenders, M. R., & Flynn, A. E. (2010). Purchasing and Supply Management. Boston: McGraw-Hill Irwin. Scott, S. (2014). Strategies for Implementing Performance Specifications: Guide for Executives. National Academy...
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...BUS 100: INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS CASE STUDY (In lieu of a final exam) A. Choose a big business to study. Choose one whose stock you would buy if you had the money today. It must be a BIG, well-known business, e.g. IBM, AT&T. B. List your business on the sign-up sheet. Be sure no one else has chosen that business. If they have, please select another. C. Find the company’’s web site on the Internet. Print a few pages. D. Find three recent magazine or newspaper articles about the challenges that the company faces. Choose REAL MAGAZINES, such as Business Week, Fortune, Money, Time, Newsweek, etc.---NOT ONLINE magazines. You MAY use the online version of the paper magazines. Make a photocopy of the articles. It’’s O.K. to give me your copy with your notes on it. E. Answer the questions below. Type the questions and answer them fully in multiple paragraphs below the question. One or two sentences or paragraphs won’’t do. You probably should be able to write at least a page or more to answer each question. USE YOUR OWN WORDS -- NO QUOTES! This also means that you cannot copy words from somewhere else and call them your own——even from the Internet. Copying someone else’’s words without giving them credit is against the law. 1. What is the company’’s product or service? Explain in detail. 2. Give a history of the business, including how and when it started, its triumphs, its defeats, and its charities. 3. What topics does the Web site cover? Why do you think...
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...mogul Lew Wasserman, grew up with an entrepreneurial spirit and a knack for business like his grandfather. After graduating from UCLA with a Political Science degree, Wasserman got into the world of investment banking and realized it was not for him. At age 25, he became the youngest person to ever own a professional sports team when he purchased the LA Avengers of the Arena Football League. Helping to negotiate the AFL’s national TV partnership with NBC, as well as playing an integral part in the collective bargaining agreement with the players, Wasserman was later elected chairman of the league. His love of football, despite the termination of the LA Avengers in 2009, has not faded. Wasserman is currently working with LA Live and the Staples Center to build a $1 billion dollar stadium, which he hopes will be the new home of an NFL franchise in Los Angeles. Alongside his work with the AFL, Wasserman simultaneously founded Wasserman Media Group (WMG), which encompasses athlete management, corporate consulting, media rights and partnerships; he remains Chairman and CEO. Competing with some of the world’s largest talent management agencies, WMG has an extensive clientele (over 1,200 clients and close to $3 Billion in sponsorships) in all of the major sports, action sports, and the Olympic games. Big deals done by WMG include the naming rights agreement on the recently built Met Life Stadium in New Jersey, the $178 million deal struck with Emirates airline to put the carrier's...
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...The Bukidnon plateau is home to seven of the 18 different indigenous groups found in Mindanao. After doing some research, although it was fairly short I’ve learned a lot about the Lumad people (the Visayan word collectively used for all indigenous people in Mindanao). We spent most of the week with a Manobo community high in the mountains of San Fernando municipality. The Manobo people are just one of the 18 Lumad groups found in Mindanao; however, they have a number of subgroups with slight language differences and practices. The different Manobo tribes are semi-autonomous from the Philippine government and have their own laws, practices and judgements given by tribal chieftains (Datus). To explore on the food preparation and cooking skills of Manobo people most families in this community depend on root crops and what is caught in the forest for their food. However, food can sometimes be scarce so often times dried fish and rice has to be bought in the barangay market (5km down the mountain). Inside this research are instances of their cooking practices, on how they prepare on their food. The upland Manobo practise swidden or slash-burn farming whereas those inhabiting the valleys practise wet-rice farming. Rice culture is so central to the Manobo way of life that there are more than 60 different names for rice varieties, and all agricultural rituals center around it. In the late 190s, however many Manobo groups shifted to corn culture because of the gradual disappearance...
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...9/27/2010 Doug Hanlon 55 May Everett,Ma 02149 Mr. Jeff Eldersveld Staples Center 1111 S. Figueroa St. Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA, 90015 Business: (213) 742-7500 Dear Mr. Eldersveld, I am very interested in applying for the 2010-2011 Clippers Team Writer Internship. For the past year and a half I have been working with the Sports Information Director at Mount Ida College. During this time I have conducted interviews, press conferences, published game programs as well as beat writing. For the 2009-2010 Men’s basketball season I was the team’s beat writer. During that season I was responsible for all game previews, game stories, post game interviews as well as press conferences. I believe that my background and experience with working with a basketball team will be an asset to you and the Los Angeles Clippers organization. I have worked with adobe photo-shop as well as a web design page to further enhance my skills in graphic and web design. I have posted multiple interviews with their transcripts on the Mount Ida website as well as having all game previews with stats, streaks and team history for each opponent. My interviewing and researching skills are excellent and I will research facts and the stats keeping readers interested. If given the opportunity to accomplish as assignment, I will meet all the organization and team goals while keeping the Clippers fans with the most up to date information on the team. ...
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...I. BACKGROUND Staples Inc. founded in 1985 by Thomas G. Stemberg and Leo Kahn in Brighton, Massachussets. It is headquartered in Boston and employs 89,000 employees worldwide. Staples sells office supplies at more than 2,000 stores as well as through its catalog and call centers, the internet site, and contract sales force. In additional to typical office supplies, stores offer computer hardware and software, furniture, art and school supplies and printing and copy services ( Staples 10k, 2012). The company has 3 operating division: North American Delivery, North America Retail and International. The retail stores in Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom and the United States are operate under its original name “Staples”. Argentina operates as Officenet-Staples, Belgium and Netherlands as Office Center, Canada as Staples Canada and in Italy as Mondoffice. The company recorded revenues of $25.1 billion during 2012, an increase of 1.9% compared with 2011. 39% of revenues generated from North American Retail, 40% from North American Delivery and 21% from International operation. (managementparadise.com, Staples 10K, 2012). II. STRATEGIC DIRECTION A. Mission “Our mission is to bring easy to offices worldwide” (Staples Soul, 2012). B. GOALS/OBJECTIVES • Maintain our leadership position by delivering on our brand promise • Focus on customer service, customer acquisition and retention, and providing our customers a broad assortment...
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...During the 17th century, differing social, economic, and geographic factors shaped the Chesapeake region and New England. in different Throughout the century, New England maintained a strong, communal identity while the Chesapeake remained widely scattered. Through the hot river valleys of the Chesapeake had a climate that facilitated staple crop plantations and disease, New England’s extreme climate made mass production of staple crops and the spread of disease difficult. The combination of poor free men, and later, indentured servants and slaves, resulted in a larger rich-poor gap in the Chesapeake. When the New England settlers first arrived, they had strong ties to religion. They believed that it was their responsibility and God’s expectation that they create moral, Christian communities. John Winthrop reflects this in Doc. A by saying their failure would “open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of…God.” The Chesapeake settlers, however, had similar yet, separate, goals based on the economies. People’s main motives were not religious, but economic, there to “dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold,” as per doc. F. This resulted in competition, rather than bonding, over the settlement. Document B reflects that people settled in New England with their families, whereas Doc. C shows that Chesapeake settlers were mostly single men. This happened because the religious freedom and practice was more appealing to families, to form communities that worship God, and resulted...
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...The Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) is a leading sport and entertainment group that boasts the world’s largest collection sports team and sporting facilities. AEG owns and controls numerous sporting facilities in the United States with such arenas as the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Prudential Center in Newark and the America Airlines Arena in Miami under its control. AEG developed and operates the Home Depot Centre in Carson Los Angeles “it is the official U.S Olympic training site that features elite facilities for soccer, tennis, track and field, track cycling, boxing, lacrosse, rugby, football and other sport. The Home Depot Center also hosts concerts and family shows and is the home of the Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA” (Anschutz Entertainment Group, 2012). It is also the national training center for both the Men and Women national soccer teams. AEG also controls many facilities worldwide, in Europe in controls the O2 area in London and the O2 World arena in Berlin, The Hamburg Arena in Hamburg, the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam and the Globe Arena in Stockholm. In Asia it controls the Wukesong Arena in Beijing and the Qatar National Convention Center in Doha. AEG also controls Acer Arena in Sydney Australia. AEG owns a share in an impressive number of sports teams around the world and has a firm grip some of the largest sporting franchises and various sports. AEG part owns the Los Angeles Galaxy, Houston Dynamo’s Major League soccer teams and...
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...CORN FLOUR MILL manufacturer says, maize flour is more nutritious than the common. Maize is an golden crop whose fat, P and Vitamin B2 rank first in all the grains. Maize flour contains linoleic acid and VE to reduce risk of arteriosclerosis by decreasing cholesterol level in human body. High contents of calcium and iron prevent high blood pressure and heart disease. Modern medical research indicates rich GSH in maize flour has the function to resist cancer, which detoxicates chemical cancerogenic substances by combining with them and excrete through digestive system. Coarse maize flour contains abundant lysine to restrain tumor. Nutrition in common flour depends on its raw material. Wheat, potato and cassava flour is quite different from maize. You can choose different flour as you need. For example, potato flour is often used to made bread and cakes. Corn flour mill is a good choice for you to processing maize into quality flour. Since the opening reformation, corn flour mill, as Chinese pillar industry, has gained good market development, effectively increasing its competitive status and speeding up domestic economy. Seeing from corn flour mill development, we should not only rely on technology, but advanced leading principles. First, China should adjust and upgrade corn flour mill structure, increasing comprehensive level of corn flour mill industry. Then, we should continuously circulate economy of corn flour mill and extend processing chain to increase comprehensive...
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...In many African countries, people take corn as the main food crops. Corn food has vital meaning to them. In South Africa, 43% maize is for people use, 54% for animals and 1% for industry. In 1999-2000, it was planted 3,200,000 hectares per year. White maize flour is the staple food for 75% people, which is ground in different ways and usually cooked into a porridge. It can be seen that maize for industry application is very low. Maize is coarse cereal, rich in dietary fiber. With international business development and local industrial and market demand increasing, corn peeling machine is demanded more and more. With more and more attentions to corn value, corn begins to compete with millet and rice in the market. And this mainly attributes to corn peeling machine rapid development. At present, the corn peeling machine has so many models and basically realizes each kind of corn eating method. Now, let’s analyze why corn peeling machine develops so rapidly. Corn peeling machine develops towards high-performance. And we have high quality automatic corn peeling machine now. According to market demands and human requirements and advice, we also have technical transformation to the corn peeling machine, which laid a solid foundation for corn peeling machine further development. CORN PEELING MACHINE rapid development requires us to improve corn peeling machine efficiency, save power consumption and grinding system energy consumption, which has become the main development direction...
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...Buying Rice Vibrating Cleaning Sieve from China TQLZ series Rice Vibrating Cleaning Sieve is suitable for cleaning raw grain for grain processing plant and grain storage. The Rice Vibrating Cleaning Sieve of different specification can separate large, small and light impurities from wheat, paddy ,corn and oil bearing materials. Rice Vibrating Cleaning Sieve is designed with doubledecked sieve, and good seal. It has much better effects especially for big impurities contained in grain. It is also used for granule separation in food and chemical industry. The Rice Vibrating Cleaning Sieve is driven by double vibratory motors , which enables the airtight sieve to keep a back-and-forth track of movement with different angles and amplitude . It can be used in the cleaning stages for grain warehouse , mills ,feed-grain process factory and oil factory to remove impurity and barnyard grass from paddy , wheat , corn and sunflower seeds , in addition , it can also be used in the grading of intermediary and final rice products . We can supply you with reasonable and competitive price and good quality TQLZ Series Rice Vibrating Cleaning Sieve. If you are interested in any of products, please contact us for more information. TQLZ series Rice Vibrating Cleaning Sieve is suitable for cleaning raw grain for grain processing plant and grain storage. The Rice Vibrating Cleaning Sieve of different specification...
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...The Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) is a leading sport and entertainment group that boasts the world’s largest collection sports team and sporting facilities. AEG owns and controls numerous sporting facilities in the United States with such arenas as the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Prudential Center in Newark and the America Airlines Arena in Miami under its control. AEG developed and operates the Home Depot Centre in Carson Los Angeles “it is the official U.S Olympic training site that features elite facilities for soccer, tennis, track and field, track cycling, boxing, lacrosse, rugby, football and other sport. The Home Depot Center also hosts concerts and family shows and is the home of the Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA” (Anschutz Entertainment Group, 2012). It is also the national training center for both the Men and Women national soccer teams. AEG also controls many facilities worldwide, in Europe in controls the O2 area in London and the O2 World arena in Berlin, The Hamburg Arena in Hamburg, the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam and the Globe Arena in Stockholm. In Asia it controls the Wukesong Arena in Beijing and the Qatar National Convention Center in Doha. AEG also controls Acer Arena in Sydney Australia. AEG owns a share in an impressive number of sports teams around the world and has a firm grip some of the largest sporting franchises and various sports. AEG part owns the Los Angeles Galaxy, Houston Dynamo’s Major League soccer teams and...
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...As one of the earliest settlement areas in North America, the Maritime region has been an emblem of heritage roots throughout the course of Canadian history. Often referred to as a symbol of regional sovereignty, historians have labelled the Maritimes as a pioneer of the earliest commerce and trade activities. It is for this very reason that many have alluded to the Golden Ages of the Maritimes, a period marked by regional economic growth. With a pre-existing maturity in the fishing, logging, farming, and shipping industries, the technological improvements brought by industrialization at the turn of the 19th century led to the boom of industrial bases for steel and coal markets. This enabled the three provinces to capitulate their geographical advantage since the area was abundant in coal deposits, and lead to one of the wealthiest expansions in Maritime history. As Acheson famously points out, the local attitude was that despite transportation problems, it would still become the industrial centre of Canada because only it had commercially viable iron and coal deposits, and only it could control Montreal fuel resources. Why then, did the end of an era dominated by manufacturing lead to an economic stagnation that left a permanent imprint over the course of the century? Over the years, historians and economists alike have deemed a variety of factors as accountable for the general economic backwardness that prevailed. While some of these academic research pose contradictions amongst...
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...Introduction: Staples is the largest office supply retailer in the United States. Founded in 1985 in Brighton Massachusetts, Staples has grown to operate 1,575 stores and 58 distribution centers in the US with and an additional 387 stores and 66 distributions centers across the globe. Current Mission Goals and Strategy: Staples mission is “to make it easy to buy office products”.¹ By utilizing its “Staples Soul” program, the company aims to provide exceptional value, selection and customer service. INTERNAL ANALYSIS: Staples is a strong company with an IFEM score of 2.64 Finance Staples has a weak financial rating despite its overall strong IFEM rating. In looking at valuation ratios, Staples does look pretty good if you were looking to invest in this industry. Although Staples is performing well below the industry in P/E Ratio (9.11 vs. 14.5) they do have a lower price to cash, price to book and price to sales ratios and they are paying higher dividends (3.45 vs. 1.80) when compared to the industry. These indicators do paint a more favorable picture for investors. This fact does not offset some of the weaker financial indicators. Even though their 5 year growth rate is nearly double the industry (6.82 vs. 3.86), recent growth rates are very alarming as they measuring far below the industry average (-1.10 vs. 5.11). This is especially concerning because it shows growth in the industry but a retraction for Staples. Total debt to equity looks...
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...Cereal Snack - Paste Cakes Paste cake is a old Beijing folk eating, is doing a golden yellow cornmeal cake. In the old Beijing, the family is not rich, eat the staple food of this coarse grains have been very satisfied. Take the recent dynasty Qing, in addition to the Royal Palace and fine rice flour officials eat at home, people are paste cakes, porridge stick reside.Now every family can eat fine rice flour, and whole grains inside the supermarket, but a lot more expensive. Do this with cornmeal staple also had become tourist attractions in many rural farmhouse signs of eating. Cornmeal is rich in nutrients, is recognized worldwide as the "golden crop." Now mostly eat whole grains for nutrition, balance the body needs. So long as the amount of intake will achieve its purpose, so from the taste and smell could do with some improvement. Now the public to meet the dietary habits and tastes. In the pancake paste inside, add milk and raisins, soaked raisins with a sweet-scented osmanthus aged wine, milk and noodles, add flavor to enrich the flavor. Paste cakes should be in the rural area with stove, cauldron boil water inside, the cake stickers affixed to theedge of the pan so familiar. But now obviously do not have such conditions, it is possible to choose a little thick bottom pan, the minimum fire a little bit of stick cooked. Ingredients: Cornmeal 100 g, 50 g soybean flour, milk powder 30 grams, 10 grams of sugar, 1g yeast, milk, 100 grams (available instead of water), water...
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