...Name: Colm Healy, Module 4 – SBUS Managing Sustainable Supply Chains – Post submission Following on from the ‘Managing Sustainable Supply Chains’ module, Skelligs Chocolate has analysed different areas in our business that could benefit from an environmentally sustainable strategy. We have looked at the possibility of using renewable energy, as well as improving our energy efficiency, then onto our waste control and natural resource management. While all these areas are important the board decided that further developing a plan around our packaging and sourcing of raw materials remain currently, the two important areas for us to work on. A longer term plan (currently being drafted) will encompass all areas mentioned above. Looking at inputs, chocolate is the biggest single item followed by packaging; energy consumption and waste are much further down the list. Skelligs Chocolates split of chocolate products would be 60% truffle based which use a lot of packaging, 30% would be solid chocolate products (bars or tablets) which use less packaging and 10% for novelties which also use less packaging. Priorities: When investigating how wide spread the implementation of sustainable strategies currently is, I have become very aware of some fundamental issues, primarily ‘lack of knowledge’, business owners reluctance to change, finance concerns and human resource costs. Education up to now has concentrated on the very immediate facets of running a business and when students...
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...of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Background of the Company 3 Research and Analysis of Sustainability Strategies 4 Role of Organisational Behaviour at the Company 4 HR Management Practices at the Company 6 Role of International Business at the Company 7 Role of Technology Management at the Company 8 Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Company 9 Recommendations and Conclusions 10 Reference List 13 Executive Summary This report has been commissioned to examine different spheres of management and the management practices followed by Haigh’s Chocolates. The research draws attention to the fact that main sustainability problem lies with the supply chain. Further reading provides that the company sees sustainability as a concern and follows practices in Australia and abroad like sustainable farming and purchasing raw material from UTZ certified companies only. Further, the paper talks about training provided to the company’s employees towards sustainability. The paper also talks about the role of international business and technological management at the company which states that the company has a one-way international business route and talks about the company’s manufacturing process using high end technology. Further, the paper talks about the entrepreneurial growth of the company since it was founded back in the year 1912. The paper concludes with presenting three recommendations which may help Haigh’s Chocolates meet the...
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...ABSTRACT This paper briefly discusses Mars Inc., beginning with a brief history of its origins in 1911. The paper continues with identifying some of their products, as well as some initiatives they are currently working on here in the U.S. as well as abroad. Some elements of administrative law that may be relevant to the current and up-coming initiatives and are discussed as well as the sales laws needed to be considered. Recommendations are made to help the company minimize threats of lawsuits. Frank C. Mars began making candies in his Tacoma, Washington, kitchen in 1911 and established the company’s first roots in the confectionary business. In the 1920s, his son, Forrest E. Mars Sr., joined his father in business and together they launched the now world famous Milky Way bar. In 1932 Forrest Sr. moved to the United Kingdom where he founded his own company with a dream of building a business model based on his philosophy of a “mutuality of benefits for all stakeholders”. This vision serves as the foundation of the Mars Incorporated we know today. Mars, Incorporated is a private, family-owned company and employs more than 65,000 associates at over 230 sites, including 135 factories, in 71 countries worldwide. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, U.S.A., Mars Incorporated is one of the world’s largest food companies, generating global revenues of more than $30 billion annually and operating in six business segments: Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley Gum and Confections, Food...
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...Our revenue grows considerably the the supply chain and this pointpoint onward, which also this onward, which also ways ways to improve Fairtrade to improve Fairtrade sharply increases the amount of sharply increases the amount of certification. certification. cocoacocoa beans we need. beans we need. 2o11 2o11 2o05 2o05 2o06 2o06 2o08 2o08 2o07 2o07 The first Tony’s Chocolonely bar bar Tony’s goes official The first Tony’s Chocolonely Tony’s goes official comes on the market, after after episodes comes on the market, episodes and registers with with and registers of the Inspection of ValueValue about the Chamber of of the Inspection of about the Chamber of child child slavery on cocoa plantations Commerce. slavery on cocoa plantations Commerce. in West West Africa. Milk chocolate in in Africa. Milk chocolate in an alarming red wrapper. Fairtrade an alarming red...
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...S ustainable sourcing and procurement Sourcing and procurement as driving forces for sustainable business b y Helen van Hoeven, Lean & Green Foreword President Obama recently said that there are only two kinds of car companies: those that sell hybrid cars and those that will sell hybrid cars in the near future. The same is true for sustainability in supply chains. There are companies that source and sell more sustainable products and there are those that will do so in the near future. With a world soon populated by nine billion people and over two billion new middle-class citizens, traditional sourcing and selling will simply be a no. You are either on the pathway to sustainable development or you are out of business. The challenge of sustainability is reshaping the relation ship between business and society. Industry needs to better manage natural resources and significantly lower its global ecological footprint. And companies need to engage much better with suppliers and workers in the emerging and developing economies. The mission of the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) is to upscale and accelerate the mainstreaming of sustainability in international commodity chains. IDH joins the forces of business, non-governmental organisations, labour unions and governments. We bring diverse stakeholders together in focused and result-oriented sectoral coalitions that implement ambitious improvement programmes. These programmes tackle social, ecological and economical bottlenecks...
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...Fair Hershey’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Problems at the Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Lack of Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Lack of Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Commitment to Ethical Cocoa Sourcing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Certification Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Other Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Job Losses and Worker Rights Abuses in the US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Desired Outcomes for a Fair Hershey’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Appendices A. Breaking the (Supply) Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 B. Harkin Engel Protocol Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 C. Overview of Cocoa Production Certification Initiatives . . . . . 29 D. Commitment to Ethical Sourcing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 E. New Company Commitments to Ethical Sourcing . . . . . . . . . 35 Endnotes . . . . ....
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...PROJECT PROPOSAL GRIEVANCE HANDLING PROCEDURES AND THEIR IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF GHANA COCOA BOARD 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Grievance is a sign of an employee’s discontentment with his job or his relationship with his colleagues. Grievance generally arises out of the day to day working relations in an organization, an employee or a trade union protest against an act or policy of the management that they consider as violating employees rights. An organization will establish a grievance practice to give an opportunity to the employee to file his or her frustration. The establishment of grievance procedure is in line with the principle of “due process” (Mante-Meija & Enid, 1991) which guarantees the application of procedural justice and ethical decision making in an organization. Besides the establishment of grievance procedure will resolve employees’ dissatisfaction fairly, behavior of personnel who handle grievance also brings effect to the employee’s satisfaction on the result of grievance resolution. Managers will handle grievances referred to them base on their personality reference. One of the effective ways of minimizing and eliminating the source of employee’s grievance is by having an ‘open door policy’. An ‘open door policy’ facilitates upward communication in the organization where employees can walk into superiors’ cabin at any time and express their grievances. The National Commission on Labour suggested a Model Grievance...
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...Topic Option A. Company Case Study Introduction In the recent years, people pay more attention to healthy food. The brand I chose which name is Cocoa Bio can easily solve this problem. Cocoa Bio's idea is to create natural products of nourishment, which help people improving health using one of the best products that the nature has offered, the cocoa and consequently the chocolate. Cocoa Bio (2010). Cocoa Bio was established in the United Kingdom. In March of 1997, Cocoa Bio started working to offer us this kind of products to a marketing expansion. In this essay, I will focus on expanding this brand to South Korean in which has not been covered yet. I will use PESTEL analysis macro environment, then discuss market entry modes and market mix strategy, and last, I will propose which one to choose, standardization or adaptation. PESTEL analysis Political factors South Korea is government-led market economy. The economic aspect of the direction and development depends on government’s unilateral command, because of its highly centralized system of government. The most cannot be ignored problem is substantial degree of selective state intervention in the private sector. It is an obstacle for Cocoa Bio market entry and penetration. Besides, South Korean market has relatively limited volume, and it mainly relies on foreign trade to accelerate economy, therefore the government is quite sensitive to imported goods. Furthermore, Protection of homegrown company is quite common...
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...Research of Objective-C October 9, 2012 Introduction There is little doubt in today’s dynamic and fast moving technology market that Objective-C is a powerful, high-level, flexible programming language that has been around since the early 1980s and has the staying power to last a long time. Objective-C is an extension of the programming language C developed by Brad Cox and Tom Love to support the object oriented features of Smalltalk another programming language. Objective-C is the main language from which Apple’s MAC OS X for Desktops and laptops and iOS for iPhones and iPads are derived. There have been variants to this language as well, Objective-C++ and Objective-C 2.0 which proves the sustainability of this language. Due its portability, Objective-C has shown its flexibility and the ability to adapt to the ever changing and fast moving arena of mobile devices especially from Apple. What is Objective-C? Objective-C is a reflective programming language which aims to provide object orientated concepts and Smalltalk messaging to C. GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) provides a compiler for Objective-C, however due to the rich library support on OpenStep based operating systems (Mac OS X, IPhone, GNUstep) it is typically only used on these platforms. Objective-C is implemented as an augmentation to the C language. It is a superset of C which means that any Objective-C compiler can also compile C. To illustrate what Objective-C looks like as a language I will show you...
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...Nova Southeastern University H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business & Entrepreneurship Assignment for Course: | SCM 5830 – Supply Chain Management | Submitted to: | Dr. Ryan Atkins | Submitted by: | Fancy Fieffe | | | | Date of Submission: | March 11, 2015 | Title of Assignment: | Nestle: Coffee- the Supply Chain | | | CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used data, ideas or words, either quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. Student's Signature: Fancy Fieffe ***************************************************************** Instructor's Grade on Assignment: Instructor's Comment Executive Summary Nestle is one of the largest and leading international coffee and nutritional products corporation with a core mission to provide quality nutritional food options "Good Food, Good Life” to its consumers. Nestle supply chain system is impressive, but due to its wide range of supply chain links, they are subjected to some vulnerabilities such as quality assurance of its suppliers which can have serious repercussions for the company and its brand. In order to reduce its risks, the company launched a sustainability campaign by creating shared values to mirror its triple bottom line core concepts and values...
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...differences in marketing environments between Singapore and the United States was to be able to gain more knowledge of the marketing environment that lies between these two countries. The method that I used to approach this report was reading one book on international marketing and several websites that contained several topics and information regarding these countries. After analyzing the methods that I used, I learned several important facts about Singapore and the United States. Also, I learned that both countries face different problems in diverse cultures. One of the greatest implications is that you cannot market to Singapore the same way you would in the United States because both countries desire different things. Introduction This paper analyses the differences in marketing environments between Singapore and the United States, and is structured into five tables. Table 1 presents general differences between Singapore and the USA; it also gives information on both countries. For example, it shows the differences in land size, population, and GDP. Table 2 discusses trade relationship between Singapore and the USA. It explains the U.S. exports and imports from and to Singapore over the past five years. It also explains the key products and services that both countries export and import. Table 3 describes the differences in social/cultural environments between Singapore and the USA. It explains more about the differences in diversity, social class, and educational systems that...
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...POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER 1667 Dealing with Commodity Price Uncertainty Plantos Varangis Dont Larson Market liberalization has increased the appeal of commodity derivative instruments (such as futures, options, swaps, and commodity-linked notes)as a means of managing price uncertainty. many In emerging countries both government and the private sector are increasinglyusing these instruments. The World Bank International Economics Department Commodity Policy and Analysis Unit October 1996 POLICYRESEARCH WORKINGPAPER1667 Summary findings Liberalization in commodity markets has brought profound changes in the way price risks are allocated and managed in commodity subsectors. Price risks are increasingly allocated to private traders and farmers rather than absorbed by the government. The success of market reform depends on the ability of the emerging private sector to make full use of the available range of modern commodity marketing, price risk management (such as futures, options, swaps, commodity bonds, and so on), and financing instruments. Because farmers do not generally have direct access to these instruments, interinediaries must be developed. Larger private traders and banks are in the best position to become these intermediaries. Preconditions needed for accessing modern commodity marketing, price risk management, and financing instruments are: * Creating an appropriate legal, regulatory, and institutional framework. * Reducing government...
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...MARKET RESEARCH PLAN FOR HANGYO ICE CREAMS PVT. LTD. Prepared for Hangyo Ice Creams Pvt. Ltd. Mangalore – 575003 Karnataka, India Prepared by Group T2 Section 4 MNCN – 2 T. A. Pai Management Institute - 576104 March 26, 2014 Letter of Transmittal March 26, 2014 F.S. Miranda GM(Marketing) Hangyo Ice Creams Private Ltd. Hampankatta, Mangalore Karnataka 575001 India Dear Mr. Miranda As agreed in our meeting on February 13,2014, we are submitting the attached report entitled market research for Hangyo Ice Creams. This report examines the most preferred new ice-cream flavor in the market and its related parameters .This report illustrates the research method to find the viability and choice of a new flavor, its packaging and pricing for Hangyo Ice creams from within the regular customer pool in Manipal, Udupi and Mangalore. I hope you find this report satisfactory. Sincerely yours, Anish Sengupta Deepanwita Nandi Navonil Rahut Neha Poddar Sourav Mohapatra T. A. Pai Management Institute Manipal 576104 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The project was a success mainly due to the contributions from a number of people. First and foremost, we take this opportunity to thank Prof. Sridhar Telidevara, the faculty guide for the project, for his continuous support and valuable insights without which the project would not have been successful. We are also thankful to all the faculty members of T. A. Pai Management Institute for their guidance...
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...TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory JoinSearchBrowseSaved Papers Home Page » Business and Management Managing People and Organisations Task 1 In: Business and Management Managing People and Organisations Task 1 Outcome covered 1 I have been asked to analyse the case study given on Joy of chocolate, and been given 5 questions and given exhaustive answers on these. A goal is a broad statement of where you want to be as an organisation and what you want to achieve. It is a future expectation of the organisation. The goals of an organisation will determine the nature of its inputs and outputs. An example of a company’s aim would be to increase profits. The inputs in a way of both employees and management. The efforts of both of these will make a big impact on how these goals are met and within the timescale. Suzy’s aim for the company was to create chocolate that would be boost local produce. She wanted the business to be well known for excellent and innovative products. Another aim Suzy set for the company was to create self-help in the communities that were supplying the cocoa. Suzy wanted to create a positive culture in all aspects of the business. Goals of the organisation should be categorised into different types of goals for example, Consumer goals which includes meeting the needs of the consumer, Product Goals which relates to the characteristics of the product, Operational goals relates...
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...fact that, at long last, the global economy is showing signs of sustained recovery. Growth in many major markets is accelerating. The stellar performers are India (expected to grow by 22% this year), Brazil (13%) and China (11%). The potential long-term growth in emerging economies – many of which have growing middle classes – is vast. To give just one example: the per capita consumption of chocolate in China is only a tenth of that in Switzerland. Yet, as this global tour of the chocolate industry suggests, the future is not without challenges. The immediate concern is the balance between supply of cocoa and the chocolate industry’s demand. Manufacturers are already confronting this issue, investing in the development of higher-yield beans, encouraging more sustainable practices, collaborating more closely with farmers to improve efficiency and exploring potential new sources of cocoa in countries such as Australia and Vietnam. Across the world, consumer tastes remain diverse. In the US,...
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