|Title of case |Hewlett-Packard: Deskjet Printer Supply Chain | An Introduction This case study deals with Hewlett-Packard (HP), a famous manufacturer of computers and peripheral products. In the early 1990s, HP faced “Inventory/Service-Crisis” concerning one of their high volume products, the DeskJet printer. Despite growing inventory levels at the distribution centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific, customer
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Summary Brent Cartier Manager for Special Projects in the Materials Department Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company December 15, 20XX I. Process Elements/Table of Content (Part 2) Part 1 Executive Summary Part 2 Table of Contents I. Issue with Impact Analysis Part 3 Immediate Issues Part 4 Systemic Issues II. Environmental and Root Cause Analysis Part 5 Qualitative Analysis Part 6 Quantitative Analysis III. Alternatives Part 7 Alternatives IV. List Recommendations Part 8 Recommendations
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the Materials Department of HP Vancouver Division. Bob Foucoult, production manager. Dr. Billy, inventory expert from Corporate HP. Laura Rock, an industrial engineer. Jim Bailey, the planning supervisor. Jose Fernandez, the purchasing supervisor. Kay Johnson, the traffic department supervisor. HP company was founded in 1939 by William Hewlett and David Packard. During 1980s HP and Canon separately pioneered inkjet technology at their respective corporate laboratories. HP led the inkjet market in
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1. SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS Market & the Product Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company was founded in 1939 with headquarters at Palo Alta, California. The Peripherals Group was the 2nd largest of HP’s 6 product groups. Its revenues during 1990 stood at $4.1 billion. The Peripherals Group had set technological standards in inkjet printers. This was mainly due to the sale of HP DeskJet printers. The Vancouver division located in Washington was established in 1979. HP consolidated designing and manufacturing
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Answer: 1. In order to calculate the yearly investment in DeskJet printers, we calculate the yearly investment of the printers separately and then add them together to get the total yearly cost. There are 6 versions of the printers, which are A, AA, AB, AQ, AU, AY. The total factory throughput time through the PCAT and FAT stages is about one week. The transportation time from Vancouver to the European DC is five weeks. The plant sends a weekly shipment of printers to Europe. Therefore, the lead
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Hewlett-Packard’s Deskjet Printer Supply Chain Cases (A) & (B) Discussion Guide & Answers Ranjan Ghosh | HP’S DESKJET | Industry characteristics: competitive, fast growing, exploding in Europe, changing distribution channel, rapid technological advances. Product characteristics: quite, medium price, high print quality, leading technology, commodity–like, lighter
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Desktop Printer Supply Chain | | | | | SUBMITTED BY Allada Prasanth (1211087) Ishan Puri (1211100) Manish Pathak (1211113) Priyanka singh(1211126) Sarang Bhawre (1211139) Tarun Gopalkrishnan(1211152) INTRODUCTION: Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company was founded in 1939 with headquarters at Palo Alta, California. It grew steadily over the next fifty years, diversifying from its base in electronic test and measurement equipment into computers and peripherals products which now dominated
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Hewlett-Packard’s Deskjet Printer Supply Chain Cases (A) & (B) Discussion Guide & Answers Ranjan Ghosh | HP’S DESKJET | Industry characteristics: competitive, fast growing, exploding in Europe, changing distribution channel, rapid technological advances. Product characteristics: quite, medium price, high print quality, leading technology, commodity–like, lighter
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“design for supply chain” (DfSC) is not new at Hewlett-Packard (HP). (See: HP’s “Six-Pack” for a summary of DfSC.) For more than ten years the company has evaluated the supply chain impacts of design decisions. Indeed, two early examples—DeskJet localization and LaserJet universality—are described in a wellregarded Harvard Business Review article and in widely used academic case studies. 1 What is new is the innovation that has allowed HP to deploy DfSC in a systematic, repeatable, and broad-based
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Software Architecture Project Team A CSS 422 11-7-11 Mohammad Shakir Kamali Executive Summary This paper will discuss in detail the software currently in use at the four facilities of Riordan Manufacturing. Likewise, the paper will discuss the recommended software upgrades suggested by Team A in week 2. These recommendations will allow Riordan Manufacturing and its employee’s to work more efficiently and have greater overall productivity. This will ensure that Riordan Manufacturing will stay
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