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 service levels were unsatisfactory. Affected by growing competition this problem had to be handled quickly. Brent Cartier, Manager for Special Projects in the Materials department of HP Company’s Vancouver
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Running Head: Hewlett-Packard Supply Chain 1 DeskJet Printer Inventory Ernesto Gutierrez 5850 Logistics/Case 2 Webster University Stephen Lee 27 September 2014 Hewlett-Packard Supply Chain 2 Abstract In 1998 Hewlett Packard introduce one
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effectively on HP-150. 1) HP-150 requires less number of parts, which leads to less inventory needed (20,000 active part numbers for HP-120 and its options vs 450 part numbers for HP-150); 2) Less suppliers are needed for HP-150 (200 suppliers), comparing to HP-120 (2,000 for HP-120 and its options). It will be easier to establish and maintain efficiently a long-term trustworthy relationship. 3) HP-150 has less variety (17 types of keyboards due (languages) while CPU is the same), but for HP 120
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transportation reduces costs, while inefficient transportation increases costs. Because the movement of freight has changes in economic systems at the global, regional and local scales, Hewlett Packard (HP) must find a way to make movement of good in their supply chain more efficient and less expensive. HP must adopt the “cube out” method in their transport trucks and when packing international containers. When their products are loaded into an international container, they may “weight out” - reach the
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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 of its inkjet
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in Europe Sales of DeskJet printer have grown steadily, now reaching a level of over 600,000. Unfortunately, inventory growth has tracked sales growth closely. HP’s distribution centers are filled with pallets of the DeskJet printer. The organization claims that inventory levels are need to be raised even further to maintain satisfactory product availability. The DeskJet Supply Chain HP in Vancouver does manufacturing. There are two key stages in manufacturing process: (1) printed circuit assembly
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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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support this: first the level of inventories is very low, 2.0 % of total assets, which is usual for a company with this type of operations. Second, the level of PPE is very high, 74, 3 % of total assets, which includes all the heavily equipment used to generate and distribute electricity. The long term debt is high, 47, 7 % of total assets, which can be explained with the huge long term investments that need to be done in this industry. 2. Hewlett-Packard or HP can be linked with the fifth balance
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Matching Dell Jonathan S. Leonard Two Fundamental Strategies Beat them on costs Sidestep them with differentiation Two Fundamental Strategies Dell relentlessly drove down costs Methods Corporate Financial Comparisons? These are clouded by differences in Business Organization, Product Mix, Industry Mix, Pricing, Cost Allocation Product level Comparison: Apples to Apples Five Forces Analysis Bargaining Power of Some Suppliers (very high) Proprietary standards + customer
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358-363) Question 1 It allows HP to postpone (product standardization, postponement) the allocation of laser printers (or specification of printer engine) to specific regions by about two months. Thus, in these two months the decisions can be made based on the aggregate demand forecast (US & Europe) in all regions. Production team believes universal power supply can enable HP to better respond to regional demand (US & Europe) and reduce its inventory costs. Question 2 1. Disadvantages
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