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Canyon Mining Corporation: Heavy Mobile Equipment Procurement
Laseter, Timothy M.; Katz, Arnon; Choi, SihyunCase DARDEN-OM-1392-EService and Operations ManagementCanyon Mining intends to negotiate a long-term contract for haul trucks to use for surface mining, and a team from Censeo Consulting Group is tasked with developing a methodology to track cost changes over the past contract as input into the negotiation. The current project’s primary objective is to estimate the year-over-year trend in factory manufacturing margins for two different capacity trucks from two different equipment suppliers. These es...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Inventories: Determining Order Quantity
Freeland, James R.; Landel, Robert D.; Weiss, Elliott N.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-1395-EService and Operations ManagementCycle-stock ordering decisions, including cost-element considerations, are examined. Students will see that as materials flow from suppliers through a firm's operations to customers, the cost-effectiveness of inventory investment is improved by the development and implementation of an inventory management system.Starting at €8.20
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NoBull Burger - Teaching Note
Freeland, James R.; Kraft, TimTeaching Note DARDEN-OM-1479TN-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product OM-1479Starting at €0.00
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Process Management Strategy for XYZ Limited - KLTD Division
Srinivasan MaheswaranCase IVEY-9B09D007-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe case describes the situation faced by the vice-president of operations at Konkan Leaf Tobacco Development, the tobacco processing unit of XYZ Limited. This unit is in charge of procurement and processing of different varieties and grades of tobacco grown in southern India. The tobacco leaves are categorized into different varieties on the basis of quality and location of the crop. The company has two processing plants with varying processing ...Starting at €8.20
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Convocation at the National Institute of Management's Central India Campus (A)
Srinivasan Maheswaran; Jitendra R. Sharma; John S. Haywood-FarmerCase IVEY-9B13D003-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe (A) case involves managing the planning and execution of the first convocation held at one of the campuses of a business school in Nagpur, India, at fairly short notice. The school’s chairperson of post-graduate studies in management programs has been appointed as the chief co-ordinator of the event. Leveraging his operations-management background and working in collaboration with other faculty, he sets about identifying the required activiti...Starting at €8.20
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Convocation at the National Institute of Management's Central India Campus (B)
Srinivasan Maheswaran; Jitendra R. Sharma; John S. Haywood-FarmerCase IVEY-9B13D004-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThis is a supplement to Convocation at the National Institute of Management's Central India Campus (A), 9B13D003.Starting at €5.74
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Managing Inventories: The Reorder Point System
Freeland, James R.; Landel, Robert D.; Weiss, Elliott N.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-1394-EService and Operations ManagementInventory replenishment concepts and tools are described.Starting at €8.20
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Managing Inventories—Reorder Point Systems
Landel, Robert D.; Freeland, James R.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-0936-EService and Operations ManagementThis note introduces students to the replenishment-inventory management framework, concepts, and tools.Starting at €8.20
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Managing Inventories: Fundamentals
Freeland, James R.; Landel, Robert D.; Weiss, Elliott N.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-1397-EService and Operations ManagementThis overview of inventory management covers ways to categorize inventories and measure performance. The financial implications of inventory, inventory management systems, economic order quantities, and decision rules for determining safety stocks are discussed.Starting at €8.20
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Is Dell's Business Model Broken?
Freeland, James R.Case DARDEN-OM-1416-EService and Operations ManagementA candidate for a consulting position prepares an analysis of Dell Corporation. For years, Dell's efficient supply chain innovations and successful leveraging of technology in offering made-to-order computers at competitive prices made it a world leader in market share. But conditions-and profits-seem to have leveled off. To what extent is this a matter of a business model in need of revision, and to what extent is something more fundamental at w...Starting at €8.20