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Question: The company would like to reduce the double and sometimes triple handling of items. How can this goal be achieved? Are there alternative solutions which might also be effective?
Answer:
1. Using the Just in Time Management inventory technique.
2. Using automated inventory processing systems, changing physical layout of warehouse.
Explanation:
1. The Just in time method would allow Hawkins Supply company to quickly process its inventory by adopting a principle of processing smaller batches with reduced factory space. Doing so would minimise the worries about expired inventory since the inventory isn't excessive.
2. There are automated softwares such as the KANBAN system that would automated the process, requiring lesser use receipts to track inventories. Another alternative is to restructure the warehouse by making provision for racks that could be numbered serially to easily find desired inventory.
Answer:
The correct answer is option (D).
Explanation:
According to the scenario, the given data are as follows:
Purchase cost = $3,300
Transportation cost = $290
Return value = $230
Discount rate = 3%
So, the total cost of merchandise can be calculated as follows:
First we less the return value from purchase value. Then,
= $3,300 - $230 = $3,070
Now, we less the discount, then
3% of $3,070 = $92.10
Net purchase value = $3070 - $92.10 = $2977.90
Now, we add the transportation cost in purchase value.then,
= $2977.90 + $290
= $3,267.90
Hence, the total cost of this merchandise is $3,267.90
Answer: norming
Explanation:
The third stage of a group development model is regarded to as the norming stage. The norming stage is the stage whereby members or teammates start appreciating the strengths that are possessed by each other in the team.
At this stage, there is resolution of conflicts and establishment of leadership positions. Here, everyone is happy with their roles.
Answer:
When Peter Solvik joined Cisco in January 1993 as the company's CIO, Cisco was a $500 million company running a UNIX-based software package to support its core transaction processing, including financial, manufacturing, and order entry systems. At that time, Cisco was experiencing significant growth. However, the application didn't provide the degree of redundancy, reliability, and maintainability that Cisco needed to meet the business requirements anymore. The current systems may be good for $300 million companies, but they were not suitable for a $1 billion dollar company. Solvik let each functional area make its own decision regarding the application and timing of its move, but all functional areas were required to use common architecture and databases. However, in the following years, the functional area were facing dilemma. Anything Cisco did would just run over the legacy systems. It turned into an effort to constantly band-aid the existing systems. So the systems replacement difficulties of functional areas perpetuated the deterioration of Cisco's legacy environment. System outages became routines. Finally, in January of 1994, Cisco's legacy environment failed. As a result, the company was largely shut down for two days.
Why were no managers eager to take on this project?
Because if Cisco wanted to replace the existing legacy systems, the system in each functional areas had to make change accordingly. Take manufacturing for example, if manufacturing wanted to spend $5 or $6 million dollars to buy a package and by the way it will take a year or more to get it. It was too much to justify. Therefore, none of managers was going to throw out the legacies and do something big. In a word, because implementation a new system would cost a lot of money and take long time to be realized, no one was individually going to go out and buy a package.
Explanation:
Answer:
The total deductible amount of these expenditures is $450.
Explanation:
Half of any cost of meals and entertainment to which business discussion is associated and appropriate records kept is allowed to be deducted.
Since it is only tickets to the opera with a client following a business meeting that meet this condition, 50% of the total amount of $900 which is $450 is deductible.
