4.2.1. Company background
Company B is a manufacturer of door plat bands and lumber windows. The finished product is delivered to the building industry within Australia with main customers who are home renovators and builders. The factory also delivers pre-cut constituent element parts to other factories within the group for assembly. In this sector, employing nearly 230 staff with an yearly turnaround between $26M and $30M is a medium-sized player. The company which originally founded in 1965 was sole possessions and for 13 years made a large customer base in the Melbourne metropolitan area. The company which was purchase in 1978 by a larger manufacturer of aluminum door and windows frames, enjoyed growth until a further procurement in 1988 by the home building products department of a large national public company. The company decided to adopt JIT methodologies and at the same time set a Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) versatile machining line, because of growing competitive pressures during the late 1980s and the need to substitute outdated equipment.
The company is collocated in three factory buildings of a total of roughly 12000 m2. The majority of the company’s products that are manufactured using timbers imported from South East Asia (96% Meranti and Kapur from Malaysia), are supplied into a market highly impressionable to seasonal amendment. That is why making management of supply chain issues crucial.
4.2.2. Factory operations
The site is divided into three separate factories. Factory1 positions the most of the raw material stock, a timber treatment process and CNC line and employs 10 people. This line which is considered as the SCM line (i.e. the manufacturer’s name), cuts circa 180 element parts of the window...
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• All defendants were happy with prevailing communication processes. Generally they were designated as “direct” and “open” with a prominence being noted on informal rather than formal channels. Shop floor personnel indicated being comfortable communicating with all levels of the company.
• Disparities in apprehension of the principles of the employee involvement programs were also apparent. At a shop floor level it meant as a process of interlacing decision making to lower levels in the organisation and as a logical expansion of the focus on multi-skilling. At a management level this meant as a transfer in reception as to where responsibility for process control and quality should dwell. In fact they are additional conceptions. Responsibility and empowerment are toothless tigers without each other
This company manufactures tables and cabinets to hold microwave ovens and portable televisions. Looking at the data, it is apparent that there are ways to make this company more efficient in their manufacturing processes while looking at the overtime hours involved in the operations. Most of this companies products follow the very same assembly and production lines with the difference being that the Saturn microwave stand and the Gemini TV stand both contain a part refered to as 3079 which requires a special lathe in the production phase. This lathe requires a highly train...
In 1978, when two executives Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank received news they were fired from their jobs at Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers, they decided to take something negative and turn it into an opportunity. They put their experience and knowledge of the business and industry together and developed a business plan to create a chain of home-improvement warehouses. Their idea was to create a business which would be larger and more profitable than any of their competitors. So in 1979, one year after being fired, they acquired their funding and opened three stores in Atlanta which they branded with the name Home Depot. Today, Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement chain and second-largest retailer after Wal-Mart, operating approximately 2,250 stores throughout the Americas (Parnell, 2014).
Complete Name: Unit 6 Student Name: Mallory, Shemaiah ********************************************************************************************************** 1. Conduct online research on Home Depot, including both company and non-company sources. ********************************************************************************************************** 2. In a narrative format, discuss the company from a strategic perspective. Information concerning recent changes in the firm is readily available online and should be accessed.
For more than a century, the carpentry business has provided jobs and unlimited houses to the world. From the hammer and the nail, to today’s high technology machinery usage, carpenters are well trained to deal with the dangers they encounter, and this higher than average paying occupation helps the economies in all areas around the world grow.
"The Home Depot NYSE: HD, headquartered in Vinings, Georgia, is a home improvement retailer that aims for both the do-it-yourself consumer and the professional in home improvement and construction. It is the second largest retailer in the United States, behind Wal-Mart; and the third largest retailer in the world, behind Wal-Mart and French company Carrefour. The Home Depot operates about 1,900 stores across North America. The company operates stores in the United States (including the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands), Canada, and Mexico. The Home Depot also operates EXPO Design Center stores in select U.S. markets, providing high-end home design products and services. Its 2004 sales totaled US $73.1 billion. It was ranked #13 on FORTUNE magazine's FORTUNE 500 The Home Depot also owns a chain of higher-end home decorating and appliance stores. The Home Depot employs over 325,000 people."
Nicholson’s position in the file and rasp market where it holds a 50% market share of a $50 million dollar market meets all three of Cooper’s objectives. Furthermore, Nicholson’s brand name within the hand saw and saw blade industry is strong and Nicholson holds a 9% market share in the $200 million dollar – their only major competitor was Sears and Diston who held a larger market share.
The furniture company Somerset needs to retain its customer service record and remedy any of its global supply chain issues before it has an adverse effect on the brand and start losing customers. With a frequent change in the product catalog, keeping an excessive inventory will cut its profit and some of the product may become obsolete even before the furniture hits the retail outlet stores. In order to achieve profit and success, business employee many strategies and the supply chain strategy are one of the operational management techniques that use analytical decision making process to achieve the company goals and provide tools to effectively compete in the market (Taylor and Russell, 2014).
What is a SWOT analysis? This concept involves assisting businesses to identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It is often used to analyze an organization and its environment. Businesses find the analysis useful in assisting them to improve their business, establish goals and objectives.
Ancol Ltd. is Canada’s leading metal fabrication company. This case study is focused on the Jonquiere, Quebec plant which is the smallest of Ancol’s 15 operations across Canada. This plant has approximately 250 production employees. Paul Simard is hired as the new manager at Ancol Ltd in Jonquiere, Quebec.
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The process in which woodworking goes through is very time consuming and depends not only on the worker but also the expected product.
Employee empowerment can be described as giving employees' accountability and ability to make choices about their work without managerial authorization. Good managers are expected to assist employees to improve job success by supporting, training, leading and giving advice. Employee empowerment can increase employees' motivation, job satisfaction, and loyalty to their companies. The power that managers comprise should now be shared with employees with confidence, assertion, inspiration, and support. Work decisions and the ability to control an individual’s amount of work are now being relied upon at lower-level management positions (Fragoso, 1999). Groups of empowered employees with little or no supervision are now being formed and these groups are being called self-managed teams. These groups can now solve work problems, make choices on schedules and operations, learn to do other employees’ jobs, and are held accountable for the quality of their finished products.
The SWOT analysis is a useful tool for identifying our personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to our plans and goals. According to a “Fuel My Motivation” article (2010), this analysis considers internal influences that can positively or negatively affect our ability to achieve our goals. The internal factors are our strengths and weaknesses. Also considered are opportunities and threats, which are external influences that can have a positive or negative impact on the ability to achieve our goals. I will share how the self-assessment instruments and self-exercises in this course have contributed to assessing and understanding my strengths and weaknesses. I will also discuss techniques I will use to leverage my strengths and understand my weaknesses. In addition, I will consider opportunities that I can take advantage of and the threats that can possibly impede my progress.
The business environment is increasingly becoming competitive and challenging. In the recent past, manufacturers have found themselves facing the threat of dwindling profit margins due to unfortunate global events such as the 2007 global financial crisis and the on going Europe economic crisis. The need to improve operation efficiency so as to ensure current and future investment yield the highest rate of return has therefore become extremely important. Manufacturers are now actively engaged in, managing their costs, Research and Development, adopting best procurement strategies, among other Actions. While such actions might eventually lead to positive results, additional business value can be achieved through proper management of the supply chain (Waymer, Ivanaj & Mussa 2009; Krivda 2004).
In this report we want to know how process in manufacturing is done, what they consider in this manufacturing process and different organizations in production process.