Xerox: Business Analysis

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Xerox, best known for the clear overhead projector sheets, is a company that supplies to a mass amount of customers and businesses with a high level of customer satisfaction and speed. They accomplish this by having a sophisticated supply chain that accomplishes an expedient stream of products while delivering quality service. Xerox focuses on creating diverse product line as well as a diverse client focus. Xerox strives to keep their client base large and reaches out to even the smallest companies to keep market share to maximum capacity. In addition, they keep products flowing with an up to date transportation service to keep all products on time with delivery as well as keeping costs low. Xerox is constantly keeping up with the newest changes to technology and is capable of adapting to cutting edge technology quickly. They started out as a company that based their benefits off of clear sheets of plastic and evolved into one of the most important large scale companies that deal with printers to management of documentations. The company is constantly flourishing and creates a base for their business to evolve into any market it wishes.
Xerox is the world’s leading enterprise for business process and document management. They offer a number of products and services in the business industry. Ranging from their ever recognizable office equipment which include printers, copiers, multifunction printers and supplies. Since xerox was founded on the xerography method they have come a long way technically and globally from a simple copying machine company. They constantly strive to bring to market the most technologically advanced and functional office equipment available to market. Xerox understands that they have a large customer ba...

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...he event. Xerox offers cheap and affordable prices allowing many organizations to take advantage of. Kraljic Supply Matrix is system of managing the quantity of requested supply orders and time of their arrival. The company is far more efficient within the spectrum of supply chain. Xerox partnered with IBM to increase the duration of product arrival to their clients through air transportation. Xerox is definitely a company that has evolved to fit the new world of technology. The company identifies the problems many clients, current and future. endure and has created solutions to the problems. Partnering with major companies to increase their sup chain has made Xerox more powerful than ever. Using the advantage of IBM’s air transportation to its destination. There is no doubt there is very weaknesses to the companies supply chain., if anything it has grown stronger.

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