Review the following scenario, and then discuss it in terms of both functional and dysfunctional conflict within an organization.  Last year, an organization established a company policy requiring that all employees smile and make eye contact with customers. Since then, employee grievances have continued to escalate. In the last month alone, 10 employees from three different stores have filed grievances. Most of them list customer […]

Supplier Selection Case Study (Loren Inc.) In this assignment, you will analyze various suppliers and select an optimal supplier based on a real-world supply chain management case study. Review Case 12-1, “Loren Inc.,” on pages 354–358 of your Purchasing and Supply Management text. Complete the following: Write a 3–4-page paper analyzing alternative suppliers and recommending a supplier to provide hexonic acid. Address the following points in your […]

Read the following two statements taken from a Forbes article in December 31, 2013. Statement 1: “there is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. The market will take care of everything, they tell us. If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes – especially for […]

Analyzing the Total Cost of Ownership Assignment Overview The TCO is a method for determining costs that extends beyond direct purchases to include the costs involved in supplier relationships. In this assignment, you will determine the TCO for an organization’s supply chain. Assignment Directions To complete this assignment: Review Case 5, “W-G-P Chemical Company,” on pages 450–453 of your Supply Chain Logistics Management text. Write a 3–4-page […]

Supplier Selection Approaches Bhutta and Huq’s 2002 article, “Supplier Selection Problem: A Comparison of the Total Cost of Ownership and Analytic Hierarchy Process Approaches,” in this unit’s study advances two approaches to supplier selection: TCO and AHP. Find and consider two examples of supplier selection in current business periodicals. For each example, what are the relative advantages of these two methods? Which approach would be […]

Types of Contracts” Please respond to the following: Assess the requirements for a fixed-price contract. Determine ways that the duration of the fixed-price contract can affect the cost savings to the government. Then, create an argument in support of fixed contract pricing for an interval of your choosing. Examine the requirements for a performance-based contract. Then, create a brief outline of a performance-based contract for […]

You are a US long-only quantitative portfolio manager. In Portfolio123, create a ranking system based on the followingcombination of signals: i) 40% Value, using:      i.1) 60% EV/EBITDA: EV/Eval(EBITDATTM>0,EBITDATTM,NA)     i.2) 20%: Earnings Yield from Earnings Forecasts: 0.5*(1/ ProjPECurFY)+0.5*(1/ ProjPENextFY)      i.3) 20%: Price to Sales: Pr2SalesTTM ii) 30% Quality, using:      ii.1) 50% in Gross Profitability: GrossProfitTTM/AstTotQ     ii.2) 50% in Piotroski Score: PiotFScore iii) 30% Price Trends, using:      iii.1) 50% Industry Momentum 3-months: Pr13W%ChgInd      iii.2) 50% Industry Momentum 6-months: Pr26W%ChgInd You should know which way the arrows point. Use Percentile NAs Negative (Portfolio123’s default option). a) Backtest the performance of the ranking system above using:      Universe: S&P1500      Benchmark: S&P1500      Rebalancing Frequency: every 4 weeks      Number of buckets= 10      Slippage=0, minimum price = 3, Sector=All, Long Copy-paste the bar chart with annualized returns over MAX time period. b) Explain in as much detail as you can the calculations Portfolio123 does to generate the bar charts in item a). c) Find the vector E[α] as of February 21 2015 using the ranking system above. Use a standard deviation of 2% per year. The spreadsheet Week3_Quiz_Q2 has useful data to answer this question. d) IF you had a covariance matrix V for all stocks […]

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Bus 300 Assignment 2 How do you describe the government relations tactics that can be would use as part of a public relations campaign, and explain in detail how these tactics will help achieve objectives. Help me draft a news release for a public relations campaign for a nonprofit organization. Can you help me explain in detail how the content, style, and essentials of the […]

  Define and explain the Payback method of project evaluation. Over 50% of chief financial officers surveyed indicate that their firm uses this method of project evaluation. Discuss the advantage and disadvantages of this method. Use numeric examples to assist your explanations.                                                       (b) Define an Efficient Market. What factors would tend to promote efficiency? Outline the implications of market efficiency for (i) Directors and Managers […]