Sainsbury's is a hierarchical organisation. One of Sainsbury's aims is to make shopping more quick and effortless for customers. In order to find out how this can be done the marketing and research department has to look into this case. By doing this Sainsbury's are able to meet their targets. As Sainsbury's have a hierarchical structure they are most likely to lose a lot of money because for the marketing and research and development departments to carry out their functions they would need funding from the finance department.
Therefore, company A needs to stop making this product. Although we can argue that if company A could reduce the cost dramatically, it can become profitable. However, as the demand of its headphones is shrinking and there are so many suppliers (due to low barrier of entry), there will be great price pressure on the product, as explained by William F. Samuelson and Stephen G. Marks (2010). The price reduction may over shallow the possible cost reduction the firm could achieve. Susan Schreter’s second step is to target new customers from within groups.
Mantkelow (2014) explains lean manufacturing as based on "finding inefficiencies and removing wasteful steps that don't add value to the end product." Lean operations helps to reduce waste in production by using resources to only produce what the customer is demanding. A company that is using lean operations has measurable throughput. “Every minute that a product is not sold the cost accumulates and the competitive advantage is lost, this is the manufacturing cycle time” (Heizer and Render, 2010) this analysis could have been used to scale down production in the third and fourth quarter when it became obvious there was excess inventory. For starters, there is no value in holding 60 days' worth of inventory, to adopting lean principles would immediately help us to commit to inventory reduction and better alignment between production and demand.
However, future threats always have the potential to arise. Competitive Rivalry – Unless the popularity of the Little Wonder completely dwarfs other products in it's class then competitive rivalry should remain small. This would change if the Little Wonder starts to greatly impact competitor's bottom lines and they find a way to begin to manufacturer new and improved mixers themselves at a lower cost. Threat from New Entrants – New entrants is unlikely because of the amount of features in Company G's product and it's price point. Competitors likely would not want to risk losing current sales by adding features which would raise their prices.
More debt will be created at first and possibly in the future depending on how good the new company takes off. Also, the working capital needs to decrease in the first organization that was opened in order for things to work out. If Hoffman decides to merge with another organization can set a company back with projects, revenue, and staffing. Having a new company can bring in new customers, but can also lose customers if they are unaware that a company has merged or if they do not like the company that they had merged with. Other things to think about are the companies’ lines of credit and financial lending.
Staffing Levels for Tanglewood Acquire or Develop Talent Tanglewood should focus more on developing their talent as opposed to acquiring outside talent. Developing talent best fits with the organizations core values of responsible financial management because acquiring talent is more expensive. Tanglewood can achieve organizational goals by developing sales associates that are interested in management because it involves more employee participation which is vital to Tanglewood staying competitive with other department stores. Developing Talent will also help with better centralize Tanglewood because acquiring managers could lead to inconsistencies with regards to staffing strategies. Hire Yourself or Outsource.
Since the Walton Work Wear line is in the production stage, its accumulated development costs should be capitalized. The Carroway Cool Top has not started it commercial production which would allow the development costs not to be amortized yet. Also interest costs on loans to generate financing for the R&D activates of a product can be capitalized rather than expensed. The capitalization of interest would allow CCL to reduce taxable income in the future when it is more profitable. I would recommend that CCL make the above changes immediately so that the financail statements are not incorrect.
One of the biggest issues would be incentives and commissions. Sales representatives would lose some of their commission if they were to take in Company A’s leads whereas Company B, being the originator of the leads, would have a potential for higher commissions. This may cause sales personnel to steal leads from Company A and convert them to Company B leads. This activity would also have to be closely monitored. As for the customer service representatives, they do not get any incentives because they are paid on salary and do the same work as the sales department.
The vendor will be function in effort to make a profit as is with all businesses. The problems can come when the vendor needs to increase profit and since the contracts are normally a fixed price, the only way for them to do so is to decrease expenses. This is a viable option as long as they meet the conditions specified in the contract (Bucki, 2012). When outsourcing to another company, your organization is now tied to the financial well-being of the vendor. The problem can arise when after contracting out the IT functions of the organization and paying the fees negotiated, the vendor goes bankrupt leaving the companies who have contracted to them without an IT resource (Bucki,
ACC/291 Week 1 Discussion Questions 1. How are bad debts accounted for under the direct write-off method? What are the disadvantages of this method? The direct write-off method is when a company determines that an account is uncollectible and it charges the loss to the Bad Debts Expense. An example of this would be when a customer is not able to pay their bill because due to a downturn in the economy, money may be tight if they have been laid off from their jobs or faced with unexpected hospital bills.