Although a fifth Kiwanee dumper was updated last year with the hope of resolving the problem, it was unable to fix them and the overtime costs of the process are still very high. 2. There is a long waiting time for trucks and drivers in queuing to unload process fruit into the receiving plant. Seriously, when the holding bins were full, the waiting time could be up to several hours. This has upset the growers since the wages of a truck and drives are up to $100 per hour.
After reading the Cerjugo case, there are a number of symptoms that can be identified throughout the case that suggest that the multi-million dollar manufacturing and distribution company is experiencing major difficulties.The first and most obvious symptom is the fact that the the juice sector of their company has not been able to reach its targeted profir margin for 2 years in a row.Another issue cerjugo encounters is high turnover rates in their sales force,including his manager of juice manufacturing and employees who do not feel motivated enough to fully understand the juice attributes which is hindering Cerjugo’s brand awareness.The lack of the employee understanding of the juice attributes hurts the company’s brand because employees are not able to effectively convey all the necessary information about the product to the consumers.furthermore cerjugo’s brand awareness will keep hindering as long as consumers are unaware of the “freshness”,all natural ingediants and the overall high quality of the juice which is Cerjugo’s main competitive advantage over their rivals. Root causes the root cause of the lack of employee understanding of the overall juice divison is the fact that theer is no job specialization what so ever.Each member of the sales force is required to sell beer and juice,however most of the employees were hired from when the company only sold beer and prefer to stay within their confort zone. The reward system the company is currently using is the root cause of the unmotivated salesforce and the high turnover rates,Cerjugo uses a performance bases reward system based on the beer and juice sales an employee makes. Another root cause is the organizational structure that Cerjugo curremtly uses. All the front line employees for both beer and juice production seem to be reporting back to only Carlos Menga the beer manager.The disorganization of
Evaluation This article is concerning the company Boys and Boden (B&B). It is a privately owned timber and building materials merchant based in a small town. Some of its products include doors, windows, staircases and all are made to the exact special requirements of the customers. Though there are no complaints on quality, there is usually a big backlog of work. In particular, the joinery department isn’t very profitable and most problems seem to end up with higher than anticipated costs and late deliveries.
This as well, will continue to lower Lincare’s profits. Lincare’s operating margin additionally declined from 24 percent to 16.6 percent. The 9.5% reimbursement cut on certain durable medical equipment, as well as the 36 month payment cap, and competitive bidding from CMS are negatively affecting the profits of the company. Lincare operating margins have declined from 28.8 in 2005 to 16.6 in 2009 (morningstar.com). Lincare’s Return on Equity has taken a steep decline over the past 5 years going from 21.83% in 2005 down to 14.54% in 2009.
Fresh vegetables were uncommon. Women convicts were given less food, as their work was often not as physical. Convicts who worked for free settlers were expected to be fed by their master. Convicts were expected to work from sunrise to sunset. In hot weather they had an hour off in the middle of the day.
Annual revenue for the company has averaged 1.5 million dollars in the past three years. The Bead Bar paper system currently has proven to be unreliable and not of productivity to the company overall as it produces numerous human error. The usage of this system has caused problems including lost orders, incorrect invoicing, and delays of delivery to customers. The system that is currently in place has a zero communication level between Bead Bar locations around the U.S. The usage of new technology will reduce unneeded data transfers, as well as order errors.
The last issue that the company had suffered from which was losing several industries, especially in the U.S. 2. What strategy does
Bloomingdales is a higher end store that sells high quality products at a high price. They are currently losing many customers because the economy will not move out of the stagnation period. Right now the customers need to be saving their money in case they need it later to pay bills rather than spending it on clothing. Many consumers are starting to shop at stores like Macy’s or Kohl’s where they are offered almost the same quality products at lower prices. Some of Bloomingdales biggest competitors are Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys New York, Lord & Taylor and Nordstrom.
WEAA annual expenses are more than their revenues while some of the other radio stations like WAMU regardless of higher expenses have more revenues which translate into a good annual profit for them. WEAA turnover problem has hurt the organization, stalled the growth and development with no formal fund rising during last two years. The main reason for downfall was the inefficient allocation of task and duties. The communication tree was not followed properly and instead wrong and inefficient reporting mechanism was taking place. Micah Razan was hosting the program “Women Today” for the last 14 years, an established and well known program that was soon to be discontinued due to Micah’s resignation from her volunteer on air host position and taking the show’s name and concept with her too.
Due to the fact that Asian and other foreign textile manufacturers have been exported aggressively and consumer preferences are requiring higher-quality products with minimum defects, like other firms, Aurora tends to produce small amount of yarns produced with minimal period and provide to customized markets. Consequently, Aurora had decreased significantly its costs by reducing $3.9 million of SG&A expenses since 2000 and it was one reason of increasing operating profit and net earnings in 2002. Unfortunately, Aurora’s returned amount from retailers had been increased and the proportion of sales return of Aurora’s one plant named the Hunter reached 1.5% in 2002; thus, the firm’s income has not risen well. Figure 1 illustrates Aurora’s financial ratios by calculating given financial information through Exhibits 1, 2, and 6. The first, the company’s liquidity ratios-current ratio and quick ratio-had been increased smoothly for these four years.