Global Supply Chain Management and Strategic Sourcing Case Study Questions Question 1: Based on the risk factors associated with the Bugabyte and the Bugabyte Lite, which product do you think Grunwald and Vogel will recommend as the best candidate for assembly outsourcing? This case study is embedded on procurement management and global sourcing. This is supported by the move of Metrovox outsource various functions from suppliers in China where it purchases the components of both Bugabyte Lite and Bugabyte for its assembly plant in Germany. In an effort to maintain its market position and competitive advantage, Metrovox was compelled to improve its previous product-Bugabyte by developing video capability. The new development had great impact on production such that it was delayed thus delaying delivery of the product by 30 percent.
I. Introduction a. Ben & Jerry’s Homemade was on the table for takeover by other firms; specifically four, Dreyer’s, Unilever, Meadowbrook Lane and Chartwell. With the increased competitive market and declining financial performance, takeover bids were coming in. Co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield knew that in order for B&J to maintain its social stature, it would need to remain an independent company; but chief executive Perry Odak felt that the shareholders would be best served by selling the company. II.
The new organization forced country managers to be concerned with diversity of other countries' tastes and needs in developing and marketing of new products. This was a distinct contrast to the previous culture. Coping with this diversity across countries to create a Pan European brand was difficult. Internal frustrations at Unilever created barriers of communication as country managers were frustrated by their loss of autonomy and an increased burden of international coordination of strategies. A global approach to a new product kept development and country managers from focusing on consumer variances in consumption habits.
China Education and Research Network: http://www.chron.com/voyager/china/resource 4. Edgard Snow bibliografy about Chinese economic develop Research design&methods: help ppls to understand my argument 1. Case study –Why China’s economic, socio-cultural and political reshaping occured in a faster and different way than in other Occident countries? (why I choose this one) 2. Explain case Data TRANSFORMATION AND RESHAPING OF CHINESE SOCIETY INTRODUCTION The transformation of a social group or community is a many-side affair, involving changes on both material and psychological planes.
For both China and India, the early twentieth century marked a period of radical changes that were not common to these highly traditional societies. The phenomena that spurred both leaders’ desire for change were mainly systems that both perceived as representative of the West. In India, Gandhi opposed British colonization in his country. The British had forced Western civilization, industrialization, and modernization onto the Indians. Gandhi struggled to fight against British colonizing power and the Western models of society brought with it.
VisiDat represent a high emerging international threat, especially if DataClear continue to operate in the U.S. market instead of going global. As Susan Moskowski said: “If they start out as global player, and we stay hunkered down in the U.S., they’ll kill us.” Thus, according to Susan a main reason of going global is directly related to VisiDat and its competition. Moreover, another reason could be that if DataClear want to succeed in the long term and beat the competition it should develop a worldwide strategy and begin to operate in the global market. What is/are the alternative strategy (ies) of going global? A possible alternative strategy of going global is to decide of not going global by concentrating in others potential U.S markets as pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals and chemicals.
Our other goal is to satisfy a condition of the semester assessment and to add our insight as the writers and the readers specially. As the swift currents of globalization and modernization, regional cultures diminished and marginalized by modern culture. By reason of the fear out of date a lot of people who left the national culture. If you have to see how far the influence of globalization on culture, certainly have an enormous impact especially in the negative. It is very nice if we glance at what's in humans will require further development modern era.
This makes it difficult to know for certain what exactly what went wrong and why. Any analysis requires reliance on speculation and raises as many, if not more, questions than it answers. It is still worth looking into because it shows some important points that other companies can learn from. Background Caterpillar has had difficulty establishing a position in China comparable to its position in the rest of the world. In order to grow its operations China, Caterpillar decided to take a route that has proven successful for many MNCs operating in the PRC and use M&A rather than build things from scratch.
There are several examples of nationalism taking to an extreme that results in problems for the nation; nationalism tends to lead to economic isolation. It is important that the economy is able to grow from foreign investments and world trade; extreme nationalism prevents these things from happening. A new trend in nationalism that has arisen in recent years is regional nationalism. Regional nationalism aims to break up existing nations into smaller sections based off regional location; it is based on hatred of being ruled by unlike
14029317 Alibaba Next Move Grow Abroad or Go Deeper into China? In order to answer this question, it is important to understand what the current state of the market is like. For this we will take a look at the Chinese, U.S and Indian market. With this short analysis we can make a decision whether or not it is wise to make large investments in the U.S market, to seek out other foreign markets like India or to go deeper into the still fast growing chinese e-commerce market. In an article, on Alibaba expanding its e-commerce to Brazil, there seems to be a lot of growth potential in South America.