Essays on Chandran

Johannie Hobbs, executive vice president of logistics at Wal-Mart pondered how to keep the company’s supply chain successful which was having a competitive advantage over other firms. Wal-Mart is one of the leading retailers of the world operating in 15 countries with excellent supply chain system. The company is having self-distribution system, tight relationship with suppliers, cross-docking of products, back-haul revenue, low cost priced and quality products to satisfy customers. In recent years, the company is facing tough competition from retailers like Amazon, Dollar store etc. (Lu, 2017) The problem occurred at Walmart when there was rise in ...

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Design firms are constantly in a continuous endeavor because of increased competitiveness that continuously threaten their existence. In particular, the luxury fashion industry may be difficult to manage because the sector is often characterized by customers who are quite particular about their needs. The research proposal will look into the luxury fashion brand sector and unravel the success tips that the design firms can employ in the course of their operation. Further, this proposal will seek to identify the areas where design companies may be going wrong and how they can address the issues to make positive returns. It ...

Chaebols are South Korean form of family-run business conglomerates. The word chaebol translates into ‘wealth clan’ or ‘money faction’ where chae means ‘wealth or property’. Bol on the other hand means ‘faction or clan’. In South Korea, chaebols are not only considered as companies, but are also dynasties. For one to be considered a true chaebol, a conglomerate must be family owned and have businesses in at least two different areas. For example: Samsung electronics manufactures television sets and smartphones and it also has subsidiaries that run a luxury hotel, sell life insurance and build crude oil tankers. These ...

Federal Reserve’s (Fed) actions are monitored by market participants worldwide due to the possible effect of those actions on markets globally. In the last few decades, inter-linkages between the markets have increased and so has the speed of inflow or outflow of money from one market to another. Fed’s actions can result in US interest rates rising and thus investors moving from international investments towards US markets, resulting in strengthening of US Dollar. On the other hand, a reverse scenario in which US interest rates come down, investors pull their money from US markets and invest in ...

Part I: Case Study Analysis of Clambake Company

Organizational growth determines the complexity of internal processes. Clambake Company has grown tremendously and with the current headcount of thirty individuals, the company requires robust and coherent control system. It is difficult to evaluate the performance and the impact of the current information systems on organizational activities due to the data limitations. It is evidenced, however, that the projected growth and current setting of the company will benefit from the implementation of a user-friendly and integrated Management Information System (MIS). Given the fact that the company will grow through acquisition and will increase its headcount from current thirty to fifty-four ...

LOGISTICS IN OPERATION MANAGEMENT AND CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS

INTRODUCTION Fast paced business world has increased immense pressure on organizations to increase agility and the adaptability of business operations. Along with understanding of changing market demand and customer trends, to remain competitive organizations are to remain on toes to meet the challenges posed by the managing operations of business. Therefore, operations of the organizations in the contemporary business world are constantly looking for the business practices that would enable them to manage business with more connectivity and coordination. Therefore, in order to address these factors successfully various management functions are constantly being evolved for greater coordination (Stevenson & ...