Essays on Sourcing

Purpose

This paper intends to investigate how well the Pakistan pharmaceutical industry’s supply chain system performs. The thesis aims to achieve this purpose by examining the transportation, outsourcing, logistics management, and government regulations, and how these factors influence the efficiency and effectiveness of the pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan. In particular, the paper provides insights into the performance related practices used in the Pakistani pharmaceutical industry. Consequently, it points out the need for more research aimed at capturing dynamics and specific operational characteristics of local networks for development and improvement. Further, by denoting the relationship between system practices and SCM ...

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Results:

Based on measurements, complete the table below: Discussion: Discuss the application of common collector transistor circuit. The common collector configuration of the BGJ amplifier is mostly commonly employed as buffer or emitter follower. The voltage gain of the common collector amplifier is nearly unity and provides large current amplification. It is used in applications where current sourcing is required without modifying the voltage. The input resistance is quite high so it draws negligible current from source. Moreover, the load circuit will not interfere ...

Question 1

As of 2015, Loganville window treatments were conducting a batch-process type of manufacturing in its line of production. Batch processing involves producing one or several forms of a product or batch. The batches are of a given quantity, and further production of new batches relies on how fast the stock is depleted. The Loganville window treatments would produce 500 -1000 batches of the interior shutters and hold the end products in their stores awaiting an order. The new orders would receive supply form the stored batches and only after depletion of the batches would the company start production of ...

Introduction

Walshe and Rundall (2001) define evidence-based practice as the provision of medical services based on empirical evidence retrieved from thorough scientific research and the relevant characteristics of the patient. The aim of using such methods when making critical decisions about a patient is to eliminate risk and promote quality treatment (Murray & Lopez, 1996). This paper provides survey questions relating to the utilization of evidence-based health care methods in medical facilities. It also includes a cover letter that can be used to invite respondents to take part in the survey.

Survey Questions

Open-Ended What is your name? What is your age? How ...

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INTRODUCTION

The following discussion is a literature review on five sources each for sustainability monitoring systems and effective indicators.

Sources for Characteristics of Good Monitoring Systems

“Monitoring Systems for Sustainability. What are they measuring?” This is a doctoral thesis from an Australian university that examines the sustainability reporting and monitoring systems by governments, private corporations and global non-governmental organizations. Australian frameworks are compared to those of international models. Sustainability indicators in the Australian context are discussed extensively. Two case studies from the private sector are presented. (Davidson, 2008) Using the case study of the Australian Gas Light Company, shortcomings in current sustainability reporting practices ...

Abstract

Organizations select operating systems for use in their workstations and servers depending on their preference. In my organization, the preferred operating system is Linux. However, vendors to supply the system and associated support have not been determined. As such, the paper aims at considering different factors of the individual vendors such as reliability, performance, availability of training, and availability of support. Moreover, aspects such as pricing and suitability in different work environments will be considered since each organization is expected to have its advantages and disadvantages. Extensive research from the literature will be conducted to ensure that a clear ...

Background

Successful modern business marketing lays emphasis on meeting the needs of the customers. This focus is a departure in the opposite direction from the traditional business whose major concern was selling its products or services. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one way of meeting not only the direct customers’ desires but also the needs and expectations of all the stakeholders of a business (Ortenblad 2016). Unethical profiteering practices of large companies and customer awareness due to free flow of information have forced many companies to make CSR a key strategic focus in their conduct of business. Besides enabling a ...

Executive Summary

This CSR report is based on Kellogg’s CSR practices and their impact on the company’s success in the market. Kellogg is adhering to sustainability and social responsibility referring to all aspects of its business. It is found to be faced with some issues when it comes to food safety identified by Greenpeace, but they are negligible while seen its level of compliance with other areas. Furthermore, CSR also contributes to the Kellogg’s financial gains while measured by sales revenue, profit margin, and the growth of business (Kellogg’s, 2014; Kellogg’s Annual Report, 2015). This report ...

In this paper, I will critically review what I studied in this module and comment on different learning experiences I had. This critical reflection of my learning experiences can assist me to identify the learning experience(s) that will have great influence on my future as well. I will also try to figure out how my preconceptions, thoughts, and expectations about operations and logistics management were changed during this module. I strongly believe that individual assignments and shared activities in this module changed my preconceptions, thoughts, and expectations about operations and logistics management notably. Previously, I was not much ...

Introduction

Mega-Events such as the World Cups and Olympics are so huge that it requires almost creating a temporary city for the massive event, with power, toilets, waste, water, and transport, among a host of other things. Such an event is inherently environmentally unsustainable, as it produces masses of waste and consumes unnecessary resources. While having no event is the most environmentally friendly event, there are many reasons countries hold why mega-events. However, it is beyond a doubt that those conducting the event have a social and environmental responsibility to reduce their impacts. This is true for all events, whether ...

Introduction

Globalization and technological advancements have the tremendous impact on organizations from various perspectives. Internationalization of supply chains, automation of the operational processes, international mobility of individuals and changes in the sales and marketing strategies are some of the most obvious outcomes of the technological progress and globalization. It is not a secret that individuals are becoming more flexible in their choices and brand preferences as they have greater access to information and increasing the choice of competitive and substitute products (Johnson, 2006). With that companies, must seek for innovative ways to compete in the increasingly complex market. This competitiveness ...

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Product 3 Place 4 Price 4 Promotion 5 Social media 5 Televised communication 6 Personal selling 6 SWOT Analyses 6 Threats 7 Findings 7 Challenges 8 Opportunities 9 Recommendations: 9 Conclusion 11 Last US bag 14 Abstract: The Last US Bag company is a leading company which provide its consumers customized products and services and it is the main promotional strategy of the company. The market mix explains that the company is strong in its products and are able to cover maximum areas for its supply chain. There are explanations about the company’s SWOT analysis and recommendations from ...

Introduction

BMW Group is one of the most successful automotive companies in the world and is a considered a brand leader in the premium market segment in the United States. Despite competitive pressures within the market segments and among the low and mid-priced automotive, BMW’s vehicle volume sales continued to increase by 5.2% in 2015, thanks to the normalization of the global economy. Its revenues also increased by 14.6% and reached $92.2 billion while its net income reached $6.4 billion, a 10% increased from the previous year (BMW Group, 2016). As per location, Germany accounted for 42.6% of the ...

Introduction

The success of any business venture is characterized by its ability to manage its assets, with respect to features such as the members of staff, the expenses incurred during the production process of its products as well as its distribution stratagems. The reason why most business entities and conglomerates fail to thrive in the long term is due to poor mismanagement of various core sectors hence leading to the redundancy for income generated and in an increase in the cost of productivity. The overall result is the decline in the trajectory of the business entity. Such was the characteristic ...

<< Name>> <<School>> <<Date>> This document will assess the project controls and closing operations by Starbucks, one of the world leaders in beverage retail and restaurants. Project control and management is indeed very critical to the restaurant industry and for the efficient implementation of any process. It involves the use of data gathering and analysis to help predict many parameters that are used in project management such as time and costs, overruns, communications to help effective decision making and keeping the process on track (Projectcontrolsonline, 2012). The control process begins at ...

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the world has found itself with more waste material from production than in any other time since time in memorial. The need to conserve the environment and ensure that these waste products do not deter the quality of resources, like air and soil has grown in the last two decades a great deal. More companies have come up with green initiatives to ensure that the waste material that is realised from consumer markets and producers are recycled. Recycling can be defined as the act of converting waste and otherwise harmful by-products to ...

HYDRAULIC CYLINDER ASSEMBLY: SOURCING REPORT

1.0 Executive Summary The appropriate selection of the best vendor for any product requires a critical evaluation of several dealers in order to make a viable decision. The buying company must determine the level of urgency with it requires the product to allow any intermediary to conduct the best sourcing. Because procurement is a procedural undertaking, valuation of the players to be involved is essential to give the best recommendation to the buying company. The buyer always has a predetermined budget that states the expected cost of products and timeline of delivery of anything it has decided to procure. ...

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Executive Summary Deere is a company that deals in the manufacturing and distribution of a diverse range of agricultural, commercial, consumer, construction, and forestry equipment. Lately, the company’s margins in the gatherer chain have been reducing. This chain constitutes one of the most popular products sold by the company’s Agricultural Products Division. The diminishing margins were mainly attributed to increased market competition and the increasing purchase cost of the chain from Saunders. This paper aims at evaluating this issue and, subsequently, providing solutions to the problem. Deere operates in a market that is highly competitive. As such, ...

The growing world of business and trade has resulted in the opening up of innumerable opportunities for exploration. Multinational companies have been born from all over the world therefore creating unprecedented economic growth and expansion. Many employment avenues have been created as a result including those that major in the import and export niche. In this essay, I focus on my experience as an export coordinator. I will discuss my objectives as entered into the field and the resultant skills that I got from the experience. As an export coordinator, my duties involve the sourcing for markets and customers ...

Business managers in Nigeria lack understanding of the business development process needed for successful growth in quarry in Akamkpa, Nigeria.

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Introduction

A quarry is like an open pit mine from where minerals are extracted that are mostly used in the construction of buildings and civil engineering works. Quarrying is a part of mining but is slightly different as it has a close connection with the society because different builder of a region requires material that is extracted in order to complete their work. There are not many restrictions for quarrying as it is open for all the contractors. Due to this reason all the managers and developers at different levels need to ...

1. There were several important factors that led to the decline in 2007 and 2008. While some were notional factors, most of them were factors that were actually taking place and affecting the sales of the company. It was at the beginning of February 2007 that Schultz began noticing that the media communication of Starbucks was failing to tell the story of the company. He also noticed some of the following factors in play that were behind the possible decline of Starbucks. a) The personalization of the customer experience that existed in the smaller coffee shops no longer existed ...

Management

Starbucks is “the global coffee and food retailer operates more than 21,000 locations in 66 countries” (Fortune 500). The history of the company began in 1971 when the first Starbucks café was opened in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. Since that time, the company has grown into one of the world leaders in coffee retail represented in 66 countries all over the world. Moreover, Starbucks became the symbol of ongoing process of the Americanization that embraced countries in Asia. Starbucks included in Fortune 500 on 146 place in 2016. Figure 1 illustrates Starbucks’s Fortune 500 rank ...

IEG 330: Supply Chain & Logistics Engineering

Section: F2 Summer 2016

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Introduction 4 Objectives of the Project4 Literature Review4-5 Description of the Collecting Data Process5-6 Description of the Collected Data6-7 Mapping the Supply Chain Network of the Company8 Performance Measurement8-11 Tools, Techniques and Approach to follow11-12 Challenges Expected12 Conclusion12 Gantt Chart13 Reference14 Abstract This report presents an analysis of Kuwait indo Trading Company’s (KITCO) supply chain. Supply chain analysis and management is an imperative aspect for the business. This is mainly the results obtained help improve the bottom line of all members of the supply chain (manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers). The improvement results from ...

4. Environmental Analysis 4.1. Operating Factors Some of the common goals in any restaurant regardless of size is the desire to make money, control food and labor cost and to retain employees . A restaurant is one of the toughest businesses to run successfully because of the long hours involved, the high turnover and the relatively low pay when compared to the number of hours. Therefore it is clear that human resource is a critical operating factor. An understanding of the nature of the market is also essential; factors like market saturation and market trends are critical to operating a ...

Introduction of staffing and Performance Appraisal in retail sector context

Staffing in Retail Sector Retail sectors constitute the part of the economic market made up of businesses that sell well to the final consumer. The ultimate or the final consumer is the client who buys goods for personal use and not for business use. The retail sector encompasses various kinds of shops such as small and medium-sized stores and kiosk, large department stores, supermarket chains, mail-order business as well as online businesses. Staffing is an integral and a core process within the retail industry. Staffing includes a range of activities followed in the acquiring and maintaining a human personnel. ...

According to Weele (2009, p4), effective strategic purchasing is growing rapidly throughout because the organizations have realized it a potent avenue to achieve the company performance in short and long term. These includes attaining their strategic goals, improving the consumer satisfaction, improve the efficiency of the services rendered and many others. Hartmann & Blome (2010, p45) argues that the reason for such is because the quality of goods or raw materials in the organization enhances the organization’s performance. The cost of goods and service procured is also important in determining performance. Various theories are explaining the importance of the ...

Abstract:

This report presents an analysis of Kuwait indo Trading Company’s (KITCO) supply chain. Supply chain analysis and management is an imperative aspect for the business. This is mainly the results obtained help improve the bottom line of all members of the supply chain (manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers). The improvement results from a reduction in transport, logistical, holding, and other costs associated with the transport and handing of goods and raw materials within the supply chain. It also increases the bottom line by streamlining all processes involved in a supply chain. This includes periodic product and raw material ...

The main aim of businesses is to accomplish their mission (Ireland 34). The process of moving towards the achievement of its mission requires organisations to apply effective strategies that facilitate an effective response to the range of factors that may affect such objectives. Unforeseen factors may cause devastating impacts on the wellbeing of an organisation. In this case, therefore, utilising appropriate strategies to deal effectively with the plausible future events is necessary. Planned opportunism is the systematic process that assists in the recognition of the impending changes and assuring the opportunities that such changes may provide, thus supporting the ...

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Analysis of the United Display Cases, Inc. (UDCI)

UDCI believed it has a good product but he still hasn’t able to attract investors or convince banks for financing. For this goal, UDCI needs to present its break-even operating capital and projections of production volume that will yield maximum profitability. A successful product launch can be a major point in convincing financiers and it would need a cost-effective marketing strategy as current finances are limited. For its plan to distribute through, it needs to determine a price it will pass to retailers that can generate more sales than direct selling. There are no direct ...

1.1. Early on, Dr. Vasella was able to identify that the company’s turnover rate is more than acceptable. It was becoming a problem for them to make people stay. He noted that it is not enough for the company to pay good money to their employees. They also must be able to solicit their commitment and drive for excellence at the same time. 1.2. One of the factors affecting this high turnover rate was the inability of the company to recognize talent for promotions within. By the time they do so, these potential senior executives were already on ...

Introduction

Globalization of economies and the strengthening of political and economic relationships in the European Union have had the significant influence on the development of retail industry in the country. The fashion industry is highly dependent on the social and economic trends. With increased mobility of individuals and the digitalization of the markets, companies are obliged to look or ways to further enhance their brand and become more responsive to increasingly dynamic fashion market and consumers, who are more demanding with regards to the short lifecycle of the products today, than ten and even five years ago. Moreover, competition on ...

QI: Personality Clash

Business and social environments outline the complexity of relationships which are built between individuals, groups and event organizations, and governments. The reality shows that globalization and technological development place numerous pressures on these environments and affect the ways interpersonal relationships are built. Indeed, when it comes to the analysis of the globalization and its influence on the society, it is a common knowledge that internationalization of businesses and personal mobility became common among the majority of the nations. That said, academic and business literature has been giving a lot of attention to such issues as diversity, internationalization, technology impact ...

Sensors detect an input event and control an output event. The output often requires different timing than that of the input event. Sometimes several inputs must jointly produce an output event. In other words, logic alters the raw sensor signal so that it is directly useful for controlling local action in response to sensed events (Ouzounov et al., 2006). A sensor is an interactive application; it expresses interest in an event by defining a sensitive ‘region' and an event type. For example, if a sensor wishes to receive events directed to a geographical object, it can define its region ...

Nowadays global production networks are vital for many large companies and lots of smaller enterprises in the developing countries. In the early 2000s, Apple took a strategic decision to outsource production abroad. Supply chain management, flexibility, and production speed are some of the factors that make production overseas effective and beneficial for Apple (Moyer, 2012). However, cooperating with a very large number of suppliers is not easy and there may be a lot of criticism that can harm company’s image. Therefore Apple respects foreign suppliers, but requires them to pay more attention to the conditions in which employees ...

Internal analysis of Hudson’s Bay Company

Introduction The internal analysis of a firm enables the understanding of the internal factors that has contributed to the position that the firm is currently in. It involves the analysis of the resources of the firm and the attributes such as inbound logistics, operations, marketing, human resources management, development of technology that adds value to the organisation. The core competency analysis enables the understanding of the expertise, skills and abilities it has to maintain a competitive position in the industry. Internal analysis also enables the finding of the key success factors that are contributing to the competitive advantage of ...

Communication tools

There are various digital marketing tools that a brand can use to reach its target market with information about the overall brand as well as specific products. The platforms provide means of providing varying content including videos, pictures and written details on the products. With that, the Chipotle marketing campaign will entail the use of various platforms to deliver different content to the target segments in ways that are captivating and capable of catching the audience attention. In that respect, the following is a summary of the digital platforms through which the brand will reach the target market across ...

Staffing is one of the major components of any organization; the human resource is responsible for the daily activities and business of the organization. Therefore, it is the duty of the human resource management department to recruit qualified and competent staff. Strategic staffing refers to the process of getting employees into and out of the organization based on the needs and goals of the organization (Greer et al., 2015). It’s normally future oriented and aims at enhancing the effectiveness of the organization in pursuit of success in its goals and business strategies. The components of strategic staffing are ...

Introduction

A global supply chain is composed of processes, interrelated entities, and resources that make and deliver products and services to customers across many countries (Drake, 2012). Due to globalization and increase in international trade, companies are operating and sourcing products and services in many countries. There has been a rise in multinational companies with plants or stores in different countries. This underscores the need for global supply chains to enhance the operations of these companies. Some companies use global supply chains to source for products.

Benefits of global supply chains

Global supply chains enable a company to compete all over the world. A company ...

Essay

Introduction The headquarters of Wal-Mart are located in Bentonville, Arkansas. Sam Walton, the founder of the company, launched a variety store in Newport, Arkansas in 1945. His brother, James 'Bud' Walton, opened an identical store in Missouri in 1946. Until the 1960s the enterprise was focused wholly on variety stores (Brunn, 2006). The original Wal-Mart Discount City was launched in 1962, which became the original discount store of Wal-Mart. The original Sam's Clubs were then launched in 1984, which was followed by the opening of the original supercenter in 1988. The original neighborhood market was launched in 1999. In ...

Obermeyer limited is a cloth production factory that produces stylish and fashionable clothes for all genders. Sports Obermeyer thrives in an industry that has a lot of 'fashion gambling'. In this paper, things Wally should think about when choosing the quantity to order for each style as discussed in the case study provided. Moreover, operational changes recommendations essential to improve performance will be discussed as well as the considerations management should take in place when sourcing in china versus Hong-Kong. In the efforts to determine the quantity to order for each style in November, Wally should consider the popularity ...

Communication is vital in every organization, and more so in the inception and incorporation of disaster management. Different modes of communication instigates collaboration in various operations. There are different methods of communication, they involve techniques such as; physical interface, which is commonly referred to as face-to-face communication, and online communication. (Whybark, 2007). Online communication is the most popular and highly utilized form of communication in the world today. It is in this perspective, that online communication has been widely embraced and popular across the world, allowed to the vast and fast growth of technology over the years. There are ...

Air Cargo Ships May Soon Alter Global Supply Chains

Air Cargo Ships May Soon Alter Global Supply Chains

Abstract

Most companies across the world applying sophistication in their supply chain designs are engaging in the use of air cargo as a competitive advantage regardless of the costs incurred. These aspects occur with the reflection that air cargo being perceived expensive in terms of an alternative method for supply chains that rely on ocean transportation. However, the focus on air cargo does not emerge on the basis of the accidents or even crisis situations in the incorporation of logistics strategies to global manufacturers. Research indicates that the focus on air ...

Introduction

Skechers is a high performance and lifestyle footwear company located in Manhattan Beach, California, which was founded in 1992 by current CEO Robert Greenberg and his son Michael. It was first incorporated in 1992 in California and then reincorporated in Delaware in 1999 while keeping its headquarters in California (Skechers, 2016b). As of fiscal year 2015, it owned and operated in the United States 119 concept stores, 155 factory outlet stores, and 117 warehouse outlet stores. Internationally, it also owned and operated 82 concept stores, 41 factory outlet stores, and five warehouse outlet stores. It has more than 1340 ...

Background of Study

Quarrying is a part of the mining industry that focuses on providing some basic and vital elements for building and civil engineering works throughout modern nations. Unlike other aspects of mining, quarrying involves a close connection to the wider society since builders of all categories in a given region of a nation will need materials from quarries to complete their work. Most other mining activities are restricted to a few specialized activities that often lead to output which is sold to specific entities that market the products. However, quarries are opened to almost every contractor in a given nation. ...

Suppliers play a key role in the performance of various firms. Supplier assessment is a process involving evaluation of available suppliers and selecting the best through both quantitative and qualitative assessments. The process can be conducted on both new and existing suppliers for purposes of performance improvement, cost reduction as well as risk mitigation (Gordon, 2008, p.232). Supplier management involves managing the relationship subsisting between the organization and its suppliers for purposes of maximizing the benefits arising from this relationship. This paper therefore focuses on supplier assessment and selection as well as methods so managing the relationship between suppliers ...

Introduction:

Outsourcing is a cost saving practice in which one company provides different goods and services to another company. It is used by different companies to transfer some portions of work to outside suppliers instead of completing it internally. It describes the strategic use of outside resources to perform organization's internal activities. It help the companies to get more skills and expertise from outside suppliers. Outsourcing is an act of acquiring products or services from an outside company that is known as vendor or supplier. The history of outsourcing is embedded with a history of the growth of modern technology ...

When two companies merge together, it tends to cause a major disruption in the flow of the supply chain overall. If the company plans well, it is quite easy to utilize a merger to benefit the supply chain. What many managers fail to realize is that adding another company increases the assets and potential for the company to utilize the supply chain to their advantage, (“Addressing Supply Chain Inefficiencies Following Mergers,” 2016). That being said, a merger would affect the facilities, inventory, pricing, information, sourcing, transportation, and manufacturing aspects of the two prospective companies that are merging, (“Addressing Supply ...

Does the company market directly to consumers? Does the company sell through marketing intermediaries (Retailers or Wholesalers)? If so, who are its major intermediary partners? Alibaba Company is an online marketing platform that was initiated with the intention of marketing Chinese products to foreigners. The company markets its products directly to the customers, as their clients are the people who visit their websites to sell or buy products. Alibaba is an e-commercial company which is service-oriented company (Schepp and Schepp).

Sourcing

Are any aspects of the product or service outsourced? Alibaba does not outsource any aspect of their products ...

Part. 1 Concept introduction and analysis

Introduction This report presents a proposal for a restaurant establishment in Clarke Quay in Singapore. The report provides an overview of the proposed location and the market trends identifying the suitability of the proposed concept. To achieve that, the proposal involves analysis of the target market and the financial prospects of the business deciding on whether the model is viable.

Restaurant concept

Generic strategy The restaurant will have a premium pricing given the target customers it will be serving in Clarke Quay. The customers are mainly professionals and visitors with substantial income to afford the premium price for the food items ...

Introduction

The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the approach of Marks and Spencer, a giant multi-channel retailer located in the UK based on sustainable products and managing waste (EY). The report aims to identify the main sustainability challenges that M &S recognize in their reporting and summarize the M & S sustainability strategy to highlight the obstacles, benchmarking against its rival Zara and Adidas. The report will provide an evaluation of M &S approach to sustainable products and manage waste drawing upon information available in the firm’s sustainability reporting material and concerning the speculative academic theory and models. ...

Answer to Q1

Factors that can affect the strategic sourcing are political, legal, and cultural differences between the countries. They may also have to manage problems such as transportation, lack of capacity or technology, and weakness in management systems. Other factors include having to deal with customs, trade regulations, and language barriers. There is also a risk of leakage of confidential information due to which the competitive advantage of the companies is reduced. Due to global sourcing from different suppliers, international logistics is an issue. As the sourcing is from manufacturers from Asian countries and the distribution centers are elsewhere, the problem ...

Impacts of Outsourcing Internal Audit Fuction Author NameInstitution Name

Abstract This research finds out the effects outsourcing internal audit and extent of external auditors’ dependence on the work done by the internal audit team. We explore if outsourcing the internal audit function affects reliability on internal audit job already done and the use of assistant’s position for internal audit. We determine if internal audit outsourcing, the role of internal audit in systems consulting, affects external auditors’ dependence on internal audit. Results show that involvement in consultancy activities relating to the financial reporting system affects the extent of reliance on the work of the internal audit. When internal ...

The United States Department of Labor describes competitive sourcing as a key element of the President’s Management Agenda that seeks to get the best value for money on taxes paid by the American people. This is accomplished through a strategic plan that leverages the market economy’s competitive forces to improve the efficiency of the government. It involves awarding of tasks and activities to the most qualified party through a competitive process. Government organizations are allowed to compete for work against the private sector based on the assumption that both can perform tasks and deliver commercial services cost-effectively ...

Introduction

A multicultural organization is an organization characterized with a workforce of people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The workforce includes people from diverse religious, ethnic, racial and gender backgrounds, including those from minority social cultural backgrounds at all levels and in all departments of the organization (Wang & Chan, 2009). Virtual organizations are organizations primarily supported by technology such as World Wide Web, Internet, telecommunications, EDI, e-mails, videoconferencing and groupware. Organizations have been encouraged to become virtual to derive benefits that include lower overhead, lower labor costs, increased employee morale, more project options and flexibility (Wang & Chan, 2009). The ...

Crowd Working

INTRODUCTION The nature of work is changing. From a fixed-hour, fixed-place and fixed pay job design, more recent job offers in current market suggest new developments in employment. In older work arrangements, employees are hired based on fixed-period contracts (usually renewable at employer's will and most consistently cancelled during periods of economic crunch and mass layoffs) and are compensated in return for labor hours spent in more or less fixed location and/or workplace layout design. The emergence of ICT innovations, particularly web-based workflow systems, has, however, introduced interesting novelties into how work can be done but also, probably more ...

Introduction

The US idea of insourcing jobs back into the country is a right direction. Moreover, bringing back of jobs to the state will increase the number of investments and capital. Also, it will increase the number of employment opportunities in the country thus rendering the economy and workers productive and creative. Bringing jobs back is also a good move for the US because it is an added advantage to the Government revenue and the economic growth.

Reasons Why American Companies Move Back Jobs

Insourcing brings lots of improvement to the lives of the Citizens and the country’s economy. The US decided to bring back jobs ...

Most of the culture-related problems facing 3rd world countries rely on traditional methods of production such include the participation rate of men and women. Women are not very active in the labor force. There are beliefs that women should not participate in particular jobs thus lowering the number of viable employees (Jiang 190). Education and skills necessary is also a major challenge as far as culture is concerned. Education is a basic necessity to any human. In most of these third-world countries, illiteracy levels are very high, and this mostly has been contributed by bad culture. People from these ...

The Streamline Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA) is an effort by the states in U.S to simplify and modernize state administration as well as the sales from the locals and use tax laws (Nicely). The SSUTA came about as a response to the decision of Supreme Court in the United States of making the collection of sales and use taxes from the unenforceable sellers of the states. Therefore, the Congress decided to simplify the nationality of the sales tax. Moreover, the agreement of the streamlined national sales and tax use have provided for some voluntary systems that can ...

A Critical Analysis of the Role of Product Design and Service Design in Achieving Design Management Goals within the UK Supermarket Retail Chains – A Case Study of Tesco, UK.

Introduction

In the world of business, firms compete to gain a stronger market share. This is done by utilising a firm’s core competencies and strengths and converting it to competitive advantage in order to provide a stronger appeal to consumers. Thus, most firms maintain an emergent corporate strategy whereby they observe trends on the markets and make changes to their business units in order to remain relevant to consumers and ...

Introduction

Social Super Market will be a business enterprise with far reaching benefits for the society. The purpose of the business to snatch away the business share from the large superstores and the hypermarkets that are taking hard earned income from the customers to fill the pockets of the shareholders. The social supermarket will focus on providing the grocery items, organic vegetables and fruits to the customers at discounted rates. The social supermarket aims to mobilize the local resources in its operations. The organic vegetables and fruits will be grown locally in Glasgow and carried to the supermarket for selling. ...