Essays on Subcontractor

Information technology is a growing industry as more organizations, companies, and industries seek to modernize their workspaces. The automation of most systems makes it easier for the organization to streamline its service delivery and cut costs on inappropriate purchases and supply. Moreover, it helps boosts the organization overall turnover and revenue at the end of each financial year. Therefore, contracts related to information and technology continues to increase on a daily basis as companies, organizations, and industries seek to be ahead of their competitors. It would be ideal for the proposed company to focus on information and technology contracts, ...

How to overcome cultural, language and geographical barriers when seeking overseas suppliers

One of the major emphasis that will help one to surpass these barriers is through tailoring the correspondence in a manner that they fit the mother country of the organization. This will allow easy integration and understanding between the two parties as they have different culture origin. Secondly, the organization should ensure to be highly accurate when presenting the proposal and thus calling for the need for a translator to eliminate language barrier. The use of digital media may as well go a long way in eliminating the geographical barrier that may arise between the two parties ("Overcoming language ...

OPERATIONS SAFETY MANAGEMENT PLAN

General Considerations This Operations Safety Management Plan (OSMP) will apply to all staff as well as departments within the facility. Matters concerning security will be handled by members of the department of security who will be based in the facility. The members of the security have been adequately trained to perform tasks usually handled by security. However, the members of the security work on the presumption that they will not be armed anytime they are at work and that they are not authorized to engage in police activities. In a case where there is a need for police assistance, ...

Before tendering for a particular construction project, there are various risks that one needs to consider. The consideration of these risks affects the pricing of various terminal activities in the tender among other factors of the tendering process. One of these risks is the political risk. This risk relates to the manner in which changes in the political environment affects the delivery of the project (Agerberg & Agren, 2012, p.19). Other risks to consider before the tendering process include the financial risks. These risks include factors such as inflation and its effect on the price of supplies, the availability of ...

Abstract

Andy’s Parties emerged as a successful startup for eight years from an unexpected uncovering of a robust and growing market for children’s birthday party. The business operates in a large market of working women with no time to arrange and manage their children’s birthday parties and who are willing and capable of paying the price for party services. While working mothers are getting more aware of their motherhood and marital obligations, their careers remained essential to their selfhood, making forcing them to choose both and balance the demands from either. The full service offer that Andy’ ...

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Many of the issues that HaiDiLao Hotpot is facing as it strives to expand internationally are largely cultural in scope. While expansion into Taiwan and Singapore has been largely successful, that same level of success has not be gained with their recent entry into California. It appears to be that the cultural distance at this time is to great, which means that the company will need to tailor its menu offering and method of service to fit a more Western market if it wants to be successful in the end. At the same time, the company does not want ...

The manufacturing company is responsible for the injuries of the pilot. The manufacturing bears the sole liability because it offered the contract to the subcontractor who provided equipment with flaw that led to the air crash injuring the pilot seriously. The liability is transferred from the subcontractor to the manufacturing company because it the one which offered this contract to the subcontractor. The manufacturing company may make a follow up for compensation from the subcontractor to compensate for the failure of the equipment which caused the failure of the aircraft. The company is suppose to compensate he pilot for the ...

There are two main categories of contracts. These are written and oral contracts. Jones and Nussbaum had a valid contract that is enforceable. It is vital to note that all contracts whether made orally or written are enforceable if they are valid. Therefore, the agreement between Jones and Nussbaum was enforced breach which entitles the innocent party to redress. The facts in issue in this case are whether Nussbaum is entitled to be compensated for doing work that involved costs and the same was not evidenced in writing. This is despite an express provision within the contract that all work ...

Introduction

Disputes in the construction industry or in the process of honoring roles in a construction contract are not uncommon in many countries, a good of example which would be the United Arab Emirates (UAE) wherein the construction industry has been in a stage of boom for the past several years . Some of the world’s Mega structures and other fascinating architectural works are located in this Middle Eastern country. It is one of the largest exporters of oil and petroleum products and this country’s largest city, Dubai, is home to a range of spectacular and grand architectural works. It is home to ...

Executive Summary

Mattel is one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world. It has business operations all across the world. Mattel sources most of its toys from Asian subcontractors. China is the main source of Mattel toys. In 2007, a retailer found lead paint in Mattel toys. This started a huge investigation on the part of US government and Mattel. Mattel recalled millions of toys from the market. The CEO of Mattel apologized to the customers. Mattel also employed huge changes in its safety and quality check policies. It also acted in a very transparent way in the investigation and helped the government ...

The term globalization has gained significant attention in the past few decades. People view it from different perspectives. Some see it as the driver of the world’s economic development and as a process that is irreversible and inevitable. On the other hand, others approach it with hostility and sometimes fear. This kind of attitude is driven by the notion that globalization increases inequality between nations thus causing negative impacts on the social progress and threatening of the living standards and the employment (TOE 10). A recent research study by the International Monetary Fund indicates that the globalization is offering ...

- Two key negotiation fundamentals that you will employ and explain why these fundamentals are essential for this pending subcontract negotiation. Be specific as to your justification. This is a case wherein an initially laid out program terms and conditions have been significantly changed, particularly the expected delivery date of the outputs and the price by which they will have to be paid, because of an unexpected obsolescence of a crucial component involved in the manufacturing process. In this case, the firm we are representing is the one awarded with the prime or main contract. It would be safe to ...

ABSTRACT

This paper gives a comprehensive focus on risk management as an important tool for project management. Every project has its risk and, therefore, there is no way they can be avoided but mitigation measures can be incorporated when these risks are identified early enough. This paper gives a justification why risk management is a critical success factor for a project. It gives a discussion of the process involved in risk management, including risk planning and management, risk identification, qualitative risk analysis, quantitative risk analysis, and risk response planning. In addition, it provides more information to the project managers on good practice to ensure effective ...

- TWO key negotiation fundamentals that you will employ and explain why these fundamentals are essential for this pending Subcontract negotiation (from the section 1 reading). A successful negotiation process will aim at addressing the new changes in price, a situation that is likely to affect the terms of the main contract existing with the government. The current prime contractor (government) has already fulfilled the original set payment agreement which involves several years and if the price of the spare part increases by 25 percent, it means the negotiator has to make a counter offer to the prime contractor yet ...

Introduction

This paper will discuss the two major forms procurement that is involved in construction procurement process. These two major types of construction procurement process are bidding and shopping. This paper will highlight the disparities between the two types of construction procurement process as well as provide the reader with a proper understanding of the aspects that are attributable to the two processes.

Bidding in the construction procurement process

Bidding is the process of offering to procure an item or items at a price being offered by a bidder. In the bidding process, an individual that places the highest bid normally buys the item. However, in some bidding processes ...

The organizations procedure for job costing will follow a predetermined process to ensure efficiency and timeliness.

The initial process in the job costing procedure will be the identification of the levels of directs costs that are attributable to a particular project. The procedure will involve making actual records of the estimated labor and direct materials costs. In costing the direct labor used by the business for a particular project or for a particular period, the business will make estimations on all the associated costs of labor and prepare a labor projection sheet. This will be used as a benchmark upon which actual costs incurred will be compared. The recording of the actual costs incurred by the business relating to ...

1.1 Introduction Construction forms are necessary since they provide a detailed history of the construction process from the planning stage up to the completion stage. The contents of these documents highlight the decisions and activities that together comprised the construction process. Therefore, when properly prepared, these documents provide an accurate history of construction projects. In essence therefore, construction documents facilitate monitoring and evaluation of construction projects. In addition, they can be used as evidence when disputes and litigations arise (Hyland, 2005, p.68). 2.1 Application for payment 2.1.1 Explanation of the Form Once in the construction phase, ...

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Supply chain management has its origin from the; just in time production and logistics. It continues to flourish in the manufacturing sector although it is still largely dominated by logistics[ CITATION Rob97 \l 1033 ]. SCM however is more focused on covering the whole scope of the supply chain by attempting to view and solve problems from a supply chain perspective, while taking to consideration the interdependency that is evident in any supply chain. Its main objective is to ensure that, the myopic control of the supply chain that encourages increase in waste and problems is done away with at all ...