Summary:
To maintain Europe satisfactory product availability, Europe wants more inventory but HP Distribution centers are full of inventory of pallets of Desk Jet printer.
Market
Market is mature in US and Western Europe but developing in Eastern Europe and Asia-Pacific.
As printers became commodity products to computers in US, they started to be sold in superstores, consumer mass merchandisers (K-Mart) rather than computer dealers.
For customers; printers’ quality, price, speed, sustainability and availability are the matrices to decide on a printer.
HP Keynotes
Inkjet: HP leads in US but Canon leads Japan.
Vancouver, Washington Division & Zero Inventory Goal * Mission: Low Cost, Premium Quality Printers
…show more content…
* Distribution Services :Planning, Procurement * DC performance measures: * Line Item Fill Rate (LIFR) : Total no. customer order line items filled / Total no. customer order line items attempted (that is each time a material is pulled for a line item) * Order Fill Rate (OFR): Similar to LIFR but based on orders completed. An order consists of multiple line items. * Inventory Levels * Distribution Cost per Gross Shipment dollar * Major Costs:
Informal, Open to Negotiation on % Allocation * Outbound freight : Charged back to Product lines based on Actual No. of Pounds of Product Shipped. * Salary * Non-Freight: Percentage of Estimation of percentage effort to support a product line charged back to product lines * DC’s 4 process steps: 1. Receive products from various suppliers and stock them 2. Pick various products needed to fill a customer order 3. Shrink-wrap the complete order and label it 4. Ship the orders via appropriate carrier * Desk Jet
I. Rate of Return on Total Assets: Measures the company’s profitability relative to total assets. A percentage increment for Company G, from 12.30% to 13.68% (2011-12) keeps them above industry benchmarks (8.60% and 12.30%). Rate of Return on Total Assets represents strength for Company G.
B. b. Perfect order measure/fill rate: This method measures the error-free rate of each step in the supply chain. Error occurs when the customer has an unsatisfactory experience with the power tool they purchased because of errors and delays in the supply chain. The complexities of an extended supply chain make the odds against fulfilling a perfect order challenging.
After reading Chapter 6 of the textbook and the materials I found that I was struggling to understand the material more than usual. Before reading this chapter I had a slight idea of how much effort went into keeping track of the costs and inventory. The most that I knew was that you had to keep track of it, I didn’t know that there are different ways to keep track of those costs. After reading more into the different ways to keep track of inventory I found that the one that stuck out most to me and was the one that I spent the most time trying to understand was the LIFO (Last In First Out).
Hyper Competitors especially those that more diverse in technology. Very competitive and people want the best and newest technology
(i.e. products that they get to order only once because of long supplier lead times). First they determine a forecast for an item and then they have a process for converting that forecast into an order quantity.
HP is developing its new generation network printer while it has been struggling from 3 main issues –
While is it meant to measure how fast a company’s inventory turnover is there is no tangible inventory in insurance. The faster you can bring in new viable business in insurance the better. PHLY’s inventory turnover ratio is the lowest which can be interrupted as they are selling policies more quickly. While Chubb has the highest which can be interrupted as it is taking longer for them to bring in new business and sell policies. Travelers is in the middle suggesting they may be having some trouble bringing in and selling new business.
The Last in first out (LIFO) liquidation Inventory valuation method was changed as Inventory level in1984, 1983 and 1984 was decreased by Harnischfeger. By adopting this process, inventory that was purchased at lower cost in previous years was sold at higher prices.
Mubazar current items per minute (IPM) average is 16.73. Our company goal for items per minute is 14.5 IPM. Register efficiency plays an important role in our ability to deliver incredible customer service. Mubazar’s outstanding work in this area indicates a commitment to incorporating high standards into his work.
The analysis by Mr. McCarthy is a good basic analysis for comparing the alternatives, Buy vs Build. The main factor which Mr. McCarthy has not considered is the growing demand of the cartridges. The demand for
Introduction Sarah Donohoe, manufacturing engineering manager of the network laser printer division at Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), listened intently to her colleagues at the project review meeting for the development of their latest new product. With Sarah at the meeting were Jane Schushinski, marketing manager, Leo Linbeck, head of product design, and David Hooper, the controller of the division. The main topic for this meeting was the decision of whether or not to use a universal power supply for the next generation of network laser printer, code-named
(FIFO) policy, minimum stock reorder for each item and periodic stock evaluation. One of the
In contrast, HP has a very valuable printer business that Dell does not have in their PC maker. The reason that printers are so profitable is because demand of ink and other necessities. In the PC market HP could not afford to Dell's price margin as they need to spend on their marketing and physical supplies.
The market in which we are going to be activated is defined from the borders of the UK. However, Britain is considered to be one of the most developed countries in the world, so it is really difficult to study examples of other
both the U.S. and international markets. China represents one of the fastest growing countries for