Assume you are a procurement officer for an office furniture manufacturer of steel office equipment. You have a single factory located in Sydney with 2,000 employees. You sell about 40% of your office furniture to retail-oriented catalog outlets such as Quill in response to specific customer orders, and the remainder of your output is sold to resellers under long-term contracts. You have a choice of purchasing raw steel inputs—mostly cold-rolled sheet steel—from an exchange and/or from an industry consortium. Which alternative would you choose and why? Prepare a report for management supporting your position.

One company offers the order online service. This system must be computerized. The duties of this service (order management, customer management and the product management) are placed under thesupervision of the sales manager. The customer can place his order by phone or via the official website of the company. In both cases, the customer precise the product, the quantity and choose one of the proposed payment methods (mada, visa card, …). When the order is received, the sales manager checks the availability of the product and the credit of the customer in order to validate the order. Design the use case diagram   And   A bank's machine offers the following services: Each bank customer can withdraw money as long as his account allows.Extraordinary withdrawals may be granted if the amount (to withdraw) exceeds the account amount by less than 300 Ryals.These withdrawals require communication with the bank's main system and the customer authentication.The customer can request to check (to…

A company specializing in custom-engineered equipment is planning to submit a proposal to the National 5. Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to build an assembled component for a new space station that NASA plans to launch into orbit. The winning proposal will be selected on the basis of both cost and timely delivery. Also, there will be a penalty clause in the NASA contract for late delivery. The company has developed the schedule of activities that are required to produce the assembled component. The activities and precedence requirements are presented in the table below. Three time estimates (in weeks) are given for each activity: optimistic time, most likely time, and pessimistic time. (a) What completion time should the company specify in its proposal in order to be 85% sure that it will complete the project on time? ij Activity Immediate predecessor Optimistic time (weeks) a b d. h b e, d d e,f f,g h, i a a a 15 8 10 20 17 4 10 Most likely time (weeks) 24 16 10 14 26 23…

please draw all cashflow diagrams and show all math calculations