Supply Chain Management: Economic Order Quantity and Safety Stock

A. Based on the Microwave Inventory Case, using the spreadsheet perform a sensitivity analysis and evaluate potential additional benefits focusing in Economic Order Quantity and Safety Stock. See the attached spreadsheet to be fill out. On the spreadsheet perform the following:

1.Calculate the current cost of IMI’s inventory practices using the CURRENT tab of the template provided.

2. What would be the potential benefits of selecting both the production batch sizes and the reorder points more scientifically? Do this by completing columns B through H of the ANALYSIS tab of the template provided. Using the concepts of Economic Order Quantity and Reorder Point, explain the difference between this model and IMI’s current practice.

3. What if IMI was able to fully standardize the heavy-duty model to the point where the language and power supply customizing features could be added in a modular fashion immediately before shipping to the warehouse that needs them? You consulted with the production superintendent, who indicated that this could be done, but that it would add one day to the ship time to add these customizing features to the standard microwave just prior to shipping.

Consider it this way. IMI maintains a warehouse right next to their factory and they store inventory for models A, B, C, D, E, and F. Therefore they have to maintain separate inventory for each of the models. If they standardize to a single model, it may take them a day to ship, but they only need to keep one type of microwave in their warehouse.

For this part use the SINGLE MODEL column of the ANALYSIS tab and consider the impact RISK POOLING has should IMI combine all models. Using the inventory concepts we discussed in class, explain to IMI why they might achieve some cost benefit by embracing the idea of replacing all of their models with a single model.

4. Assuming that you have now convinced IMI to standardize on a single model of microwave, investigate other opportunities that IMI may have to reduce costs or improve customer service. Look at the components of total cost (not limited to transportation time, order cost, supply or demand variability) and make a recommendation to IMI on where else they may want to focus their efforts. Justify your recommendations.

5. Perform the sensitivity analysis and evaluate potential benefits in terms of Economic Order Quantity and Safety Stock.

6. On the spreadsheet add a column and consider:

• Reducing set-up times
• Reducing production or lead times?
• What about variances

B. Using the information of the spread sheet analyzed the inventory situation.

Based on the spreadsheet summarized results and deliver in form or report.

• what you have discovered
• Draw conclusions and summarize findings
• In what other areas could you invest?

Report shall be professionally structured, well-organized, insightful, start with an executive overview, and conclude by emphasizing the most important parts of the analysis

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1. You are given this balance sheet for a bank.

Assets Liabilities

Reserves $ 100 Deposits $1,000

Loans $ 900

The required reserve ratio is 10%.

a. How much is its excess reserve?

b. Suppose Ms. A deposits $500 to her account at this bank. Show the effect of this transaction on the bank’s balance sheet. How much is its excess reserve after the transaction?

c. How much will M1 increase when the money creation process (involving the whole banking sector and the general public) from the loan-making of this bank (using its excess reserve from part (b)) is completed. Assume that there are no leakages of cash holding by the general public and excess reserve holding by banks.

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CHF definition 
Pathogenesis
Symptoms
Incidence of the disease
Cause / contributing factors / related diseases
Complications / risk of the disease
How the disease is diagnosed
Treatment – pharmacological, surgical, non-pharmacological
Nursing Diagnoses (3 relevant)
Client Education 

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Passing along Costs

In 2010, the costs of powdered milk, cocoa, coffee, and wheat rose at double-digit rates.

Wildfires in Russia had caused wheat and other crops to shoot up. Cocoa prices reached a 33-year high in July, helped by speculative activities, including the London-based commodity trading house Armajaro Holdings Ltd.'s move to store 240,000 metric tons of cocoa, worth roughly $ 1 billion. Tea prices went up significantly on account of higher fuel costs and poor harvests in India.

Big consumer-goods companies often find ways to offset the commodity price increases, sometimes through cost-cutting and sometimes by passing along higher prices to retailers and consumers. JM Smucker Co. raised prices about 9 percent on products in its coffee lineup, which includes Folgers, Dunkin 'Donuts, and Millstone brands. In response to rising milk prices, Danone, which makes yogurt products, increased prices in markets including Mexico and Poland. Unilever's chief financial officer noted that the costs have gone up, and Unilever has already sent that chain down on its consumer tea products.yogurt products, increased prices in markets including Mexico and Poland. Unilever’s chief financial officer noted that tea costs have gone up, and Unilever has already sent that higher cost down the chain on its consumer tea products.

1.Suppose the price of coffee beans increases by $ 0.20 per pound. What is the effect of this raw material increase on the demand for roasted coffee? If one pound produces 50 cups of coffee, would the price of a cup of coffee rise by $ 0.01? Explain.

2. The article reports that JM Smucker Co. plans to increase its coffee prices by 9 percent. If Smucker has a lot of rivals but has a brand name that has value, will this 9 percent increase in retail prices imply that profit will rise by 9 percent?

3.Is it optimal for a firm to slash prices to retain market share? Is it cutting prices during a recession and then raising them in a good strategy?

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Story: Write an advance story on an upcoming event. Target your story to readers of the Daily Helmsman. I chose the food and wine festival in Memphis. 

Remember: A well-written advance story makes readers feel like they’ve been to the event, even though the event hasn’t yet happened. Your story needs to give readers more insight and information than they would find on a Facebook page or an organization’s website.

Length: 400 words

Lead: Write a two-paragraph news summary lead. Each paragraph should be one sentence.

Sources: Include at least two sources, but you may have more than two. One source must be a super source. (A super source is an expert.)

Direct quotes: Include at least three direct quotes and one paraphrased quote.

Photos: File two photos in the dropbox with cutlines related to your advance story. For the advance story (only), you may use "stock" images or, if it's an annual event, photos from previous year's events. Be sure that the cutlines are accurate and representative of the photo. If you are taking your photos, you will need to take a number of photos in order to have two photos suitable for publication. 

Headline: Include a headline with your story.

Writing Tips: Be sure to include:

Headliners for the event and information that will interest readers the most. For annual events, the information that is most important probably is the “what’s new this year.”

Background and history of the event.

For fundraisers, include fundraising goals.

How the event relates to national or international efforts (if it does). For instance, if you are writing about the local Race for the Cure, you would explain how the local race connects to the national organization.

Date, time, place, and expected attendance.

It is not necessary to include a lot of specific ticket information, as online stories link to appropriate websites and venues.

Story Structure:

Use a news summary lead that includes the event’s “headliner” information. A news summary lead should be one sentence.

Most likely, the nut graph (or summary graph) will include some history of the event and how the event relates to the bigger picture.

Use the basic story structure of lead; second graph that adds detail to the lead; strong quote; nut graph; background; body of the story; and closer. A good way to close an advance story is with a direct quote.

Be accurate, concise and clear.

Make sure each paragraph contains only ONE idea and connects (like a train!) to the previous graph and the graph that follows.

Keep paragraphs short.

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1. Explain Information Management

2. Why do organizations still have information deficiency problem?

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KINESICS: the study of body motion or body behavior.

• Emblems: gestures that have a direct verbal translation and can stand alone such as the “ok” sign.
• Illustrators: gestures that compliment our words such as pointing when giving directions.
• Regulators: gestures that may prolong or  terminate the conversation such as looking at your watch, walking away  or nodding and leaning forward.
• Adaptors: gestures that make you feel more comfortable in a communication situation such as twirling your hair or tapping your fingers.
• Affect Displays: facial expressions motivated by emotion such as a smile or frown.

Task: In this lesson you will venture out and observe the people around you. Tune out what they are saying and then sit back and watch. Take notes on what type of gestures (emblems, regulators, illustrators, adaptors and affect displays) are they using? How often do they use each one? Are they aware of these gestures? You  will then use your notes to write a typed two page essay describing  what you witnessed. Please let us know where you were, the mall,  Starbucks, work etc.. and who was involved, two men sitting at a table…

  Describe at least ten separate gestures.  

Please submit in drop box your essay including:

• What type?
• What are they conveying? How many repetitions?
• What are the circumstances?

• At least two pages, typed– MINIMUM of 675 words
• Double spaced
• Paragraphs, not bullets
• Include nonverbal terminology
• Specific examples
• Introduction with thesis and preview
• Conclusion

Reminder: All written work must  comply with standard English rules, such as proper capitalization,  grammar and spelling. The assignment must be submitted by the deadline  listed in the calendar.

Gradings: Please make  sure to review the Rubric provided in the link above. It will use it to  grade your responses, so familiarize yourself with it to ensure you earn  all of the possible points.

Note: Even though  you will see a statement giving you the option of copy/paste or file  attachment, you are required to attach the assignment in MS Word format.

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Review all the resources for this topic and watch the video Alzheimer’s Patient Case Study. Write a 750- to 1,000-word essay that includes the following:  Alzheimer's Patient Case Study

Watch the video “Alzheimer's Patient Case Study” from Films on Demand in the GCU library.

https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=96349&xtid=32231&loid=4002 

1. What do you think the role of the generalist practitioner would be for the caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients?
2. Include your recommendations for coping with the following challenges for the Alzheimer’s patient and the caregiver: biological, social, cultural, psychological, and spiritual development.
3. Based on the competencies from the Geriatric Social Work Competency Scale II, discuss what skills you would most like to gain as a beginning practitioner in the field of aging/gerontology?
4. Reflect on the knowledge that you gained from watching this video. Analyze why or why not you might have an interest in working with seniors or the elderly.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

WEBSITES

NASW Code of Ethics: 

https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English

Geriatric Social Work Competency Scale II with Life-long Leadership Skills:

https://www.cswe.org/getattachment/Centers-Initiatives/CSWE-Gero-Ed-Center/Teaching-Tools/Gero-Competencies/GeriatricSocialWorkCompetencyScaleII-LifelongLeadershipSkills.pdf.aspx

Person-Centered and Participant-Directed Social Work

Competencies

https://www.cswe.org/getattachment/Centers-Initiatives/CSWE-Gero-Ed-Center/Teaching-Tools/Gero-Competencies/PC-PDSocialWorkCompetencies_Dec2013Final-(2).pdf.aspx

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Assignment 1: Train the Trainers

Here's What Happened . . .

After your report was presented to the Centervale chief of police, he realized there is a need for training for law enforcement officials. Using the Simpson case as the basis, a proposal was presented and approved by the mayor to fund a special project.

You have been asked to produce a written training curriculum to educate the trainers of Centervale's law enforcement officials about dealing with crime victims. The chief has asked you to cover both stranger violence and intimate violence. Your curriculum will supply trainers with information that would assist them in training new recruits, first responders, and detectives.

Here's What You Need to Do . . .

· Prepare three short scenarios that could be used as training material. In the training material, include the three areas of stalking, intimate violence, and stranger violence.

· Following each scenario, generate questions that the trainers could present. Be sure to offer answers to these questions, with support, as a handy guide for the trainers.

· Finally, design a summary for the trainers that they can use to end their training. The summary should:

· Highlight the differences between criminology and victimology and why it is important for law enforcement officials to have a basic knowledge of both. Use examples from your created scenarios as support. Identify the relevant theories that pertain to violence against women. How can law enforcement make use of these facts?

· Explain the importance of law enforcement learning more about proper treatment of victims in order to ensure the system does not revictimize them. Consider how interviews, order of protection service, time until arrest, safety planning, and lethality assessments play into this treatment.

· Create a curriculum:

· Develop three to five questions for each scenario. Focus on relevant victimology or criminology theories, victims' rights, lethality assessments, and proper treatment of victims.

· Develop potential answers for those questions, including the reasoning behind those answers. Hypothesize how past inadequacies in victims' rights, as they pertain to law enforcement, might have led to different endings to the scenarios.

· Predict the danger level for each victim and connect to the necessary actions of the advocate or the detective that will come from this alert.

· Create a solution that would properly treat victims in order to ensure the system does not revictimize them. In creating a solution, consider these questions:

· What can you recommend should be done for the victim?

· What can you recommend should be done to the suspect?

· What resources are available to assist law enforcement in working with victims?

Note: Use APA-formatted in-text citations and external sources that are referred to on a corresponding reference page.

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