In 2002‚ Gordon Harrison took over as director of supply management for Iona University‚ a small private university in Des Moines‚ Iowa. Upon his arrival‚ he discovered that the staff was spending too much time processing requisitions for office supplies. Consequently‚ he wanted to develop methods of increasing the effectiveness and the efficiency of handling the acquisition of office supplies for the university. The University Iona University offers both liberal arts education and professional
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EAGLE INDUSTRIES CASE 1. Why are office products frequently chosen as a lead commodity in strategic sourcing efforts? Office products were chosen as the lead commodity in strategic sourcing efforts conducted by Smith and his team mainly because of the fact that there was not an appreciable difference in the product specifications when it came to differentiating different suppliers. It would almost be like comparing apples against apples. This would therefore provide a nice segway to try and understand
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Database software‚ Spreadsheet software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 3) 4. Contacting patients‚ medical suppliers‚ other surgeries‚ local hospitals: Communication software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 4) 5. Keeping an inventory of medical supplies: Database software‚ Spreadsheet software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 5) 6. Financial data: Spreadsheet software‚ Accounting software: (See Appendix 1.A Part 6) 7. Producing invoices : Spreadsheet‚ Accounting software: (See Appendix 1.A
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Office Depot and OfficeMax have announced a merger‚ teaming up to fight industry big boy Staples and competition from general merchandise juggernauts Walmart and Amazon.The move will buy time‚ but it won’t save the office supply chains. Not Office Depot‚ not OfficeMax‚ not even Staples‚ which analysts are touting as the post-merger winner. These office retailers will all be destroyed unless they fundamentally change how they do business. The biggest threat is the fact that workplaces
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Decision at Applied Office Product Company ’s Background In 1992‚ Allied Office Products was a corporation with annual sales of $900 million. It deals with manufacturing of following forms : * Business Forms * Specialty paper product such as writing paper‚ envelopes‚ note cards‚ and greeting cards In 1988‚ as form manufacturing business matures‚ Allied Office Product had expanded into business form inventory management system and put a step ahead to attain a competitive advantage by embarking
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My poem was The Eagle by E.E. Cummings. This poem describes someone looking up to the sky and seeing a eagle majesticly flying in the sky. Cummings used repatition and end rhymes to make the poem more pleasing to read and hear. He also uses many‚ many elements of imagrey. He uses things such as "The suns warm rays" in line 8 to give an inital feeling of peace with the sun as a warm‚ comforting source. He uses repatiton on lines 13 and 14. "nearer and nearer he steadily sailed‚ nearer and nearer he
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a heavy head and beak. Even the smallest eagles‚ like the booted eagle (Aquila pennata) (which is comparable in size to a common buzzard (Buteo buteo) or red-tailed hawk (B. jamaicensis))‚ have relatively longer and more evenly broad wings‚ and more direct‚ faster flight – despite the reduced size of aerodynamic feathers. Most eagles are larger than any other raptors apart from some vultures. The smallest species of eagle is the South Nicobar serpent eagle (Spilornis klossi)‚ at 450 g (1 lb) and 40
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classify the office superstore industry? Who are the competitors? What are the characteristiecs of this industry that lead to this conclusion? Office superstores and other firms sized have a same strategy of providing a convenient‚ reliable‚ and economical source of office supplies for both businesses and individuals with home offices. Normally‚ the office superstore industry includes three main chains such as Office Depot‚ Staples and Office Demax and some office supply retailers. Office Depot and
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In this Case Judy Allison is coming over to close a sale with Bill Taylor. Judy is a salesperson for cellular phones. She called the company first and dropped of a sample for the executives to try them out. The executives really liked them so they decided to order four cellular phones. Judy Allison‚ the salesperson promises to drop of the ordered phones tomorrow and the deal is almost closed. After talking about the great benefits of the cellular phones suddenly the conversation is going in a completely
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A Case Study on Dakota Office Supply Case: Dakota Office Products 1. Background Information Dakota Office Products (DOP) is a regional office supply company with a strong reputation for customer service and quality supplies. Additionally‚ DOP is unafraid to adopt new services such as its desk top deliver option which delivers smaller orders directly to individual sites as well as its traditional commercial freight delivery. DOP has also introduced and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
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