Carrier Case Studies Samples For Students

Questions

- What is the economic order quantity for BBE in units? In Pounds?
- What is the total cost ( not considering transportation related costs) of the EOQ?
- What is the total cost for using motor carrier transportation?
- What is the total cost for using motor carrier transportation?
- Which alternative should BBE use?

Answer 1:

Annual Demand/Order Quantity (Q) = 5000 cases

Cost per Unit (CU) -- $200

Cost per Order (CO) ---$100
Carrying Cost (CC) % (as % of CU)—0.28
So EOQ = SQRT((2Q* CO)/(CU*CC%))= SQRT((2*5000*100)/(.28*200))=SQRT(10000000/56)
= 133.6 ...

Introduction

The book, the Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the books of Robert Asprey. It is a summary of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, basically as a man and finally centers on his life as the king and the emperor of France. In this book however, Asprey tries so much to dwell on the military life of Bonaparte and thus avoids more issues on his child life. The author of this book tries so much to expound on the abilities and the achievements of this ruler. As a statesman, a husband, a lover and as a king, the author tries to bring the personality ...

The changes in the global economy, the progressing state of the emerging countries that resulted to the increasing middle income consumers, and the development and spread of the internet technology impacted the ticket distribution system of the airline industry. The airline companies developed new and more cost-efficient ways of selling and distributing air tickets to be price competitive and at the same time to survive the intense competition in the industry and the economic struggles especially in North America and Europe.
The global distribution systems (GDS), was the most common and prevalent system of airline ticket distribution in ...

Introduction

China Airlines is the largest airline in Taiwan. It is also the flag bearer of the Republic of China. The company was started in 1959 with the aim of enhancing transport in the larger China region. This company is not directly owned by any of the states. It is owned and managed by the China Airlines Group, which is a constituent of the China Aviation Development Foundation. The government of the republic of China is the owner of the China Aviation Development Foundation. The company main operates from the Taiwan International Airport. Most of its destinations are Asia, Europe, North ...

1.0 Introduction
Operating in a constantly changing business environment is a challenging task. Therefore, those organizations are most likely to develop and expand that take strategic initiative and avail opportunities available to them. However, the expansion could be international or regional where decision is made on the basis of target market and competing regions. This paper overviews case of Southwest Airline and proposes a marketing plan for expansion in a new market.
2.0 Overview of South West Airlines
South West Airlines is one of the largest low-cost airline in the world. The airline was founded on 1967 by Rollin ...

Clover Valley Dairy Company

Charles Krieger
Dear Sir,
We have received your letter in response to our current market testing of the single and multipacks in the market. I would like to thank you for your concern and inform you that we value the feedback from our customers. We acknowledge the fact that you have taken your time to offer your insightful advice to our company. We have managed in the past to introduce different packaging materials in order to stay ahead of the competition here in Camden. I would like to inform you that it was part of our managerial ...

The industry has also embarked in massive airline partnerships in their sale of tickets to enable easier provision of services to over wide distances as they collaborate with various other airlines to cover more travelling distances. This makes it easier for the constantly increasing number of travelers to have their needs catered for.
Since the airline’s image had taken a beating due to the culture prevailing in the organization, particularly among pilots, the carrier decided to go in for a revamp of its HR policies, according to experts. As a first step, the airline brought about a change in management. Chen ...

General Atomics is a company specializing in nuclear physics. It is a defense contractor headquartered in San Diego, California. General Atomics expands into research and manufacturing. Besides, they work at nuclear fission and fusion. The company develops remotely operated surveillance aircraft, unmanned military aircraft, airborne sensors, hazardous waste, superconducting magnets, and information technology, etc.
It is a private company, but it has got a wide media coverage. Generally speaking, a number of TV channels, newspapers, online info-sources and some social media present it. If we analyze fortnight media coverage, we can mention some videos on YouTube. There we find ...

Question 1: Why Google made the move

Google’s drive to get into the wireless market via the utilization of the 700MHZ Spectrum Auction was a chance to set up a fifty-state network. Apparently, such new product development would enable this company to turn out to be a cellular network operator. Indeed, this market encompasses corporations such as Verizon and AT&T; Google would not merely compete with such companies but would as well obtain an opportunity to engage in networking with other entities to come up some innovative products (Aune, 2008).
The possibility of getting into the wireless market gives Google several prospective practices of growth ...

Southwest Airlines Company is a major and the largest low-cost carrier in the world, which is located in Dallas, Texas. The company’s vision is to become the world’s most loved, most flown, and most profitable airline. The vision lays a strong background for the attainment of its main purpose, which is connecting people to what is important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel. The paper tries to establish the state of Southwest Airlines in 2008 through the analysis of its strategic plan, ethics, marketing research, leadership, organization structure, creativity, and success factors.

Managing Growth

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Introduction

According to United Nations (2008), deregulation of the airlines in the recent years has resulted to free strategic choice making in terms of fares and network structures. Most airlines, including Hainan opted for the hub-and-spoke networks, which resulted to increased concentration of traffic on spoke routes and increased savings from the fewer routes. The advantage from the same was maximizing the traffic densities due to the use of large crafts along the routes. However. Graham (2013) outlines that the system adopted has resulted to congestion in airports and a high number of flights have been affected by delays, missed ...

Managing Risk in a Global Supply Chain

Introduction
The supply chain of a globally oriented organization has a great impact on its financial performance (Wagner, Grosse-Ruygen, and Erhun 340-353). It also happens to be one of the areas that faces the greatest risk. Every aspect of supply chain carry some element of risk. There are many challenges in a global supply chain including but not limited to weather, acts of terrorism, natural disasters, environmental compliance, terrorism, regulatory requirements, piracy, quality issue, and security problems (Global Supply Chain Institute). An organization with a global outlook faces a number of risks such as disruptions in supply emanating from global customs, longer lead ...

Introduction

In recent years, there has been a phenomenal growth in wireless communications technology which is now playing a promising role to meet the ubiquitous user demands. The developments of sophisticated wireless technologies have shaped the lifestyle of common people to a distinctive level. The 21st century has transformed into a turbulent business environment. There has always been a lot of competition among wireless telecommunication companies to cope with ever increasing user-demands in providing them enhanced capacity and data-rate services. Today a significant number of the telecom services providing carriers like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile and so on attempt to influence buyers that their systems ...

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Background of Trucking Deregulation in the US

Trucking was primarily a highly regulated industry in the United States (US), mainly because rail freight was initially preferred for transporting goods, particularly heavy materials. The Motor Carrier Act of 1935 imposed a restriction on the entry of new players in the trucking industry and the specification of certain truck routes under the administration of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Yet, the emergence of antitrust laws towards the 1950s and the growing financial stability of the trucking industry led to the passage of the Reed-Bullwinkle Act. The Reed-Bullwinkle Act further oversaw the growing prosperity ...

Company’s Growth and History

Oman Air, the Sultanate of Oman’s flag carrier is based in Muscat. It mainly operates in the Seeb International Airport in Muscat. It operates international air services, scheduled domestic flights, charter work and local air taxi. Although it was founded in 1981, the company began operations in 1993. It started under the name Oman Aviation Services after a merger between Oman International Services and Gulf Air Light Aircraft. The company’s inaugural flight was from Muscat to Salalah with its international services starting in July of 1993.
The company is partially owned by the government with an initial ...

Answer # 1

The main purpose of Saturn Corporation is to become profitable in the market, however, it is essential for the underlying company to manage its cost effectively in order to become profitable.
It is central for any organization to reform its functions in general in order to cater the provisions of the business effectively. In this context, Saturn Corporation is expected to employ measures that could make it unique from its competitors. Particularly addressing the case scenario, there are several factors and issues that the vehicle transportation team of the underlying company must consider in the process of selection. Some ...

1. Using the information presented in this chapter, what changes would you suggest to Jim?
Jim, on the advice of Stacey, may proceed with a number of changes such as the use of relay terminals, sleeper teams or break-bulk terminals to reduce the time its drivers are on the road. With the help of relay terminals, Jim’s drivers would stay within the limit of 10 hours’ time while sleeper teams would enable drivers to relax while other teams may be driving the carrier through the route. Use of break-bulk terminals would further allow unloading entire trailers at a ...

On the one hand, it is understandable that Virgil would wish to avoid the consequences of a negative report from the insurance inspectors. This kind of report drives up the insurance premiums the business is forced to pay and even threatens Virgil’s ability to continue in his position at the warehouse. However, for Tim there are a number of serious problems with the suggestion that Virgil has made.
There is also a question of safety. By following the orders Virgil has laid out for him, Tim would be violating basic safety principles. If the manufacturer felt that the ...

Company and situation

According to Biegelman and Bartow (2012), WorldCom Group began in 1983 following the breakup of AT&T. It began as Long Distance Discount Services (LDDS) offering telecommunication services to local retail and commercial customers in the Southern States where the two major telecommunication companies – Sprint and MCI had little presence. The company grew by acquiring other companies and in 1993 it was declared the fourth largest long distance carrier in the US (Biegelman & Bartow, 2012). It was officially renamed WorldCom in 1995 and continued a period of great acquisitions of more than 60 companies. However, between 1999 and 2002, the ...

Based upon the FTCA, determine if the federal government and or the air traffic controller is potentially liable to the victims of the accident. Explain why or why not
The FTCA gives the limited waiver of government sovereign immunity when the employees are negligent within their scope of the employment. Therefore, the federal government is not held responsible and liable to the victims of the accidents. It gives that the government shall not be responsible when the agent commits torts of assault, false arrest, abuse of process, slander, deceit, battery or interference with the contract rights. They are also ...

Druk Air-Royal Bhutan Airlines

Durk Air Corporation Limited, founded in 1981 and commenced operations in 1983 as Druk Air-Royal Bhutan Airlines is the national flag carrier of Bhutan. This case study will focus on the SWOT analysis of the airline, segmentation, opportunities to increase the business and finally the recommendations for the CEO of the airline.

SWOT Analysis

The airline enjoyed the status of being the sole airline operating out of Bhutan till 2010, when the market was opened for private participation. The major strengths of the airline include its image as the national carrier, superior service compared to its sole competitor-Bhutan Airlines, its image ...

Business

Environmental and Root Cause Analysis
Totalline Transport is facing the problem of unloading the goods in a timely manner for delivering it to the Electronics International. Because of the unloading the drivers of the trucks are late to deliver the product in a timely manner. The unloading problem is because of the complexity of the products, and the size of the products. the huge size products such as refrigerators take more time, and the drivers become late to deliver the other products in a timely manner. The carrier is charged because of arriving late. The General Manager and the ...

JetBlue is a relatively new airline in the United States. JetBlue has produced impressive financial results at a time when the other airlines were suffering from losses. The company instead of targeting the masses selected to target a niche market and specialize in the underserviced airline routes. It currently stations its planes in secondary airports to avoid competition and get better treatment from the airports, and has been promptly acquiring new aircrafts in response to its growing popularity and increasing number of passengers.

SWOT Analysis

Strengths:
- Balances cost cutting well with high levels of customer service
- The company does not ...

RE: EXPRESS OF NO MERIT ON THE CASE FILED BY SOFIA LUI’S FAMILY

Question Presented
The question I raise is that, was Uber system responsible for the death of Sofia Lui, and was the case filed by Sofia’s family has any merit?

Short answer

According to the arguments raised by the plaintiffs, Sofia Lui family represented by Attorney Christopher Dolan; there is no evidence linking Uber System to the death of Sofia Lui. The driver in contention was a contractor who had been given a job by Uber System but at the moment of the accident, the driver in mention did not have any account with the company. Mr. Muzaffar, the driver, was not ...

Section One:

Background Information
Bipolar disorder, which is also known as the Manic-depressive illness. It is a disorder in the brain that triggers unusual changes in mood, activity levels, energy. It as well hinders the ability for a person to go about with their daily tasks. Bipolar has very severe side effects if it was not discovered in time. It may lead to poor relationships with other people, poor work relations with colleagues, poor performance in the workplace or at school and can lead to the victim committing suicide. The bipolar disorder can, however, be treated, and the people with the disease ...

United Parcel Services (UPS) is the largest known organization for package delivery service provider. UPS is one of the major organizations that have enhanced supply chain strategy on most businesses globally. Over the years, UPS Company has been keen on transport and shipment in nearly all states globally. Today, the company has enhanced their strategies of shipment and logistics several ways making it world’s number one Shipment and Logistics Company. This paper will focus on the effect of UPS on three major states which include North America, Canada and the USA. In general, UPS deals with freight forwarding, ...

Introduction

Question 1. how and why the incident happened (what conditions allowed the incident to happen)?
Hiroshima is located in the west of the largest Japanese island of Honshu. The town's name translates as "Wide Island". It is so named because the bayou Ota, flowing from the mountains to the plains Chugoku, where the Hiroshima formed at the confluence of the Inner Sea 6 islands protrude into Hiroshima Bay. They located the city. Hiroshima worth almost entirely in the valley, only slightly above sea level; to the north-west and north-east lie the hills, up to 700 feet (Rotter, ...

The synergy or lack thereof of the proposed corporate exercise

A merger between MAS and AirAsia could lead to very many solutions to the problem that has existed between the two airlines. For a very long time now, the two airlines have been big rivals in this industry. Having it in mind that MAS is more affiliated to the government, it means that it enjoys much from the government Luthans, Doh & Hodgetts, 2012. There have always been moments of serious competition between the two airlines that had made them become business enemies. The proposal for a merger would create a better environment for the two organizations because of the heated competition between ...

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A recommended solution for Karaaka is fiber optic connection. Fiber optic networks operate at high speeds of up to gigabits thereby providing considerably high data rates. In addition, fiber optics has the advantage of transmitting signals over long distances unaffected.
Analogue systems provide a host of challenges in transmission and distribution. In analogue implementation, the logical and physical connections are one and the same implying that most connections are point-to-point with each cable representing individual channels. Analogue audio for instance requires copper cables for signals, but these systems offer little flexibility to accommodate ...

LT Brown should be considered for the spot promotion. This decision is based on leadership perspectives that are to be considered. Choosing between the two candidates LT Coffer and LT Brown is a process that will require CDR Smith to consider a number of aspects. This is because both candidates are equally qualified in terms of their experience, rank, and passion for higher responsibilities. In his book, Leadership: Theory and Practice Peter Northouse suggests a number of approaches that can be used to select leaders in such circumstances.

Factors that lead to the decision

Four factors will be considered leading to the decision to select LT Brown, traits, ...

Question 1: Explain the pathophysiologic defect of Cystic Fibrosis.

A mutation of a single gene, on chromosome 7, leads to the disease, cystic fibrosis. The gene is responsible for encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein. The normal CFTR is a regulator of chloride channels, which can lead to the regulation of chloride and sodium channels on the surface of the cell. The most common mutation leading to an abnormal CFTR is a mutation is delta F508. The disease can have different phenotypic manifestations depending on the extent of the mutation. The differences in chloride transduction leads to abnormal secretions in various organs, such as the lungs leading to ...

Introduction

Executive Summary
Southwest Airlines is an airline company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company has been in operation since 1971. It is the leading local airline in the US. Analysed as per the porter’s five forces model, Southwest Airlines has a good chance of weathering competition from market entrants due to its unique approach to business as Simple, Fun and Profitable. The general external environment presents increased population and therefore higher market, better and supportive technologies, non-bureaucratic political and legal environment among other aspects advantageous to the growth of the company. The main weaknesses for the company are ...

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QUESTION 1
Throughout its history Chinese Airlines Limited (CAL) has been beset with a number of problems that have negatively impacted both its profitability and reputation. The sources of these woes have been diverse in nature ranging from human resource management issues to various political considerations. The airline continues to face a number of threats as well as harboring internal weaknesses that may threaten to derail the company’s future prospects, however the company also possesses significant internal strengths and possible opportunities to avail. These will be described below using various analytical methods.

PEST

Political ...

1. Who are the main players (name and position)?
The main players are Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier and Embraer. As of 2004, AIRBUS S.A.S. was the world’s largest commercial aircraft maker. Boeing was the world’s second largest manufacturer of large commercial jets, as well as the world’s largest aerospace company focusing on satellites, military aircraft, missile defense, human space flight and launch systems and services. As of the same year, Bombardier was the third largest commercial airplane manufacturer in the world while Embraer was the fourth largest commercial airplane manufacturer. Embraer is the world’s ...

Logistics Planning and System Design

Is Subway's effort aimed at "greening" the supply chain compatible with "bottom line" objectives? (Explain)
First, greening is defined as the path that companies take in order to arrive at a certain level of benefits. Subway took the same path to green in its supply chain strategies. Their scope of green strategy includes an idea that going green encompasses going beyond reducing carbon footprints in order to contribute to zero environmental degradation. In order achieve that goal. Subway has to rethink their purchasing and logistical strategies since the company delivers and outsource all the components for the products they ...

According to US-CERT (2008), computer forensics is a discipline that combines law and computer science elements to collect and analyze data from computer systems, wireless communications, networks as well as storage in a manner that that is court of law treats as admissible. Similarly, Rouse (2007) clarifies that it is the use of computer analysis and investigation to collect evidence appropriate for purposes of presentation in any court of law. Its main goal is to carry out planned investigations while at the same time maintaining a well documented chain of evidence to exactly establish what happened and who is accountable. In essence, ...

According to the ARC Advisory Group, Transportation Management Systems (TMS) can be defined as software solutions that assist in acquisition of transportation services and in implementation of transportation related plans, enhance short-term planning of transportation activities, optimize the use of company’s resources and assets. These systems do not only manage the physical flow of goods, but also assist in measuring performance, enhancing collaboration and managing information and money flows that relate to transportation activities across all transportation modes.

Q1. Why are organizations showing more interest in TMS (Transportation Management Systems) today compared to the past?

The increasing interest in the TMS solutions has been driven by a number of factors. Firstly, the transportation costs are currently ...

In this paper, I have chosen to write about the network configuration that is required in a book store. In such a business there are a good number of computers and other peripherals that are supposed to be interconnected. To come up with a good computer and other devices on the network, three major elements are dealt with. These are the network topology, the protocol and the internet connection.
Among the three network topologies that are available: that is the star topology, bus topology and ring topology, star topology best fit this kind of network devices configuration because it is simple to ...

Introduction

The book, the Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the books of Robert Asprey. It is a summary of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, basically as a man and finally centers on his life as the king and the emperor of France. In this book however, Asprey tries so much to dwell on the military life of Bonaparte and thus avoids more issues on his child life. The author of this book tries so much to expound on the abilities and the achievements of this ruler. As a statesman, a husband, a lover and as a king, the author tries to bring the personality ...