Essays on Mendelson

The bullwhip effect can be detrimental to the efficiency of a supply chain. Demand of a product may only slightly shift, but it can lead to a much greater shift in manufacturing a product. This is when the “variability in demand is magnified as we move from the customer to the producer in the supply chain” (Robert & Chase). It specifically relates to a lack of coordination in a supply chain as a company makes purchases from its suppliers more unpredictably than it sells to its customer (Mendelson & Bray, 2016). It also relates to a lack of coordination in the ...

Photographing food is a major business, and is not as simple as snapping a photograph of the food delivered to you at a restaurant. More specifically, “food styling” is the process of dressing up a plate to look more appetizing and photograph in a more appealing way. When looking at the food styling photography used to market foods from low, middle, and high end restaurants, it is interesting to see how the images differ, as they relate to the foods presented in the restaurant setting, and how each are used, visually, to demonstrate different aspects of our larger food ...

In 2009, a movie was released that was based on a Japanese manga (comic book) that originated in Japan. The premises of the movie was that a teenage inherited a mystical item that imbued him with immense powers. With these powers, he fought off evil alien forces that threatened all life on planet Earth. The name of that movie is Dragonball Evolution. Due to the source material containing Asian people as the main characters, it would only be safe to assume that the actor casted for the main role would be Asian as well. However, Hollywood directors went with ...