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Basic Economic ConceptsThe subject economics has been categorised under social science which deals with the daily needs of human life and living. The way in which human being interacts in making up the basic decisions of consumption, production and distribution along with resource allocation is the crux of this subject. The basis of any system is the want of the people backed by their power to afford the same. Along with this wants there is an...

Emerging TrendsThe export and import price index measures the rate of change a country experiences in the perspective imported and exported goods and services. These indices describe the change in economic welfare of the country depending on the changes experiences in the imported and exported goods and services (Pigou 2013). However, changes in the key prices have an impact on the dynamic consequences of the key macro variables such as invest...

The InterfaceThis business report is compiled to study the logistics department of Philips Electronics Singapore Pts. Ltd., how this department interfaces with various other core functions of the company. The report will cover the logistics management process of the company and further analysing them to identify improvement areas. Logistics management in a company is a process that involves planning, implementing, controlling the flow and sto...

Overview of the Case StudyBusiness process management is a procedural approach adopted by business organizations to make the workflow more effective, efficient and capable of coping with the dynamic business environment Rouse, 2011; Ko, 2009). The management of processes in business management is essential to the growth of every business by ensuring that it achieves its goals. Panagacos (2012, pp 6) notes that business process management aims ...

Task 1: Consideration of Mission, Vision, Objectives, Goals and Core Competencies in the formulation of the Strategic Plan.Adidas mission is rooted in the sport. The designing of the products and the company culture is confined in meeting the needs of the athletes. To achieve this, the company ensures high quality is maintained. Additionally, uses the aspect of quality to overcome the threats offered by the company competitors and ensure t...

BackgroundThe potential of global supply chain management is immense. It can be effectively managed to achieve organizational efficiency in the coming days. This article is about the global supply chain management and its analysis with special emphasis on the Australian SMEs. We have tried to study and analyze the issues that are most commonly faced by the supply chain managers at global level and suggest some innovative practices that can be ...

The objective of this paper is to focus on supply chain and logistics management for Anchor Foods – New Zealand. Anchor is a brand of dairy products that was founded in New Zealand in 1886 and is one of the key brands owned by the New Zealand-based international exporter Fonterra Co−operative Group (Chidlow & Ghauri, 2015). The market and the nature of demand in this industry can be discussed as: The players in this dairy in...

NetflixNetflix is an American company started working on August 29, 1997. The company’s head quarter is in Los Gatos, California. In January 2016, Netflix expanded its business and operated services in 190 countries. Netflix entered India in April 2016. A person gets instant great access on Netflix. Netflix is the most popular streaming service. Initially Netflix offered 7% of it’s content. Majority of the generation of India are c...

Behavioral issues from oil and gas operations strategyThe Cairn Energy PLC is an independent company that is responsible for oil and gas exploration and development. It is Europe’s one of the most leading organization and is also listed on the London Stock Exchange. This organization is continuously working to discover and develop oil and gas reserves in several locations around the world. This company was established in the year of 1981 b...

Globalization and Technology in Supply Chain ManagementManaging the supply chain in the organizations is the most challenging task and these main activities involved in the transformation of the goods from the raw materials to the final products consumed by the customers. The process of the creation of the products and customer’s consumption of these products. Looking into the previous years and the last 3 years industry reports, it has ...

Introduction to Design Thinking ProcessThe week 1 learning highlighted the importance and needs of bringing the innovation by entrepreneur so that the sustainable position can be maintain in the competitive environment.  The concept of designing process has been highlighted through the week learning. The key concepts, interrelationship and models have been discussed, which are required in case of bringing the innovation. By highlighting ...

Competency: Economic ThinkingLaw of demand: The law of demand suggests that given all other factors, an increase in price of a good leads to a decrease in quantity demanded and a decrease in price leads to an increase in quantity demanded. The one factor that causes a change in quantity demanded is own price of the good. When price increase from P1 to P2 the quantity demanded declines from Q1 to Q2. The main factors ...

Major areas of operationContainer ships are the cargo ships, which are used for the purposes of transporting goods as well as other cargo materials from one part to another via the sea route (Baughen 2012). The speciality of these ships is the fact that they carry loads from one place to another in the form of truck sized intermodal containers, in a technique commonly known by the name of containerization (Baughen 2012). These ships are the mo...

Factors affecting price elasticity of demand1. The demand is considered to be elastic when there is a change in the demand of the product when the price of that product undergoes a change.                                   The products that have an elastic demand include the luxury goods, expensive and the big income groups, the products that are often pur...

Overview of Landmark Group DubaiLandmark Group is a multinational company based in Dubai, UAE directed by Micky Jagtiani, who is the chairperson and founder of the organization. The group is involved in the retailing of footwear, cosmetics, apparel, consumer electronics, baby products, home improvement, and beauty products. The organization also has interests in healthcare, mall management and, various in-house brands and operates with other b...

Importance of ASEAN Free Trade AreaThe ASEAN Free Trade area is in essence an important trade bloc agreement signed by all the members of the Association of South East Asian Nations. The AFTA came about in order to support local trade as well as manufacture in the different countries of South Eastern Asia as well as to facilitate economic integration and cooperation with regional and international allies. The AFTA is considered to be one of th...

Issues Faced by Bosch in New ZealandThe logistics management is the part of the supply chain management and refers to the activities which occur within the boundaries of the company. The supply chain management comprises a wide range of activities prerequisite to plan, control and implement products flow. The supply chain management process comprises interconnected channels, structures, and businesses for combining the provisions of the products...

Credit Conditions in UK EconomyCredit Conditions refers to the overall situation of credit which is available in the market and also reflects the various factors which affect the credit availability in the market. The assessment considers the credit conditions in for non-financial firms which are operating in UK which will be done on the basis of Credit Condition survey reports. The credit conditions in an economy heavily depends on the market...

Analysis of Export StrategyThe company named as Roshanstore is located in Mohali district, Punjab region of India. The company is a famous store for packed foods in its area. This paper aims to explore the export strategy of the company. The company is firmly established in the market of its native court and plans to expand its business. It tends to tap the potential of the market of UK as packed food has high demand in European countries and ...

Market structure and economic conditions in which Tesco operates in UK1. Business economic concepts of market structure, small and medium enterprises, multinational corporations and growth strategy of Tesco Plc: In the contemporary global economic and corporate scenario, with the businesses becoming more complex, integrated, expanding and inclusive, almost in all types of industries, the operational framework of the businesses is becoming f...

Segments of the Value ChainValue chain refers to process that is integrated with supply chain process to helps the management accountant to save the costs incurred while performing these activities. Value chain process divides the whole process into multiples activities and they are further divided into primary activities and support activities. The objective of value chain is to minimize the cost and maximize the operational efficiency throug...

Porter Diamond Model and its Four Key DeterminantsThere are several different theories and models that helps the business to understand their competitive position and analyse their external environment in the international markets. One of them is the Porter Diamond Model, which is also known as Porter Diamond Theory of National Advantage and Porters double diamond model (Wilson 2016). However, there are several business researchers and scholar...

Understanding the market your company servesThe study in supply chain management is taking a complex path due to the rapid expansion in the way logistics, purchasing, transportation, operations management, marketing, and R&D are being influenced by the emerging supply chain management issues. These issues are data archiving mechanisms and tools of production, globalization, quality and compliance and fast-changing markets. According to Mi...

Incoterm Selection ConsiderationTransportation and distribution can be referred to as moving of products from manufacturing plants to warehousing and in between facilities to distributors. They represent more than half of the total logistics costs. A transportation management system (TMS) is a subpart of supply chain management which concerns about transportation operations. It can be a part of the enterprise resource planning system. Distrib...

Overview of Disneyland ParisDisneyland Paris is an entertainment resort which was founded as Euro Disney Resort (Ku?inskien?, 2012).  It is situated approximately thirty two kilometers east of Paris. It encompasses a golf course, a dining, shopping and entertainment complex, a number of resort hotel as well as two theme parks. The original theme park Disney Park, opened in 1992 April 12 (Matusitz, 2010). The other theme park is Wait ...