6-1 Milestone Two Performance Analysis

During the economic downturn arising from the COVID -19 pandemic in South Africa the government created the Covid-19 Loan Guarantee Scheme which provided loans, substantially guaranteed by government, to eligible businesses to assist them Funds borrowed from this scheme, through the banking industry, can be used for operational expenses, such as salaries, rent and lease agreements and contracts with suppliers. The scheme however has not been as great a success as had been envisaged. a) Describe how the scheme works; b) Analyse the reasons why the uptake has been so poor; c) Identify the losses which are being guaranteed by government; and d) Propose changes which could be introduced to improve the scheme.

If the benefits of implementing CPFR are so evident, why arecompanies reticent to commit to this concept?

Case Study One: Consulting Services International Ltd Consulting Services International Ltd ( CSI Ltd) is a company incorporated in Hong Kong. The company is part of a multi- national group and acts as a holding company for a number of other entities. The group provides corporate management consulting services in various countries across the globe. CSI Ltd owns 80% of the shares in Consulting Services Australia Ltd (CSA) which is incorporated in Australia and carries on a business undertaking corporate consulting in Australia through various physical offices. CSI Ltd's main activities are raising finance and investing in order to generate funds and effectively manage the other companies in the group. CSI also provides centralised management and head office services to the other international companies in the group for fees at market value. The main income sources of CSI are therefore investment income, interest on loans to other companies and service fees. CSI's main head office is…

Situation #1: You are working in a restaurant as a sale staff. The Operation Manager requested you to prepare a sales forecast for 2022 in preparation for next year Annual Plan. During the regular business days, the restaurant earns an average of 20,000 a month.  Prepare a draft sales plan and provide an explanation of your sales plan. Consider current status of the pandemic and the regulations of the government towards local business.   Use the template below.

Situation 1 You want to start an online clothing store and need information about the size of the market for the marketing section of your business plan. From an online search, you found that Americans spent $18.3 billion online for apparel, accessories, and footwear last year and that the forecast for their spending on these items in the coming year is $22.1 billion. You have also researched publicly traded apparel companies, like GAP, to discover trends in online sales for these firms. Situation 2 You recently visited with a friend who knew you had taken a small business course when you attended college. During your visit, she made the comment, “I plan to open a business this summer. I won't be applying for a bank loan to fund this company, so I don't have a business plan. Do I need one?” Situation 3 John Martin and John Rose decided to start a new business to manufacture noncarbonated soft drinks. They believed that their location, close to high-quality water, would give them a…

You have just been hired as an Assistant Manager of Green and White Food (GWF), a restaurant/bar supply business that provides a full range of wholesale products to eating and drinking establishment in the South-East United States. The business, established 25 years ago, caters to college students-oriented bar and grills. It has traditionally offered the lowest price on the market for food service products, although the level of service offered is significantly lower than other firms, roughly around 84 % in terms of product availability. Instead, focus has been on operational efficiency to minimize costs. Growth has been steady due to the slim profit margins experienced by most of the customers that the firm serves. In the last 2 years, however, a number of competitors have begun to match GWF’s prices while providing higher service levels, particularly in the areas of delivery replenishment time and product availability. As a result, GWF’s market share has been shrinking…

Please turn in the Decision Table for the following scenario. A company has various rules for how payments to suppliers are to be authorized. Some payments are in response to an approved purchase order. For approved purchase orders under $5,000, the accounting clerk can immediately issue a check against that purchase order and sign the check. For approved purchase orders between $5,000 and $10,000, the accounting clerk can immediately issue a check but must additionally obtain a second signature. Payments for approved purchase orders over $10,000 always require the approval of the accounting manager to issue the check as well as the signature of two accounting clerks. Payments that are not covered by a purchase order that are under $5,000 must be approved by the accounting manager and a departmental manager that will absorb the cost of the payment into that department’s budget. Such checks can be signed by a single accounting clerk. Payments that are not covered by a purchase order…

Titan manufactures and sells gas-powered electricity generators. It can purchase a new line of fuel injectors  from either of two companies. Cost and savings estimates are available, but the savings estimate is unreliable at  this time. Use an AW analysis at 10% per year to determine if the selection between company A and company B changes  when the savings per year may vary as much as 40% from the best estimates made thus far.

Scenario: Highly Brill Leisure Center has hired you to help them with their marketing decision making. Perform a SWOT analysis on Highly Brill Leisure Center, based upon the following issues: The Center is located within a two-minute walk of the main bus station, and is a fifteen-minute ride away from the local railway station. There is a competition standard swimming pool; although it has no wave machines or whirlpool equipment as do competing local facilities. It is located next to one of the largest shopping centers in Britain. It is one of the oldest centers in the area and needs some cosmetic attention. Due to an increase in disposable income over the last six years, local residents have more money to spend on leisure activities. There has been a substantial decrease in the birth rate over the last ten years. In general people are living longer and there are more local residents aged over fifty-five now than ever before. After a heated argument with the manager of a competing…

STC, in partnership with Nokia (a leading 5G technology provider), has developed a new technology to increase the range of its 5G network coverage. This means STC needs fewer 5G towers to reach the same number of customers as competitors. What business-level strategy is most appropriate to profit from this technology? Justify your choice

SNA Limited (hereafter referred to as “SNA”) is a wholesaler of stationery with 20 branches across South Africa. The company is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and has been profitable since its incorporation in 1988. SNA is thinking about expanding its operations to the rest of Southern Africa. They hired external consultants to do a viability study (an in-depth study that tries to determine how profitable a business idea is). They are also planning to give a percentage of their profit to local communities in the towns where they are planning to expand to. The board declares full compliance with The King IV Report on Corporate Governance in its annual reports.   Ms. Danette Lehman was the founder of SNA and has served as the chairperson of the board since its incorporation. She believes that ethics is extremely important in a company and that ethics must be ingrained into the identity, purpose and goals of SNA. Ethics is at the core of every decision and the company…

Absenteeism, unmet targets, are signs of,poor operational and strategic decisions. Is this TRUE or FALSE?

Use the following financial statements of Heifer Sports Inc. in Table 14.14 to find Heifer’s:a) Inventory turnover ratio in 2012.b) Debt/equity ratio in 2012.c) Cash flow from operating activities in 2012.d) Average collection period.e) Fixed-asset turnover ratio.f) Return on equity.

H2. The owner of Alliance Food Wholesalers, Joe Slow, has asked for your advice. Alliance has been in business for over 30 years and has been in a slow growth pattern for the past decade. Mr. Slow has been dissatisfied with the returns from his business and wonders if there is anything he might do to enhance his returns. What might be your logical recommendations to Mr. Slow? A. Issue new stock to the public to increase funds available for investment. B. Borrow more money from lenders and use the proceeds to repurchase shares of stock. C. Consider selling the business to an interested party. D. Increase prices on his products.

A company is choosing an outside firm to provide its payroll services. It has chosen four comparative categories of interest: client reviews, financial condition, IT capabilities, and government stability. These categories have been assigned weights of 20%, 10%, 40%, and 30%, respectively. Three potential providers were scored on each of those factors using a scale of 1-10, with a score of 1 meaning worst possible and 10 meaning best possible.                                                  Provider A       Provider B           Provider CClient reviews                           2                      6                         10Financial condition                    8                     4                          2IT capabilities                            5                     8                          2Government stability                 3                     1                          2In reference to the information provided discuss the relevance of the factor rating method in…

Explain three Forms of a Model for business Derive mathematical model for this problem : Suppose that a manufacturer can produce a part for $150/unit with a fixed cost of $60,000. The alternative is to outsource production to a supplier at a unit cost of $200. What shoulqyou do as a leader?

Restituto Dimaalis is VP Corporate Planning of Philippine Canning Corp. (PCC), one of the biggest fish canning companies in the Philippines with Sales of about PhP 12.0 B in 2012.  Its main product is tuna with the cannery located in General Santos City, South Cotabato.  Its secondary product line is sardines with the cannery located just outside Zamboanga City.  The company’s head office is located in Makati.   Reviewing company performance over the past few years, Resituto thought the picture looked good.  The cannery in Gen San, together with the corresponding fish port was new, having been completed 5 years ago.  The company had invested a little over PhP 500.0 M in this project but it seemed to be paying off both in terms of increased efficiency as well as capacity.  Most of the machinery and systems (60% of cost) was financed through 10 yr. US$ denominated debt while 30% of the balance was funded through long term PhP denominated debt and the rest through Retained Earnings. The…

Restituto Dimaalis is VP Corporate Planning of Philippine Canning Corp. (PCC), one of the biggest fish canning companies in the Philippines with Sales of about PhP 12.0 B in 2012.  Its main product is tuna with the cannery located in General Santos City, South Cotabato.  Its secondary product line is sardines with the cannery located just outside Zamboanga City.  The company’s head office is located in Makati.   Reviewing company performance over the past few years, Resituto thought the picture looked good.  The cannery in Gen San, together with the corresponding fish port was new, having been completed 5 years ago.  The company had invested a little over PhP 500.0 M in this project but it seemed to be paying off both in terms of increased efficiency as well as capacity.  Most of the machinery and systems (60% of cost) was financed through 10 yr. US$ denominated debt while 30% of the balance was funded through long term PhP denominated debt and the rest through Retained Earnings. The…

Wandile MuniEx pty Ltd is a consultancy firm with vast expertise in the local government space in southafrica and in the southern affrican region. as the director and chief economisst of Wandile MuniEx, you are leading a number of assginments commisiioned by the Johannesburg Metro which include improving their public financial management processess and resolving local economic development challenges.  Johannesburg Mtro has in the past 5 years progressively shown a deterioratioin in the public financial management as raised by the auditor general of south africa's findings.  The sprawling informal sector is increasingly becoming a challenge for the city to manage, yet it employs a significant share of its citizens. You are required to discusss the impact of decentralization of power to the municipal sphere on local economic and the development and the developmental role of the Johannesburg city

Hi there can you please assist on the following question below You have been recently appointed as a Purchasing Manager at Unilever. The director has mentioned that the organisation has recently been experiencing uncertainty in demand and there is currently no available capacity. As such, he is unsure whether he should make or buy the new range of cleaning detergents. Differentiate between insourcing and outsourcing.  Discuss at least two circumstances favouring buying (outsourcing) and at least two circumstances favouring making (insourcing).  Based on your discussion of the circumstances favouring outsourcing and insourcing as well as the restrictions outlined by the Director, identify whether the cleaning detergents should be outsourced or insourced. Justify your answer by discussing at least two key points. Identify any two potential drawbacks that Unilever could face given their choice of sourcing method.

Using facts provided in the case, conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of AE   AE had already gone through several rounds of funding (see Exhibit 1),7 and in June 2019, it had onemanufacturing centre with an installed capacity of 20,000–25,000 units. The manufacturing centre waslocated in Bengaluru, which was also the only city in which AE sold its smart e-scooters. AE had alsocreated a comprehensive public charging network called AtherGrid, which was launched in May 2019.With 31 locations in Bengaluru and 7 more in Chennai, AtherGrid was designed to provide a charginginfrastructure within 4 kilometres (km) of any commuter. Over the next five years, AE planned to set up anew manufacturing facility and additional charging infrastructure in several more cities, with the goal ofselling 1 million smart e-scooters annually. The company also planned to begin accepting pre-orders inother Indian cities, such as Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, and Delhi, with a…

Interim Strategic Planning Implementation Strategy of AMERICAN EXPRESS (AXP): write a brief statement of the specific strategy the team will develop for your assigned corporation. Add references.

Mavis and John have joined forces to start M&J Food Products, a processor of packaged shredded lettuce for institutional use. John has years of food processing experience, and Mavis has extensive commercial food preparation experience. The process will consist of opening crates of lettuce and then sorting, washing, slicing, preserving, and finally packaging the prepared lettuce. Together, with help from vendors, they think they can adequately estimate demand, fixed costs, revenues, and variable cost per 5-pound bag of lettuce. They think a largely manual process will have monthly fixed cost of $50,000and a variable cost of $2.50 per bag. They expect to sell 75,000 bags of lettuce per month. They expect to sell the shredded lettuce for $3.25 per 5-pound bag. John and Mavis has been contacted by a vendor to consider a more mechanized process. This new process will have monthly fixed cost of $125,000 per month with a variable cost of $1.75 per bag. Based on the above scenario: Should…

Perform a SWOT analysis on Highly Brill Leisure Center, based upon the following issues: Press releases have just been issued to confirm that Highly Brill Leisure Center is the first center in the area to be awarded quality assurance standard BS EN ISO 9002. A private joke between staff states that if you want a day-off from work that you should order a curry from the Center’s canteen, which has never made a profit. The Center has been offered the latest sporting craze. Highly Brill Leisure Center has received a grant to fit special ramps and changing rooms to accommodate the local disabled. It is widely acknowledged that Highly Brill has the best-trained and most respected staff of all of the centres in the locality.

Fairplay Turns to a Managed Security Service Provider Fairplay Finer Foods is an independent grocery retailer that operates in the greater Chicago area. From its beginning, Fairplay's mission has been to provide quality foods at an affordable price along with exceptional customer service. Starting with a single store in 1975, Fairplay has since grown to seven locations. The opening of each new store led to increased sales and attracted new customers; however, expansion also raised new information system needs as well as information security risks. Due to its size, it was not practical for Fairplay to create and run its own information technology organization, so it contracted with KCS Computer Technology, Inc., to provide these services along with the necessary computer hardware and systems. One of KCS's key accomplishments for Fairplay was to implement and manage a corporate network that the grocery chain uses to run applications and communicate across all of its stores. Another…

Hi there can you please assist on the following question below  You have been recently appointed as a Purchasing Manager at Unilever. The director hasmentioned that the organisation has recently been experiencing uncertainty in demand and thereis currently no available capacity. As such, he is unsure whether he should make or buy the newrange of cleaning detergents. Q1.1 Discuss below circumstances favouring buying (outsourcing) and circumstances favouring making  circumstances favouring buying (outsourcing) 1.when inadequate facilities or better investment possibility exist2.when the operational staff's knowledge and skills are inadequate3. when it is cheaper to buy than to make circumstances favouring making ( insourcing) 1.When it cost the organisation less to produce the product or service2.when no or only a few reliable suppliers exist3. when there is capacity available for use.