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Identifying order winners and order qualifiers is a way to better integrate a company in its market allowing full potential and optimization of the way a product is built and delivered. In the case of Manufacturer of seats, we can see, as order winners, the quality and security the seats offer, which are capital characteristics when it comes to transportation. It also has to fit the place it has to go in perfectly and this is decided by the automotive assembler. As order winners, we can note the factors flexibility, price and delivery period. In the actual context of globalization it is essential that suppliers offer such characteristics if they want to stand one step ahead of the competition. With respect to the web page design, we can see as order qualifiers factors such as the quality of the design, the conformity with the demand and the flexibility to respond to the demand. As order qualifiers the factors are, the ranking it offers for the pages, which is a primordial criterion of choice nowadays, the time taken for delivery and also the warranty it offers, because companies are always looking for stability and safety in their business.

Identify the order winners and the order qualifiers of the following business
We developed a planning frame (demand forecasting + DRP + MPS + MRP) using our experience with the simulator SILOG. What characteristics must final products have in order to use this planning approach?
Take the characteristics of lean manufacturing from the slide we used in class. Which of those aspects are easier to implement? Why? Which are more difficult? Why?
Identify the common issues between the ''HP DeskJet Printer'' case and our manufacturing experience with LEGO pieces
In our Lego experience, the person who put the small ships was never the bottleneck of the line, in spite of the distance that he or she should cover. Why?
What did you learn from the 'The Beer Game''?
Why your individual performance in the Beer Game cannot be taken as a component of your final grade in this course?
Take the following variables: ''Consumer loyalty'' and ''Use of technology''. Construct a matrix (in Schmenner's style) with these two variables and illustrate through an example each one of the four areas (high-high, high-low, low-high, low-low) that you will obtain. Justify your choices
What did you learn from the Southwest Airlines case?
Go to any service store (fast food, internet services, laundry, café, bar, languages schools, car repair services, ...) and analyze the firm following the structural and managerial elements proposed by Fitzsimmons and Fitzsimmons. You should include some general information about the firm as estimated sales per year, number of employees, services offered, locations, possible competitors

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[...] For example if he is shy and you want him to be more communicative you have to teach him communication methods but not only because you have to make him go beyond its shyness which s preventing him to move forward. It is thus a complex and time and energy consuming method to implement. Closed relations with suppliers is a totally subjective notions but that can be easily implemented thank to great communication skills and outgoing relationship nature. Flow & Transport improvement, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), stable production, small batches is time consuming implementation characteristics. But the difficulty is not so big. [...]

[...] We also better understood the notion of flows within the supply chain like the information flows and decisions flows. The logistics is therefore a very important thing to control efficiently a chain. We also better identified the group in the chain and what do the represent and act for like the demand, wholesaler, distributor, retailer, and the factory itself. Also we learn that it is sometimes hard to forecast the demand, as in the game when the demand was never given in advance. [...]

[...] - Only one type of plane to cut cost on maintenance. In fact southwest is a real good example of cost cutting company and optimization of processes? The order winner in this case would be the price Go to any service store (fast food, internet services, laundry, café, bar, languages schools, car repair services, ) and analyze the firm following the structural and managerial elements proposed by Fitzsimmons and Fitzsimmons. You should include some general information about the firm as estimated sales per year, number of employees, services offered, locations, possible competitors I decided to do this analysis about Label-Park.com, a recent company established in Biarritz in December 2007. [...]

[...] But we rather prefer to keep our stock as low as possible. We also decided to keep the logistics in office for reactivity and flexibility issues. The internet consumers are regarding on service which is the key to succeed in this environment. All the logistics throughout Europe indeed take place in our Biarritz Office. b. Facility Design The facility is really simple and minimalist but we do not need more to work well. No extras allow the employees to stay better focused on what they are doing. [...]

[...] Managerial a. Service encounter The service encounter is very high quality. - Strong design website - Highly technological - After sales service very reactive. Answer within 48 hours in 4 languages - Great prices usually inferior to competition - Great delivering fees inferior to competition in France and Spain sometimes Germany and England too. - Products description in 4 languages and many improvements and surprises to keep the interest burning regularly. b. Quality Highly qualitative products: They come from the most famous brands of the industry which has already proven them. [...]

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