Negotiating and Managing Supplier Relationships
Presentation - 3 pages - Management
In preparing for a negotiation meeting with a prospective supplier, meticulous research and analysis are indispensable. Firstly, I will investigate the supplier's background to obtain the details necessary to examine the history, size, financial health, reputation, and the most...
How Can Suppliers Be Convinced to Join the Green Electricity Label?
Essay - 2 pages - Green marketing
Before everything, it seems important to understand what are the motivations and concerns of suppliers. Indeed, those suppliers want to show and also promote their commitment to sustainability, while attracting new eco-friendly customers. This willingness can be explained by the...
How to reduce the turnover of a company dependent on a single supplier by developing a multi-supplier and international merchant site?
Dissertation - 28 pages - Digital & e-marketing
MANICO is an ESPRIT franchise. This type of contract creates a high dependency on a single supplier and eliminates any possibility of online sales. In order to reduce this reliance on ESPRIT, the company wishes to develop a merchant website with several French and foreign brands and to...
The strategic process related to supplier selection in the aircraft industry
Case study - 18 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays, more firms choose to outsource activities and products which are considered outside of the company's core business. This enables them to concentrate exclusively on their main activity and become more efficient at it. Therefore, the selection and evaluation process of vendors likely to...
The failed outsourcing idea of a French automotive supplier
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
This case study is about a French automotive supplier which outsourced its IT activities in order to reduce costs. After the consultation with a consulting firm in Paris, the supplier chose India to outsource its IT activities as it looked like a good bet. However, for reasons which...
Application of quality function deployment for the supplier selection process
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
The manufacturing organizations are facing the pressure of increasing competition due to the varied dynamic demands of the customers. In this competitive scenario, ‘voice of customer' gains importance. It needs to be translated into technical language. Quality function deployment (QFD) has...
Supplier selection with social and environmental issues
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
Supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem which is affected by several conventional conflicting factors such as quality, delivery, service and time. Recently government insists enterprises to take care of environmental regulation and social issues such as...
What are the impacts of advanced supplier quality assurance implementation on automotive lighting overall business performance?
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
Innovative company of automotive lighting industry, automotive lighting (AL), daily develops strategies which play a leading role in insuring its competitiveness. For this reason, AL's purchasing division targets to reach Purchasing Excellence. To assure this target, AL's purchasing...
The failure of the relocation of an automotive supplier in India
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
The case study concerns a French automotive supplier who wished to reduce its production costs through the outsourcing of its IT activities. After consultation with a firm in Paris, the company's choice fell on India. However, for various reasons which will be specified later, the strategy...
Discuss the link between procurement, sourcing, suppliers, and production strategies in supply chains
Essay - 8 pages - Management
The mission of supply chain management is to have processes integrated between the functions of the firm. Consequently, procurement, production, distribution, and marketing are members of a network. The vision of the supply chain management is to deliver value to customers. Moreover, the...
Brittany Ferries and the Supply Management in Innovation
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
Brittany Ferries is a French shipping company founded by Alexis Gourvennec in 1972. This company aims to transport passengers and vehicles between Brittany, Normandy, southern England, Ireland and Spain by boat. The company had a turnover of €441,810,800 in 2018 and currently owns 11 ships,...
Porter's five forces - Lidl
Case study - 4 pages - Distribution marketing
Lidl is a supermarket chain based in Germany. It has most of its operations in some European countries. The UK, Germany and France are the main countries where the company is based. Outside Europe, Lidl is also present in the USA. The German brand was created by Dieter Schwarz in 1973. The...
Company analysis - PepsiCo
Case study - 10 pages - Audit
PepsiCo is a major corporate player in the global food and beverage industry, providing people with a wide selection of uncomplicated products since the early 1900s. Therefore, PepsiCo has been around since 1898 and functions through a complementary entity of a collection of brands that covers...
Darden Strategic Issues and Challenges
Case study - 3 pages - Purchasing & supply chain
Restaurants in the complex dining industry, such as Darden, face critical strategic issues. Some of the problems faced by Darden are internal and, therefore, within the control of the restaurant's management team. At the same time, Darden faces external factors that the restaurant's...
Porter's 5 Forces - Nestle
Case study - 4 pages - Distribution marketing
Today, Nestle is the leader of the food processing industry in the world. Nestle is a Swiss multinational created since 1866. That aside, Nestle is also the number one company in the milk sector in the world. The brand was named after its creator Henri Nestlé. When we talk about Nescafe, we can...
Porter's Five Forces - Fitbit
Case study - 4 pages - Sport marketing
Founded by James Parker and Eric Friedman in 2007, this American group produces activity trackers, connected watches and other products related to the health and fitness industry. James and Eric believe that, while their customers take health and fitness seriously, it does not have to be serious...
Corporate Strategy, Pernod Ricard : analysis and scenarios
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
In this case study, we will discuss and try to understand how the French group Pernod-Ricard is evolving in its global environment but also inside the group itself. They are the 2nd world liquor distributor; therefore, we will take into account their strengths but also potential weaknesses and...
Analysis of a country - Japan's PESTEL analysis and Porter's 5 Forces
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
Japan is maintaining complicated relations with neighboring countries such as Russia, South Korea, China and Taiwan; this is related to different resources (such as natural gas, hydrocarbons ...).
Porter's five forces, PESTEL and SWOT analysis - Puma France
Case study - 6 pages - Sport marketing
"Puma SE is a German company specializing in the manufacture of sporting goods founded in 1948 by Rudolf Dassler, older brother of Adolf Dassler founder of Adidas, and based in Herzogenaurach in Bavaria." This brand certainly manufactures sporting goods but its greatest strength lies in the...
Request for proposal - Luxury Attitude in Hospitality
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Partnerships and very close links with luxury players, hotel training schools, and personal service professions are regularly required. Our requirements meet the expectations of our customers, which is why we carefully select our partners and their added value. We are delighted to be able to...
International operations and logistics - Supply chain management
Case study - 9 pages - Logistics
Alpha, the explosion protection solutions manufacturer, recently faced financial pressure due to some external specific situations, mostly the global downturn in the oil and gas industry. Therefore, the company has had to imagine a new supply chain's strategy aiming at improving its global...
UK Retail Fashion Industry Report - Missguided
Case study - 6 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
While Missguided, which operates in the UK retail fashion industry, has managed to achieve competitiveness in the global fashion retail industry, its long-term survival and success is dependent on its effectiveness in responding to market changes. Gavinelli (2016) notes that adopting effective...
Export-Import Audit - Norm
Presentation - 10 pages - Audit
Norm at a glance... - New company founded in 2019 in Belgium - Site : http://www.norm.shoes - Created by 3 sneaker-addicts friends - Sustainable shoes, t-shirts and bottles - All products are designed with the concepts of reduce, reuse and recycle
Management assistant internship - MATTON Chauffage Service
Internship report - 3 pages - Startup, entrepreneurship
MATTON Chauffage Service is a local company which is located at 3 avenue Albert Thomas in Albi. It is specialized in the maintenance of heating systems. There are 8 employees. Its equity is 10 000 € and its turnover is 487 084 €. It is led by Mr. MATTON Philippe.
Amazon battles for slice of online gaming market - McGee Patrick (2020) - Amazon's study in the video game sector
Text commentary - 3 pages - Digital & e-marketing
The video game industry or video game industry is a sector of activity specializing in the creation and marketing of video games in the world. Existing since 1970 in the United States, this industry is becoming more and more popular in the world and whose largest firms are today mainly based in...
Development and performance of the purchasing function within the pharmaceutical industry
Dissertation - 34 pages - Purchasing & supply chain
Since its introduction, the Purchasing function faced major changes and is taking on a more strategic role in many organisations. It was also shown that strategic purchasing leads to positive savings performance. Showing that the purchasing function is at an equal level of importance with other...
The French ADEO group: Case study
Case study - 100 pages - Business strategy
Just a few volumes have been dedicated to private labels and all of them focused on the marketing side only. A brief part of this work also aims at describing the way private labels are marketed in DIY retail stores. Here, the description of the marketing side is a simple link to get to the real...
Supply chain management and OEMS
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
The competiveness of international companies is highly dependent on their ability to deliver customized products quickly and timely all over the world. Therefore the focus has moved from competition between firms at the same level in the production process to competition between the supply...
Golden Moments Group Limited
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
Golden Moments Group Limited is an international operating supplier of “unique experiences”. The company was founded in 1998 in the United Kingdom by the twin brothers Steve and Paul Cheatle. After that it has grown by introducing the concept on new development markets. At this...
The impact of power on relationship commitment in supply chains
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
While power-relationship commitment theory in relationship marketing area has been established well in the west literature, few studies examine the robustness of it in the Chinese context with a different culture. The generalization of power-relationship commitment theory in supply chain triple...
