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Category Archives: Cost
Amazon Orders 1,000 Natural Gas Powered Engines for Delivery Fleet
Amazon orders more than 1,000 natgas-powered engines for U.S. fleet Natural gas emits approximately 27% less carbon dioxide when burned compared with diesel Amazon cuts ties with small delivery companies across the country and over 1,200 delivery drivers are expected … Continue reading
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COVID-19 -Trump Orders Meat Plants to Operate
By Andrew Restuccia in Washington and Jacob Bunge in Chicago April 28, 2020 10:23 pm ET The following are excerpts from the article… President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday paving the way for meat-processing plants to remain open during … Continue reading
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“Supply Chain Finance” – Accounting Term for Short Term Financing of Accounts Payable
One way that a company can make itself look more attractive financially is by not paying suppliers quickly. For example, rather than paying suppliers at the time of delivery of a raw material, the customer might wait and pay 60, … Continue reading
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Tesla Cybertruck U.S. Factory Location Criteria
Info from WSJ – March 10, 2020 Elon Musk announced it is looking to locate a new factory to build the company’s pickup truck and the Model Y compact sport-utility vehicle. Musk indicated that local incentives (such as tax breaks, … Continue reading
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The Importance of Worker Productivity Improvement
F. Robert Jacobs, Ph.D. December 6, 2018 Worker productivity is an important factor in understanding the economy in the United States (and for other economies). Worker productivity, as defined by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is the output per … Continue reading
Tesla–A different mix of employees compared to other car companies.
Elon Musk, the savvy CEO of Tesla Motor, has recently posted on Twitter his need for “hard-core software engineers” to work at his company. His electric-car company is looking to add thousands of employees in coming years. The company is … Continue reading
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New approach to making product on-demand.
Discussion Questions: This article describes a new system for making items using flexible single-worker cells. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the system compared to using an assembly line? What if you were a company facing the need to … Continue reading
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Navy Awards Two Shipbuilding Contracts for New Submarines
Discussion Questions: Read the following article carefully. What are the details of the contracts that that the Navy struck with General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls? Would not it have been better if the Navy had only awarded one contract? What … Continue reading
Smartphones–Modular vs Integrated Design
Discussion Questions: The following two articles are related to smartphone design. The first article describes Google’s idea for a modular design where the user can customize the phone to their exact requirements. The second article is about the cost to … Continue reading
Total Cost of Ownership–Mercedes or Ford?
Discussion Questions: Total cost of ownership is an important but often overlooked Operations and Supply Chain Topic. This article brings the topic down to a personal level. Study the article and consider how this idea is applied to material purchase … Continue reading
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Operations and Supply Chain Management 