• How can shippers find quality capacity (capacity that provides shippers with timely service at pickup and delivery points and is cost-competitive based on unique freight characteristics, such as drop and hook, consistent volume, or seasonal surplus)?
• What is the next big wave in logistics technology?

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Yes, I do believe that the government should make stricter laws about the data companies use from customers. It always feels like such a burden every time you go to a new website or need to purchase something and every time the website asks permission to track your data. I would say half the time this deters me and I don't use that specific website. The other half, I just need to purchase whatever is necessary from the site and I accept their terms. It almost feels useless to try and put up a fight at this point. I believe there should be laws in place that restricts websites from tracking our data and letting us keep our small shred of privacy that we have left.

Need assitance with the below:

Complete a first draft of your Website Plan, that includes the following:

• Topic of website
• Purpose of website
• Intended audience/visitors of website
• Content outline for homepage and at least two sub-pages
• A visual mockup of the website layout

Your plan should be a minimum of 1 full page, not counting your cover page. Include your name and assignment title. Take your time to ensure that you have fully explained your plans. Use full sentences. Rather than restating thet prompts or questions listed in the instructions, you should use section headings in your paper.

Identify a large company to be your mentor company to analyze and formulate its global marketing strategy.

• Select one of the following companies: Samsung, Uber, or Amazon.

• Under a Situational Analysis heading
  • Construct an environmental analysis for your chosen company regarding:
    • Economic
    • Trade
    • Social and Cultural
    • Political, Legal, and Regulatory
• Under a General Strategy heading
  • Identify a country in one of the following regions for your company to expand to (if your company is already in a selected country, you will examine their global marketing strategy in that areas and formulate your own successful strategy):
    • Latin America
    • Middle East
    • Africa
  • Explain your rationale for selecting the country considering
    • Demographic
    • Economic
    • Trade
    • Social factors
    • Cultural Factors
    • Legal Factors
    • Political Factors

The CoVID-19 Crisis has led to a need for rapid capacity expansion in ICU hospital beds with ventilator connections. Department heads of such facilities must have thought about the need for capacity many times - perhaps month by month - before March of 2020, but yet they seem to be severely short.

1. What aggregate planning strategy do you think most such ICU administrators were using?  
2. What aggregate planning variables are most useful in this setting?
3. Why is there now a problem with capacity?
4. How can demand management be used to offset capacity shortcomings?
5. How do you suspect aggregate plans of such units changed in March of 2020?

Beacon Tours, a Tasmanian tourism business has recently expanded into catering as Vega one of their employees had been sponsored by the business to take a cooking qualification. This was a good addition to the business as feeding and entertaining paying guests has become expected. In October 2019 Beacon Tours, trading under their newly registered business name of Beacon Catering, agreed to cater for a wedding on the 12 January 2020. A term of the contract provided for the food to be delivered to the wedding venue ‘before 7 o’clock’ on the 12 January 2020. Believing that it is an evening wedding Beacon Catering had the food ready and attempted to deliver it to the venue by 6pm on the 12 January 2020. The customer, Canopus, who had contracted them refused to accept the food saying that the food was supposed to be delivered by 7am on the 12 January 2020 and that the wedding took place at midday and that therefore it had already taken place and food had been purchased last minute when Beacon Catering did not show up by 7am. The customer therefore refused to accept delivery due to the lateness of the hour.

Required: Can Beacon Catering sue Canopus for damages for non-acceptance? Is Beacon Catering liable to be sued by Canopus for breach of contract for failure to deliver?

Questions to Consider:

•Is the attempted delivery an issue of tender?

•What has to be established for a good tender?

•What did the contract say about delivery?

•Does the plaintiff’s action in attempting to make the delivery at 7pm satisfy this criterion?

•Note the operation of the Sale of Goods legislation in relation to delivery

Sweet Endings is a shop open 7 days a week. Demand for Chocolate Frozen Yogurt* can be approximated by a normal distribution with a mean of 21 gallons/wk and a standard deviation of 3.5 gallons/wk. The manager wants a 90% service level, and lead time is 2 days.

1. Assuming ROP is used, calculate the level at which Sweet Endings should reorder. What is the best estimate for days of supply are on-hand at this point?   
2. If FOI is used instead with a 10-day order interval,
   • how much should be reordered if there is 8 gallons on-hand, assuming we must order in 1 gallon increments?  
   • What is the chance Sweet Endings runs out before this order is received?
3. If ROP is used and if the manager gets a call from the Yogurt supplier a day after placing the order (and after 2 more gallons have been sold) that the order will be late.

- What is the chance she runs out if the order is 1 day later than planned?  

- What the order arrives 2 days later than planned?

True or false and explain why

Why does this the strategy of politicians identifying with the median voters position in whatever constituency they are appealing to in an election sometimes result in a candidate seeming to change his or her positions when moving from a primary to a general election? Give an example of a situation where one might think a candidate either attempted to follow the median voter, or a situation in which he or she did NOT attempt to move to the median voter's position. Did the candidate in your example behaved strategically? Did he or she behaved ethically?

Report Writing

Select any publicly listed Saudi Company that operates in GCC, and write a (minimum of 1000 word) report covering the following points:  

(Marks: 10)

1. Present the study report with clear Introduction and Conclusion including your own views.  

2. Using SWOT analysis, analyze the external and internal environment of your selected company.  

3. Analyze the political, economic, cultural and legal challenges the company currently faces in any of the country it operates (select one country in which the company operates for this analysis).

APA style refrences is important

Considering the application of project management, it is not surprising that project managers need a variety of unique skills. Identify these skills and explain their application to a project manager in a production and operations management environment.

Problem 2: Number of defective tires produced in 20 batches of 100 units each is given below.

2, 5, 7, 1, 3, 5, 9, 12, 16, 5, 9, 12, 2, 14, 4, 7, 6, 8, 9, 11

What control charts will be appropriate? Develop upper and lower control limits for such charts. The next batch of 100 units showed 12 defectives. Is the process in control?

Problem 3: Inspection of 12 car panels in a Mercury plant showed the following number of defects on each panel:

9, 4, 3, 17, 24, 12, 10, 25, 12, 34, 10, 10

What control charts will be appropriate? Develop upper and lower control limits for such charts. Suppose the next three panels showed no defect at all. Is this process out of control? Why or why not?

I'm doing this research paper marketing plan and we chose Buffalo Wild Wings. Marketing Organization for buffalo wild wings? need big help with it, please.

CASE STUDY An In-N-Out Pay Strategy: Costa Vida’s Decision to Boost Pay 2 For many businesses in today’s belt-tightening economy, decisions on pay need to be strategic to ensure that employees are treated fairly and to ensure that businesses can remain viable. This requires knowing what your competitors pay their employees and knowing your own salary budget. But knowing what your competitors are paying can be both valuable and painful. As a primary stakeholder and former CEO of Costa Vida, a fast-growing chain of fresh Mexican restaurants, Nathan Gardner knew he was competing against some restaurant chains with competitive compensation systems. Costa Vida is a fresh Mexican grill featuring Baja-inspired foods that are made from scratch daily. Following a trip to Cabo San Lucas on the Baja Coast in Mexico, Costa Vida founders JD and Sarah Gardner were inspired with a vision: Bring the freshly made local cuisine with the vibrant lifestyle to the United States. They started their first restaurant in 2001, and after just 13 years, Costa Vida has more than 50 franchises in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, and Utah, and as of 2017, 3 locations in . May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. One of the main challenges Costa Vida faces is the fierce competition for customers as well as employees. “You’d be surprised how much of a difference having good employees in all areas of the business makes,” commented Nathan. “For the fast-casual food industry,” remarked Nathan, “you are dependent upon your people. If you don’t treat your people well, they won’t treat your customers well. If your customers aren’t treated well, you have no business.” For months, Nathan agonized over how he could develop a competitive compensation plan that matched the objectives of the organization, but that fell in line with the tight budget of each individually owned franchise unit. He stated, “We, of course, leave the final compensation decision to the franchise owner, but we do all we can to educate and persuade our franchisees to be competitive and fair. In the long run, this is how they can maintain a superior level of customer satisfaction.” Nathan pointed out that a strong benchmark for them has been In-N-Out Burger. In-N-Out started in California and is known for its great compensation package. They start out all their new “associates” (aka employees) at a minimum of $10 an hour. They also offer flexible schedules to accommodate school and other activities, paid vacation, free meals, and a 401k retirement plan. For full-time associates they provide medical, dental, vision, life, and travel insurance coverage. Their reason for paying so high is based on a strategy that lower turnover and more committed workers will lead to better service. “What In-N-Out does for their employees is truly amazing,” commented Nathan. “We often see employees moving from one fast-food chain to another, but we rarely see employees coming from In-N-Out.” Nathan had a tough challenge ahead in trying to convince his franchise owners and managers to think more strategically about their pay systems. He needed to help them realize that paying wages and offering other compensation benefits that were better than their competitors may mean lower profit margins up front, but that the returns would be greater in the long run. He also needed to offer evidence to show that this was not just about being fair, but it was about being strategic. The restaurant business is a fast and fierce industry and companies come and go all the time. What was it going to take for Costa Vida to stay for the long haul?

Question

1. What should Costa Vida’s compensation strategy look like? Hint: What are the company objectives and how can employee pay help to achieve those objectives?

2.    What should the pay structure look like? What pay mix would you recommend?

Please make sure that your response is free of plagiarism. Thanks.