Dear Students,

For this assignment you are asked to develop a Project Schedule Management Question and solve it with PERT Analysis and Project Crashing. In other words, you will be creating your unique question of your own and solve it. Follow the instructions below;

1. Design a project that consists of min 7 - max 10 activities, and define arbitrary Predecessor relationships between these project activities . Assign durations to these activities with 3 point estimates.

2. Apply PERT analysis to your project. If you found only 1 critical path, return back to the first step and re-design your project so that you make sure it has 2 critical paths.

3. Estimate (arbitrary) Crash durations, Normal costs and Crash costs. Then implement Crashing method you learned to shorten the project for 2 periods. Write the total cost of the project after crashing it 2 periods.

All the work must be handwritten. Take a photo or scan your work and upload to CATS/Assignment 2. Important Note: Similar projects will get lower grades, identical projects will not be graded. Hence, be creative to customize your Project.

thanks in advance dear instructors.

1) Consider the following requirements for a certain product.

Beginning inventory = 300 units

Setup cost = $300 per setup

Lead time = 1 week

Holding cost = $5 per unit per week

(a) Develop the lot-for-lot MRP table - (complete table below).

(b) Calculate the total relevant costs.

Answer (Show all mathematical work):

a)

b) Total relevant costs = $?,???.

Michelle and Tracy are sales representatives for ABC Flooring. Michelle is on maternity leave and Tracy has been assigned to take her business calls while she is out. On the first day, one of Michelle's customers calls the office and asks a secretary for a price on some high end tile. The secretary, Flo wrote down the wrong customer phone number and she only took the customer's first name, John.
What is the problem?

Select one:

a. Michelle is going to miss out on a big sale.

b. The company is going to miss out on a big sale.

c. Michelle may lose a customer.

d. Tracy needs to call the customer back.

e. A and B

Michelle and Tracy are sales representatives for ABC Flooring. Michelle is on maternity leave and Tracy has been assigned to take her business calls while she is out. On the first day, one of Michelle's customers calls the office and asks a secretary for a price on some high end tile. The secretary, Flo wrote down the wrong customer phone number and she only took the customer's first name, John.
Who does the problem involve?

Select one:

a. Michelle, John, and Tracy

b. Michelle and Tracy

c. Tracy, Flo and John

d. Tracy, John, Michelle, and Flo

Michelle and Tracy are sales representatives for ABC Flooring. Michelle is on maternity leave and Tracy has been assigned to take her business calls while she is out. On the first day, one of Michelle's customers calls the office and asks a secretary for a price on some high end tile. The secretary, Flo wrote down the wrong customer phone number and she only took the customer's first name, John.
Who does the problem involve?

Select one:

a. Michelle, John, and Tracy

b. Michelle and Tracy

c. Tracy, Flo and John

d. Tracy, John, Michelle, and Flo

The five basic components of promotion include advertising, sales promotions, social media, publicity, and personal selling. All five components of the retailer’s promotion mix need to be managed from a total systems perspective. All non-essential retail businesses are closed due to the COVID-19 lockdown. At some point (hopefully in the near future) we will return to normal and these businesses will reopen. While these businesses will be receiving financial support from the government, many are going to be in a tight situation, and fighting for every dollar when the doors finally open. So, they will need to rely on sales promotion, publicity, social media and personal selling to succeed. Those that don’t get out of the gate strong may not survive. Choose one of the following retailers: Hand and Stone Massage; Modell’s; Caesars casino; or Outback Steakhouse. Describe the best way your retailer choice can use the four promotional components (sales promotion, publicity, social media and personal selling) to be successful when the lockdown is over.

What are net profit, net profit margin,gross profit margin, and operating profit margin? Why are these indicators important in business? Explain the importance of knowing how much profit is generated for each dollar in sales? Give specific examples how knowing these information will be helpful in your business.

For the following positions, match sources and methods to recruitment. Assume that in all cases you must use external recruitment to fill the position. Justify your choices.

a. Computer programmer

b. Maintenance worker

c. Illustrator

d. Postdoctoral researcher

e. CEO

Note: Managers must first identify the source (where prospective employees are located, for e.g colleges, universities, military personnel etc.) before choosing the method (how to attract them for e.g advertising, internships, job fairs etc).

An example is provided below to guide you to solve the question:

Computer Programmer:

Source: Potential candidates for computer programmers can be recruited from School, College, Universities, Programs etc

Method: Potential candidates for computer programming can be recruited through means of Advertisements, Internships etc

(This is just an example provided above for your clarification, the answer that i need should be properly elaborated and explained)

Take one corporation, any one of your choice. Explain what the COVID-19 means for its business. Negative effects may include Boeing, United Airlines, Cheesecake Factory and others. Positives include Johnson and Johnson, 3M and others.

In-Class Activity 16-2: Using social media in the promotion blend

Learning Objective

This in-class activity supports the following learning objective from Essentials of Marketing 15e:

LO 16.1:   Explain how publicity fits into the promotion blend.

LO 16.2: Understand the differences between paid, earned, and owned media.

LO 16.7:   Explain what social media is and how it differs from traditional media.

LO 16.8:   Compare and contrast the major social media platforms.

Assignment

Below are read mini cases of specific businesses. For each of these businesses, answer the following questions:

1. Which social media platform would be most effective for this business? Explain why you believe this social media platform would be effective.
2. Provide two specific suggestions of how the company could utilize the social media platform.
3. For each suggestion, indicate whether it is an example of paid media, earned media, or owned media.

Mini cases

1. Charlie Ruthi is a marketing major at a local college. She has been hired by Rizzuto’s Pizzeria. Rizzuto’s is in a small college town and students are its primary target market. Rizzuto’s does not currently utilize any social media and Charlie has been brought in as a part-time employee to build up an appropriate social media presence.

2. Gray-Away Shampoo and Gray-Away Conditioner restore natural hair color (that is, removes the gray that typically comes with age) after 2-3 weeks of regular use. The primary target market is male and female baby boomers and senior citizens who are seeking a more youthful appearance by getting rid of their gray hair. Gray-Away works on any color hair and gradually turns the gray to the user’s natural hair color. Shawna Tagge, a marketing major, has been hired as a marketing intern. Her new boss has asked her to get Gray-Away a social media presence. No further guidance was given to Shawna.

As a marketing manager, you have recently turned down Nancy Conrad for a position as sales supervisor. Nancy believes the denial was due to her gender, and she has filed a sex discrimination charge with the EEOC. Explain the steps the EEOC will use to process the charge; include Nancy’s options during the process.

International Business

Question 1.

Rank the seven elements of value creation in the short term (1-2 years), middle term (3 -5 years) and long term (5+ years). Describe why you have ranked the top two elements in each term.

A nonprofit organization needs to use social media to gain publicity and would like to use influencers to create awareness and also use SEO to their current website.

1- explain how to improve their web presence and SEO and explain the ways to recruit influencers to the above cause?  

For each of the following, answer True or False. If false, very briefly explain why it is false.

5. By statute, the government is not permitted to take cost-effectiveness criteria into account when deciding to cover new technologies under Medicare. 6. The purpose of a Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) is to prioritize patients who need care most urgently. 7. Suppose a politician suggests means testing the Medicare program. This will have no adverse effects on working or savings decisions.

See if you can find a foreign firm that operates in a politically unstable/volatile country (i.e.Syria, Yemen, North Africa, D.R. of Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Nigeria, Russia, Venezuela or other). Based on how they operate in the market(s), what techniques does it appear the MNCs uses in response to the political risk? Provide a brief explanation.

Explain Ikea's co-creation concept and answer the following questions:

1. Explain how it fits this specific concept
2. Based on what you know about this concept, how could you make this idea or object or service even better.

What are the technological innovations that can be used to improve e-food supply chain (EFSC) management? Why is the food supply chain increasingly important?