In its present state, IDEA 2004 has undergone several revisions since introduced as PL 92-142. As a group, discuss these revisions and their current impact on the educational system servicing SPED students now.

Based on the following case study answer two of the questions

a. Dell is a pioneer in stimulating exchanges with customers through social media. With reference to Dell, discuss the differences between e-marketing and traditional marketing activities.

b. As more companies are moving towards green businesses, should Dell adopt a similar strategy to market its products? Justify your answer

Dell Direct and Not-So-Direct Case Study:

When Michael Dell started his Texas-based computer business in 1984, he chose a distribution strategy that was radically different from that of other computer marketers. Instead of selling through wholesalers and retailers, the company dealt directly with customers. This kept costs low and allowed Dell to cater to customers' needs by building each computer to order. Using a direct channel also minimized inventory costs and reduced the risk that parts and products would become obsolete even before customers placed their orders, a constant concern in high-tech industries.

By 1997, Dell's website alone was responsible for $1 million a day in sales. Relying on the strength of its online sales, catalogs, and phone orders, Dell expanded beyond the United States and added new products for four target markets: consumers, large corporations, small businesses, and government agencies. Meanwhile, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and other competitors were reaching out to many of the same segments with a combination of direct and indirect channels. Apple Stores, for example, proved to be major customer magnets and gave a significant boost to sales of Macintosh computers and other Apple electronics. Hewlett-Packard forged strong ties with value-added resellers (VARs), intermediaries that assemble systems of computers, servers, and other products customized to meet the special needs of business buyers.

Although Dell tested retail distribution on a number of occasions, it never let the experiments go on too long. In the 1990s, it tried selling PCs through a few big U.S. retail chains, but soon discontinued the arrangement because the profit margins weren't as healthy as in the direct channel. Later, it opened a series of branded retail kiosks in major U.S. markets to display its products and answer customers' questions. Unlike stores, however, the kiosks didn't actually sell any-thing: Customers could only place orders for future delivery. Dell ultimately closed the kiosks down. By 2007, with competitors coming on strong, Dell was ready to rethink its worldwide channel strategy. As convenient as online shopping was for many U.S. computer buyers, it was much less popular in many other countries. To gain market share domestically and internationally, Dell would have to follow consumers into stores, malls, and downtown shopping districts. The company began selling a few models through Walmart's U.S. stores, Carphone Warehouse's U.K. stores,. Bic Camera's Japanese stores, and Gome's Chinese stores. In addition, it opened Dell stores in Moscow, Budapest, and other world capitals.
By 2010, sales through retailers had gained enough momentum that Dell sought out other retail deals. In another channel change, it began selling through VAR partners that serve small- and medium-sized businesses and lined up wholesalers to distribute its products in Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere. When Dell introduced a new line of smart-phones, it needed a new channel arrangement to reach buyers. Therefore, it arranged for cell phone carriers such as AT&T to sell the new models to their customers.

As successful as Dell has been in revamping its indirect channels, selling directly to customers remains a top priority. Dell invites orders around the clock through Web pages tailored to the needs of each 'target market. It also maintains an online outlet store to sell 4 discontinued and refurbished products. It mails millions of catalogs and direct-mail pieces every year. And its sales force calls on government officials and big businesses that buy in volume. Dell's website notes, with pride, that the 10 largest U.S. corporations and five largest U.S. commercial banks "run on Dell."

Moreover, the company is a pioneer in stimulating exchanges with customers through social media. Dell has 139,000 fans on Facebook, for example, and regularly posts offers that drive customers to its various websites. It's become a pioneer in selling directly to customers via the micro blog site Twitter. In less than three years, it generated $6.5 million in revenue from sales transactions that originated on Twitter. That may be a tiny sliver of Dell's $53 billion in annual revenue, but it demonstrates the company's flexibility in adapting to shifts in customer behavior and environmental forces, such as technological advances. With market share and profit-margin challenges still facing the company, and global demand just picking up steam after a long, difficult recession, watch for Dell to make more channel adjustments in the coming years.

1. Conduct a stakeholder analysis for the following three (3) major stakeholders of AGL Australia (Community, Customers, Employees). For each major AGL stakeholder:
   1. discuss their specific and various interests with respect to AGL; and
   2. conclude whether their specific interests are generally aligned with (or opposed to) the generation of shareholder value by AGL, providing supporting reasons for your conclusion

1. Why might a company implement a discount program to customers?

2. What are three common uses of financial models?

3. Why might a company abandon an annual plan or budget in favor of a rolling 12-month

forecast?

An Electricity Board offers electricity to ita commercial customers under three tariffs; an ordinary tariff, a 'small-user' tariff and a special 'night-saver tariff Whatever the tariff the electricity bil is made up of two parts. Cistomers opting for the ordinary-tariff mst paya quarterly connection charge of $100 and pay st the rate of 3 pence per unit consumed. Customen choosing the small-aser tariff are required to pay a lower quarterly connection charge of $50 but with the enhanced rate of 5 pence per unit consuied. The ABC Company only works during the day and so has little interest in the night-saver tariff The company is consuming around 3000 units/quarter under the small-user tari. Since output is rising and with it the use of electricity- the manager responsible for electricity purchased is wondering whether to changé to the ordinary tarif.

A) Identify the controllable, uncontrollable, constrains and environmental variables.

B) Identify the cluster chart.

C) Idantify the model flow chart.

D) Find the relationships between the different variables and generite different soenarios by using MS Excel

**PYTHON**

A new movie theatre has three different subscription packages for its customers:

Package A: For $18.95 per month, the customer can watch 2 movies. Any additional movie requires an additional $2 per movie.

Package B: For $22.95 per month, the customer can watch 4 movies. Any additional movie requires an additional $1 per movie.

Package C: For $30.99 per month, the customer can watch an unlimited amount of movie.

Write a script that calculates a customer’s monthly bill. It should ask the user to enter the letter of the package purchased (A, B, or C) and the number of movies watched.

Using that information, your program should display the total bill. Your program should also display an error message and stop if the user enters any invalid values.

Would appreciate any help. Stuck on how to solve this or even get started. Thank you

A mobile phone service provider has three different subscription packages for its customers:

Package A: For $39.99 per month 450 minutes are provided. Additional minutes are
$0.45 per minute.

Package B: For $59.99 per month 900 minutes are provided. Additional minutes are
$0.40 per minute.

Package C: For $69.99 per month unlimited minutes provided.

Write a program that calculates a customer’s monthly bill. It should ask which package
the customer has purchased and how many minutes were used. It should then display
the total amount due.

Input Validation: Be sure the user only selects package A, B, or C.                                          

Assume 30 day month(Billing Cycle). Maximum Minutes is 43200.

Quality of craftsmanship is part of the grading.

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Three suppliers located in Baltimore, St. Louis, and Kansas City provide four customers with a special component every year. These customers are located in Cleveland, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Houston. The yearly requirements of these customers are given below. Annual Requirements (in thousand units) Cleveland Charlotte Atlanta Houston 16 20 25 34 Suppliers’ annual production capacity will be decided by your student number. The third, fourth, and fifth of your student number will be the capacity of the supplier in Baltimore, the sixth and seventh of your student number represent the capacity of the supplier in St. Louis, and the eighth and ninth of your student number decide the capacity of the supplier in Kansas City. Below is an example of suppliers’ capacity if your student number is A01234567 (Please change each supplier’s capacity based on your student number.) Capacity (in thousand units) Baltimore St. Louis Kansas City 123 45 67 The unit cost for supplying each customer from each supplier is given below (in $/unit). Baltimore St. Louis Kansas City Cleveland 97 100 93 Charlotte 132 85 90 Atlanta 125 91 90 Houston 104 112 115 Slippery Rock University Spring 2020 Page 2 of 2 a) If all customers' demand should be satisfied, use Linear Programming technique to formulate a mathematical model to minimize total cost. Solve the model in excel with your objective function colored in green, decision variables colored in yellow, and resource utilization colored in blue (15 pts). Please also prepare a short statement to explain your model results to your manager (5 pts). b) In a separate worksheet, suppose all customers' demand will be tripled next year and remain at this new level for a relatively long period of time. Solve the problem again in excel. Is the solution feasible and why? (10 pts) c) In another worksheet, with new demand requirements (all tripled), consider the situation in which 1) Requirements coming from Houston must be satisfied 2) All suppliers need to operate at full capacity to satisfy demand as much as possible 3) Total cost should be minimized Solve this problem in excel and answer the following questions. i. What’s your new minimum total cost? (15 pts) ii. Please create a designated row or column, named unmet demand, in excel to indicate whether all customers’ demand would be satisfied. (5 pts) iii. Please create a designated row or column, named excess capacity, in excel to illustrate whether all suppliers are operating at full capacity. (5 pts) iv. Prepare a short statement to explain your model results to your manager. (5 pts) d) If the solution for problem c) is not feasible, consider the scenario in which you have the option to increase supplier’s capacity by 50,000 units with a cost of $25,000 for St. Louis and $23,000 for Kansas City, while increasing capacity by 100,000 units will cost $45,000 in St. Louis and $49,000 in Kansas City. Baltimore only has the option to increase capacity by 30,000 units at a cost of $20,000. Moreover, each supplier can have at most one option to increase its capacity and all customers' demand should be satisfied. Please develop a mathematical model to help your manager to decide which option or combination is the best in order to minimize total cost. Write down your algebraic formulation in a worksheet (Objective function, decision variables, and constraints). (10 pts) e) Solve the model you developed for d) in a separate worksheet and answer the following questions. i. What’s your new minimum total cost? (15 pts) ii. Please create a designated row or column, named unmet demand, in excel to indicate whether all customers’ demand would be satisfied. (5 pts) iii. Please create a designated row or column, named excess capacity, in excel to illustrate whether all suppliers are operating at full capacity. (5 pts) iv. Prepare a short statement to explain your model results to your manager. (5 pts)

true or false

1. For an elastic demand curve, a 1% change in price results in a greater than 1% change in the quantity demanded.

2. When Colgate offers several different types of toothpaste to consumers who live in a geographically isolated community, this is an example of “captive product pricing.”

3. An example of Optional product pricing would be the optional features when purchasing a new car.

4. A society with three manufacturers, three customers, and no distributors will require nine exchanges in order to meet all of the customers’ needs.

5. A conventional consumer marketing distribution channel consists of a manufacturer (i.e. “producer”), a wholesaler, a retailer, and a consumer.