SA Adventures Unlimited was formed four years ago, by Michael and Jill Rodriguez. Michael was a trained geologist, while Jill had a master’s degree in Spanish. They were both avid outdoor enthusiasts and fell in love while trekking across the Andes in Chile. Upon graduation, they seized upon the idea of starting their own specialized tour business that would focus on organizing and leading “high-end” adventure trips in South America. Their first trip was a three-week excursion across Ecuador and Peru. The trip was a resounding success, and they became convinced that they could make a livelihood doing something they both enjoyed.
After the first year, Adventures Unlimited began to slowly expand the size and scope of the business. The Rodriguezes’ strategy was a simple one. They recruited experienced, reliable people who shared their passion for South America and the outdoors. They helped these people organize specific trips and advertised the excursion over the Internet and in travel magazines.
Adventures Unlimited has grown from offering 4 trips a year to having 16 different excursions scheduled, including trips to Central America. They now have an administrative support staff of three people and a relatively stable group of five trip planners/guides whom they hired on a trip-by-trip contract basis. The company enjoyed a high level of repeat business and often used their customers’ suggestions to organize future trips.
Although the Rodriguezes were pleased with the success of their venture, they were beginning to encounter problems that worried them about the future. A couple of the tours went over budget because of unanticipated costs, which eroded that year’s profit. In one case, they had to refund 30 percent of the tour fee because a group was stranded five days in Blanco Puente after missing a train connection. They were also having a hard time maintaining the high level of customer satisfaction to which they were accustomed. Customers were beginning to complain about the quality of the accommodations and the price of the tours. One group, unfortunately, was struck by a bad case of food poisoning. Finally, the Rodriguezes were having a hard time tracking costs across projects and typically did not know how well they did until after their taxes were prepared. This made it difficult to plan future excursions.
The Rodriguezes shared these concerns around the family dinner table. Among the members in attendance was Michael’s younger brother, Mario, a student at a nearby university. After dinner, Mario approached Michael and Jill and suggested that they look into what business people called “project management.” He had been briefly exposed to project management in his Business Operations class and felt that it might apply to their tour business.
Case Question
1. To what extent does project management apply to Adventures Unlimited?
2. What kind of training in project management should the Rodriguezes, the administrative staff,
and tour guides receive to improve the operation of Adventures Unlimited?
3. Identify major topics or skill sets that should be addressed.

1. A plant has a capacity of 4,100 hydraulic pumps per month. The fixed cost is $504,000 per month. The variable cost is 4166 per pump, and the sales price is $328 per pump (assume that sales equal output volume). What is the breakeven point in number of pumps per month? What percentage reduction will occur in the breakeven point if fixed costs reduced by 18% and unit variable cost by 6%?

Using CARDTRONICS,

1. Create the Final Strategic Plan. The Final Strategic Plan contains the elements of all the previous weeks' components and incorporates instructor feedback. The strategic recommendations will be evaluated and the best options chosen for recommendation. The final strategic plan should contain:

   • Table of Contents
   • Executive Summary (350 to 700 words)
   • Company Background
   • Mission Statement
   • Vision Statement
   • Value Statement
   • Environmental Scan
   • Internal and External Environmental Analysis
   • Strategic Recommendation
   • Implementation Plan
   • Organizational Change Management Strategies
   • Risk Management Plan
   • Conclusion
   • References

   Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation with visuals and speaker notes to present the strategic plan, summarizing all relevant elements from previous weeks. The objective is to sell the strategic plan to investors or company directors.

   Format the assignment according to APA guidelines.

which of the following is NOT true regarding inventory cost behavior as the replenishment quantity increases?

A. ordering cost decreases

B. Order cost increases

C. the # of exposures to stockout decrease

D. the holding cost increases

E. stockout cost decreases

Which of the following is true regarding manufacturing organizations' use of inventory?

A. A firm that experiences highly seasonal demand, yet produces at a constant rate, uses inventory to absorb the swings in demand.

B. A firm Amy experience constant demand, yet have seasonal production.

C. Consolidation of items stored will typically yield more favorable transportation rates.

D. warehousing and material handling can contribute significantly to distribution costs.

E. All of the above

The Newsboy Problem is:

A. a system with repetitive order quantities and instantaneous replenishment.

B. suitable for products with long life cycles

C. a system with repetitive order quantities and non-instantaneous replenishment

D. Suitable for products with a short life cycle or one-time order

Which of the following is a reason to hold inventory?

A. increase costs due to economies of scale in production

B. increase costs in purchasing and transportation

C. increase customer service

D. increase uncertainties in demand and lead times

E. none of the above

For Push vs. Pull inventory control, which of the following is true?

A. a pull system tends to optimize efficiency of the whole supply chain

B. a push system is controlled by the multiple warehouses that receive goods from a single plant

C.A pull system optimizes the warehouses but does not necessarily optimize the whole supply chain

D. A push system will always result in more inventory than a pull system

E. all of the above

In stock market crash, What were the major differences between the 1920s and the 1930s? How did the end of WWI affect the U.S. economy? Explain the relationship between Liberty Bonds, “Investing Culture”, Margin Buying, and the rapid appreciation of stock values in the 1920s? Why did the major bankers meet at J.P Morgan’s office across the street from the NYSE? What did they subsequently do? How did the “Liquidity Crisis” compound an even greater contraction in GDP after stock prices collapsed? What means did Roosevelt implement to help stabilize stock markets immediately and long-term? What effects did the Great Depression have internationally? Do you see any parallels today?

11. A business rule says that an employee cannot earn more than his/her manager.
Assume that each employee row has a foreign key which refers to a manger row.
a. Can this business rule be implemented using a fixed format constraint?
b. Can this business rule be implemented using a trigger?
12. Triggers should be created sparingly. Why?
13. Should you use a trigger to check the uniqueness of a primary key?

14. What is a Distributed Database system?
15. What advantages does a Distributed Database have over a Centralized Database?
16. Why do some users require data from multiple sites in a Distributed Database?

17. What is Horizontal Fragmentation within a DDBMS?

Note: Questions are based on DBMS (Distributed database and triggers)

The Westchester Chamber of Commerce periodically sponsors public service seminars and programs. Currently, promotional plans are under way for this year’s program. Advertising alternatives include television, radio, and newspaper. Audience estimates, costs, and maximum media usage limitations are as shown

Constraint

Television Radio Newspaper

Audience per advertisement

100,000 18,000 40,000

Cost per advertisement

$2000 $300 $600

Maximum media usage

10 20 10

I NEED EXCEL FILE WHICH HAS EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND SENSITIVITY REPORT FOR THIS PROBLEM

You have a class named AirConditioner that has a private boolean field named on. It has method named turnOn that sets the field to true and one named turnOff that set it to false. It also has a method named isOn that returns the value of the on field. Fill in the blank to complete the turnOff method.

public void turnOff() {
    ______________________
}

Give an example that shows the greedy algorithm for activity selection that picks the activity with the smallest start time first (and continues in that fashion) does not solve the activity selection problems correctly.

Please show your work! I will rate quality answers. Thank you.

How could metrics abuse begin to develop in an organization? Please explain.

What questions do you have about certain industries or businesses that operate in the region and what they need or want in terms of innovation, customer service, product or packaging design, management, operations, finances, sustainability, or other areas?

Why didn’t Technocracy destroy the thought-world of the tool-using culture? What happens when technological world views take over the traditional world views?

1. Copy the files from Assignment 1 to Assignment 3.

2. Modify the PetFoodCompany header to mention a friend function called "computeBonusBudget". This method should compute the bonus budget as netIncome() * BonusBudgetRate and this method should exist in the driver program - not the Class defintion.

3. Modify the output of the program to display the results of the computeBonusBudget.

Enter Total Sales: 1000

Enter Total Expenses: 600
Net Income = 400
Bonus Budget = 8

Here is the code:

PetFoodComp.h:

class PetFoodCompany
{
public:
  
PetFoodCompany();

char getQuart();
char* getCompany();
char* getDivision();

void setQuart(char quart);
void setTotalSales(float totalSales1);
void setTotalExpences(float totalExpences1);
void setCompany(char name[]);
void setDivision(char name1[]);

float getTotalSales();
float getTotalExpences();

double netIncome();
  

private:
  
char company[40];
char division[40];

static char quart;
static double BonusRate;

float totalSales;
float totalExpences;
  
  
};

PetFood.cpp:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include "PetFoodComp.h"

using namespace std;

double PetFoodCompany::BonusRate = 0.02;
char PetFoodCompany::quart = '1';

PetFoodCompany::PetFoodCompany()
{
   strcpy(company, "myCompanyName");
}

char PetFoodCompany::getQuart()
{
   return quart;
}

float PetFoodCompany::getTotalSales()
{
   return totalSales;
}

float PetFoodCompany::getTotalExpences()
{
   return totalExpences;
}

char* PetFoodCompany::getCompany()
{
   return company;
}

char* PetFoodCompany::getDivision()
{
   return division;
}

void PetFoodCompany::setQuart(char quart1)
{
   if (quart1 == '1' || quart1 == '2' || quart1 == '3' || quart1 == '4')
       quart = quart1;
}

void PetFoodCompany::setTotalSales(float totalSales1)
{
   totalSales = totalSales1;
}

void PetFoodCompany::setTotalExpences(float totalExpences1)
{
   totalExpences = totalExpences1;
}

void PetFoodCompany::setCompany(char name[])
{
   strcpy(company, name);
}

void PetFoodCompany::setDivision(char dname[])
{
   strcpy(division, dname);
}

double PetFoodCompany::netIncome()
{
   return (totalSales - totalExpences);
}

PetFoodMain.cpp:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include "PetFoodComp.h"

using namespace std;

int main()
{
   double totalSales, totalExpences;
   PetFoodCompany pet;
   cout << "Company Name is " << pet.getCompany() << "\n";
   cout << "Current Quarter is " << pet.getQuart() << "\n";

   cout << "Enter Total Sales: ";
   cin >> totalSales;

   cout << "Enter Total Expences: ";
   cin >> totalExpences;

   pet.setTotalExpences(totalExpences);
   pet.setTotalSales(totalSales);

   cout << "Net Income: " << pet.netIncome() << "\n";

   return 0;
}