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· The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.· Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.· Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.· Late submission will NOT be accepted.· Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.· All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).· Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.Critical ThinkingThe global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002). Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality at cheaper rate and to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost cutting, increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers (Raouf, 1994).Increased global competition leads the industry to increasing efficiency by means of economies of scale and internal specialization to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keen indecisive in customer requirements on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasing global economy, cost effective manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.To meet all the challenges organizations try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques. Management of organizations devotes its efforts to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve the quality of product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supply techniques employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of excellent, lean and integrated manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firm’s leads to improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).Consult chapter 7 of your textbook or secondary available data through internet and answer the following questions.Question:1. Why Companies adopted Lean Thinking and JIT model? (1.5 Mark)2. Discuss major types of Waste, companies has to keep in mind during production. (1.5 Mark)3. Due to pandemic COVID 19 emergency, do you think agile supply chain is the right concept in this kind of situation? Give reason with example. (1.5 Mark)4. Reference (0.5 Mark)The Answer must follow the outline points below:· Each answer should be 300 to 500 range of word counts.· Lean Thinking and JIT Concept· Agile Supply chain· Their Main functions· Reasons with suitable Examples· Reference use APA style of referencing

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Market SegmentationA single marketing campaign is not likely to appeal to everyone. What interests a single, 18-year-old college freshman will be utterly different from what attracts a 45-year-old attorney who is married with children.Understanding these similarities and differences allows you to isolate the market into individual categories and create specific selling points accordingly. This makes your campaigns more precise because you can focus solely on serving smaller, more refined segments.In this assignment, you will play the role of an acting marketing manager of a local automobile brand dealer of your choice. Of the four main types of marketing segmentation, this assignment will focus on demographic segmentation. Demographic segmentation divides the market into smaller categories based on demographic factors, such as age, gender, and income, family structure…etc.

Problem # 1 – What is the cost of new AND existing debt if the current price of the bonds is $1,050? The bonds pay a semiannual coupon of $80 ($40 every six months), mature in 12 years, and have a face value of $1,000.The floatation cost for debt is 5%.Problem # 2- Assume that you are considering the purchase of a $1,000 par value bond that pays interest of $70 each six months (Total of $140 per year) and has 10 years to go before it matures. If you buy this bond, you expect to hold it for 5 years and then to sell it in the market. You (and other investors) currently require a nominal annual rate of return of 16%, but you expect the market to require a nominal rate of return of only 12% when you sell the bond due to a general decline in interest rates. How much should you be willing to pay for this bond today?

Deliverable:Calculate historical beta and adjusted beta for each stock in your portfolio and the portfolio as a whole, based on the data for 5 years, 3 years and 1 year prior to January 31, 2021. As a hint: see https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/trading-investing/adjusted-beta/ (Links to an external site.) for Adjusted Beta short cut.Using the stocks in your initial portfolio, prepare a valuation of each stock and the initial portfolio using zero, constant or variable growth models with a market return at 8% and at 12%. [Note that the growth rate must be less than the required rate of return.] Make sure you list the date of the valuation and the closing share price of your firm’s stock. Each firm’s required rate of return will depend on its beta.Is the stock of each of these companies over or undervalued?What is the expected return using the CAPM model?Map risk-returns relationships for 1 year and 3 year returns to each stock and your portfolio, relative to the benchmark (S&P 500) returns.Track your portfolio and companies throughout the term through April 1, 2021, describing the stocks and their performance. Identify any events during the period that may have caused the stocks’ prices to increase or decrease, explaining how these events affect the stocks’ prices.Prepare a ratio analysis (liquidity, activity, debt, and profitability), covering 3 years pre-January 31, 2021, 1 year pre-January 31, 2021, and the holding period from February 1, 2021 through April 1, 2021.Relate your analysis in (1) and (2) above to your expected returns to each stock and the portfolio as outlined in your Part 1 of the Project

For this week’s discussion, let’s talk about Green Marketing. Within this thread, pleaseDefine Green MarketingIdentify a company that uses Green Marketing and how do they use it as a marketing approach.Do you think Green Marketing is good for a company? Why or Why not?check the link

1. What is the consumer behavior pattern in terms of purchase of Motor Oil?2. What is Avellin’s current position in the PCMO industry? Elaborate deeply on the consumer perceptions of Avellin as well as the channel strategy used by them.3. What strategic role does Eco7 Play for Avellin? What expectations should Avellin have from the customer in terms of willingness to purchase a green oil?4. What should be the Go-To-Market Strategy for Avellin? Highlight especially the pricing decisions and the channel decisions and the implication each will have on the other.

PRIMARY QUALITATIVE RESEARCH INTERVIEWObjective:Interview is one of the very useful technique in qualitative research. The goal of qualitative research is to uncover the “quality” of insights we extract from interviewees. We then use these insights to create hypothesis to build quantitative (e.g. survey) questions and justify the hypothesis in numbers.The objective of this assignment is learn how to construct effective interview questions that solicit information that is “need to know”, rather than “nice to know.”1. The most important questioning technique you want to use for qualitative research is to ask “How”, “What”, “When”, “Why” questions. Example of correct question: How important is the country of origin important in purchasing tea? Why? Example of incorrect question: Is country of origin important in purchasing tea?2. If the responses you get are “yes/no”, then follow up with “why do you think so.” Example of correct question: If you were presented with high quality premium oolong tea, what do you think makes it premium? Example of incorrect question: Are you interested in high quality premium oolong tea? (and stopping there without probing)3. The questions you will ask must be actionable.Example of correct question: This tea can only be harvested in limited quantity at the highest mountain in Taiwan. The high altitude makes it naturally insect-free, unlike many other teas that claims to be organic. (Most government permits the labeling of organic as long it is 80% organic.Will $50 price tag reasonable for such a product? Example of incorrect question: How much do you want to pay for this product?Instruction:50 points for Interview Questions50 points for Interview Results Group Work1. Design interview questions and conduct 3 interviews PER PERSON.· Each of the interviewees must be different.· If you can get the interviewees to do group interview, the synergy might make the process even better. In that case, each of the team member will have 3 interviewees together in one session.· Whether each team member holds 3 separate interviews or all at once, the interview results should be 3 times the number of team members in your group. So, if you are a team of 4, there should be 12 interviewees and separate answers.· If you conduct a group interview and notice one person dominating the discussion, make sure you ask each person the same answer until everyone speaks his/her mind.2. As a group, develop 10 questions total. First 3 are given in the examples above, so develop the other 7.3. Have the questions approved during class.4. Conduct the interview in the coming week and bring the results to class next week.Ishihara 2

Determine sampling procedure. 2. Gather initial data of 100 or so data points in ksubgroups of n amounts/numbers of samples. 3. Calculate the mean ( x ) of each subgroup. 4. Calculate the range (R) of each subgroup. 5. Calculate the average of the subgroup averages x.This is the process average and will be the centerline for the x -chart.Control Chart Development

Primary Response is due by Sunday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Tuesday (11:59:59pm Central).Primary Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:Tina is a coffee drinker and does not like to make coffee at home. Her favorite coffee is Starbucks™. She buys Starbucks at least three times a week. Reviewing the Product, one of the four Ps of Marketing, what is Tina buying and is the customer demand being fulfilled? Why or why not?Tip: A product is a good or service that a company offers, fulfilling a customer demand.