As part of ongoing restructuring measures at the Pratt & Whitney North Haven plant, Ed Northern and a group of Japanese consultants are transforming the manufacturing process from a batch process to a one-piece flow and organizing the machines and employees in product cells. Vane Cell 6 is the first cell created in North Haven. …
A summer intern at 3M Health Care must analyze the logistics systems of the health department and report their results to the vice president of 3M Health Care Markets. The vice president is most interested in recommendations for proposed changes to the existing way of delivering products to Canadian hospitals. This case provides students with …
The case describes the situation of the Vice President of ACAT Corp. (ACAT), Vidarbha Region, Maharashtra. ACAT manufactured a relatively wide range of household appliances. Typical products in its product line were TV signal amplifiers, transformers, FM radio sets, electronic ballasts, battery chargers, and voltage regulators. The voltage regulators manufactured by ACAT have been used …
Amoco Corp. negotiates the sale of a wholly owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large oil and gas reserves spanning many concession areas at various stages of development, development and production. The proposed acquisition is important to Apache and raises several significant financing and valuation issues. This case focuses primarily on evaluation.
After T. Boone Pickens acquired a 26% stake in Koito Manufacturing, a Japanese automotive supplier to the Toyota Group, T. Boone Pickens is seeking a position on Koito’s board of directors. Koito’s management resists, claiming Pickens is a worthless Greenmailer, not a true long-term investor. The battle between the two provides students with an opportunity …
It examines CIBA Vision’s decision on whether to launch a major new R&D initiative to develop low-cost disposable contact lenses for the day, and how such a project should be organized if it continues. A group of executives prefers to build a small, self-contained project team that is organizationally and geographically isolated from the company’s …
By mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: it launched its first truly mass-produced car, the Sto rave; had recently raised first-year production targets; and had started taking orders for its next car, the Model X. Tesla seemed on its way to defying skeptics and becoming the first American company to enter the …
Investigate one of the most important business decisions in Porsche history, made in early 1998: to build a sports utility vehicle (SUV), the Cayenne. After Porsche depended on one or two sports car models for decades and almost went bankrupt in 1993 and lost its independence, Porsche had to diversify its product lines. It also …
GSH Conserves was an artisan jam producer in Singapore that specialized in the use of tropical fruits such as pitahaya, lychee, mango, etc. to make high-quality jams in small quantities. Founded in 2013 in a local kitchen, the demand for jams and bottled fruits from GSH Conserves had grown organically through word of mouth over …
Necanko, Inc. is a large international food manufacturer. A business purchasing planner needs to forecast sales demand to determine production planning, inventory management, and distribution for the year. Sales have generally been predictable and stable, but the company has just returned from a three-month layoff due to slow sales and is now experiencing sales growth …