a. Provide a short statement on how your company choice uses SCM and what value is provided by the company using SCM. You should use the Toyota SCM book for more information, if possible in comparison to Toyota, to describe this question on the comprehensive overview of your selected company’s SC and how it is managed.
In what cases do you think the company will go beyond these direct upstream anddownstream suppliers and customers and include them in developing their company’s SC policies
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Chapter 5 Discussion: Was Bob’s conduct unethical?Please respond with 250 words Bob has worked for Mega Corporation (MC) for twenty-five years and was recently promoted to the position of Sr. Vice President for Global Operations based on his outstanding performance for the company. Bob also serves as the Ethics Officer for MC.
One night after working late, Bob is ready to leave for home and remembers that his daughter needs to print her school report for school the next day. However, Bob has no copy paper at home and all of the stores are currently closed. Bob also will not have time in the morning before school to purchase any.
Consequently, Bob takes five (5) sheets of copy paper from the MC copy room. There are literally thousands of reams of paper in the room. Besides, MC is a multinational company and will not miss 5 sheets of paper. Finally, Bob has worked diligently for the company and has never taken anything before. Explain if Bob’s decision to take the copy paper was ethical. After posting your answer, respond to the posts of at least two classmates. Please refer to the Discussion Rubric for grading guidelines. To access the rubric, click on the kabob (stacked 3 dots)
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Soda .xlsx (18.163 KB)
WebProfits .xlsx (94.966 KB)
Activity I – You have just opened a restaurant in a large city, and you are deciding what you should charge for a regular-sized soda. You’d like to charge a price equal to the average of your competitors, which you believe is $2.58. To inform your decision, you want to learn more about the average price charged by competing restaurants in the area. You know you won’t be able to get prices for every restaurant, so you randomly sample 35 and collect their soda prices. These data are in Soda.xlsx (See the attached)
You are assuming the mean soda price is $2.58 for all of your competitors. When conducting data analysis to test this belief, what is this assumption called?
Calculate the t-statistic assuming the mean soda price for all of your competitors is $2.58.
Calculate the p-value for your t-statistic.
Using a confidence level of 90%, test whether the mean soda price of all your competitors is $2.58 using the t-stat.
Using a confidence level of 90%, test whether the mean soda price of all your competitors is $2.58 using the p-value.
Is it possible that your answers to parts d and e would yield different conclusions?
Activity II – To better assess your willingness-to-pay for advertising on others’ websites, you want to learn the mean profit per visit for all visits to your website. To accomplish this, you have collected a random sample of 4,738 visits to your website over the past six months. This sample includes information on visit duration and profits. The data are contained in WebProfits.xlsx (See the attached) Using the data in WebProfits.xlsx:
Build a 99% confidence interval for the mean profit per visit for all of your visitors.
Let the null hypothesis be that mean profit per visit for all of your visitors is $11.50.
Calculate the corresponding t-stat for this null hypothesis.
Calculate the corresponding p-value for this null hypothesis.
With strength of 95%, decide whether or not to reject this null hypothesis.
Detail the reasoning behind your decision.
Activity 3 Bus Sust
Activity I – Do you think genetically modified organisms (GMOs) raise a legitimate safety hazard? Should government agencies such as the FDA take more action to require safety testing? Do you think labeling unfairly stigmatizes GMOs and make consumers question their safety?
Activity II – Categorize the following as a facilitating payment (grease payment), a bribe or neither of these under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Explain why they chose a certain answer.
Jane Jones, who works for XYZ Corporation (a U.S. publicly-traded company), has documents that she needs to clear customs in order to make it to an important business meeting on time. She decides to pay the customs official $500 in order to move to the front of the line.
Same facts as above, but Jane decides to pay the customs official $5000.
Jane gives a steel letter opener with XYZ Corporation imprinted on it to a foreign government official as a gift.
The country where a major foreign client is based was recently hit by a devastating earthquake. Competitors of XYZ Corporation are donating approximately $150,000 each to foreign relief efforts. XYZ Corporation also decides to donate a similar amount.
The assignment is to answer the question provided above in essay form. This is to be in narrative form and should be as thorough as possible. Bullet points should not to be used. The paper should be at least 1.5 – 2 pages in length, Times New Roman 12-pt font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins and utilizing at least one outside scholarly or professional source related to competitive strategy. The textbook should also be utilized. Do not insert excess line spacing. APA formatting and citation should be used.