Day: October 9, 2020

Procurement/Supply Chain

This week, focus your analysis on the procurement or acquisition practices of the company you selected for the final project and the types of materials that the company uses. Also, analyze where those materials are sourced, how they are delivered, and what the overall supply chain operations of the company are.

Submit a report detailing the following:

– Coordination of acquisition practices with actual product demand
Procurement practices

– Inventory management (including whether the use of MRP would be appropriate)

– Scheduling of production or service provision
Supply chain operations

Forecast Determination

A company is considering what forecasting method to use for coming time periods. The company has used something of a qualitative (consensus-based) forecasting method in the past, and wants to know if a more formal, quantitative forecasting method would be appropriate for them. Consider the following data from recent time periods:

Time Period

Forecast

Will upload table

Briefly address each of the following bullets:

– Discuss what method of forecasting you view to be most appropriate given the data given above. Explain why you believe your chosen forecasting method to be the most appropriate.
– Select an appropriate value for alpha, and calculate an exponential smoothing forecast for this quarter. Discuss the relationship between the alpha value that you selected and the forecast value that you calculated. In other words, if you had selected a lower value for alpha, how would the calculated value be different, and if you had selected a higher value for alpha, how would the calculated value be different?
– Assume that, at the end of this quarter, we could report that the demand for this quarter was actually 275 (just like last quarter). Would this information cause you to rethink the alpha value that you selected? If so, how would it impact the value that you would have selected for alpha?

The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.

After multiple people have posted the alpha value that they selected and the forecast that they calculated, compare your calculated value with those of your classmates. Whose value was most accurate? Why do you think the person with the most accurate forecast had the most accurate forecast?

Justify your answers using examples and reasoning.

Case Study: ALPHA and AIS Integration
Overview

The Malaysian agricultural industry is impressive. There are two internal forces of AIS change that occurred in ALPHA, namely, a new business model and corporate structure.

Read the following article before you begin the assignment: ( Article attached)

Forces of Accounting Information System: Organizational Change and Governance of A Malaysian Agricultural Company.

Instructions

Write a 23-page paper in which you:

1.Summarize the ALPHA and AIS integration based on the attached article.

2.Explain how the AIS application helped the Malaysian agricultural industry.

3.Describe how the ALPHA method can be applied to small agricultural organizations.

4.Use at least 3 quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Would you like to own an all-electric car? Do you think there is a viable market for such a product?

Provide secondary data to research the viability of selling electric cars profitably.  Try to determine the population of electric-car buyers.

Provide a research report based on  findings.