Essays about: "Make-or-buy decisions"
Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 essays containing the words Make-or-buy decisions.
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11. Reps or agents or both: Managers' rationale behind how to organize the sales function : About the rationale of decision-makers in manufacturing companies of the Swedish prefabricated wooden house industry behind the organization of sales forces.
University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, FöretagsekonomiAbstract : Problem - Decision makers shape the structure of the sales function, but it is unclear how they go about it and why. The rationale for making certain decisions need to be analyzed in order to understand why different decision makers apply different sales strategies. READ MORE
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12. THE MAKE-OR-BUY DECISIONS IN ITALCEMENTI PACKING SOLUTIONS : A quantitative approach in the global purchasing strategy context
University essay from KTH/Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.)Abstract : Many multinational corporations find themselves frequently in the dichotomous question of whether to make or buy a given component; but when those companies are operating with a global purchasing strategy, oriented to high levels of centralization and dealing simultaneously with the implications of purchasing and producing the same item, the approach to take the decision becomes difficult to find, even with the current literature and practitioners knowledge This master thesis addresses in a comprehensive proposal the way to undertake this kind of make-or-buy decisions. Through the literature review done, regarding global purchasing strategy, purchasing models, supplier selection methods and make-or-buy frameworks; it was found a convenient model to merge those concepts with the empirical experiences of a single case study in the Italcementi Group, one of the largest Cement producers in the world. READ MORE
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13. Make or buy? : Developing a generic framework for make-or-buy decisions at Cardo AB
University essay from LogistikAbstract : Cardo AB is an international corporate group that has performed major organizational changes the last few years. These changes utilize possible synergies that exist in a corporate group. One of the initiatives is that Cardo wants to develop a model for make-or-buy decisions. READ MORE
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14. MANUFACTURING FOOTPRINT STRATEGY - COMING OUT OF THE “BLACK HOLE” : A positioning strategy with concept factories supporting the product life cycle and make-or-buy decisions
University essay from Akademin för innovation, design och teknikAbstract : The role of the manufacturing units has a big impact on a company’s business. If competitive priorities and the production weapons can be merged together and describe a factory profile, it can be a factor that provides the competitive advantages for the company. This thesis has two objectives in this area, the industrial and the academic. READ MORE
