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Value Formula / Location Decisions
The value formula is a useful tool in understanding how consumers see a firm or its offerings. The simplest understanding is that value is the perceived quality relative to the expectation. The higher the quality to the expectation, the greater the value.
The value formula can be used to enhance value because it provides a framework for understanding the components of value. A company can improve its value by managing either the expectations or the perceived quality. Each of these has a large set of subcomponents depending on the firm that can then be analyzed. Quality, one of the components of value, can be quantified to a certain extent. In each market or sector, a firm will have perceived and real levels of quality relative to its competitors. Through surveys and internal information gathering, a ranking could be compiled, which would put at least a rough numeric value on quality. We can also identify quality as a basket of metrics, each of which should be easily quantifiable. Overall the basket can be benchmarked against itself.
2) Some of the issues we face in selecting global locations are taxes, local government, possible incentives, quality of the workforce, distance from suppliers and to markets, foreign exchange risk and the cost of things like workforce, land and equipment.
The founders of modern quality management are considered to be Frederick Winslow Taylor, Walter Shewhart and later W. Edwards Deming and Joseph Juran. Taylor published the Principles of Scientific Management in 1911, laying the foundation for the work that was to follow. Shewhart developed the idea of statistical quality control. Deming expanded on his work during World War II and after the war introduced quality control concepts to Japan. Juran followed a similar career path - all three began their work in quality control at Bell Labs.
A like Shewhart for his work on statistical quality control - this concept still drives the most vital quality management tools today and before him there was little sense of how to measure quality, which made quality management a rather vague discipline, with ad hoc solutions rather than ones that could be proven and replicated elsewhere.
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Results from the study by Petersen, Ragatz and Monczka show that effective collaborative planning depends on information quality, and the trust level firms share. The authors purport: "Collaborative planning activities between supply chain partners are expected to lead to better performing supply chains" (Petersen, Ragatz & Monczka, Introduction section ¶ 1). In addition, numerous other researchers have also explored the perception relating to supplier alliances, that enhanced collaborative planning
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52). The researcher handles or controls the items differently. It is a form of Pareto analysis where items such as customers, documents, activities, inventory items, sales territories grouped into three categories namely a, B, and C. In order of their estimated importance. Consequently, 'A' items are very important, 'B' items are important, and 'C' items are marginally important. The organization gives 'A' rating to their best customers since they