arings per week from a local supplier who charges $1.00 per bearing. The purchasingmanager has identified another potential source willing to supply the bearings at $0.97 perbearing. Before making his decision, the purchasing manager evaluates the performance of thetwo suppliers. The local supplier has an average lead time of two weeks and has agreed to deliverthe bearings in batches of 2,000. Based on past on-time performance, the purchasing managerestimates that the lead time has a standard deviation of one week. The new source has an averagelead time of six weeks with a standard deviation of four weeks. The new source requires aminimum batch size of 8,000 bearings. Which supplier should the purchasing manager go with(ignore ordering cost and focus on material cost and holding cost when making your decision)

Resources that are valuable but not rare can be categorized asanswers: organizational weaknesses.distinctive competencies.organizational strengths.complementary resources and capabilities.

Arriving and delivering a load of company executives for a business meeting at a destination far from home base requiring an overnight stay, a company’s pilot requested approval from the company finance office to pay to either have the company’s jet brought into the fbo's hangar overnight to protect it from a forecast snowfall or to have it de-iced by the fbo the following morning well-before scheduled departure. the company was under considerable financial pressure at the time, and the pilot’s requests were denied because of the cost. so, early the following morning, the pilot was up on the wing of the jet sweeping off an accumulation of snow and ice with a borrowed push broom in preparation for the scheduled departure with the executives, but slipped and fell to the ground, suffering a broken neck. the business was organized as a limited partnership, owned by 3 limited partners and one general partner. as a cost-saving measure, the company had dropped its workers’ compensation insurance before the accident. analyze the potential liability for the pilot’s injuries of each of the following, showing your reasoning clearly: the company the general partner the limited partners analyze how the outcome would have been different, if the business had been organized as a corporation and observed all of the formalities to legitimize its corporate status. analyze how the outcome would have been different, if the pilot had been covered by workers’ compensation insurance.

Acompany determined that the budgeted cost of producing a product is $30 per unit. on june 1, there were 80,000 units on hand, the sales department budgeted sales of 300,000 units in june, and the company desires to have 120,000 units on hand on june 30. the budgeted cost of goods sold for june would be