Netflix and Amazon

Please respond to each prompt in at least 100 words. These are thought responses and will require no references, just your thoughts on the prompts.

Prompt 1:

Netflix operating in over 190 countries with 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. With being internationally they secure their deals region by region and country by country. Dealing with national regulatory restrictions and what can be available in these countries making it available in that language. With Canada being a part of the early expansion in 2010 it allowed Netflix service in Latin America and Europe and remaining closed to the culture of those origins and other foreign nations.

Netflix did have issues when it came to Australia, they would not let them into the country because Netflix was rather a technology company instead of a broadcasting company and it would not comply to local regulations. Indonesian, Vietnamese and Malaysia government kept Netflix from extending its services because they did not comply to the censorship policies.

Netflix as they interact with the policies and regulation have learn to build trust with regulators and develop for future productions because of the international expansion. It would be competitive with other streaming companies among the US-based services that competes aboard.

Prompt 2:

Amazon has quickly grown to cover the globe but with this wider customer pool comes more laws, acts, and governing bodies. There are trade control laws that Amazon must follow when shipping to other countries. These include but are not limited to: U.S. sanction laws and regulations put forth by the U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These also depend on the country of export, the country of import, the country of origin of the items, and more to determine what additional laws and regulations could need to be followed from the U.S. and other countries with jurisdiction of the shipment.

There are also places that Amazon is not allowed to ship to at all. These places are called sanctioned countries, entities, and individuals. These place include a number of countries that that have been identified as engaging with terrorism, narcotics trafficking, weapons proliferation and other activities that threaten a country’s national security, foreign policies or economy. These sanctioned countries include Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, and the Crimea Region of Ukraine. Amazon is not allowed to ship or sell anything to these countries. These countries are also not allowed to make an Amazon account or affiliate an account with one of these countries.

These are just a few of the laws and regulations that Amazon has to follow when they ship their products internationally. After reading through the list of international laws that they have to follow I’m pretty convinced that they must have a whole team, if not multiple teams (like one for each country), monitoring and interpreting international laws to make sure that Amazon is following all the rules and is allowed to continue to sell and ship their products around the world.

Forecast Capacity Levels

Assignment Exercise 14–4.1: Forecast Capacity Levels

Review the information in Exhibit 14–1. The exhibit assumes three chairs and one 40-hour RN, for a realistic capacity level of seven patients infused per day.

Required

Prepare another Infusion Center Capacity Level Forecast as follows:

Assume the same three infusion chairs, but add another nurse for either four or six hours per day. How would this change the daily capacity level for number of patients infused per day

Assignment Exercise 14 – 4.1 (p. 554) Forecast Capacity Levels

GHA 7 requires you to pick up a pencil and paper and get to work creating a schedule.  There is no easy way to do this — just keep shuffling the schedule (of patients and staff) until you maximize the number of patients seen within the restraints of the staffing hours and number of chairs explained in the assignment.  This is what it means to be a health care manager!

Unlike some of the other assignments that we have done that have required exact answers that are either correct or incorrect, this assignment has a variety of different answers that could be considered acceptable!  Think of it like a puzzle — Enjoy!

For this assignment, you may use Excel or Word to submit your work.\

Exhibit 14–1 Capacity Level Checkpoints for an Outpatient Infusion Center

Outpatient Infusion Center Capacity Level Checkpoints

# infusion chairs ……………………………… 3 chairs

# staff……………………………………………… 1 RN

# weekly operating hours ……………….. 40 hours

# of hours per patient infusion ………….. average 2 hours (for purposes of this example)

Work Flow Description

For each infusion the nurse must perform the following steps (generalized for this purpose; actual protocol is more specific):

  1. Obtain and review the patient’s chart
  2. Obtain and prepare the appropriate drug for infusion
  3. Interview the patient
  4. Prepare the patient and commence the infusion
  5. Monitor and record progress throughout the ongoing infusion
  6. Observe the patient upon completion of the infusion
  7. Complete charting

Work Flow Comments

It is impossible for one nurse to start patients’ infusions in all three chairs simultaneously. Thus the theoretical treatment sequence might be as follows:

  • Assume one half-hour for patient number one’s Steps 1 through 4.
  • Once patient number one is at Step 5, the nurse can begin the protocol for
  • patient number two.
  • Assume another one half-hour for patient number two’s Steps 1 through 4.
  • Once patient number two is at Step 5, theoretically the nurse can begin the protocol for patient number three.

This sequence should work, assuming all factors work smoothly; that is, the appropriate drugs in the proper amounts are at hand, the patients show up on time, and no one patient demands an unusual amount of the nurse’s attention. (For example, a new patient will require more attention.)

Daily Infusion Center Capacity Level Assumption

Patient scheduling is never entirely smooth, and patient reactions during infusions are never predictable. Therefore, we realistically assume the following: Chair #1 = 3 patients per day, Chair #2 = 2 patients per day, and Chair #3 = 2 patients per day, for a daily total of 7 patients infused.

Why is communication important when dealing in international business relationships?

Why is communication important when dealing in international business relationships?

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 75 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Choose a country of your choice other than the United States:

  • Discuss the key differences in cultural variables between the United States and this country. Consider political, economic, legal, educational, and social systems of the selected country.
  • Why is communication important when dealing in international business relationships?

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

  • What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
  • What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
  • What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
  • What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

Did you know that you will likely have more than one resume?

Primary Task Response:

Did you know that you will likely have more than one resume? As you move throughout your career, how you articulate who you are professionally will continue to evolve, and so will your resume. It is good to keep one longer resume with a more complete list of everything you have done, so you can pull from that and tailor a resume to the current point in your career. Even if you are planning to own your own business or to go in a direction where you are not conducting a traditional job search, you should still have a resume that captures your accomplishments, experience, and skills to be able to easily recall that information.

For your Unit 2 Discussion Board, you will have the opportunity to review resume examples and reflect on your own resume. Whether you already have a resume, haven’t updated your resume in a while, or have not created a resume yet, it is important to review resume guidelines and examples.

Please review each of the following resumes:

Answer each of the following questions related to the examples you have reviewed:

  • Which resume example is most relevant to your career goals and work experience? Please provide clear examples to support your choice.
  • What choices about resume formatting and organization will you need to make to your resume?
  • What are the key points that you have learned about resume writing, and how will you apply these in the future?

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

  • What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
  • What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
  • What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
  • What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

Describe at least three project goals and three project objectives.

Overview

This is the first of four assignments which, as a whole, will cover all aspects of the project life cycle relevant to your selected project. You have been selected to be the project manager (for a project of your choice). The project that you decide to use should meet the key criteria of a project:

  • Has a beginning and an end.
  • Results in something being delivered to someone.
  • Requires a series of activities that must be done to complete the project.
  • Requires resources (e.g., people, materials) to complete the work.

The project must be one of a professional nature and must last for at least 12 months.
Note: You are prohibited from using projects that can found on the Internet, including projects found on sites like Course Hero. All project submissions will be submitted to SafeAssign for review.

Instructions

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you define the scope of your chosen project. In your paper you must:

  • Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.
  • Describe at least three project goals and three project objectives.
  • Identify the key customer(s) and at least two stakeholders for your project. Remember, you are delivering the project to your customer(s), however the stakeholders have a vested interest in your project.
  • Describe at least three key milestones and/or deliverables for your project.
  • Describe a high-level timeline that includes key tasks and deadlines.
  • Estimate the project’s overall costs and any key staffing and non-staffing resources needed.
  • Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Discuss the current/recommended Corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in selected retail business towards sustainable development;

For assessment 3, students are expected to do research about  Courts (https://www.courts.com.sg/corporate-information#about-courts/ (Links to an external site.)) and analyse the company’s retail service quality. The students should perform comprehensive research on the selected retailer to find out more information about the company’s logistics’ performance in this field.

Important note: The whole report must be about the selected retailer.

Assessment requirements:

You will work on Courts and develop your analysis based on the instruction provided below.

This assessment tasks allows you to apply the concepts, principles and relevant techniques that are the basis of this course’s educational content. You should refer back to the course content as well as read relevant sources such as textbook, research articles and course notes. You need to collect data/information using multiple appropriate sources and develop an understanding of the nature and structure of the associated retail chain. The industry research report format is provided as a guide, but students should be able to adapt it to suit any academic paper writing situation.

The Assessment Outline:

The report will be evaluated based on the following outline: Please refer to the assessment rubric for more details.

  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (10%):

The executive summary is a stand-alone section, which summarises the background, objectives/aims, issues/problems and recommendations of your report. The executive summary can only be written of course, after you have finalised the report.

  • Executive Summary should appear before the Table of Contents.
  • You are strongly encouraged to avoid simply paraphrasing and/or repeating the information presented in the report itself.
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS (THE MARKS FOR TOC IS PART OF THE REPORT STRUCTURE MARKS. PLEASE SEE BELOW)
  • INTRODUCTION (CONTAINING RESEARCH AIM AND SCOPE) (15%):

Description of retail services/products and the company. Here you can discuss the essential points about the company/organisation and the importance of investigating the particular services/product supply chain. The introduction should include the aim and scope of the report.

  • ANALYSIS, DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS (35%):

A comprehensive literature review base on at least 10 (TEN) resources that can be a mixture of academic and/or non-academic sources is required to:

1. Identify the gaps/problems/issues/challenges in the particular retailer and its supply chain;

2. Explain the selected retail supply chain structure; location and layout of the store(s) or retail outlet(s); products/services offered and other areas as you see fit;

3. Outline the core competence of the selected retailer in the competitive market;

4. Show detailed ‘Information Flows’ in the selected retail supply chain;

5. Describe the procurement activities and logistics services;

6. Describe the processes for the transportation/warehousing/distribution of goods and so on.

Also, according to your research and the theories taught in class, address the following issues:

7. Discuss the relationship between the selected retailer’s location strategies and its customers;

8. Consider the gaps/problems/issues/challenges that you have found in the literature and determine if your selected company is facing (or will face) similar issues. In this case, it is required to discuss them. Examples could include: the uncertainty of demand/supply; lack of market research; unreliable consumer behaviour; poor value chain; competitive analysis; etc;

9. Discuss whether the organisation employs omnichannel or multichannel;

10. Discuss the role of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in the selected retailer’s merchandise management;

11. Discuss the current/recommended Coparte social responsibility (CSR) activities in selected retail business towards sustainable development;

12. Discuss and compare the selected retailer’s supply chain, its return and refund policy, its consumers, its suppliers, and its financial performance before and after COVID-19 outbreak;

13. Discuss the consumers’ panic during the current pandemic which resulted in ‘quantity assurance’ more than ‘quality assurance’ practices;

14. Provide recommendations on how best possible solutions can be incorporated into the selected retailer in order to overcome the current and prevent the potential risks/problems/issues.

  • CONCLUSION (10%):

The conclusion ‘wraps up’ by summarising the gaps identified and how you resolved them. Discuss the lessons learnt from this industry research report developed in relation to the concepts learnt from lectures. Suggest any limitations of this research work.

  • REFERENCING STYLE (10%) AND CLARITY (5%):
    • Referencing: The assessment should be appropriately referenced (using the Harvard referencing style), including a bibliography. The in-text citation is a must!
    • Appendices: Under appendix, you can put any tables/diagram/data that will not be included in the word count! All tables/figures must be referred to in the body of the report.
    • Use any of the Fonts Arial/Calibri/Times New Roman with the size of 11 or 12: The report should be properly formatted and 1.5 lines spaced, with 2.5 cm margins.
    • Students are required to submit their assessment electronically to Turnitin.
  • ACADEMIC WRITING AND STRUCTURE (5%):

Updated Table of Contents provided with no errors and proper names for each heading. The document should be extremely neat and professional looking. Instructions for the content should have been followed exactly. The reader of this document should be able to view it as extremely professional. English should be at an excellent level for HD.

  • OVERALL TOPICS COVERAGE (10%):

Topics should properly be presented, clear explanation on analysis and outcome is needed. Showing understanding of what was utilised from the case or reference paper and how the analysis was done are required.

 

Sample Research Paper:

Example of Reliable and Valid Resources:

  • https://www.scmr.com/ (Links to an external site.)
  • http://www.apics.org/ (Links to an external site.)
  • Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology (Int’l Ed), By Fitzsimmons, James A.
  • Logistics and Retail Management: Emerging Issues and New Challenges in the Retail Supply Chain, by John Fernie, Kogan Page Publishers, 2009- access through RMIT Library, ProQuest Central
  • Retailing Management, 2013, 9th Edition, Michael Levy, Barton A Weitz, Dhruv Grewal, McGraw-Hill Education, ISBN-13: 978-0078028991
  • Journal of Operations Management
  • International Journal of Operations and Production Management
  • International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management
  • Journal of Business Logistics
  • Journal of Supply Chain Management
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • The International Journal of Logistics Management

Alliance Supermarket and Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems

Alliance Supermarket and Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems

Read the “Alliance Supermarket” case study in Chapter 10 of your text.

Alliance Supermarkets has been using a point-of-sale (POS) system for some time to track its inventory. The system uses a laser scanner to read the universal product code (UPC) on each item at the checkout container. The UPC is a number that uniquely identifies the product on which it appears. Currently, Alliance is using the UPC information to update inventory records for each item. Although the system has greatly improved the company’s ability to replenish inventory promptly, the company still has some problems. For example, sudden changes in demand for a particular item can catch the company by surprise as it bases inventory replenishment on historical demand patterns. Further, demand patterns and preferences may vary from one store to another depending on the customers served by each, but the inventory system groups all demand information together and treats each store equally. Finally, the manufacturers that make the products stocked by Alliance Supermarkets are always pressuring Alliance to help them target appropriate customers for special promotions and sales.

The chief information officer (CIO) of Alliance realizes that much more could probably be done with the data collected from its POS system. For example, the company could analyze the relationship between each product’s sales and weather patterns. It is even possible to analyze an individual customer’s buying habits and identify instances in which a customer may be persuaded to try a different brand of a certain product.

For this assignment be sure to address the following points:

  • Study this situation and formulate new and innovative uses of the information from the POS system. Ideally, these ideas should help Alliance better serve its customers by ensuring that adequate quantities of each item are available, that costs are kept low, and that customers are made aware of new products that may interest them.
  • Describe any information that may help Alliance reduce costs while providing better service.
  • Propose a new approach that could be used by Alliance by using the purchase information that can be obtained on individual customers.
  • Assess ethical and privacy considerations of information gathered from the POS system or purchased items.

Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points) and supported with the concepts outlined in your text and additional scholarly sources.

Submit your three- to four-page paper (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center and must cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

research plan

Instructions

Continuing your work on the research plan you have been developing in Units I and II (I will provide you with this), you will now write a literature review for this unit’s assignment.

First, conduct research to locate at least FIVE relevant sources that can contribute to your research study.

  • You must use high-quality sources such as peer-reviewed articles and empirical studies (quantitative and/or qualitative).
  • At least FOUR sources must be published within the last 5 years.
  • At least two of your sources must come from the CSU Online Library.

Next, compile your sources into a literature review. Your literature review must be at least two pages in length.

  • Ensure that you critically evaluate each source as well as explain why each source was selected and how it is of value to your research topic.
  • Thoroughly compare and contrast your findings.
  • Identify any gaps (what is unknown or needs to be researched further) and controversies that exist in the literature.

Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used.

you are conducting a needs assessment and developing two job descriptions for your current organization. 

In this assignment, you are conducting a needs assessment and developing two job descriptions for your current organization.

Needs Assessment

Observe and assess the state of your current organization, or another pre-selected organization. A needs assessment is necessary to identify areas for potential growth, both at the employee and organizational levels. If you are not in a position to look holistically at your organization, you can focus on a department or team within the organization. Use the “Needs Assessment Matrix” resource to complete your needs assessment. You are required to analyze required functions, department or employment needs, jobs or tasks, and current training in order to complete your matrix and prepare for the next part of this assignment.

Job Descriptions

Once your needs assessment is complete, you are required to select an existing position in your organization and develop a one-page detailed job description for that position that is informed by the findings of the needs assessment. It is recommended that you take the time to conduct a job analysis and observe current employees in the selected positions to accurately depict the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics that must be incorporated into the job description. If you are unable to observe, do your best to accurately depict the specific functions of the job. Incorporate any new job roles you feel should be added to the position based on your findings. Make sure the job description is based on the needs and available resources of the organization, and that it adheres to all applicable labor laws.

“compare and contrast” analysis of 5 PM methods and conclude with which is the best for your organization

“compare and contrast” analysis of 5 PM methods and conclude with which is the best for your organization

Write a paper of a “compare and contrast” analysis of 5 PM methods and conclude with which is the best for your organization. The following methods or frameworks will be required for you to analyze along with ONE OTHER FRAMEWORK you find on you own.

Frameworks/Methods to Be Analyzed

1. Balanced Scorecard, 2. Performance Prism, 3. Quantum Performance Management Model, 4. Tableau de Bord, and 5. In addition, you will add one OTHER FRAMEWORK of your choice.

The analysis that details the formal presentation which will be no more than 10-15 typed pages excluding attachments and bibliography; font at 10-11; spacing at 1.5; margins- normal, APA format for citing’s.

* Table of Contents Format for paper and more detail is on attached MS Word file.

* Sample of PPT presentation is on attached PPT file.