Answer and Explanation:
What is the critical issues confronting WCC North America?
WCC North America faces a supply chain management issue whereby there are lapses in integrating divisions within the organization resulting in complications with determining order status of customers.
What changes, if any, should be initiated to address the critical issues?
The text "Supply Chain Logistics Management, by Donald J. Bowersox, David J. Closs, M. Bixby Cooper, John C. Bowersox, 2013" mentions the need to address the critical issue of WCC North America by setting up a system that populates data of customer order status,recognizing them as high volume key accounts, in order to keep order response efficient and effective.
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Answer:
Company's contribution margin ratio is <u>70.59%</u>
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Answer:
Apple industry is the consumer goods technological sector.
Explanation:
This sector is very competitive because it tends to be very profitable, which means that it attracts a large number of skilled entrepreneurs and wokers who create high quality products that customers demand. This is specially true of the mobile phone sub-sector, with industry giants like Samsung and Huawei being in stiff competition with Apple.
Because of this, Apple faces several ethical risks: for one, it faces the risk of not practicing predatory pricing techniques like dumping in order to drive out competition, because this would be unfair not only to the other firms, but also to the other companies.
Another ethical risks would be more relevant for managers, and that is that managers should avoid to overestimate their ability to increase profits, because this may create false expectations on the board, on stockholders, and on the customers, leading to malinvestment, and other negative eocnomic consequences.
