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You are the shipping clerk of a small firm that prints, binds and ships popular books for a mid-level publisher. Your production facilities are located in Albany, New York (zip code 12250). Your customer's warehouses are located in Rye, New York (10580), Irving, Texas (75015), Charlotte, North Carolina (28201), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (57117) and Tustin, California (92680). The company ships on average about 4 A boxes to each of the warehouses on an average day and about 8 B boxes daily. The production facility operates 250 days per year. Your books are usually shipped in one of two sized packages:
• Height-9 inches, Length-13 inches, Width-17 inches, Weight-45 lbs.
• Height-10 inches, Length-6 inches, Width-12 inches, Weight-16 lbs.
You task is to select the best shipper for your company. Compare three shippers, such as Federal Express, UPS, and the United States Post Office. Consider not only costs, but also such issues as delivery speed, pickup schedules, drop-off locations, tracking ability and ease-of-use of the Web site.
Prepare a memo to your manager in which you:
• Compare and contrast the three services based on all the issues listed above.
• Determine which service would be the most cost-effective over the course of a year. Be very specific (you are given specific requirements).
• Recommend a service; state and defend your arguments.
Am I the only person at Ole Miss who got the memo that it's SUMMER?
Gotta love the fact that this damn class didn't start until after I started getting burned out on work. And I apparently don't have the proper version of Excel to do all my assignments with. And I can't figure out which version I do need, because the features are completely different between Windows and Mac in the same versions. Dad's mysterious Software Connection is just getting me the latest available version and we're gonna cross our fingers from there on out.
As far as the burned out on work thing... I like my job, I really do. And I knew the pay was low when I accepted the offer. Hell, if I were in Rick's position, I don't know that I'd hire anyone at all, with the way business is going. I guess he feels I'm useful up to my cost. But it's all just sort of tedious. Answer the phone, check in the occasional machine, hold something out of the way on the bench. I just don't feel like I'm doing all that much. On the rare occasion someone wanders in that I get to work some sales magic on, I get completely jittery and nervous, although I don't think it shows. And I keep making tiny mistakes -- not getting a serial number, forgetting to push a certain button on the point-of-sale machine and having to start over -- and Rick is just so long-winded by nature that when he tries to tell me what I should have done, it ends up going on forever and feeling like a lecture.
There just don't seem to be enough hours in the day anymore. I wake up at 7-ish, get to work at 10, get home at 5:30. Dinner is usually sometime around then. Then it's 8 or 8:30, I've had absolutely no time to myself, and I have to be in bed by 11 or so to be worth a damn the next morning. I've been working most Saturdays too, which is 9 to 1. And to top it all off, I need to find some way to get 10 hours of community service done before fall semester.
It's just so damn much to do, and none of it seems worth it. I'm too tired to even enjoy what little time I'm not working my ass off on something. I'm half-assing my diet, and Dr. Sherwood wants me down to 200 by the end of the summer -- I could do it if I gave a damn, but I'm usually either so rushed I can't worry about it or so stressed that a Wendy's double and a Frosty might be the only bright point in my day.
Aside from all this is the money issue. I've got enough right now, but... I dunno. When I was planning on saving up for a computer, all I could think about was the fact that I was missing Challenge. I got my Challenge ticket in the mail today, and I'm working on the airfare, but all I can think now is that I'm not going to have enough for that computer. And to top it all off, I noticed on my prepayment of rent form that the single room in Northgate cost enough extra that I probably won't even get my usual check from the school next semester. Which means either getting a job (a pain in the ass considering my schedule) or relying a lot more on the 'rents (which I just plain don't wanna do).
This is actually way more than I intended to write in this post and really, I'm sure there's more to say, but I'm too tired to deal with it.
• Height-9 inches, Length-13 inches, Width-17 inches, Weight-45 lbs.
• Height-10 inches, Length-6 inches, Width-12 inches, Weight-16 lbs.
You task is to select the best shipper for your company. Compare three shippers, such as Federal Express, UPS, and the United States Post Office. Consider not only costs, but also such issues as delivery speed, pickup schedules, drop-off locations, tracking ability and ease-of-use of the Web site.
Prepare a memo to your manager in which you:
• Compare and contrast the three services based on all the issues listed above.
• Determine which service would be the most cost-effective over the course of a year. Be very specific (you are given specific requirements).
• Recommend a service; state and defend your arguments.
Am I the only person at Ole Miss who got the memo that it's SUMMER?
Gotta love the fact that this damn class didn't start until after I started getting burned out on work. And I apparently don't have the proper version of Excel to do all my assignments with. And I can't figure out which version I do need, because the features are completely different between Windows and Mac in the same versions. Dad's mysterious Software Connection is just getting me the latest available version and we're gonna cross our fingers from there on out.
As far as the burned out on work thing... I like my job, I really do. And I knew the pay was low when I accepted the offer. Hell, if I were in Rick's position, I don't know that I'd hire anyone at all, with the way business is going. I guess he feels I'm useful up to my cost. But it's all just sort of tedious. Answer the phone, check in the occasional machine, hold something out of the way on the bench. I just don't feel like I'm doing all that much. On the rare occasion someone wanders in that I get to work some sales magic on, I get completely jittery and nervous, although I don't think it shows. And I keep making tiny mistakes -- not getting a serial number, forgetting to push a certain button on the point-of-sale machine and having to start over -- and Rick is just so long-winded by nature that when he tries to tell me what I should have done, it ends up going on forever and feeling like a lecture.
There just don't seem to be enough hours in the day anymore. I wake up at 7-ish, get to work at 10, get home at 5:30. Dinner is usually sometime around then. Then it's 8 or 8:30, I've had absolutely no time to myself, and I have to be in bed by 11 or so to be worth a damn the next morning. I've been working most Saturdays too, which is 9 to 1. And to top it all off, I need to find some way to get 10 hours of community service done before fall semester.
It's just so damn much to do, and none of it seems worth it. I'm too tired to even enjoy what little time I'm not working my ass off on something. I'm half-assing my diet, and Dr. Sherwood wants me down to 200 by the end of the summer -- I could do it if I gave a damn, but I'm usually either so rushed I can't worry about it or so stressed that a Wendy's double and a Frosty might be the only bright point in my day.
Aside from all this is the money issue. I've got enough right now, but... I dunno. When I was planning on saving up for a computer, all I could think about was the fact that I was missing Challenge. I got my Challenge ticket in the mail today, and I'm working on the airfare, but all I can think now is that I'm not going to have enough for that computer. And to top it all off, I noticed on my prepayment of rent form that the single room in Northgate cost enough extra that I probably won't even get my usual check from the school next semester. Which means either getting a job (a pain in the ass considering my schedule) or relying a lot more on the 'rents (which I just plain don't wanna do).
This is actually way more than I intended to write in this post and really, I'm sure there's more to say, but I'm too tired to deal with it.