Sapphire aerospace operates 52 weeks per year, and its cost of goods sold last year was $7 comma 540 comma 0007,540,000. the firm carries eight items in inventory: four raw materials, two work-in-process items, and two finished goods. the following table shows last year's average inventory levels for these items, along with their unit values. category part number average inventory units value per unit raw materials rm-1 15 comma 00015,000 $1 rm-2 5,000 $5 rm-3 2,000 $9 rm-4 800 $10 work-in- process wip-1 3,000 $20 wip-2 4,000 $24 finished goods fg-1 1,000 $5656 fg-2 500 $88 a. what is the average aggregate inventory value? $nothing. (enter your response as an integer.)

Zara, a global retail and apparel manufacturer based in spain that has successfully implemented this idea by having a continuous flow of new products that are typically limited in supply. zara has created a system that draws its clientèle into its stores, on average, 17 times per year as compared to 4 times per year for most stores. how is zara using it to gain competitive advantage? what specific technologies are used by zara to maintain this advantage over its competition?

How is systematic decision making related to being financially responsible

For example, the upper right cell shows that if expresso advertises and beantown doesn't advertise, expresso will make a profit of $15 million, and beantown will make a profit of $2 million. assume this is a simultaneous game and that expresso and beantown are both profit-maximizing firms. if expresso decides to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if expresso decides not to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if beantown advertises, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . if beantown doesn't advertise, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . suppose that both firms start off not advertising. if the firms act independently, what strategies will they end up choosing? expresso will choose to advertise and beantown will choose not to advertise. expresso will choose not to advertise and beantown will choose to advertise. both firms will choose to advertise. both firms will choose not to advertise.