Business Finance Homework Help

Part 1

From real national/international market, select any type of strategic alliance between two firms and answer the following questions:

1. 1. Briefly introduce your chosen firms, partners of the strategic alliance (industry, nationality, size, market position…). – Max 150 words
2. 2. What is the type of strategic alliance used by your chosen firms? Explain its different reasons.
3. 3. What is the method used by the firms to manage their cultures after alliance? underline the pros and cons of this method.
4. 4. Is this strategic alliance successful? Justify.
5. 5. What recommendations can you give for the managers of these firms to improve their competitiveness?

Note. All references used should be listed by the end of your analysis, using the APA style

Part 2

Critical Thinking

The purpose of this assignment is to identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggest logistics performance priorities.

Use Saudi digital Library (SDL) search engine.

Search Title: THE BENEFITS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING what lean thinking offers the process Industries

Authors Name: Melton,T

Source: In 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Research and Design June 2005 83(6):662-673

Read out the research paper carefully and based on your understanding you should answer the following questions.

Questions:

1. Why Manufacturing Companies focuses on Lean Thinking? (What do understand by the term overproduction? Why it consider as the biggest waste of all?
2. Assess the reasons for using lean thinking. What are the benefits from Suppliers to end users?
3. References

The Answer must follow the outline points below:

· Each answer should be 400 to 500 range of word counts.

· Lean Thinking Concept

· Their Main functions

· Reasons with suitable Examples