The Scotts Miracle-Gro firm is the world's largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products, with a full variety of products for professional horticulture. The business is a market head in a number of customer lawn and garden and qualified horticultural goods. The case describe a sequence of decision concerning organization and the possession of the assets used to manufacture fertilizer spreaders.
This case is meant to illustrate the application of and tradeoffs between financial, strategic and operations views in a relatively straightforward fabricating "make-buy" choice. The case involves a well-known, easily-described merchandise that most pupils would assume is made abroad. Adequate information is provided to approximately estimate the direct fiscal cost related to internal (national) production, offshored (non-national) production and outsourced creation.
Scotts Miracle-Gro The Spreader Sourcing Decision case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: November 12, 2008 PRODUCT #: 908M78-HCB-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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