some tips about the Central City Case

Last week, I did the case study about Central City,  I am not satisfied with my work, this week I read the case again and find some new ideas about it, anyway,some ideas is not related to this case closely.

1. Government do the Affirmative Action for increase the minorities employment, but it results a unfair   situation, I think there are too many case like that, government set up some policies aiming to build a fair situation, but it caused a large "unfair". For example, in China, government said student with some special ability on sport will have extra points added to their college examination score. This policy wish to give the athletic student same opportunity to study in university, but some regular student spent money to get the fake license or proof of athletic student, that really did a bad effect on the Chinese education environment.


2. Sometimes group slow down the government's efficiency, so government must find the balance of it.
Otherwise, it really cost more money, labor and time.


3.The Human Resources Department should have a standard process to do the promotion, not just "there is a  standard but we do not use it", if there is a policy by law, people can not to change or miss it.


4. I think the leader should not is a man just to sign the paper,  leader should know all part of the corporation, and can catch all the information from the inside and outside the corporation, than communicate with the group and make the decision. In other word, in my view, leader is not a simple people like others of the corporation, he or she would be a "superman" that not just doing his or her own job, he or she would focus on the whole.

hard to buy a car~~~

I'm a international student, I always talk with my friends about the American transportation, I told my friends:"In America, no car means no foot." LOL, that's a joke. But it is easier to do everything with a car, after been here for a month, I and my friend Erte, decided to buy a car.

First, we search the internet, and find a lot of information about the used car, the auto price here is more cheaper than it in China. Than we both find some satisfied cars, we asked the price and prepared for the learner permit test.

Last week, we went to the Lehigh PENNDOT to apply for the learner permit, after passed the computer test with a all correct answer, the officer told me that he can not give me the permit right now, because I just have one proof to show my address, but he need two. I started find another proof for this, but we lived in campus, we don't have a lease contract of the dorm, we try everything we can do to get a letter show our address. Now I have a letter from bank, and one from APPLE STORE, I wish I can pass the PENNDOT check.

Forget the bad thing, let me show something about my car, we went to the seller yesterday, and I be attracted by a red mini cooper s, with the test drive, I must say I love this little guy, she is so fast that make me feel so cool. My friend Erte like the 4door sedan, he picked a HONDA civic. After talk about the price with the dealer, we made deals for these two cars. BUT, we don't get the permit and insurance, we can not drive the car right now, actually I can not wait to drive this pretty car~

Today we got the insurances and tomorrow we will go to the PENNDOT again, God bless me!

Mid-autumn festival and luxurious moon cake

Today is a chinese festival: mid-autumn festival，mostly as same as the thanks giving day, people celebrate the harvest ，families will come together and have a reunion.  In china, spring festival is the most important day，mid-autumn festival be regarded at the second place.  Before the mid-autumn festival, people always present gift to elders, like parents,uncles and aunts. The traditional gift of the mid-autumn day is a snack called “moon cake”. 

moon cake with tea

haagen dazs also release their own brand moon cake in China

These is a ridiculous phenomenon about the moon cake, many companies sale the  luxurious moon cake, it is not to say that the moon cake has the top rated taste, actually the best moon cake maybe  only cost 15 dollars a dozen，the luxurious one has a sumptuous packing，and with some slap-up goods，like Swiss watch, French wine and so on. By this way, moon cake turn to be a outstanding gift with a high value. China is a traditional country，people believe the relationships play a huge role on daily life, the luxurious moon cake is a miniature of this phenomenon.

luxurious moon cake: 8 pieces for about $12000USD

In my opinion, company should focus on the quality of the product, although marketing is a important part of the business, but it's of great harm but no goodness that company take excessive behaviors. Every company should back to the origin.

A case study~

This week I passed the driving license computer test, so I will get my car right now , lol , means I will see goodbye to bieber~

I work for the case study of the operations management theory & practice class, here it is, please give me some advices on it, actually this is my first english case study.

Linear programming

Definition

Linear programming is a mathematical method for determining a way to achieve the best outcome (such as maximum profit or lowest cost) in a given mathematical model for some list of requirements represented as linear equations.

Linear programming is heavily used in microeconomics and company management, such as planning, production, transportation, technology and other issues. Although the modern management issues are ever-changing, most companies would like to maximize profits or minimize costs with limited resources. Therefore, many issues can be characterized as linear programming problems.

Importance

Almost every companies want to get the maximize profits with minimize costs, today company’s labor costs became one of the major costs. So how to deal with the labor costs is really a complicated affair for modern manager. For example, the HONG KONG bank find that their labor costs remain at a high level, at the same time their profit became lower. The manager find the bank do not need keep whole tellers in service through their office hours. Because the consumers always come to  the bank at some regular time. If the bank make a new schedule that let the number of tellers needed varies by time of day, it must reduce the labor costs. So Linear programming can be used to make a new suitable schedule, therefore, this issue could be characterized as a linear programming problem.

Application

Linear programming is a considerable field of optimization for several reasons. Many practical problems in operations research can be expressed as linear programming problems. In the case of HONG KONG bank, first manager calculated the minimum number tellers per time period.( table 1), than he knew the total minimum daily requirement is 112 hours. There are two kinds of tellers. One is full time tellers, they work from 9AM-5PM with $90 a day, and currently there are only 12 tellers are available. And the other kind tellers are part time workers. They work 4 consecutive hours with $7 per hour, can begin work at 9,10,11,noon,or 1. And the Hongkong’s law ordered that part time employees cannot exceed 50% of the day’s minimum requirement.(56 hours). Than manager use the Linear programming tool to calculate the minimum number thellers needed by a formula :

Table 1

Time Period	Min Num. Tellers
9-10	10
10-11	12
11-12	14
12-1	16
1-2	18
2-3	17
3-4	15
4-5	10

Min 90F(full time teller)+ 28(P1+P2+P3+P4+P5) ( part time tellers work at 9,10,11,12,1)

subject to the constraints

Part Time Hours Cannot Exceed 56 Hours

4(P1+P2+P3+P4+P5) ≤≤ 56

Finally, the manager made a schedule minimize the labor costs.

Relationship

The manager of the HONG KONG bank may want to just have the part time employees because they are with the low cost, but there a law that ordered the minimum numbers of the part time employees. So he must to made a economic schedule to reach the law’s minimum permit, and achieve the goal that to reduce the labor cost at the same time. Linear programming help him to do the job easily and efficiency. From this case, we can find how Linear programming react on the company’s management.

Online shopping? If I can~~

I’m a  internet geek, but I don’t spend too much time on it. Internet is just a tool that made my life more convenient, above different kinds of the online application，online shopping is my favorite. In general, boys don’t like shopping as girls do, especially the window shopping. Online shopping is really a perfect way that allow us can pick the satisfied goods without too much time.

But, I find it is not very easy to shopping online in American. The differences between the American’s finance system and the China’s really confuse me. 

First of all, payment is a huge problem, I’m a international student, I don’t have a SSN card. So I can’t apply for a credit card right now. And the credit card is the major payment tool for the American online shopping. In china, people always pay for the online shopping bills by a system called “alipay”, actually is very likely with the “paypal”. But people can transfer their money from bank account(checking account) to alipay account rapidly，the entire process will be done in one second. Last week, I bought some books from the ebay, and transfer my money from checking account to paypal for doing the payment. but the transfer is still “on process” until today. what a suck system.

Secondly, there is no tool allow buyer and seller to talk about the deal, buyer can only get the information from the website, if they have some questions about the goods, there can only send message to seller by the ebay system, then maybe get the return message after 24hours. I think online shopping means faster and easier, if can not make a deal right now on web, why they choose the online shopping? In China, the biggest online shopping website called “taobao” provide a IM software for buyer and seller communicate instantly.

Thirdly, shipment is expensive and slowness. the shipment fee is much higher than it in China. For example. the shipment fee of a macbook pro 13inch is 40 RMB ( about 6 USD), and you can receive the macbook pro in up to 3days.  The same shipment action maybe costs you 20USD or more.( God bless, the APPLE store provide the free shipping, but it is too slow).

I am still waiting for the paypal system, and after that, I have to wait for the shipment too...... Maybe, that’s life~~~ lol~~








the taobao website :  www.taobao.com

the payment tool ——alipay

the online shopping IM——aliwangwang

I’m coming

Heyyyyyyy! Everyone, I’m Chenkai, I know my name’s pronunciation is so hard for Americans. So, just call me “DK”. As you know, I come from China, my ungraduate major is International business and trade. As a result of the World Economic Crises，it is a difficult time for the trade companies in China. After graduate from the university, I can’t find a satisfied job. My parents suggest me to studying aboard. United States have the best educational condition of the world. That’s why I am a Kutztown university graduate student now.

Even I’ve been here for 3 weeks,  I am really miss the Chinese food yet.  The American Chinese food is so different from the “real one”, it is too sweet that I feel so strange. But I find many people here love the Chinese food, maybe they will not choose it if the food is the “real”. Chinese cook changed the taste to cater for American，this made the Chinese food’s success here. American company also do this change, KFC and Mcdonald sell the different food in different country. And they are the leader of the world’s fast food industry. In my view, change is a key factor of the business.

Show you some delicious “real Chinese food”!  

ps. watch out your saliva~ haha~