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Business Analysis Consulting: //Samtack// ** ([|www.samtack.com]) // Samtack // is a leading, private-label, distributor of computer components in North America. Under the International Pine Technology Group, //Samtack// distributes branded manufacturing goods in North America and internationally to have a competitive presence in the PC industry. Samtack’s headquarter is located at Markham with branch offices in Montreal and California. __ Distribution Management __ // Samtack // is a well-established company dealing with multinational ad regional clients. It will be interesting to look into their distribution management. The purchase order process is one of the key factors to effectively manage inventory and supply in order to efficiently distribute the products to the client with sufficient service. In this case, we will look into the supply chain management and inventory management, for example, to see whether they adopt a JIT inventory management or a traditional one, to analyze the degree of risk, control and productivity of its current distribution model. __ Competition __ Although //Samtack// is a leading distributor in the market, it is important to watch your competitors and see what their business approaches are and to compare the positioning of one another. The Porter’s 5 forces model will be adopted to investigate an in-depth 360 degree view of the company’s bargaining power in terms of its rivalry, suppliers, customers, substitutes and potential new entrants. At this point, we have a brief consulting review based on our research on //Samtack//’s website. We found that, its website does not have a clear function for any specific stakeholder of the company. As part of a technology group, the online platform has not been totally utilized and, indeed, we believe that it will help create a high business potential. For instance, there may be high opportunity in integrating their purchase order process online. Currently, they have only uploaded the documents (in pdf.) for their vendors to download and, possibly, they send them back to Samtack through mail or e-mail. This totally overlooked the efficiency that the e-commerce could have generated. For this reason, we would like to have a close contact with //Samtack// – sight visit, e-mail telecommunication – to understand the business as fully as possible in order to evaluate and propose possible ecommerce solution to the company. Nevertheless, research and study of its competitors’ business models and positioning and potential online purchase order systems and effectiveness will be adopted to enhance a world-rounded solution for the company.
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Prospective company options: Samtack

So do anyone hv any recommended organizations that you are interested in? Or you gals are ok with doing an analysis on samtack?? -Tiffany

Hey guys, since we haven't come up with anything other than Samtack so far, I am gonna proceed and make a proposal for this report with Samtack. Don't worry there is no mark for the proposal I will take care of it for now. And we will meet up this week to figure out what we gonna do. Sounds good? -Jen

Guys, I have sent the proposal to Mike. Will forward his comments to you guys later. Thanks! -Jen

Thanks very much for Jen to find a good company for us! I am sorry that i did not have much personal contact with other companies... N i think Samtack seems look very nice to be our target company for the final project. We may start to think of how to write the final project and start to divide job within us after we get feedback from Mike. Thanks again for u, Jen! By Gloria

2 points about our finaly project: cheers, Gloria
 * Professor Mike said we should have some data modulling in our final project today. the data module information can be found at today (Nov 9th)'s lecture
 * the project should be 15 to 20 pages

Guys, here's Mike's comment: Looks like an interesting case - just be sure in this case to push forth a solution to their information systems concerns vs. just analyze them - sounds like you're aiming to do as much though. I will try to contact the company and see how things could work out. In the meantime if you have any better idea don't hesitate to let me know we can still work on the prospective company. -Jen

To Jen, Is it hard to contact them? Is ur relative working at there? Gloria

Hey guys, I've been trying to contact Samtack since last Wed. I've done a followup email on Fri. However, I still havn't got any reply. I will try another way. I will keep you guys posted. -jen