Operations · Industrial goods

Adhera Materials: shrinking profit in a flat business

Adhera Materials, self-adhesive signboard vinyl division.

How can the division improve profitability, and should it change its distribution channels?

Skills tested

• Structure
• Quantitative analysis
• Exhibits and insights
• Business sense
• Synthesis and communication

Concepts

• income statement analysis
• run length and set-up time
• throughput
• inventory turns tradeoff
• distribution network