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In competitive industries, most of the time, companies must look within, and find ways to reduce the cost of bringing a product from the raw material to finished stage, in order to remain competitive in the long run.

The computer microchip industry, in particular, is very competitive. Whenever a new microchip comes into the marketplace, the makers of Â“cloneÂ” microchips release a clone microchip that is almost as good as the original, but priced considerably lower.

The ABC Microchip company specializes in developing first-of-its-kind microchips; yet its market share has been hurt by Â“cloneÂ” microchips. The Robbins text outlines 6 requirements for Value Chain Management. In 4-6 paragraphs, discuss how you would put these requirements to work at the ABC Microchip company, in order to help it remain competitive in the long run.

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Preview: ... is type of investment does not pay off in monetary value but it does pay off in customer retention which can be turned over into monetary profit (Kotelnikov, Vadim, 2001 [2]).<br> Organizational Processes – Evaluate the process from start to finish in order to find the steps that add value to the product. Eliminate any steps that do not add value. Use the internal information to improve the material flow for streamlined operations. (Robbins & Coulter, 2007) Keeping only the needed functions will eliminate waste and add value to the product. (Kotelnikov, Vadim, 2001 [1]) Better demand forecasting will place the product in stores for the customer when they are willing to purchase it. Selected functions in collaboration with the partners, and sometimes the employees themselves, will improve the value chain for all those involved in the production of the product. Creating new measures for monitoring the steps of production can help keep the goals of meeting the customer’s demands. (Robbins & Coulter, 2007) These measures will allow problems to be identi ...

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