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    Mr. Dagmar Hilgard, the CEO of DRW Technologies, must decide how to respond after the procurement managers reacted unexpectedly to an email from the newly appointed Vice President of Procurement, Ed Claiborne. Claiborne was hired from another defense contractor and is used to a strict hierarchy, while DRW has a more collaborative culture. Three alternatives are proposed: 1) Give a temporary lead role to a more experienced internal candidate to mentor Claiborne; 2) Implement lean engineering and Six Sigma processes; or 3) Outsource the procurement function. The recommended alternative is to choose the first option of pairing Claiborne with a mentor, as this will help him adapt to DRW's

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    Mr. Dagmar Hilgard, the CEO of DRW Technologies, must decide how to respond after the procurement managers reacted unexpectedly to an email from the newly appointed Vice President of Procurement, Ed Claiborne. Claiborne was hired from another defense contractor and is used to a strict hierarchy, while DRW has a more collaborative culture. Three alternatives are proposed: 1) Give a temporary lead role to a more experienced internal candidate to mentor Claiborne; 2) Implement lean engineering and Six Sigma processes; or 3) Outsource the procurement function. The recommended alternative is to choose the first option of pairing Claiborne with a mentor, as this will help him adapt to DRW's

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    Mr. Dagmar Hilgard, the CEO of DRW Technologies, must decide how to respond after the procurement managers reacted unexpectedly to an email from the newly appointed Vice President of Procurement, Ed Claiborne. Claiborne was hired from another defense contractor and is used to a strict hierarchy, while DRW has a more collaborative culture. Three alternatives are proposed: 1) Give a temporary lead role to a more experienced internal candidate to mentor Claiborne; 2) Implement lean engineering and Six Sigma processes; or 3) Outsource the procurement function. The recommended alternative is to choose the first option of pairing Claiborne with a mentor, as this will help him adapt to DRW's

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    DRW Technologies

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    Mr. Dagmar Hilgard, the CEO of DRW Technologies, must decide how to respond after the procurement managers reacted unexpectedly to an email from the newly appointed Vice President of Procurement, Ed Claiborne. Claiborne was hired from another defense contractor and is used to a strict hierarchy, while DRW has a more collaborative culture. Three alternatives are proposed: 1) Give a temporary lead role to a more experienced internal candidate to mentor Claiborne; 2) Implement lean engineering and Six Sigma processes; or 3) Outsource the procurement function. The recommended alternative is to choose the first option of pairing Claiborne with a mentor, as this will help him adapt to DRW's

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    DRW Technologies

    Submitted by: Harshvardhan Rai

    Section :D Rollno:P40179

    Problem Statement
    What further decision be taken by Mr.Dagmar Hilgard, CEO of DRW Technologies after seeing
    the responses of procurement managers on the mail sent by newly appointed Vice President of
    procurement .

    Situation Analysis
    Ed Claiborne is a newly hired corporate vice president of procurement for DRW Technologies, a
    company that produces advanced military systems with 21 plants in the United States.
    Claiborne was hired from another company from within the industry, and the news of his arrival
    was announced in an email to corporate executives and plant managers and in the company
    newsletter. Ed Claiborne is a former employee of a lucrative state defense subcontractor with
    experience in procurement. However, the organization of the company in which Claiborne used
    to work had a hierarchical style of communication with a stern chain of command. Now, Debby
    Lopez has been assigned to be Ed's assistant because of her vast experience in the DRW
    technologies. After joining the company Claiborne immediately decides to send a message via
    email to the procurement managers of all the plants and the message is met with unexpected
    results.

    Criteria
    1] To reduce the cost of contracts.

    2] Develop good communication methods with plant procurement managers.

    Alternative
    1)A more experienced person in the company should be handed over a temporary charge as
    Vice President of procurement and Mr. Claiborne should work under him for a brief period.
    Together they should work with each other in meeting the goal ie. To do cost saving up to 50%
    over 6 years.Also together they should give visit to all the plants over this time period and
    should try to work on improving efficiency and reducing cost of plants.

    2) Lean engineering and 6 sigma methods should be tought as well as should be adopted in
    method of procurement and manufacturing section.
    3) A contact should be given to a third part to achieve the target.

    Recommended alternative

    The alternative where a much more experienced person is being given a charge to handle the
    operations with Mr.Claibirne should be the chosen alternative. This would be an intelligent
    decision because now unlike Debby Lopez this person would be having a good experience in
    Management of the company as well will be accustomed with working of company as Mr.
    Claiborne has more experience in working hierarchical with a strict chain of command, both can
    learn from each other and come to a common consensus is to how should they meet their
    target.
    Over the time when Mr. Claiborne is able to understand the work culture of company then he
    should be given the full charge. This method will also result in good communication between
    employees.
    The other two alternatives would consume more time money and resources and the present
    need is to avoid these.

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