GLOBAL FILTER MARKET - Key Financials

SCIL	Airtech	Bartairco	Cairtex	Dayco	Ectaflow
Cost of Goods Sold	72.58%	73.01%	75.99%	58.35%	63.14%	81.89%
Administrative Overheads	2.84%	1.60%	1.25%	2.50%	1.20%	1.10%
Marketing & Selling	12.50%	10.50%	9.45%	14.50%	12.20%	15.00%
Research & Development	0.91%	0.85%	0.80%	1.25%	2.43%	0.75%
Net Financing Expenses	0.97%	1.20%	0.75%	2.20%	0.25%	2.75%
Taxes	3.37%	4.50%	3.90%	5.00%	5.00%	1.25%
Gross Margin	27.42%	26.99%	24.01%	41.65%	36.86%	18.11%
Operating Margin	10.21%	12.84%	11.76%	21.20%	20.78%	-1.49%
Net Margin	6.84%	8.34%	7.86%	16.20%	15.78%	-2.74%

Cost of Goods Sold - The direct costs attributable to the production of the goods sold by a company. This amount includes the cost of the materials used in creating the good along with the direct labor costs used to produce the good. It excludes indirect expenses such as distribution costs and sales force costs.

Administrative Overheads - Administrative overhead is those costs not involved in the development or production of goods or services

Marketing & Selling Investment as Percentage of costs

Research & Development Investment as Percentage of costs

Net Financing Expenses - Also called the cost of carry or, simply carry, the difference between the cost of financing the purchase of an asset and the asset's cash yield. Positive carry means that the yield earned is greater than the financing cost; negative carry means that the financing cost exceeds the yield earned. Taxes - a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.

Gross Margin - Gross margin is net sales less the cost of goods sold. The gross margin reveals the amount that an entity earns from the sale of its products and services, before the deduction of any selling and administrative expenses

Operating Margin - is a measure of profitability. It indicates how much of each dollar of revenues is left over after both costs of goods sold and operating expenses are considered

Net Margin - is the percentage of revenue remaining after all operating expenses, interest, taxes and preferred stock dividends (but not common stock dividends) have been deducted from a company's total revenue

HOMELAND $000's	SCIL	Airtech	Bartairco	Cairtex	Dayco	Ectaflow
Inventory	229422	541840	355922	391119	88096	515681
Receivables	143314	189644	135250	195559	36039	183353
Total net assets	487386	758577	751390	1564474	220240	825089
Payables	67407	138459	114196	144137	29448	142245
Asset turns	1.71	2.50	1.80	1.50	1.80	2.00
Return on assets	11.72%	20.85%	14.15%	24.30%	28.40%	-5.48%
Inventory days of supply	138	143	126	104	128	139
Cash to cash cycle time	278	252	244	212	248	257

Inventory value of stock in the held by the business

Receivables - amounts owed to a business, regarded as assets.

Total net assets - refers to the value of a company's assets minus its liabilities. For individuals, the concept is the same as net worth.

Payables - Money owed to creditors, lenders, employees, or government (taxes), presented as a liability in the balance sheet of a firm.

Asset turns - The amount of sales or revenues generated per dollar of assets. The Asset Turnover ratio is an indicator of the efficiency with which a company is deploying its assets. Asset Turnover = Sales or Revenues/Total Assets

Return on assets - An indicator of how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. ROA gives an idea of how efficient management uses its assets to generate earnings. Calculated by dividing a company's annual earnings by its total assets, ROA is displayed as a percentage. Sometimes this is referred to as a "return on investment". Inventory days of supply - metrics for finished goods and Work in Process are standard industry metrics determined by dividing month-ending inventory value by the average daily Cost of Goods Sold (COGS).

Cash to cash cycle time - A metric that expresses the length of time, in days, that it takes for a company to convert resource inputs into cash flows. The cash conversion cycle attempts to measure the amount of time each net input dollar is tied up in the production and sales process before it is converted into cash through sales to customers.

explain the following:

a. Identify the key performance indicators needed for improving Bi-Flos supply chain operations

I need you to discuss the KPIs needed to improve Bi-Flos supply chain operations.

b. Explain how we could introduce productivity and utilization KPIs DC 24. Factory/warehouse C2.Factory/warehouse C25.

as this part is asking for three things.

DC24

Factory/warehouse C2

warehouse C25

giving details of productivity and utilization KPIs that are relevant to each of the sites listed. While some of them will be the same, each site is different, and you will need to include some that are specific to the operation at that site. I need to see

g. Analyze the other Filter Companies' performances in the Global Filter report and apply appropriate benchmarking for SCILplc targets.

This part has two things, first, you need to actually complete the analysis (you will need to evidence this and your findings), and then you need to put together appropriate benchmarking for SCIL targets. Please take another look at this question