Lawrence Sports Benchmarking Paper
MBA/550 Resource Optimization
University of Phoenix
November 3, 2008
Lawrence Sports Benchmarking
In this paper, the authors will identify companies that have faced specific issues as related to the University of Phoenix, Apollo Group Lawrence Sports Simulation. There will be an identification of issues for the selected companies, how the company applied selected concepts in response to the issues, and outcomes of the company’s response to the issues. Finally, there will be an analysis of the authors’ key findings to include a comparison and contrasting of each company’s applications to the key course concepts from the readings.
Tyson Foods Inc.- Lisa
Tyson Foods began its company in 1980, and Tyson name quickly became popular with grocery stores in 1983. Tyson was the first company to sale chicken patty within 50 states. By 1983, Tyson products were diversify with its growth and one year later, Tyson topped one-billion dollars in sales (Tyson Foods Inc 2006). With the economics slowly falling and consumers spending less, Tyson has fallen into a credit crunch.
According to Stephens Inc. who is Tyson investment banking services, the economy’s credit crunch has extended limited amounts of credit to purchase U.S. agricultural products. Tyson is having trouble with receiving credit availability for buyers of U.S. poultry products, limiting the amount of chicken flowing overseas (The Morning News 2008). This could cause a major disruption when deadlines are not met according to the company needs. If Tyson cannot get the credit its company needs to export chicken products overseas to their major customers in Russ ...