Cateories Supplier YTD spend 8+1/2x11 paper Domtar $ 1,110 advertising commercial eyes $ 265,000 appliances maytag $
Question:
Cateories | Supplier | YTD spend |
8+1/2x11 paper | Domtar | $ 1,110 |
advertising | commercial eyes | $ 265,000 |
appliances | maytag | $ 4,200 |
ballpoint pens | grand & toy | $ 315 |
batteries | grand & toy | $ 235 |
boxes | staples | $ 864 |
cartons | staples | $ 4,850 |
cartons | Domtar | $ 2,316 |
coffee service | coffee guys | $ 16,800 |
electricity | enersource | $ 1,440 |
janitorial | we clean 4 u | $ 13,200 |
marketing supplies | Adverteazers | $ 15,000 |
pens | staples | $ 115 |
phones | Bell Canada | $ 11,400 |
photocopiers | xerox | $ 9,504 |
photocopy paper | grand & toy | $ 1,760 |
photocopy supplies | xerox | $ 3,420 |
printer paper | staples | $ 4,400 |
printer supplies | pitney bowes | $ 1,028 |
printers | pitney bowes | $ 13,836 |
Security | guardex | $ 65,380 |
shipping containers | grand & toy | $ 1,823 |
water | peel wastewater | $ 1,800 |
Using the above table;
1. To find all of the opportunities to re-name categories for simplified spend analysis.
2. To Identify where and how money may be saved for the next year.
3. To Sort the categories by highest to lowest dollar spend.
4. Pareto Analysis a. Based on the data provided, to do a pareto analysis using standard ABC categories to classify the suppliers.
Wilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) studied sociology, engineering, economics and philosophy, among other disciplines. He discovered that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. It was Joseph Juran, a business consultant, who named the 80/20 rule after Pareto - the Pareto principle. This same distribution has been accurately applied to multiple areas: 80% of your sales come from 20% of your customers, etc. For the purpose of this exercise, please use 3 categories for the Pareto analysis