The project's final goal is to sell the class $($and instructor$)$ on your team's approach to spend

analysis and your team's recommended solution. You may defend your team's approach with

solid data backing your arguments.

You may focus on the following questions in the project.

$1.$ Identify five significant SKUs whose Item Type codes, i$.$e$.,$ item categories, have been

miscategorized and discuss remedies.

$2.$ Focus your attention on two distant columns within the spreadsheet. Examine the entries

that have been marked as NA$.$ Do you see a potential problem with these entries? If so$,$

how would you handle it$?$

$3.$ Examine the entries in the spreadsheet for all items of item type "clock." Do you see a

problem? How would you handle this problem? What is the impact of this problem that

you have isolated?

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$4.$ Using Exhibits $6$ & $7$ and the supplied data, how would you arrive at the preliminary

findings made by Rao and Bridges?

$5.$ Focus on a few decisions out of eight in the case, and analyze and estimate the impact of

those decisions on cost savings. Recommend the approaches to maximize cost savings.