Donner Case

DONNER COMPANY

Case Analysis

Group AG1

Aryan Jain (13610)

Hamza Umar (13627)

Nikita Jain (13632)

Parth Shah (13635)

Preetinisha (13637)

INTRODUCTION

Donner Company was started in 1985. Since the start of operations, it had specialized in making circuit boards for experimental devices and for pilot production runs. Edward Plummer was the President and Bruce Altmeyer was the firm's Design Engineer. The manufacturing process involved production of circuit boards known in the trade as "soldermask over bare copper"(SMOBC) boards .Edward Plummer is reviewing the position of the company in 1987 so that operations for 1988 can be planned effectively.

ORDER PROCESSING

The flow diagram of Donner’s order processing process is shown below:

Prepare a bid for customers/clients

Promise Delivery in 3 weeks

Send Specifications and documents to purchasing agents

Order Size>1000?

Rush Order or Normal Order?

Log Blueprint & factory order sent to supervisor

Estimate Labour and Material Costs

No Order Processing

Bid Accepted?

No

YES

NORMAL

RUSH

Promise Delivery in 5 weeks...