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Mahavir Diaries is a small single owner run manufacturer & printer of all kinds of diaries.
Mahavir Diaries has a store in Abdul Rehman Street, near Crawford selling diaries and other
stationery products.
They are interested in purchasing a desktop computer for their billing and cash counter purposes
A light engineering unit in Coimbatore has an installed base of about 100 lathe machines
As a part of their annual replacement /upgradation policy they want to replace 10 lathe
machines this year
A well known NGO has adopted 20 villages in the interior of Maharashtra, which has severe
drought and water shortage
To augment the water supply they are digging wells, laying pipes and want to purchase about
150 pumps for installing in these 20 villages
It is not compulsory for the student to take the laptop from the college, but the institute is only
enabling the same.
The choice of model & other details will be finalised in consultation with the students.
There is also a tie-up with a bank planned to help the students finance the laptop.
They want to do the external waterproofing, followed by external painting of the colony
covering the buildings, common areas like club house and also the fencing.
● Situation 6 – A large business house wants to set up a new plant at an investment of Rs.
200 crores
● Situation 7 – A mid size company with over 100 employees and about 75 software
developers is wanting to do major product rewrite.
They have an existing software platform which they are using for delivering a
customer services
They want to upgrade this platform to the latest version of the software and also
add new functionalities to it
Have a budget of US$ 1.0 Million for this and want to do the product rewrite 30% in
house and balance to be outsourced.
Identify the buying centre for the outsourced part of the software rewrite
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