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55. Read the text below about a German electronics wholesaler and his problems with time. Match the words in italics in the text below to the definitions (1-6).
1)time from the customer’s order to delivery ……;
2)when something is late ……;
3)arrival of goods at a person’s or company’s address ……;
4)sending products from the factory ……;
5)all the stages leading to a result ……;
6)the latest time for completing a task …… .
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Getting our products toиour customers (pic. 126) is a long and difficult pro-
cess. Our main problem is time. Customers order our printers and then we have to arrange delivery to their offices. The problem is that we make the printers in the UK and it can take a long time for our factory to dispatch the printers to our customers in Germany. This can take a long time. Sometimes we miss deadlines: we say we want the printers with the customer in two weeks, but they often get them four weeks later! There are many reasons for the delays: the factory is too busy, problems with the paperwork, etc. To be successful, we need to keep our lead time short – it shouldn’t take longer than two weeks from the customer’s order to the moment the printer arrives at their office.
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56.Look at the title of the article below. What do you think it will be about?
57.Read the article to find out:
1.What problems did this company have?
2.What did they decide to do?
Invest in time!
When Peter Fenn started Fenn Tool Ltd in 1982, there were only three employees based in an old church hall. They designed special tools for the telecommunications and aerospace industries. The company’s suppliers in Austria and Switzerland made the tools, which they then dis-
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So they decided to buy a computer design and manufacturing package so that they could do the whole job themselves. They went ahead and spent £250,000. It was a big financial risk, but it has really changed the business.
Fenn Tool has cut the lead time down to only 48 hours from order to finished product. In January this year, the company won a £30,000 prize as
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58. Look at these four scenes (pic. 127 – 130) from the article (ex. 57)
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59. Read the text, written by an economist, about employment costs. |
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For many businessesС‘time (in particular the workers’ time) equals money’
– this is why businesses in developed economies with high employment costs are always searching for ways to cut their costs.
Two main approaches are open to businesses: to invest in technology and reduce the number of man hours spent on the various tasks of the job, or to relocate production to countries with lower labour costs.
In the first approach, equipment replaces human labour. Machines and robots can work twenty-four hours a day, don’t go on strike, and never take time off for lunch or holidays! In the second, labour-intensive jobs, such as in the clothing or footwear industries, are exported to countries as factories are moved to countries where wages are lower.
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Relocation to other countries is also affecting service industries. In Britain, jobs in some call centres have vanished down cables to English-speaking workers in India or the Philippines.
Western society could eventually end up with a few highly-trained and well-paid workers in technical fields, with armies of low-skilled workers struggling to make a living in the minimum wage service industries.
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1.Business are always looking for ways to cut costs.
2.There are a large number of ways to cut labour costs.
3.Investing in machines and equipment can reduce the need for human labour.
4.Social protection can lead to job losses.
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61. Read the extract and answer the questions after it.
More than one in seventeen British workers work from home, with the level rising every year.
However, Mr Evans, 41, who works for IBM, decided he would prefer to go back to an office after spending several months working from home. He
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thought it would be better for his career, ‘The coffee machine chats are an important part of working life’, he says.
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1.What technology do you think Mr Evans needed to work from home?
2.Why did he want to go back to work in an office?
3.Do you ever work from home?
4.If you had the choice, would you work from home or in an office? Why?
62. Read the text below and match the words in italics to the definitions (1 – 4).
UR Fashion plc began as a shop and it has now decided to enter the world of e-commerce and to sell over the Internet as well. It has set up a website and, in future, UR Fashion customers will be able to access the website to place orders. The website is user-friendly, so it will be easy for customers
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1.If you have no time to go to the shops, you may prefer to …… online.
2.To make an online ……, you type in your credit card details.
3.Many businesses now include online……
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