Proposal Pg. 2
Introduction
This is the proposal that we have been working on for Kenneth Dailey at Green River FMC. It will provide the background that was needed to be looked at from Green River FMC and Aberdeen FMC. We will talk about all the areas that we analyzed and give our recommendations and how we feel these recommendations should be implemented.
Background
The FMC Corporation is based out of Chicago with $3.4 billion in sales as of 1989. Their sales are spread out over five businesses, the first one being industrial chemicals, then performances chemicals, precious metals, defense system, and finally machinery. They had a contract with the United States Navy to make missile launching canisters. At first the missiles were being made at the Minnesota plant that had 3000 employees. They could only produce 2 canisters a day. This made them realize that they needed to have a different way to produce these canisters. Since there was a fixed price for these they decided that this was more of a commercial ...