Dell Company Overview
David W. Barnes
MGT 450 Strategic Planning for Organizations
Prof. David Kalicharan
4 June 2014
Dell Company Overview
An extensive image of satisfying consumers by offering custom made computers directly to their door was Dell’s prime goal since its birth sometimes 28 years ago. Company produces, designs, sells, manufactures, promotes, customizes and extends direct sell customized personal computers, as well as presents excellent services from coast to coast and country to country. They have a great web site page on the internet and when you put in search words they have that covered very well, this way you are directed to the web site. Divers workforce enriched company Dell also offers its business producing software and peripherals, servers, mobile workstations, smart phones as well as data storage capability and networking server optimizations. Company currently employs more than 111,300 skilled workers with $60.7 billion in revenue and $12.03 billion in gross profit according to the financial record of 2013. Dell holds $15.38 billion of total cash and $7 billion of total liabilities. Company operates its many different subsidiaries in about 28 countries. Dell had achieved its recent year’s goal by merging the two significant brands to promote better line of products such as Alien ware Systems which opened some artistic line for exclusive gaming industry and the Perot system that helps the medical database in control. Company generates almost 1/2 of its revenues outside the US every year. Company is well known for its customer’s relations especially on direct distribution of personal computer. It has been said that “Just In Time (JIT)” method was first used by Dell. Company was able to save millions of dollars inventory cost by implementing JIT in their product flow system. JIT is very helpful when company lacks to meet the deadlines to reach the distributors or customers. Dell was penalized with an internal investigation for...