Peach Chapter Summary

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Chapter One
In this chapter Alex faced a problem with the plant he was working at. As we can saw, Mr. Peach the Division Vice President met Alex to discuss about the overdue shipping for a customer. It was not the first time this thing occurred, the plant had been delaying their shipping to the customer hence the plant is in a bad shape. Mr. Peach asked Alex to make sure that the shipping must be done today no more delaying as the plant is not getting productive. He asked Alex to make some changes to the plant in three months if not the company will be shut down.
Chapter Two
In this chapter, we got to catch a glimpse of Alex’s life. However, his relationship with his wife was not fine after moving back to his hometown because his wife can’t
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Peach held a meeting with the plant’s managers and staffs. In the meeting he announced about the plant’s current condition which was getting worse and also shared the new goal for the plant to achieve. Through rumours Alex found out the exact reason why Mr. Peach was frantic with the plant. He heard that the plant was going bankrupt and will be sold if nothing change in a period of one year.
Chapter Four
In this chapter, Alex reminiscing his business trip when he encountered with his professor, although he had absolutely no idea where Alex worked. Jonah predicted that the problem faced by the plant was because of high number of inventories due to overdue and delay shipping. He also asked Alex to figure out the main goal of the plant because once you knew the main goal of a business you would think of a way to increase the business’s productivity.
Chapter Five
During break, Alex left the meeting to think and figure out what was the main goal of the plant. After a while, he finally figured out the goal of the plan was to make money in order to gain profit and to improve the plant’s condition.
Chapter Six
Alex held a small meeting with the plant’s accountant to figure out ways to achieve the plant’s goal. The net profit needed to increase along with the investment and also cash flow. He still figuring the ways to increase these three terms.
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