Centre for Continuing Education Executive MBA (OIL & GAS Management) Semester II YEAR: 2013 SESSION: January Assignment – 1 For Operations & Material Management (MBCQ 722D) (To be filled by the student) Name: _______________________ Sap No/Regn No: _______________________ Section A (20 Marks) Write short notes on any four of the following 1. Production management functions 2. The era of scientific management 3. Optimal criteria for selecting a plant location 4.
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1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of General Motors’ strategy for operations? GM is now using Toyota’s strategy (partnerships and alliances) for operation in its newest factories‚ located in Argentina‚ Poland‚ and China. The advantages of GM’s strategy for operations are: i) Standardized plants helped cut production costs substantially and allow it to succeed in the world’s emerging markets. ii) Factories are designed with flexibility and efficiency so that each factory can be easily
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operations-management notes (no 1) by professor zubin_____________________________________________________________________________________________ sub-functions of ’operations’ function in a large manufacturing organisation in a manufacturing company operating in a ‘gala’ of an ‘industrial estate’ with one proprietor‚ one supervisor and 10 workers … § the proprietor is the hr manager‚ purchase manager‚ the marketing manager and the finance manager § the supervisor is the stores manager‚ the production
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investigated issues in virtual teams (Yoong 2001‚ Suchan et. al. 2001). A multi-cultural team is a team whose members have different cultural backgrounds‚ for instance because they are from different countries. In a global marketplace‚ more and more companies need international presence; therefore the need for creating virtual teams exists. By dynamically allocating people to projects based on expertise rather than location‚ organizations can more easily assign the most qualified people to appropriate
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Caroline Walsh BADM 3601 – Operations Management Assignment # 4 Due: Monday November 12th ‐ 5:00 PM (a) A study‐aid desk manned by a graduate student has been established to answer student’s questions and help in working problems in your OM course. The desk is staffed eight hours per day. The dean wants to know how the facility is working. Statistics show that students arrive at a rate of four per hour‚ and the distribution is approximately Poisson. Assistance time averages 10 minutes‚ distributed
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Creation: Henry Ford -> Ford Motor Co. -> Model T -> Assembly Line Who is Henry Ford? The man who invented the automobile is the response received by 7 out of 10 college students when proposed with this question. The other 3 responded with the man who invented the Model T and when asked further how he developed that they went blank. So why the misconception on a man who without we would not have roughly 600 million passenger cars today around the world‚ which averages to about 1 per
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efficient. 3) Reduce interruptions c. Less interruptions means smaller throughput time. 2. Define quality. Quality – the ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer expectations 3. Define and explain benchmarking. Benchmarking involves selecting a demonstrated standard of products‚ services‚ costs‚ or practices that represent the very best performance for processes or activities very similar to your own. The idea is to develop a target at which to shoot
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Management may choose to build up capacity in anticipation of demand or in response to developing demand. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. To illustrate some of the advantages and disadvantages‚ provide specific examples of companies that have used each strategy. Three things that are important when planning capacity is “maintaining system balance‚ frequency of capacity additions or reductions‚ and the use of external capacity.” (Jacobs‚ Chase Pg 75) Some of the advantages
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customers. So‚ focus is laid on measures that lend credibility to companies‟ green marketing by interviewing experts and observing their opinions about green marketing and eco-labeling. Design/Methodology/Approach: Interviews conducted with company professionals from IKEA and Konsum Gävleborg and a member of the municipality in Gävle‚ as well as findings from secondary sources of the company Nestlé were used to investigate the companies‟ ways to respond to environmental concern and how they deal
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Case Assignment - What Would You Do?FORD MOTOR COMPANYHeadquarters‚ Dearborn‚ Michigan. “You turned Boeing around from billion-dollar losses to huge profits and increased market share. But when you became Ford Motor Company’s CEO‚ people asked‚ “What does an airplane guy know about the car business?” Well‚ on your first day as CEO‚ you reviewed the product lineup and discovered something missing‚ the Ford Taurus‚ the best-selling car in company history. “Where was it?” you asked. “We killed it
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