low price had released the potential of the watch to become a fashion accessory. Swatch’s operations reaped the benefits of high volume‚ but had to cope with an everincreasing variety of product designs. Through automation and rigid standardisation of the internal mechanism of the watch‚ the company managed this increase in variety without crippling its costs. It is the success of the company’s operations managers in keeping their costs low (direct labour cost is less than seven per cent of the
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Spring 2013 Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1 MB0048 –Operations Research- 4 Credits (Book ID: B1631) Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks) Note: Assignment Set -1 must be written within 6-8 pages. Answer all questions. Q1. Explain the scope of Operations Research. What are the features of Operations 10 marks (300 - 350 words each) Research? Q2. Six Operators are to be assigned to five jobs with the cost of assignment in Rs. given 10 marks in the matrix below. Determine the
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Overcoming Process Bottlenecks Jauwanna Pitts OPS/571 September 24‚ 2012 Michelle O’Hagan Overcoming Process Bottlenecks Bottleneck is defined as as any resource whose capacity is less than the demand placed upon it. A bottleneck is a constraint within the system that limits throughput (Chase‚ Jacobs‚ & Aquilano‚ 2006). In week one a flow chart was designed to measure and improve the process of International sales orders. The goal of the process flowchart was to create ways to make
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox‚ is a management-oriented business novel. Goldratt is an Israeli physicist who became a business management guru. He is a business consultant known for his Theory of Constraints. The purpose of the novel is to teach the importance of strategic capacity planning and constraint management. The Goal tells the story of Alex Rogo‚ a 38-year-old executive plant manager working at a factory owned by UniCo Corporation Manufacturing
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Written Analysis and Communication Individual Assignment No 2 Case Analysis Report On ‘Pramanik Containers And The Bottleneck Challenge (A)’ Submitted by Name: Rahul Agarwal Roll No: 131246 Section: B Institute of Management‚ Nirma University Date of Submission: 16 August‚ 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Pramanik container was a family business owned by Bansilal Mehta which manufactured
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The operation was kept a secret to everyone except those who were in it. The Germans did not know until the very last moment that the Allies landed. By catching the Germans off guard this helped the operation succeed. The other main reason is because the Allies majorly outnumbered the Germans. Operation Overlord impacted World War II greatly because it was the turning point that ended the war in Europe. In August of 1943‚ American and British military chiefs met and began to outline Operation Overlord
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Operations Management as the process whereby resources‚ flowing within a defined system‚ are combined and transformed by a controlled manner to add value in accordance with policies communicated by management. Operations management is the process through which goods and services are supplied. In order to understand the functions of operations management‚ a closer emphasis on the term operations is needed. Operations as a term cover both production operations and service operations. The common characteristic
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MBA SEMESTER II MB0048 –Operation Research- 4 Credits (Book ID: B1137) Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions 1. a. Explain how and why Operation Research methods have been valuable in aiding executive decisions. [5 Marks] b. Discuss the usefulness of Operation Research in decision making process and the role of computers in this field. [5 Marks] 2. Explain how the linear programming technique can be helpful in decision-making in the areas
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Operations Research Unit 6 Unit 6 Structure Assignment Problem 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. Introduction Mathematical formulation of the problem Hungarian method algorithm Routing problem 6.4.1. Unbalanced A.P 6.4.2 Infeasible Assignments 6.4.3 Maximization in A.P 6.5. 6.6. Traveling salesmen problem Summary Terminal Questions Answers to SAQs and TQs 6.1 Introduction The assignment problem is a special case of the transportation problem‚ where the objective is to minimiz
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end of this session. This was the step‚ a stimulus towards being a future Business person. And for which it was very vital for me to know how a business organization manages the various processes associated with its goods and services. As a future Operation Manager it’s my responsibility to be cognizant about the know-how of what exactly my roles would then be. I learnt that OM in simple terms is a collection of processes that helps creating a service or a good starting from its input phase giving
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