Operations Management BU.680 Fall 2013 Required Text and Learning Materials: Textbook: Managing Business Process Flows: Principles of Operations Management‚ 3/E Authors: Anupindi‚ Chopra‚ Deshmukh‚ Van Mieghem & Zemel‚ ISBN-10: 0136036376 ISBN-13: 9780136036371 Harvard Business School Cases: The following cases must be purchased online “Wriston Manufacturing Corp” Hammond‚ Janice H. Product number:698049-PDF-ENG "Shouldice Hospital Ltd. (Abridged)." Hallowell‚ Roger; Heskett‚
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Article Review 2: Purchasing Must Become Supply Management Oluwaseyi Omokanye INSS 630 Dr. Abby Spring 2013 * Introduction Many companies are finding purchasing to be a routine business function and face challenges concerning purchasing decisions involved in their supply chain which often includes accepting or ignoring disruptions and is managed with annual negotiations with suppliers or sources. Years ago‚ purchasing managers developed skills in
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Case Report: National Cranberry Cooperative Fill in your name in the header. Please read the Course Syllabus for guidelines on collaboration in assignments: Below‚ write your answers to Guiding Questions 1-4. The case is due at the beginning of class on January 29 (Wednesday). Please submit only one document per group. We will discuss the answers in class. You may want to print out your answers and charts for your reference during the class discussion. Some additional information about National
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must calculate both the capacity of the system‚ along with the capacity of each machine. Second‚ identify any alternative measures where‚ Beck can expand his capacity initiatives‚ in order to gain a positive capacity gain‚ without causing another bottleneck incident in the operations side. Third‚ establishing a strategy where Mr. Beck does not have to buy more equipment in order to increase his capacity. Furthermore‚ let us answer these fundamental questions‚ while helping Mr. Beck feel confident
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Accounting Nov 18th‚ 2013 Summary of Pushing the Art of Management Accounting In this article “Pushing the Art of Management Accounting”‚ Alexander Mersereau discusses the bottleneck of the development of management accounting practice. He not only points out the core problem of the bottleneck through vivid metaphor‚ but also gives several suggestions. First of all‚ Mersereau describes relevant backgrounds of the development of management accounting practice. He refers to a rapid
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THE SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES(SME) IN BANGLADESH: AN OVERVIEW OFTHE CURRENT STATUS Table of Contents: 1.0 The Case for the SMEs.................................................................................................................. 2 2.0 Place of SMEs in the National Economy of Bangladesh................................ 3 3.0 Growth and Structural Transformation of SME................................................... 4 4.0 Constraints to SME Growth....
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Michelle Stewart Operations Management FHE‚ Inc. Synopsis and Purpose Lum Donaldson is a product development engineering manager for FHE‚ Inc. The company manufactures pumps and related fluid-handling equipment. The company supplies products used to transfer liquids of all types‚ including paint‚ adhesives‚ and food products. The pumps supplied by the company are used by the automobile and appliance industries‚ in vehicle servicing‚ in home construction and in other ways. Lum has discovered
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Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer and industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding with locations in Georgia‚ Michigan‚ California‚ and their most current expansion in 2000 to Hangzhou‚ China. The company manufactures plastic bottles‚ fans in all sizes‚ medical devices‚ and custom plastic parts. The market for plastic bottles‚ fans‚ and custom plastic parts is affected by economic conditions (University of Phoenix‚ 2010). Understanding
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Riordan Manufacturing Process Design Proposal Package Description Riordan Manufacturing is in need of a new process for its manufacturing of electric fans. With potential bottlenecks from the current process‚ both time management and expenses have been suffering. Many factors have been taken into consideration with the new innovative process. With the utilization of the new process it is not only going to be time saving but also will illustrate overall revenue growth. The proposal will
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“Separating” is the bottleneck for the Drying Process. * 2. Costs * The Cost related to quality grading is covered in the next item. The Overtime costs incurred is about 87% of direct hours during peak season. See Figure 2. This reflects on the actual labour that
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