Forecasting Forecast can help managers by reducing some of the uncertainty‚ thereby enabling them to develop more meaningful plans than they might otherwise. A forecast is a statement about the future. Features common to all forecasts 1. The same underlying causal system that existed in the past will continue to exist in the future. 2. Forecasts are rarely perfect; actual results usually differ from predicted values. 3. Forecasts for groups of items tend to be more accurate than forecasts
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University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business COMM 399: Logistics and Operations Management Problem Set 1 1. Solution: (a) Some ideas that you can expand on: • • • • Organizational barriers Business culture undervalues operations Top managers often uninterested in operations Lack of “ownership” of operations (b) Some ideas that you can expand on: • Identify and break constraints • Make the special case the norm • Rethink critical dimensions of work (c) Yes‚ even though it may
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Assignment 2 Arlene Miller Professor Fitzpatrick Compensation Management – BUS 409 November 27‚ 2011 Describe the differences between job analysis and job evaluation and how these practices help establish internally consistent job structures. The differences between job analysis and job evaluation is‚ job analysis is a systematic process for gathering‚ documenting‚ and analyzing information in order to describe jobs. Job analyses describe content or job duties‚ worker requirements‚ and
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Chapter 01 Introduction to OM 1. As a service business‚ the operations management activities of an airline company have nothing in common with the operations management activities within a bicycle manufacturing company. True False 2. Operations managers are responsible for managing systems that produce goods and/or provide services. True False 3. Effectiveness refers to achieving intended goals whereas efficiency refers to minimizing cost and time. True False 4. Operations‚ marketing
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Chapter One ~ Operations and Productivity • POLCA (plan‚ organize‚ lead‚ control‚ achieve) • Suppliers → Inputs → Process → Outputs → Consumers (SIPOC) • 3 functions to create goods and service: o Marketing o Production/operations o Finance/accounting • Why Study OM? o Learn how people organize themselves for productive enterprise o Learn how goods/services are produced o Understand what operations managers do o OM is a costly part of an organization • Productivity= Units produced or
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Essay: 3. could anger management be used to deal with most violent criminals? Discuss Anger management commonly refers to a system of therapeutic psychological techniques and exercises by which someone with excessive or uncontrollable anger can reduce or control the triggers‚ degrees‚ and effects of an emotional angered state. The term violent crime is interoperated as a crime in which an offender uses violent force or threatens the victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act of the
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OM CHAPTER 1 GOODS‚ SERVICES‚ AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT DAVID A. COLLIER AND JAMES R. EVANS OM‚ Ch. 1 Goods‚ Services‚ and Operations Management ©2009 South-Western‚ a part of Cengage Learning 1 Chapter 1 Learning Outcomes learning outcomes LO1 Explain the concept of operations management. LO2 Describe what operations managers do. LO3 Explain the differences between goods and services. LO4 Describe a customer benefit package. LO5 Explain three general types of processes
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steady rate of 2 Rxs per minute‚ with an average of one Rx per student. The average number of students in process (those who are waiting and those who are being served) at each station is: Drop-o® - 5 students Pick-up - 3 students Pay cashier - 6 students On average‚ the Fill Rx station has 40 Rxs in process and waiting. Because of this perceived long wait‚ 95% of the students decide to come back later for pick-up. They come back an average of 3 hours later. If the students choose to stay
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Unit 515 Lead and manage group living for adults 1. Review current theoretical approaches to group living provision for adults Over the year’s different theoretical approaches to group living provisions for adults have changed the way in which we offer our care services and living provisions. Person centred planning has had major impacts and affected group living in many ways‚ Eric Erikson developed a theory that divides an individual’s life into eight stages that extend from birth to
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chapter 6: Planning capacity Capacity the maximum rate of output of a process or a system. Acquisition of new capacity requires extensive planning‚ and often involves significant expenditure of resources and time. Capacity decisions must be made in light of several long-term issues such as the firm’s economies and diseconomies of scale‚ capacity cushions‚ timing and sizing strategies‚ and trade-offs between customer service and capacity utilization. Planning capacity across the organization
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