Wal-Mart BUS 644 Operations Management November 6‚ 2011 Introduction Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in the world‚ and it has obviously enjoyed tremendous success. But while many welcome its location in their communities‚ others do not. Some complain that its presence has too many negative effects on a community‚ ranging from traffic congestion to anti-union sentiment to unfair competition. “According to a recent study from Dartmouth ’s Tuck School of Business‚ the entry of a Wal-Mart
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Improving Stickley Furniture BUS 644 Operations Management Abstract Stickley Furniture has a long tradition of manufacturing and selling fine furniture goods. The Consulting Firm has been charged with the responsibility of evaluating and explaining how the company operates and tracks jobs and inventory. Also‚ the pros and cons of how orders are processed are evaluated. Finally‚ suggestions are made regarding the way the company should handle forecasting‚ inventory‚ work measurement
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Memorial Hospital Marquia Johnson Ashford University BUS 644 November 25‚ 2014 Professor Donald Platine The American Hospital Association provides suggestion that hospitals can use to measure quality‚ but there is not a set standard that hospitals can follow to measure quality. However‚ there are four standards that many hospitals use or take into consideration when want to measure the quality of the hospital’s performance. The hospital can use regulatory inspection‚ surveys of consumers’
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Lean Operations Lean is a philosophy of manufacturing that emphasizes the minimization of the amount of all resources (including time) used in operations of the company. Operations processes are considered to be Lean when they are very efficient and have few wasted resources. The elimination of WASTE is actually the defining principle of Lean. By eliminating waste of all sorts in the system‚ the lean approach lowers labour‚ materials‚ and energy costs of production. Lean also emphasizes building
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(2009) state that the concept of lean resource management was developed in the 1950s by the car manufacturing company Toyota. There are several aspects of lean resource management including the JIT or just in time system. Under such system‚ the inventory or raw materials that the company needs are ordered just in time to be used to the production process. According to Teresko (2007)‚ Toyota’s Production System is one that emphasizes the concept of lean manufacturing systems. Through such process‚ the unnecessary
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What trade-offs are involved in shifting from a traditional operations system to a lean system for: a. A manufacturing firm? A lean system is basically quality vs. quantity. Producing quality in the lean system eliminates waste. For instance‚ a lean system can reduce inventory‚ waiting time‚ excessive transportation‚ as well as defects in products and services. “The key considerations are the time and cost requirements for successful conversion‚ which can be substantial” (Stevenson‚ 2010‚ p.
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Association Unifying the Sciences‚ Engineering‚ and Applied Research) ISSN (Print): 2279-0047 ISSN (Online): 2279-0055 International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computational and Applied Sciences (IJETCAS) www.iasir.net ACCIDENT DETECTION SYSTEM APPLICATION Akshay Agrawal1‚ Anand Khinvasara2‚ Mitali Bhokare3‚ Sumit Kaulkar4‚ Prof. Y. K. Sharma5 Department of Computer Science‚ Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology‚ Pune‚ India ______________________________________________________________
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Midas Case Study Stacey L. Dukes BUS/644 Dr. Gail Hoskyns-Long November 16‚ 2014 Midas shops provide total car care includes tires‚ brakes‚ batteries‚ oil changes‚ air conditioning‚ and an array of vehicle maintenance services by ASE-certified technicians (Midas International Corporation‚ 2014). Midas is a well-known company that customers use to take care of his or her automotive needs. The objective of this paper is to answer four question pertaining to the Midas case study
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Implementation of Lean System on Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier Manufacturing Process to Reduce Production Time T. Maneechotea and P. Luangpaiboonb Industrial Statistics and Operational Research Unit (ISO-RU)‚ Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ Thammasat University‚ 12120‚ THAILAND. (email: Thiti.Maneechote@gmail.com) b Industrial Statistics and Operational Research Unit (ISO-RU)‚ Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ Thammasat University‚ 12120
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I. Name of the Project “ONLINE BUS RESERVATION SYSTEM” II. Introduction This program can be used by the users in performing online reservation via internet for their all business purposes. The software program “Online Bus Reservation System” provides bus transportation system‚ a facility to reserved seats‚ cancellation of seats and different types of enquiry which need an instant and quick reservation.This system can be used by the users in performing online reservation via internet for their
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