Chapter 1 Operations and productivity 1. Why should one study operations management? We study OM for four reasons. We study how people organize themselves for productive enterprise. We study OM because we want to know how goods and services are produced. We study OM to understand what operations managers do. We study OM because it is such a costly part of an organization. Productivity can be measured in a variety of ways‚ such as by labor‚ capital‚ energy‚ material usage‚ and so on. At Modern
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agement AEREN FOUNDATION’S Maharashtra Govt. Reg. No.: F-11724 [pic] SUBJECT : OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Total Marks : 80 CASE-1 (16 Marks) Bloomsday Outfitters produces T-shirts for road races. They need to acquire some new stamping machines to produce 30‚000 good T-shirts per month. Their plant operates 200 hours per month‚ but the new machines will
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results in the throughput time for the entire process being the sum of individual steps plus transport and waiting time between steps. Using a parallel approach can reduce throughput time by as much as 80 percent and produces a better result. 2) Change the sequence of activities b. Altering the sequence of activities can make the process more efficient. 3) Reduce interruptions c. Less interruptions means smaller throughput time. 2. Define quality. Quality – the ability of
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L3 90 Credit Diploma in Business Unit 1 – The Business Environment Assignment Learning Outcomes – on completion of this unit you should; 1. Know the range of different businesses and their ownership 2. Understand how businesses are organised to achieve their purpose 3. Know the impact of the economic environment on businesses 4. Know how political‚ legal and social factors impact on business Task 1 – Submission Date 27/09/2012 You are working as a business journalist for the Express
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revenue by 20%. With $43.2 million spend every year on her purchases and $12 million locked up in inventory‚ President had stress Sally Stone‚ the director of supply management of EMC to explore and exploit all the available option to cut the expense in order bolster their business. 1. What actions should Sally take to reduce inventories by 10 percent? Reducing inventories by 10 percent can’t be met by focusing on any single aspect of business but need a holistic approach. There are many approaches
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garment that contains Lycra? The “selling-buying” relationship between when Liz Claiborne wants to team up with Lycra differs as it’s a Business to business selling buying relationship. Liz uses Lycra’s product in its women clothing which ensures profit for both Liz and Lycra. On the other hand‚ when a consumer purchases a garment that contains Lycra‚ it is Business to consumer selling buying relationship. In B2B‚ 2 businesses are collaborating to generate funds‚ while in B2C‚ Lycra is making up its
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NAME: TAHIR M SULTAN UNIT: 4 (BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT) ASSIGNMENT NUMBER: 1 ASSIGNMENT TITLE: THE CASE: MCDONALD LECTURER: Mr. Hamid Rahim SUBMISSION: 11-10-2011 1. LIST SOME STAKEHOLDERS OF MCDONALDS. CLASIFY THEM AS INTERNAL‚ CONNECTED AND EXTERNAL TYPES. Stakeholders can be defined as “individuals and groups who are affected by the activities of an organization. The most important stakeholders can be seen as those with most to lose from the organization’s actions‚ but this does
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Business Environment Lecture 1 Business & its Environment What is Business? Business is a way of dealing with the problem of scarcity Business involves the transformation of inputs into outputs to meet particular needs or wants of consumers Business is not just The Private Sector it is also The Public Sector and Societies have to choose the balance between the public and private sectors The Private Sector (Pg 7-11) Consists of all business in some form of private ownership COMPETITON
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It is usually stated that ‘the structural decisions items of an operations strategy reflect the hardware of the firm‚ while the infrastructure decision areas represent the firm’s software’. Comparing structural decisions with the hardware of the firm and the infrastructure decisions as its software‚ it shows that the structural decisions are very important and the firm cannot exists without them because without a hardware computer would not exist and the software would have nothing to run on. Structural
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Group # 05 Aray Nugumarova 20110252‚ lyas Galyamov 20123841‚ Tair Akimzhanov 20112420‚ Akmaral Zholshybekova 20100078 Waterless mobile car wash Proposal Nowadays there are a lot of opportunities to start a business. However‚ the most challenging part is choosing a target sector. After a profound research of the market some potential segments for entry have been chosen by the members of our group. One of them is chemical industry where potential consumer demand is very high
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