Team SC^2 Sunny Jain Vikram Kaledhonkar Eva Lo Eileen Long Olena Marchenko Costco Wholesale Operations and Supply Management OMIS 357 (Fall’09) Agenda • • • • • • • Background and Business Model Processes and Queues Management Supply Chain Strategy Quality Control Inventory Management Recommendations Q&A Background • • • • Headquartered in Issaquah‚ WA 550 warehouses in 40 states Present in 6 countries outside US $71B revenue in 2008 1993: merged with PriceClub: PriceCostco
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their outlets in our university. We chose to carry out our simulation project on this particular store because it would be ideal to study a system which has a queue at any time during its working hours. It would also help the company in serving their customers more efficiently and quickly‚ as many have limited time to waste standing in the queue. This would also give us an opportunity to use Arena in simulating the current scenario with certain assumptions‚ better understand the system by making changes
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tend to explain how she felt shameful of her differences to the other kids. A big thing I noticed she felt shame was what happened with the lunches. Everybody had their lunch at the canteen. Esperanza wanted to have her lunch there. Her mom finally wrote her a note saying she would pack her a lunch so she can eat the canteen.
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mm1 simulation in matlab clc;clear; ST_Idle=0; ST_Busy=1; EV_NULL=0; EV_Arrive=1; EV_Depart=2; EV_LEN=3; Q_LIMIT=1000000; % next_event _type=[]; % num_custs _delayed=[]; % num_delays _count=[]; % num_events=[]; % num_in _queue=[]; % server_status=[]; % area_num _in _queue=[]; % area_server _status=[]; % mean_interarrival=[]; % mean_service=[]; % clock=[]; % time_last _event=[]; % total_of _delays=[]; time_arrival=[]; time_next _event=zeros(1‚EV_LEN);
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through the content analysis of the interview conducted with stakeholders at port. While policy recommendation were made for making the Nigerian Ports cost effective‚ more attractive and enhance quick turnaround of vessels at the Ports. Keyword: Queue theory‚ port congestion‚ berth‚ arrival time‚ service time Introduction The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) was established in 1955 and was
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Customers pay a monthly fee allowing them to have a set amount of DVDs out at a time‚ prices ranging from $4.99 to $16.99. The customer creates a list of the movies they wish to receive by going to the online website and creating what is called a “queue”. Netflix then distributes the movies to the customers from one of their 50 regional warehouses using the United State Postal Service priority mail. The DVDs are delivered directly to the customer’s home in an envelope slightly larger than the DVD
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Managerial Decision Modeling w/ Spreadsheets‚ 3e (Balakrishnan/Render/Stair) Chapter 9 Queuing Models 9.1 Chapter Questions 1) Reneging refers to customers who: A) do not join a queue B) switch queues C) join a queue but abandon their shopping carts before checking out D) join a queue but are dissatisfied E) join a queue and complain because of long lines Answer: C Page Ref: 371 Topic: Characteristics of a Queuing System Difficulty: Moderate 2) This queuing system configuration is referred to
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Process Handling in Linux POS 420 October 11‚ 2005 In Linux processes communicate with each other and with the kernel to coordinate their activities. Linux supports a number of Inter-Process Communication (IPC) mechanisms. Signals and pipes are two of them but Linux also supports the System V IPC mechanisms named after the Unix TM release in which they first appeared. Signals are one of the oldest inter-process communication methods used by Unix TM systems. The common Linux shells all allow
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Chapter I The Problem and Its Setting This chapter presents the background of the study‚ conceptual framework of the study‚ statement of the problem‚ hypothesis‚ significance of the study‚ scope and delimitation‚ and definition of terms. Introduction In the modern setting where our environment is largely exploited‚ it is evident the government’s action regarding these issues are not yet enough. Some government and non-government organizations make their moves to fight against the deterioration
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Examination Paper of Organizational Behaviour IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper SubjectCode-B105 Organizational Behaviour Section A: Objective Type & Short Questions (30 marks) This section consists of Multiple Choice and short notes type questions Answer all the questions. Part one carries 1 mark each and part two carries 5 marks each. MM.100 Part A:Multiple Choices:1. Which of the following is not comes under Maslow‟s needs theory? 1. Social needs 2. Affiliation needs
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