(individual work only and remember to always answer all parts of the question; in some cases you have up to 3 parts in 1 questions). Keep your answers short‚ max one paragraph per question. 1. What is Operation‚ what is Supply Chain; relate this to a product or service and provide some examples? Operations is the manufacturing and service processes that are used to transform the resources employed by a firm into products/services desired by the customer. Manufacturing takes raw resources and produces
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MODULE TITLE: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Hand in date: 6pm Thursday 10th December Alternative Assessment 2‚500 words Report question The aim of the JIT methodology may be deemed to meet demand instantaneously‚ with perfect quality and no waste’. So runs one definition of JIT. Your task is to evaluate the requirements and objectives of a JIT operation and analyse the potential benefits and drawbacks when deciding to apply the JIT methodology to the following operation: A restaurant
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Woolworth levels of operation and mechanisation Level of operations refers to the scale of food production and the amount of sophistication of the technology used. The various levels of operation and mechanisation include household‚ small business‚ large company and multinational. Woolworths is a large company. A large company is characterised by a range of stores across Australia‚ large scale food production and selling‚ stores including industrial equipment‚ high turnover and a large number
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presence known. Traffic division handles city traffic and makes sure that residents and visitors alike are respecting all speed limits and traffic signals. Crisis Response Unit is a specialized unit that has been established to handle critical field operations. It manages sensitive calls such as those where negotiations are needed; it is also capable of deploying specialized units where highly trained officers are need. Investigations Division accounts for two sergeants‚ seven detectives‚ one community
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4.709 Operations Management Individual Assignment Lecturer: Mr. Ray Ninow Bhawana Vohra – ID No. 20140195 Total words: 1869 1. Custom Fabricators Company (a) The balance of Customer Service and Resource utilization Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction – that is‚ the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation. Customer Service is defined by three
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of international business may serve better both personally and professionally in a world that has moved beyond simple industrial production. International business encompasses a full range of cross-border exchanges of goods‚ services‚ or resources between two or more nations. These exchanges can go beyond the exchange of money for physical goods to include international transfers of other resources‚ such as people‚ intellectual property (e.g.‚ patents‚ copyrights‚ brand trademarks‚ and data)‚ and contractual
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satisfaction and acting on the results is required‚ therefore increasing the effectiveness in the use of the organization’s resources to enhance customer satisfaction. Systematically managing customer relationships and ensuring a balanced approach between satisfying customers and the organization. This can be done by ensuring that the
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Psychologist Abraham Maslow first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" and his subsequent book Motivation and Personality. This hierarchy suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other‚ more advanced needs. This hierarcy is most often displayed as a pyramid. The lowest levels of the pyramid are made up of the most basic needs‚ while the more complex needs are located at the top of the pyramid. Needs
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maintenance as follows: “the work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep.” This would imply that maintenance should be actions taken to prevent a device or component from failing or to repair normal equipment degradation experienced with the operation of the device to keep it in proper working order. Unfortunately‚ data obtained in many studies over the past decade indicates that most private and government facilities do not expend the necessary resources to maintain equipment in proper
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Consider the importance of the four Vs‚ volume‚variety‚variation in demand and visibility.how do they affect the organisation’s operation? What advantages does the organization gain from them?what disadvantages arise from tem? What strategies and actions does the organization employ to maximise the benefits and minimize the problems associated with them. Volume – the Fyodorov method is devoted to a single type of eye surgical procedure carried out at high volume. Conventional eye surgery is likely
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