Overview and Objectives The game was held over a week and enabled us to increase our understanding of inventory management at the production stage in the supply chain. In this game‚ the objective was to accomplish production and delivery of the production within 3 days of lead time. Over the course of the game‚ we were to monitor the production numbers and make adjustments through the number of machines which we owned. Machines affected the revenues through the purchases and the goal was to obtain
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New Balance Athletic Shoes | Case Study | | | 1. How important is continued product innovation to New Balance’s ability to compete in the marketplace? What timing and seasonal factors come into play? Who are the New Balance’s key suppliers and partners in the innovation ecosystem? What role do competitors play? Discuss the interdependencies and risks inherent in this marketplace in the context of Adner’s article? 1. Continued product innovation is a key to competitive success due to
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Sector Analysis Report [Key Points | Financial Year ’13 | Prospects | Sector Do ’s and Dont ’s] The Indian cement industry is the 2nd largest market after China accounting for about 8% of the total global production. It had a total capacity of about 347 m tonnes (MT) as of financial year ended 2012-13. Cement is a cyclical commodity with a high correlation with GDP. The housing sector is the biggest demand driver of cement‚ accounting for about 67% of the total consumption. The other
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Footprint? The Ecological Footprint is a resource accounting tool used widely as a management and communication tool by governments‚ businesses‚ educational institutions and NGOs to answer a specific resource question: How much of the biological capacity of the planet is required by a given human activity or population? What does the Ecological Footprint measure? The Ecological Footprint measures the amount of biologically productive land and sea area an individual‚ a region‚ all of humanity‚ or
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at the 2015 SXSW Conferences and Festival the company temporarily doubled the mobile network capacity with innovative enhancements (AT&TNewsroom. (2015)). Using these temporary enhancements ensured that their AT&T customers and offered spectators a more reliable cellular connection so they could share some of their favorite moments of the event through texts and social media. Opening up the cellular capacity allowed for satisfied customers and made the event more enjoyable plus it allowed the company
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hour for each step per hour. This is based off of the amount of time it takes for each step to process 1‚000 samples. Initially‚ the table indicates that the Testing process takes the longest; however‚ to find the bottlenecks and the available capacities we must also consider the amount of workers we have to conduct each step. The second half of the efficiency spreadsheet shows each step converted into the total amount of samples that can be processed for each step utilizing the
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Case analysis: executive shirt company OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Case Introduction The Executive Shirt Company (ESC) has seen a recent dip in their profit and so they had decided to expand the company’s product line to take advantage of what he thought was a tremendous opportunity in the custom-size dress shirt market. Mr. Dwight Collier‚ Gen. Manager of Executive Shirt Company (ESC) is planning to introduce customized shirts in his current production facility since they can fetch 75% more
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Individual Assignment Assignment # 03 Prepared for Kanchan Das‚ Ph.D. Course Instructor Operations Management (MGT-314) Summer-2012 Prepared by Md. Tanvir Rahman Mazumder 0930-319-030 Date of Submission: 30-07-2012 Question from chapter 12 1. a i) Annual demand= 40*260=10400 boxes Q*= (2DS/H) ^0.5= (2*10400*$60/30) ^0.5= 203.96 Ii) TC= (Q/2)*H+ (D/Q)*S= (203.96/2)*$30+ (10400/203.96)*$60
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and China key manufacturers Optical Transceiver capacity production cost Optical Transceiver Gross production value gross margin etc details information‚ at the same time‚ statistics these manufacturers Optical Transceiver products customers application capacity market position company contact information etc company related information‚ then collect all these manufacturers data and listed Global and China Optical Transceiver capacity production capacity market share production market share supply demand
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& Custom Shirts Regular Shirts Custom Shirts Actual Cycle Time (min/shirt) 0.5 0.5 0.67 3.9 Manufacturing Lead Time (days) 12.25 2.06 12.58 0.41 WIP inventory (shirts) 11760 1980 9060 50 Production Capacity (Shirts/day) 960 960 720 123 Current Production(Shirts/day) 800 900 800 100 Capacity utilization 83.33% 93.75% 111.11% 81.25% Direct Labor Content (min/shirt) 25.76 25.79 25.76 26.01 Actual Labor Time 20608 23209 20608 2601 Available Labor Time (min) 30720 31200 23520 7680 Direct Labor
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