Shikshak Seva Mandal [pic] Government Registered INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY Government Recognized An ISO 9001: 2008 International B-School SUB: PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Section –A Fill in the blanks 1. Production planning functions can be broadly identified as ______‚ _______ and _______. a) Estimating ‚ routing ‚ distribution b) Estimating‚ routing‚ scheduling c) Estimating
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Introduction to Operations Management After completing this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Define the term operations management. 2. Identify the three major functional areas of organizations and describe how they interrelate. 3. Identify similarities and differences between production and service operations. 4. Describe the operations function and the nature of the operations manager’s job. 5. Summarize the two major aspects of process management. 6. Explain the key aspects of operations management
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Tasks and answers Task 1: To what extent could or should Deane expect to apply the philosophies and techniques of JIT/Lean to the running of a staircase cell? Staircases Production Company (SPC) is a small‚ successful‚ privately owned timber and building materials company based in a small city in the UK. The company offers a wide variety of timber products‚ from regular doors‚ windows and staircases to special products such as non-standard sections or special profiles (i.e. old designs of skirting
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Research Project | New Zealand Natural Ice Cream | | Operations Management Operations Management Executive summary The paper concentrates on studying operation management of ‘New Zealand Natural Ice Cream’in terms of its demand forecasting and inventory management strategies. The purpose is to improve the efficiency of the operation network. For doing so‚ qualitative data are researched and analyzed to reflect the current operation of the shop. Then‚ various demand forecasting‚ based on
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Book Store’s history and one that would surely fire the flames for the future generation to carry on the company’s legacy. With the observations achieved by the reports the following are the approaches that were used to in this operation analysis for the mentioned company. PLANT LAYOUT As the yuletide season is continues to fill the air‚ most business adapt this time frame in stores. At such this is also the time sales hit their highest so mostly Christmas
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To: Manchester Business School Date: 05/10/2011 GA Operations Management COURSE ASSESSMENT 1 Question 2 Identification of stage on the Hayes and Wheelwright model of operations function of Oriflame Company Word count: 1380 words in main text‚ excluding index Table of Contents Introduction 3 Background: Hayes and Wheelwright model theory 4 Analysis in order evaluate Oriflame’s stage 5 Outcomes of analysis 7 Conclusions 8 Bibliography
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Task 1 There are four product levels such as core product‚ facilitating products‚ supporting products and augmented products. Core product is a basic level of product selling to the consumer at every product and sells the benefits to the guest. Facilitating products are goods which are presented to guests can use for core product. As we can see that‚ core products require facilitating products but do not require supporting products. The difference between facilitating and supporting products is
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Operations Management in Hard Rock Cafe Operations management is an important element in restaurant management. Hard Rock Café has had a very high brand recognition percentage throughout the world because of its operations management. In this paper we will try and discuss the 10 decisions Hard Rock Café has gotten right in making it one of the most successful companies in the service industry. Goods & Services Design A restaurant sells two products: one is tangible product‚ such like food
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(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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Winter 2013 Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 2 MB0048 – Operations Research - 4 Credits (Book ID: B1631) (Roll no: 1305009661) Q.1: Discuss the various stages involved in the methodology of Operations Research. Briefly explain the techniques and tools of Operations Research. Ans: The basic dominant characteristic feature of operations research is that it employs mathematical representations or models to analyse problems. This distinct approach represents an adaptation of the
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