KAIZEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MARKS: 80 COURSE: _______ SUBJECT: OPERATION MANAGEMENT N.B: 1} Attempt all the questions 2} All Questions Carries Equal Marks Name:___________________ Reference Number: ________________ Case – 1 OM IN SNACKS Let’s say that you decided to go for some snacks with your friends. Among many options‚ you can go to a roadside thela (cart)‚ a snack joint like are Udipi restaurant or some restaurant which serves many things including full meals‚ to name few
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[Type the company name] | Ford Motor Company: Supply Chain Strategy | [Type the document subtitle] | NICOLE | Table of Contents Page 3. Executive Summary Page 4. Identification Issues Page 5. Identification Issues‚ Environmental and Root Cause Analysis Page 6. Alternatives Page 7. Recommendation‚ Implementation‚ Control Page 8. Conclusions‚ References Executive Summary This case report addresses the challenges to implement virtual integration in Ford Motor
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Wolf Motors Case Study 1. What recommendations would you make to John Wolf with respect to structuring the supplier relationship process for the Wolf Motors dealership network? The recommendations I would suggest for structuring the supplier relationship process for the Wolf Motors dealership network are Wolf Motors should consider a centralized corporate level Materials Management System to consolidate buying decisions for each of the 4 dealerships. This would facilitate greater leveraging
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Question 7: In our opinion‚ we think that Ford Company is morally wrong if the savings resulting from not improving the Pinto gas tank had been passed on to force’s customers. We will say is morally wrong because Pinto do not meet the safety standard propose by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The safety standard of NHTSA is to reduce fires from traffic collisions. This standard required that all new cars produced by 1972 should be able to withstand a rear-end impact
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Nissan Motor Company – Target Costing System – Extra Question 1 – What is the purpose of Nissan’s target costing system? Nissan deployed target costing system to achieve following benefits Systematic approach: The purpose of the target costing system is to have a systematic procedure to manage costs for new product introductions in order to allow them to earn the necessary profit margin to meet corporate profitability objectives. Customer Orientation: Target costing promotes customer focused
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Leadership: A Case Of Ford Motors Contents Introduction 3 Company profile 3 Part-A Strategic Leadership 4 Implication of strategic leadership in Ford 7 Implementation and dealing the change 8 Organizational change 9 Game theory and simulation 12 Conclusion 14 Reference 14 Introduction The new idea and innovation had come up with constant enhancement of mankind. The new innovative and effective idea is demand to accomplish the requirement of company and customer. Good or successful
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CHAPTER 1 Operations management Short case: Dealing with variety – two examples The Bombay Tiffin Box Suppliers Association (TBSA) operates a service to transport home-cooked food from workers’ homes to office locations in downtown Bombay. Workers from residential districts must ride commuter trains some 30–40 km to work. Typically‚ they are conservative diners‚ and are also constrained by strong cultural taboos on food handling by caste‚ which discourage eating out. TBSA arranges for food
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Hard Rock Cafe’s Global Strategy Hard Rock is bringing the concept of the “experience economy” to its cafe operation. The strategy is to incorporate a unique “experience” into its operations. This innovation is somewhat akin to mass customization in manufacturing. At Hard Rock‚ the experience concept is to provide not only a custom meal from the menu‚ but a dining event that includes a unique visual and sound experience not duplicated anywhere in the world. This strategy is succeeding. Other
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Assignment#3: Alan Mulally‚ CEO‚ Ford Motor Company BUS 520 Benita Ellis-Young August 7‚ 2011 Dominique Sweeting Alan Mulally‚ CEO‚ Ford Motor Company 1. Discuss the role of leadership and how it can impact organizational performance. Ford Motor Company has been around since the early 1900’s under the leadership of a generation of members of the Ford family. An American icon for over a century‚ Ford began to experience difficult times. At a crossroad‚ Ford Motor needed to develop a firm-specific
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Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. 170 N.W. 668 The Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker that was incorporated on June 16‚ 1903 by Henry Ford. In today’s world Ford is the second largest automaker in the U.S. and the fifth-largest in the world based on annual vehicle sales in 2010. Henry Ford became famous for his methods of large scale manufacturing‚ management and the use of the assembly lines in his factories. Another very important event in the history of Ford Motor Company‚ and also
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