LittleField (1) What was your initial strategy and how/why did you change your strategy during the game?. (2) Which concepts that you learned in this course did you apply in making your decisions? Explain. (3) What did you learn from the game? General Strategy Getting into the game our strategy was to identify the bottleneck in the process and maximize its utilization. We were aiming to balance our stock so a new stock will arrive every 4 days‚ and the current stock will not run out (but will get
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Technology Solution to a Business Problem Subject of Course Project Advanced technology is proved to be beneficial for organizations and business more than ever before‚ it helped in bringing business close. It assisted in each and every aspect of business from making team of best employees‚ to booking order‚ delivery of products and their support. We need to use advanced technology in order to help business needs of an organization or use specific technology to solve a business related issue
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MGT 9702 – SERVICE OPERATIONS I LITTLEFIELD TECHNOLOGIES – OVERVIEW Littlefield Technologies (LT) produces Digital Satellite System (DSS) receivers. These receivers are assembled from kits of electronic components procured from a single supplier. The assembly process consists of four steps carried out at 3 stations called board stuffing‚ testing and tuning. The machines at these stations cost $90‚000‚ $80‚000
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Littlefield Labs 1 Capacity Management at Littlefield Labs I. Introduction There are 3 stations in the game called sample preparing‚ testing‚ and centrifuging‚ while there are 4 steps to process the jobs. Before the game started‚ we tried to familiarize with the process of the laboratories and calculating the costs (both fixed and variable costs) based on the information on the sheet given. We did not intend to buy any machines too early‚ as we wanted to see the demand fluctuation and the
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Littlefield Simulation II Based on our success in the last Littlefield Simulation‚ we tried to utilize the same strategy as last time. Our goals were to minimize lead time by reducing the amount of jobs in queue and ensuring that we had enough machines at each station to handle the capacity. We wanted to keep the lead time between .5 and 1 day in order to get the maximum amount of revenue per job. We utilized data from the first 50 days and put it in an Excel chart to forecast the demand for the
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The Proposed Technology – Improve the Process The technology solution implemented will help gather data through the entire business process and from this‚ we will be able to become more efficient‚ reduce costs‚ plan services based on customer requests‚ order the correct amounts of supplies‚ procure supplies at best value‚ track clientele routines‚ know what each customer expects‚ program ample staff during peak days/hours‚ recognize the value of monthly specials‚ capitalize on marketing the
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development or integration with other COTS applications is important for large scale projects Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation provides information technology (IT)‚ consulting‚ and business process outsourcing services worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Financial Services; Healthcare; Manufacturing‚ Retail‚ and Logistics; and Other. It offers consulting and technology services‚ such as IT strategy‚ program management‚ operations improvement‚ strategy‚ and business consulting
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Technology is the Solution to Overpopulation About ten years ago while in a science museum‚ I saw a counter that estimated what the world population was at that given moment. Innocuous at first glance‚ since a number in excess of five billion is difficult to comprehend‚ what became alarming after watching the counter for a minute was the continual increase in the population. Thinking about the circumstances related to the population rise logically made the problem seem apparent. The earth is
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Robert de la Rosa COSC 1301.W01 September 24‚ 2008 Video Game Technology Humanity has a driving need for entertainment. Writers are constantly coming up with new movies‚ designers and engineers are always on the hunt for the next big idea for roller coasters and theme parks‚ and programmers are always designing and improving the most widely available entertainment software‚ video games. The video game industry generates 6 billion dollars a year‚ and in a field as large as this‚ there is a
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Production Planning and Inventory Control CTPT 310 Littlefield Simulation Executive Report Arlene Myers: 260299905 Rubing Mo: 260367907 Brent Devenne: 260339080 Miyaoka Scenario‚ Re: Littlefield Technology Simulation Game: Inventory Management Executive Summary At the onset of the game‚ we determined there were a few key things that had to be addressed to succeed. The first was to avoid stock outs which had already occurred in the first 50 days. We quickly moved to avoid stock outs
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