following is not one of the major categories of costs associated with quality? a. prevention costs b. appraisal costs c. internal failures d. external failures e. none of the above‚ they are all major categories of costs associated with quality 3. According to the manufacturing-based definition of quality‚ a. quality is the degree of excellence at an acceptable price and the control of variability at an acceptable cost b. quality depends on how well the product fits patterns of consumer
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Ch3 – O.M 1) Strategic decisions are those which: A) Only involve senior managers B) Require the input of external consultants and management accountants. C) Seek to move the whole organisation towards its overall long-term goals D) Define the position of a business unit with respect to its operational capabilities 2) The determination of performance priorities is normally influenced by: A) The specific needs of the company’s customer
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Caroline Walsh BADM 3601 – Operations Management Assignment # 4 Due: Monday November 12th ‐ 5:00 PM (a) A study‐aid desk manned by a graduate student has been established to answer student’s questions and help in working problems in your OM course. The desk is staffed eight hours per day. The dean wants to know how the facility is working. Statistics show that students arrive at a rate of four per hour‚ and the distribution is approximately Poisson. Assistance time averages 10 minutes‚ distributed
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operation management • Executive Summary Operation management is defined as the design‚ operation‚ and improvement of the systems that create and deliver the firm’s primary products and services. Somerset furniture company’s global supply chain was getting lose its competitive edge and even faced shipments delayed by as much as 40%. The company prides itself on customer service and fears that late deliveries to its customers would harm its credibility and result in lost customers and excessive
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University Module 1 Case Assignment 1Course Number: OPM300Intro. to Operations Mgmt Professor: Dr. Nicholas BowersoxDate: 10 April 2013 | Operation management “the hard rock café” | | The Hard Rock Café has been able to not only survive the times but thrive and expand its company. From the changes in its menus to the sale of its trendy merchandise the company continues to stay at the top of the service industry. Continual improvement of its processes and sound management practices make this
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used JIT concepts as he streamlined his moving assembly lines to make automobiles in the early 1900s. True FalseThe moving assembly lines are a perfect example of a JIT concept. Ford designed this system to be perfectly time efficient. | 3. | Lean production requires a "push and pull" system of inventory replenishment. True FalseRather than pushing material through the system based on weekly schedules generated by production control‚ the entire process is converted to a pull system
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QMDS311-001 OPERATION MANAGEMENT a) Introduction The company that our group chose to study is City of Dreams Macau (COD)‚ which is located in Macau Cotai coherent highway. COD is a diversified entertainment resort‚ which contains a rich set of entertainment‚ grand hotel accommodation‚ international cuisine‚ internationally renowned brands as well as casino. Luckily‚ we found a manager in entertainment and progress department of this company to help us conduct an interview. The information
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 2 This assignment will define operations management and explore the various bodies of knowledge and practices that have led to operations management as it is currently known today. Additionally‚ this paper will focus on topic areas such as supply chain management‚ total quality
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Strategically‚ operations management involves the long-term planning and structuring of work. Indeed‚ the task of operations strategy is to design the operating system‚ which is the joint configuration of resources and processes‚ such that its resulting competencies are aligned with the organization’s desired competitive position. In other words‚ operations strategy focuses on how to best enable and implement the organization’s strategy. (For for-profit organizations‚ “best” can be measured as maximizing
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CASE STUDIES (PROJECT MANAGEMENT) MERCENE‚ JOHANNA B. BSIS- 3B Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION CASE: AaronSide to Teams Dragan Z. Milosevic‚ Peerasit Patanakul‚ and Sabin Srivannaboon Answers 1. (a) Relay race approach has its good idea to conduct first a study of what the consumers’ desires before getting into the decisions of making a new project or product to determine the needs of the customers. But‚ having this approach is much suitable for local projects. In the
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