Week 4 Individual Assignment August 26‚ 2013 Week 4 Individual Assignment I am intimately aware of two organizations personally‚ the first is a little company that I started‚ and the company where I work now. By selecting two companies that I have worked with and for‚ I am able to better understand in detail the structure‚ organizational functions‚ and structural design. I started working out of high school on a little ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Soon
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MGMT 405 Operations and Production Management Answer set 5 (Reference chapters 12– William J. Stevenson-2007‚ ninth edition) Problems 1. The manager of an automobile repair shop hopes to achieve a better allocation of inventory control efforts by adopting an ABC approach to inventory control. Using the following monthly usage and classify the items in A‚ B‚ and C categories according to dollar usage: Item Usage Unit Cost 4021 50 $ 1400 9402 300 12 4066 40 700 6500 150 20 9280 10 1020 4050 80 140
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Homework Assignment Week 4: questions & problems Chapter 13 - Discussion Question # 3‚ page 539: Define aggregate planning – Also known as aggregate scheduling is concerned with determining the quantity and timing of production for the intermediate future‚ often from 3 to 18 months ahead. Chapter 13 - Discussion Question # 5‚ page 539: List the strategic objectives of aggregate planning. Which one of these is most often addressed by the quantitative techniques of aggregate planning? For manufacturers
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Week 5 Problems Applied Business and Research Statistics 561 1. SupplyCo. is a supplier to a number of firms in an industry. By carefully mining its customer data warehouse‚ SupplyCo. reveals a plausible new model for manufacturing and distributing industry products that would increase the overall efficiency of the industry system‚ reduce costs of production (leading to greater industry profits and more sales for SupplyCo.)‚ and result in greater sales and profits for some of the industry’s
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Workshop Questions – Week 4 1. Search the Web for a company that is purely Web based. Next‚ find the Web site of a competing company that is a hybrid (i.e.‚ they have a traditional brick-and-mortar business plus a presence on the Web). ASOS vs Westfield (a) Explain the pros and cons of dealing with each type of company. An example of a company that is purely Web based would be ASOS and an example of a competing company that is a hybrid would be Westfield. One of the pros of ASOS
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Learning Team Deliverable Week 4 Learning Team D – Walter Branch‚ Ramon Castillo‚ Barbara Farve‚ Kristofer Genilo ECO/561 – Economics 11/24/2014 Peter Oburu Measuring Domestic Output and National Income – Ch. 24 Topics comfortable Kris is comfortable with the concept of gross domestic product (GDP) as it is the dollar value of goods and services in a country during a set period. Walter is comfortable with the GDP concept and understands that is the economic thermometer of the country’s
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Proposal: Four Day Work Week I propose that we implement a four day work week over the conventional five day work week. 1938 was the year that the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed. This act stated that there was a need for a standardized work week‚ and that the new standard work week was to be eight hour days‚ five days a week. There need for this act stemmed from employers taking advantage of their employees and working them to many hours a day and to many days a week. The basis for the eight
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July 02‚ 2010‚ from MasterFILE Premier database. Straker‚ D. (2008). Leadership Styles. ChangingMinds.org. Retrieved July 01‚ 2010‚ from http://www.changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/articles/manager_leader.html University of Phoenix. (2010). Week Four Assessment. Retrieved July 02‚ 2010‚ from University of Phoenix‚ LDR531-Organizational Leadership website. Yukl‚ G. (2006). Leadership in organizations (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Pearson Education.
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Week 4 Discussions Week 4 Discussion Question 1 What is break-even analysis and how does it work with cost–volume–profit analysis? As a manager‚ what decisions would you make to achieve a lower break-even point? The CVP analysis is the level of activity at which total revenues equal total costs (both fixed and variable). A break-even analysis is the process of finding the break-even point. The cost-value-profit is the study of how specific costs respond to changes in the level of business
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distributing over the four weeks in each month‚ we have 30 per week in June and 40 per week in July. Now‚ suppose that there are currently 64 pumps in inventory and there are customer orders that have been committed and must be filled. These inputs result in the following table. Next‚ we need to use this information to determine projected inventory‚ master production schedule (MPS)‚ and ATP. If no production is planed‚ projected inventory becomes negative from week 3. This is a signal that
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