Centre for Continuing Education Executive MBA (OIL & GAS Management) Semester II YEAR: 2013 SESSION: January Assignment – 1 For Operations & Material Management (MBCQ 722D) (To be filled by the student) Name: _______________________ Sap No/Regn No: _______________________ Section A (20 Marks) Write short notes on any four of the following 1. Production management functions 2. The era of scientific management 3. Optimal criteria for selecting a plant location 4.
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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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agement AEREN FOUNDATION’S Maharashtra Govt. Reg. No.: F-11724 [pic] SUBJECT : OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Total Marks : 80 CASE-1 (16 Marks) Bloomsday Outfitters produces T-shirts for road races. They need to acquire some new stamping machines to produce 30‚000 good T-shirts per month. Their plant operates 200 hours per month‚ but the new machines will
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capital‚ management 5. Which appears to provide the best opportunity for increases in productivity? Answer: c. Management 6. When returns to labor capital or management are increased w/o increased productivity‚ prices: Answer: a. Rise 7. Problems in the measurement of productivity include: Answer: d. All of the above 8. The person who introduced standardized‚ interchangeable parts was: Answer: a. Eli Whitney Discussion Questions 1. Why should one study operation management? Answer:
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different countries. In a global marketplace‚ more and more companies need international presence; therefore the need for creating virtual teams exists. By dynamically allocating people to projects based on expertise rather than location‚ organizations can more easily assign the most qualified people to appropriate projects without concern for the expense and wasted productivity caused by extensive travel or frequent relocation (Goldman 2000). Multi-cultural virtual teams are important in these days due
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FOREIGN TRADE (REGULATION) RULES‚ 1993 Ministry of Commerce Notification No. GSR 791 (E)‚ dated 30-12-1993 In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 19 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act‚ 1992 (22 of 1992)‚ the Central Government hereby makes the following rules‚ namely:— 1. Short title and commencement. (1) These rules may be called the Foreign Trade (Regulation) Rules‚ 1993. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication
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It is usually stated that ‘the structural decisions items of an operations strategy reflect the hardware of the firm‚ while the infrastructure decision areas represent the firm’s software’. Comparing structural decisions with the hardware of the firm and the infrastructure decisions as its software‚ it shows that the structural decisions are very important and the firm cannot exists without them because without a hardware computer would not exist and the software would have nothing to run on. Structural
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My service learning project was Carestream Charity‚ this non profit organization group brings together hairstylist and volunteers throughout the Vegas Valley and provides many different services to the less fortunate. (February 21 2017 total of 8 hours) One of the events I was able to attend was haircuts for K-12 age students that are either homeless or are living in a shelter. This event provided haircut for over 500 students in the Valley that is a massive amount of children that are either living
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The Nature of Services Learning Objectives Classify a service into one of four categories using the service process matrix. Describe a service using the four dimensions of the service package. Discuss the managerial implications of the distinctive characteristics of a service operation. Discuss the insights obtained from a strategic classification of services. Discuss the role of a service manager from an open-systems view of service. An Integrated Approach to
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Zipcar 1. What service attributes does Zipcar offer its customers? What is it asking its customers to give up? • Convenience – customers can make reservations online without having to purchase a car but rent one and pick up in a nearby area/neighborhood. Customers just needed to pay monthly fees and put in a deposit to be able to have access. • Flexibility – customers can make reservations online and for certain time frames (does not have to be for the full day). Customers can also choose the
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