INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Spring 2012-ASSIGNMENT # 1 Name 1: --------------------------------------------------- ID # ------------------------------------------------ Name 2: --------------------------------------------------- ID # ------------------------------------------------ Question # 1 [15 Marks] Bob Richards‚ the production manager of Zychol Chemicals‚ is preparing his quarterly report‚ which is to include a productivity analysis for his department. One of the inputs
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Operation Management Introduction Kudler Fine Foods has several important issues in terms of its operation management. Kudler made the decision to start contracting with local growers of organic produce. Continuing to find new ways to increase business and gain an edge over the competition is important in the market. Developments may include merger and acquisition activity involving continuing price competition‚ growth of take-away food products and services‚ change in operations and continuing
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reengineering customer service. It looks at operations management as a source for gaining a competitive advantage and overcoming potential problems experienced within and organisation or workplace. The questions to be reviewed are as follows: Jeans Therapy - Levi’s factory worker are assigned to teams‚ and morale takes a hit: 1. What went wrong with Levi’s move to teams in their plants?; 2. What could Levi’s have done differently to avert the problems?; 3. Devise a team incentive plan that you
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OPERATION MANAGEMENT Operation management is concerned with the bunch of activities that design and produces goods or services by the input-transformation-output process. (Slack 2001) Operation management can also be defined as the process of transforming different resources or inputs (labour‚ capital‚ machinery‚ land and buildings‚ materials and information) that are used in the operational activities of an organisation to the output (value added product and services)for the customers in a controlled
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Zakir ALI ALAMI Yakult’s Operation Management Process: Research Activities Part A: Background Information Questions 1) What is Yakults corporate philosophy? Ans: Yakult ’s greatest goal is to bring smiles to faces everywhere. The global corporate philosophy of the Yakult Group is: "We contribute to the health and happiness of people around the world through pursuit of excellence in life sciences in general and our research and experience in microorganisms in particular. 2) What type
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mainly applies to an organization‚ particularly large organizations that have become inefficient over time that finds it difficult to be competitive using the archaic systems of governance‚ organizational processes and procedures. For organizational operations‚ Reengineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical‚ contemporary measures of performance such as- cost‚ quality‚ service and speed. The concept is not about slight
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What is air pollution? "Let’s go out for a breath of fresh air" is an often-heard phrase‚ but how many of us realize that this has become irrelevant in today’s world? The quality of air in our cities is anything but fresh. Air pollution is a serious problem in our society these days. We need to take action to help prevent air pollution before it is to late. To help prevent air pollution are; we could run cars on water or batteries which are environmentally safe or even car pool more‚ ban aerosol cans
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improve product flow. Smooth the flow-> pull system-Kanban: Kanban means “sign” or “instruction card” in Japanese; the authority to produce or supply additional parts come from downstream operations; -small lots: Require less space and capital investment‚ Move processes (work stations) closer together‚ make quality problems easier to detect-quick setups-uniform production‚ and continuously improve-> quality at the source-total productive
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Future of Technology TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY School of Economics and Business Administration Research Paper Jens-Antti Andersen‚ Tallinn‚ Estonia‚ 2013 Table of Content 1. History 3 1.1 Industrial Revolution 3 1.2 Scientific Management – Ford and Taylor 4 2. Future 4 2.1 Future Trends – Bitcoins and 3D Printing 4 3. Discussion 4 1. History 1.1 Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution started in 1770 in England‚ and spread from there to the rest of the Europe
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performance. Performance here is defined as the degree to which an operation fulfils the five performance objectives at any point in time‚ in order to satisfy its customers. A polar diagram can be used to see how well the 5 dimensions of performance of the operation meet requirements of the market. It is unlikely that for any operation a single measure of performance will adequately reflect the whole of a performance objective. Usually operations have to collect a whole bundle of partial measures of performance
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