INTRODUCTION Inventory is the total amount of goods or materials contained in a store at any time. Store owners need to know the precise number of items on their shelves and storage areas in order to place orders or control losses. Factory managers need to know how many units of their products are available for customers orders. Restaurants need to order more food based on their current supplies and menu needs. All of these business rely on an inventory count to provide answers. The word ‘Inventory’
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many demands on our time. For this reason‚ it is easy to feel like we are losing control in our life. Time itself will not going to slow down and demands on our time will not go away too. If we want the situation to be change‚ it is going to be up to us to change it. Time management is the best tool that we can use that can will help us to accomplish our demands in life. There is only one life to be able to spend my lives in my own way. So‚ I am setting my priorities to achieve my demands in life
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machines. The machine is designed to discharge a mean amount of 12 ounces per box‚ and the manufacturer wants to detect any departure from this setting. This quality study calls for randomly sampling 100 boxes from today’s production run and determining whether the mean fill for the run is 12 ounces per box. Set up a test of hypothesis for this study‚ using an alpha level of .01 Since the manufacturer is interested in any departure (more than 12 or less than 12) from a mean of 12 ounces the
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express demand for a product when you are willing and able to purchase it learn about the factors that cause changes in demand What is demand? - combination of desire‚ ability‚ and willingness to buy a product Main Idea: Demand is a concept specifying the different quantities of an item that will be bought at different prices. the concept of demand is easy to understand because it involves only two variables—the price and quantity of a specific product at a given point in time. Demand Schedule-
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CAPACITY AND DEMAND Capacity management is the activity of coping with mismatches between supply and demand. Capacity is the ability an operation or process has to supply demand. Usually this means how many products or services it can produce over a period of time. It’s something that is a basic responsibility of operations managers in any kind of organization. Therefore‚ one of the first things that any manager must ask themselves is‚ what is the operation’s‚ or process’s‚ current capacity
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Although demand forecasting is usually the responsibility of the sales and/or marketing functions‚ it is a very important input into the capacity planning and control decision‚ and so is of interest to operations managers. After all‚ without an estimate of future demand it is not possible to plan effectively for future events‚ only to react to them. It is therefore important to understand the basis and rationale for these demand forecasts. As far as capacity planning and control is concerned‚ there
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Homework #1 Problem #1 Q: Use the supply and demand framework in the labor market to explain why employment has grown rapidly in the United States in recent decades while at the same time there has been a slowdown in real-wage growth. A: With the growth of both supply and demand in the US‚ we can see that the quantity of labor needed has increased. In the same time the wages have not increased that much‚ because if we have an increase in both supply and demand we will have a shift to the right
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Aggregate Demand AGGREGATE DEMAND (AD‚ for short) = C + I + G + (X-M) • The aggregate demand curve is not focused on a single good or service. The AD curve is focused on overall demand for all final goods & services produced across the entire economy. • Determinants of Aggregate Demand: Although the shape of the AD curve is similar to the shape of a single market demand curve‚ its shape is based on entirely different principles from what we studied in Chapter 3. To elaborate‚
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production of most goods in the U.S.? A) the American government B) the UN C) the Federal Reserve Bank D) markets and prices Answer: B 2) Which of the following is an example of a normative statement? A) A higher price for a good causes people to want to buy less of that good. B) A lower price for a good causes people to want to buy more of that good. C) To make the good available to more people‚ a lower price should be set. D) If you consume this good‚ you will be better
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Lecture 5: Markets and Demand Money. -Barter requires no special tools. -Buying and selling requires money. -Selling means obtaining money in exchange for goods. -Buying is the opposite. -Commodity money: salt‚ gold. -Fiat money: modern money. Has no value of its own (paper or computer memory)‚ its declared to be money by the government or other institution. Acceptance of money. -Why do people accept paper money? We accept it because we know others will accept it. -Bitcoin: money invented
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