Note: Solve BOTH case studies. Case I DABBAWALLAHS OF MUMBAI (A) Dabba was a generic‚ colloquial term used explicitly in Mumbai to describe any cylindrical box. In the context of meal delivery service‚ a dabba was an aluminum box carried by its handle like a tin of paint. Each dabba housed three to four interlocking steel containers and was held together by a collapsible metallic wire handle. Each of these containers accommodated an individual food item found in a typical midday lunch. Wallah
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New Zealand Natural Ice Cream | | Operations Management Operations Management Executive summary The paper concentrates on studying operation management of ‘New Zealand Natural Ice Cream’in terms of its demand forecasting and inventory management strategies. The purpose is to improve the efficiency of the operation network. For doing so‚ qualitative data are researched and analyzed to reflect the current operation of the shop. Then‚ various demand forecasting‚ based on quantitative data
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PLC (ELICO) Awash Tannery For the Course Production /Operations Management (MBAd 632) (Educational Visit Report) Submitted To Tadesse Negash (PhD) Prepared by ABERAHAM MELSE MEKURIA ABERA MESFINE TELILA MERGIA BAYISSA TADESSE BIRU TENA H/MARIAM WOSSEN HAILU August 2013 Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We are strongly indebted to our instructor of production and operations management Dr. Tadesse Negash for his intimacy with us‚ continuous
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into the planned outputs ( goods or services ) meeting laid down quality standards * Step-by-step conversion of one form of material into another form through chemical or mechanical process to enhance the utility of the product to the end users. * Value addition process at each stage * A process by which “goods and services are created” ………Edwood Buffa * Some examples: Chilly powder‚ Furniture‚ edible oils‚ Petrol Concept of Operation Operation : * Categorised into
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group good may result in a free rider problem: individual members of the group may tend to shirk‚ resulting in an inefficient level of group good. How much effort each individual member of the group exerts will depend on his or her own benefits and costs‚ the efforts exerted by the other individual members of the group‚ and the technic that relates individual effort to outcomes. In the context of system of study group’s reliability‚ we can distinguish three prototypical cases. Total effort
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What is Operations Management? Operation Management is concerned with any productive activity‚ whether manufacturing or service‚ in public sector or private sector‚ profit making or not profit making. It is concerned with ensuring that operations are carried out both efficiently and effectively. All mangers are operations managers since all functions within an organization are‚ presumably‚ productive activates it goes without saying that all function should be carried out efficiently and effectively
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Production Capacity It is highly imperative that management must formulate a strategic plan for operations before any production is carried out. This is basically important in avoiding possible hindrances and excess in capacity. Under capacity may force the firm to cancel production schedules or excess can be fatal due to a broadened fixed cost. Both really would be a financial burden to the firm. Some procedural strategy can be adopted to minimize ill effects of capacity-related problems
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on cost‚ operational control‚ systems‚ and quality at the expense of growth? Answer: We don’t need to be concerned about this issue too much. Actually CitySoft has been growing fast since 1998 to 1999‚ and it is the time to focus more on its cost‚ operational control and systems in order to improve CitySoft’s profitability in the future. Refining the process of operation and cost management is quite necessary for CitySoft at this point‚ because if it kept expanding without improving its cost‚ operational
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Journal of Operations Management 20 (2002) 419–433 Effective case research in operations management: a process perspective I. Stuart∗ ‚ D. McCutcheon‚ R. Handfield‚ R. McLachlin‚ D. Samson Faculty of Business‚ University of Victoria‚ P.O. Box 1700‚ Victoria‚ BC‚ Canada V8W 2Y2 Received 8 August 2001; received in revised form 26 October 2001; accepted 11 March 2002 Abstract Despite many calls for case-based operations management research‚ the successful publication rate of such articles
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a centralized corporate level Materials Management System to consolidate buying decisions for each of the 4 dealerships. This would facilitate greater leveraging with suppliers for consistent quality-control. They should study‚ calculate and make effective decisions on the materials that should be brought for each of the four dealerships instead of allowing each dealer to do it on their own. An automated EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) inventory management system that interconnects with each of
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