OPIM 201 – Practice Problem Set 1 1. Suppose a process flow diagram is as follows. In step 1‚ there are two sets of machines ({M1‚ M2} & {M3‚ M4}) in parallel; both sets process identical tasks but each set has different task times. Assume the process is in steady state and there is no buffer between each step. (a) What is the system cycle time? (b) The average WIP turns out to be 4.6 units. What is the average time a unit spent in the system? 2. The department of tax
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Nogawa took presidency of Komatsu and started to begin years of decline. In 1987 Masao Tanaka was chosen to replace Nogawa as president and reinvented the ideals of the company once again. Then in 1989‚ Tetsuya Katadaonce again changed the focus of the company and allowed for changes that focused on the complete company growing stronger as a whole and not one individual dictating what to do. List relevant qualitative data: evidence related to or based on the quality or character of something
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The Harvard Management Company and Inflation Protected Bonds Executive Summary The Harvard Management Company (HMC) was established in 1974 with the goals providing world-class investment management focused solely on generating strong results to support the educational and research objectives of Harvard University. The company’s goals are to correctly measure Harvard University’s financial requirements and to provide investment opportunities that will accurately meet or exceed them with the
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The purpose of this case is to hire a Sales Manager for the company with all the core competences of company. According to the legal view of this case study it falls under the pregnancy discrimination act of 1978 (A framework for human resource management‚ Gary Dessler).This act encompasses discrimination of pregnancy‚ childbirth‚ or any other related medical conditions. The legal and the ethical issues involved in this case is about Gladys pregnancy and Timmy’s response for it. It is ethical for
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The SEC was a technology company that relies on R&D and production of high quality electronic products. During 1980s SEC produce goods for better known brands that resold them under their brands. In these period SEC did not invest on marketing activities and as a result could not create a well known brand image in the minds of consumers. The Asian Crisis in 1997 forced the company to make radical changes in the company policies in order to survive. Although aim of creating innovative‚ high premium
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BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE^ BRIAN FITZGERALD AND CIARAN MURPHY Executive Systems Research Centre‚ University College‚ Cork‚ Ireland. ABSTRACT Business Process Reengineering (BPR) advocates the fundamental examination and redesign of business processes‚ recognising tb-at the legacy of scientific management has been the excessive fragmentation of work practices in organisations today. This is reflected in the hierarchical structuring of organisations around functional
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1. The Xavier Company‚ a merchandising firm‚ has planned the following sales for the next four months: | | |March |April |May |June | | |Total budgeted sales |$70‚000 |$50‚000 |$80‚000 |$60‚000 | Sales are made 40% for cash and 60% on account. From experience‚ the company has learned that a month’s sales on account are collected according to the following pattern:
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Operations OPIM 201 Arielle Elise CHUA Stefanie Kaye SU WANG Run Yu Kimberly Klaire WONG EBAY’S SERVICES What services does eBay provide? 1.1- THE ONLINE AUCTION MARKETPLACE Hailed as “The Customer Marketplace” by the Harvard Business Review authors‚ eBay provides an online auction platform for individual buyers and sellers‚ small businesses and larger corporations to get connected‚ trade and interact with each other. When Pierre Omidyar originally founded eBay in 1995‚ he
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All organisations are involved in some form of transformation process. They take inputs such as land‚ labour‚ capital and entrepreneurship and turn them into outputs such as physical goods and intangible services. In many cases the output of a business is a combination of goods and services; for example in a restaurant you are buying a meal but also the environment and the service. The aim of all organisations is to add value i.e. to create outputs that are worth more than the inputs. In many cases
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