Unit Six Written Assignment MT435 Operations Management January 22‚ 2013 Introduction Albatross Anchors can change several things to make their business more productive than it has been. They opened in 1976 with only four family members and now employ 130 people; this alone shows massive growth over the past 35+ years. By only selling at a wholesale level‚ this means that they produce and sell in mass amounts and therefore their supply chain and manufacturing process is extremely important
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Unit six Written Assignment Albatross Anchor Operational Changes Farima Thomas MT435 Operations Management Kaplan University 12/17/2012 Albatross Anchor Operational Changes Introduction Albatross Anchors is a small family owned business that began in 1976. The company has grown exponentially over the years with more than one hundred and thirty employees. As the company grew‚ their operational issues in the production and administrative area grew as well. The organization
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Unit Three Written Assignment Kelli-Michelle Evans MT435 Operations Management Kaplan University May 8. 2013 Introduction Before we begin‚ I wish to say thank you on behalf of KU Consulting for giving us the opportunity to present this proposal to your company. We understand that you may not agree with all of the ideas presented. However‚ we are willing to work with you to come up with solutions to your current issues that work within your budget and thought process. We only ask
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MT435 Operations Management Kaplan University ntroduction: My name is Aiden and KU Consulting has asked me to prepare a bid on the consulting job with Albatross Anchor. With the information provided to me I am able to go through and analyze the operation as it is running and suggest how to improve the operations to be more competitive with the other anchor manufactures and to increase profits for the company‚ Albatross has been in business since 1976 with four family members. It has grown to
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MT435 Operations Management Unit Three 11/25/10 Introduction Albatross Anchor is a small family owned business located in Smallville‚ MA. Albatross Anchor is located on 12 acres of land. They started out with four employees in 1976 and grow over the years to over 100. The company manufactures two types of anchors in different sizes. The types are the mushroom/bell anchor and the snap hook anchor. Albatross Anchor has many manufacturing problems which are the cause of the
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presented in the scenario/case study discuss Albatross Anchor’s competitiveness in relation to (please address all items in the below list and provide support for your conclusions): 1. Cost a) Cost of Production: Cost of production is costs incurred by Albatross Anchor when manufacturing an anchor. There are two types of costs – fixed and variable. Variable costs depend on what materials and labor are needed to make the anchor and vary with the volume of anchors produced. Fixed costs‚ such as rent
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Unit six Written Assignment MT435 Operations Management Kaplan University 05/22/2013 Introduction Albatross is a family owned company that was opened in 1976 by just a few family members. Over the years the company has seen tremendous growth which seems to be causing a lot of issues their production and administrative areas. They haven’t taken much up with newer technologies which makes what they have disorganized and not meeting the standards of most other companies in their
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Cheryl L. Jones MT435 Unit eight Kaplan University 19 November 2012 Introduction Question one Challenge one: Material Purchasing‚ Albatross Anchor has small storage that are located away from the production area requiring smaller amounts of material to be order due to lack of storage. Increasing storage will allow for larger amount of raw materials to be kept on hand and reduce the cost associated with order multiple smaller batches of raw materials. Challenge two: Inventory/Shipping:
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Unit Three Written Assignment Unknown! MT435 Operations Management Kaplan University June 13‚ 2013 This case study references a business called Albatross Anchors. Albatross is a small‚ family business that manufactures two different types of anchors. Albatross Anchors case study is about a few challenges that are being called out into the open in hopes to fix. While some problems may be minor at best‚ other ’s could lead to major profit loss. Most of
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Unit six Written Assignment Sanaya Cross MT435 Operations Management Kaplan University 03/09/2013 Introduction Albatross Anchors is a family-owned business which was established in 1976‚ located on twelve acres in a rural suburb of Smalltown in the United States. Albatross Anchor started with four family members‚ and has essentially grown to one hundred and thirty employees. Their operations started off as manufacturers of bell/mushroom anchors but as of 1989‚ the owners decided to expand
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