Unit I Assessment
Question 1
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Discuss how supply chain management is an important focus as companies strive to be as efficient as possible. Provide some examples.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 2
1.
Describe how OSCM provides a systematic means of observing organizational processes.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 3
1.
Provide and explain an example that supports this statement: Service operations strategy is the final strategic frontier.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 4
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The United States economy cannot support itself solely on its service industry. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Defend your position.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 5
1.
Discuss how operations and supply chain management has evolved as a field.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Question 6
1.
Explain the economic analysis of the various activities associated with developing a new product.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Unit II Assessment
Question 1
1.
Explain Littles Law and how it can be used.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 2
1.
Explain why the need to focus capacity on a fairly limited set of production objectives is the key to successful production.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 3
1.
Provide examples of how process throughput time can be reduced.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 4
1.
Discuss the objective of strategic capacity planning.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 5
1.
Explain how a firm determines its available capacity.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 6
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Work standards are the foundation of capacity and production planning. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Defend your response.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 7
1.
Define a process and basic process measures such as cycle time and utilization.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Unit III assessment
Question 1
1.
How does the degree of customer contact relate to the kinds of skills needed by service workers and the degree of training they require?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 2
1.
Are customer arrivals drawn from finite and infinite populations analyzed differently? Why, or why not?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 3
1.
Assume that you are offered a new piece of equipment for $10,000. The equipment will produce 10,000 units per year with a margin of $6.00 per unit. Demand for the product being produced has been 2,000 units per year. Your current equipment is fully depreciated and can produce the 2,000 units per year at a margin of only $4.00 per unit. Should you purchase the new equipment? Under what conditions?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 4
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Is office layout more akin to retail service layout or to manufacturing layout? Explain your answer.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 5
1.
Describe the role of service guarantees from the marketing and the operations perspective.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Question 6
1.
Contrast the Personal Attention Approach to service to the Production-Line Approach. In your opinion, which is superior? Why?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Unit IV Assessment
Question 1
1.
Identify and describe the American Hospital Associations four classifications of hospitals.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response
Question 2
1.
What are the underlying assumptions of minimum-cost scheduling? Are they equally realistic?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 3
1.
Identify the name given to the flow of work through a hospital. Describe the characteristics of this flow of work.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 4
2.
Identify and describe the application of the scientific method used to evaluate alternative treatment methods and create guidelines for similar clinical situations. Provide examples and search for more information.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 5
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Identify and describe the principal element of the overall layout of a hospital.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 6
1.
Identify and describe the trend in health care that uses electronic devices for measuring blood pressure, heart rate, and blood oxygen levels. Search for more information.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 7
1.
What are some reasons why project scheduling is not done well?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Unit V Assessment
Where do opportunities reside in improving supply chain operations and how has VSM helped to reveal these
Where do opportunities reside in improving supply chain operations and how has VSM helped to reveal these
Question 3
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List the type of stakeholders that would be considered in a payoff analysis. What are benefits of using balanced scorecard, and process dashboards?
Question 4
1.
Which of the rules of reengineering do you feel would be the most difficult to satisfy? Why?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 5
1.
How do facility location decisions differ for service facilities and manufacturing plants?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Question 6
1.
What motivations typically cause firms to initiate a facilities location or relocation project?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Unit IV Assessment
Question 1
1.
Identify and describe the American Hospital Associations four classifications of hospitals.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 2
1.
What are the underlying assumptions of minimum-cost scheduling? Are they equally realistic?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 3
1.
Identify the name given to the flow of work through a hospital. Describe the characteristics of this flow of work.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 4
1.
Identify and describe the application of the scientific method used to evaluate alternative treatment methods and create guidelines for similar clinical situations. Provide examples and search for more information.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length
Question 5
1.
Identify and describe the principal element of the overall layout of a hospital.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 6
1.
Identify and describe the trend in health care that uses electronic devices for measuring blood pressure, heart rate, and blood oxygen levels. Search for more information.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 7
1.
What are some reasons why project scheduling is not done well?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 8
1.
Describe the three main services provided by a hospital staff. Provide some examples.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Unit VII Assessment
Question 1
1.
Product A is an end item and is made from two units of B and four of C. B is made of three units of D and two of E. C is made of two units of F and two of E. A has a lead-time of one week. B, C, and E have lead times of two weeks, and D and F have lead times of three weeks. Show the bill of materials (product tree structure).
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 2
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You have a business in which you sell very inexpensive items and very expensive items. Would you use a fixed-time period or a fixed-quantity period model to order the expensive items? Explain your decision.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 3
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Dunstreets Department Store would like to develop an inventory ordering policy with a 95 percent probability of not stocking out. To illustrate your recommended procedure, use as an example the ordering policy for white percale sheets. Demand for white percale sheets is 5,000 per year. The store is open 365 days per year. Every two weeks inventory is counted and a new order is placed. It takes 10 days for the sheets to be delivered. Standard deviation of demand for the sheets is five per day. There are currently 150 sheets on hand. How many sheets should you order?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 4
1.
Discuss the importance of the master production schedule in an MRP system.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 5
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The question of flexibility within a master production schedule depends on several factors. Unless some operating rules are established and adhered to, the system could become chaotic. What techniques does management use to maintain a reasonably controlled flow through the production system?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
uestion 6
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Holding cost is handled differently in MRP and EOQ models. Describe those differences.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 7
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If you are in the business of making roller skates, would the wheels needed be dependent or independent on the production levels? Would the demand for roller skates be dependent or independent?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 8
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How does MRP relate to CIM? Hint: In addition to the reading assignment refer to Appendix B in the textbook.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
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Question 1
1.
What is the role of judgment and evaluation in simulation?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 2
1.
Discuss the three financial measures a firm uses to determine its ability to make money.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 3
1.
Where in a dependent events sequence should an in-process quality inspection be placed? Why there?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 4
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You have run a capacity resource profile on your shop. Products have been routed sequentially through resources A, B, C, and D. The capacity resource profile tells you that resource A is scheduled at 95% of capacity, resource B at 80% of capacity, resource C at 130% of capacity, and resource D at 100% of capacity. Assuming that the data we used to calculate the capacity resource profile was accurate, how would you employ the drum, buffer, rope thinking?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 5
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In discussing batch size on an assembly line, the textbook makes the point that one and infinity are equally correct answers. How can this be?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 6
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A work center has five jobs assigned to it. They are labeled, in the order of their arrival in the shop, as jobs A, B, C, D, and E. The work center may work on only one job at a time and must complete any job it starts before starting another job. Job A has a processing time of 6 days and is due to the customer in 9 days. Job B has a processing time of 2 days and is due in 16 days. Job C has a processing time of 4 days and is due in 10 days. Job D has a processing time of 3 days and is due in 7 days. Job E has a processing time of 5 days and is due in 12 days. Using the earliest due date (EDD) priority rule, what will be the average lateness of these orders?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 7
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What is the difference between finite and infinite loading?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.
Question 8
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Describe how cost accounting is sometimes antithetical to the Theory of Constraints (TOC).
Your response should be at least 75 words in length.