Angelina Tambunan ACCT 508 Book Report ‘The Goal’ I. Summary The story takes place at a fictitious town called Bearington where the Uniware manufacturing plant of the UniCo Company is situated. Whatever products the plant manufactures was not mentioned in the novel. The plant is headed by the plant manager Alex Rogo who is also the lead character of the novel. The problems begin when one upset customer approaches Alex’s boss‚ Bill Peach about a very late order. Actually Alex’s plant has
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Mongolian Grill Case Tanner Keelan Submitted to: J. Austin Davey & Tannys Laughren COMM 1006E-02 November 10‚ 2014 Executive Summary: The Mongolian Grill case is based around a successful restaurant in London‚ Ontario owned by John Butkus. Mr. Butkus is opening another Mongolian Grill in Waterloo‚ Ontario which gives him the opportunity to make adjustments from the London location to increase efficiencies to ensure great success in Waterloo. The biggest problem for the London location
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Beck Manufacturing Bernadette Giene Cain BU644: Operations Management Professor Vanessa Washington June 23‚ 2015 The expansion of a company’s production equipment can be very costly‚ and the decision to expand is made off the assessment of the product demand behavior. The expansion must be profitable enough to minimize future decreased demand‚ and help alleviate production issues in order to increase production growth. Expansion can also be utilized in order to compete within a market‚
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All businesses have the same goal. Just like all business‚ the goal of a manufacturing organization is to make money. As the book begins‚ it is clear that the UniCo plant that Rogo runs is in dire need of improvement. None of the orders are getting out on time and the plant is on the verge of being shut down. There are 3 operation measurements Rogo can use to improve his plant. The first is to sell more products. This examines if the throughput goes up. The second is to look at if the company
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Case Report: Kristen’s Cookie Company Do Tra My – Section 24 1. Process Analysis: The flow chart is included in the Appendix Task Order Entry Wash+Mix Spooning Setting Baking Cooling Packing Accepting Payment Total Resource None You You Roommate + Oven Oven None Roommate Roommate Cycle Time (mins/dozen) 0 6 2 1 9 5 2 1 26 Capacity (dozens/hour) Infinity 10x3=30 30 60 6.67 12 30 60 Flow Time (mins) 6 2 1 9 5 2 1 26 Table 1: Process Analysis Assumptions: Order is for a full box (a dozen cookies)
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Book Report: The Goal This paper is a book report on the novel entitled The Goal written by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox. The 40-chapter book is actually a business book written in the form of a novel that makes it interesting to read unlike other business textbook. As a novel‚ the book is entertaining but at the same time‚ very informative for management or accounting students as well as for the real-life company managers and CEOs who wanted to apply different managerial practices
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Alex learns from Jonah several concepts which are polar opposites from what he has been told before about business operations. Jonah reveals that: 1. Money is most important to management over efficiency. 2. Cost accounting is the number one enemy of productivity. 3. A plant in which everyone is working all the time is inefficient. The next morning Alex has the opportunity to take his son on a hiking trip with other boys and he has an another revelation regarding work. During the hike there is
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The heart of this story is based around the life of Alex Rogo‚ Plant Manager for Uniware a division of Unico. After a very upset customer approaches Alex’s boss‚ Bill Peach‚ he is given an ultimatum to turn the plant around in three months. Due to the limited amount of time available‚ there are not many outside tools available such as consultants‚ surveys‚ etc. With very few hopes‚ Alex foresees the inevitable until he remembers his conversation with Jonah‚ a physicist Alex knew from a previous job
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Bottlenecks OPS/571 Dr. Tom NeSmith University of Phoenix January 19‚ 2011 Bottlenecks in a Process Getting up and ready for work is a daily process. This process can have many bottlenecks that will hinder the process. After collecting two weeks of data and analyzing the flowchart presented in week one‚ I could identify the main bottleneck. A bottleneck is defined as “any resource whose capacity is less than the demand placed on it. A bottle neck is a constraint within the system
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Week Three Individual Assignment - Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints OPS/571 - Operations Management August 11‚ 2012 Week Three Individual Assignment - Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints Bottlenecks slow down or hold back by creating an obstruction in the process. The review of measuring tools and metrics can clearly identify areas for improvement. After collecting data for the month of June the obvious bottleneck in the Nonconformance Corrective Action Report (NCAR) process was identified as
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