University of Petroleum & Energy Studies Centre for Continuing Education Executive MBA (OIL & GAS Management) Semester II YEAR: 2013 SESSION: January Assignment – 1 For Operations & Material Management (MBCQ 722D) (To be filled by the student) Name: _______________________ Sap No/Regn No: _______________________ Section A (20 Marks) Write short notes on any four of the following 1. Production management functions 2. The era of scientific management 3. Optimal
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Environmental factors can play a major part in a company’s marketing plan. Environmental factors can include social‚ ecological‚ political‚ cultural‚ technological‚ and ethical issues. PepsiCo can face all these issues because they are a global company. Many of these issues can affect PepsiCo’s marketing plan even in different areas of the United States. Larger environmental factors affect the way they market globally with different factors having to be considered in each area of the world. A company operates
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Contemporary Marketing Review Vol. 1(11) pp. 01 – 15‚ January‚ 2012 Available online at http://www.businessjournalz.org/cmr ISSN: 2047 – 041X OPERATION STRATEGIES FOR COCA-COLA VS PEPSI COMPANIES TO ATTRACT THEIR CUSTOMERS Mojtaba Saeidinia Candidate of MBA‚ Management and Science University‚ Faculty of Management‚ Malaysia E-mail: M.saeidinia1989@gmail.com Mehrdad Salehi Candidate of MBA‚ Management and science university‚ Faculty of Management‚ Malaysia E-mail: Ems_salehi64@yahoo.com Corresponding
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4.709 Operations Management Individual Assignment Lecturer: Mr. Ray Ninow Bhawana Vohra – ID No. 20140195 Total words: 1869 1. Custom Fabricators Company (a) The balance of Customer Service and Resource utilization Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction – that is‚ the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation. Customer Service is defined by three
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hope to select a good professor‚ but it is often a shot in the dark when selecting classes for the upcoming year. To combat this‚ I sat in on two different sections of the general education course. The course I chose was ECO 155 Principles of Macroeconomics. One section is taught by Dr. Julie Gallaway‚ and another section is taught by Dr. Mahua Mitra. My goal was to compare the two different teachers‚ and ultimately give my opinion on who was the better professor‚ using criteria such as organization
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Q1) Which of the following is a correct pair of a resource and its opportunity cost? a) land and interest b) capital and rent c) labor and wages d) services and rent Q2) Joe could be at three different jobs that pay $15‚ $10‚ and $8 respectively. If he is not working‚ the opportunity cost is... a) $15. b) $10. c) $8. d) $33. Q3) Apples‚ oranges‚ and peaches are the same price. In descending order‚ Joe’s favorite fruits are apples‚ oranges‚ and peaches. If Joe buys an apple‚ the
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MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS Russ Graziano ECON 545 Keller Graduate School of Management April 13‚ 2014 Introduction The idea Edgar has for opening up four new gas stations is based on a well based argument making it viable as a profitable business venture. The evaluation on the American consumer to accept the high price for gas oil prices forms the first approach towards establishing a business. Gasoil businesses in the world run as cartel where it supply and prices
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they are needed. Consequently‚ this approach requires much more frequent delivery of stocks. Developing a JIT approach requires sophisticated planning and considerable experience in this field. This is why leading companies contract out their supply chain management to a specialist company like Exel with considerable experience of this area. Just-In-Time is the key element in what is termed lean production. Lean production is a philosophy and a way of working involving eliminating all forms of waste
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Over the past several years‚ increasingly‚ there has been a trend within business and manufacturing community to associate JIT with Lean operations. According to “Reference for Business” Lean methodology is Westernized version of Japanese Just-In-Time system‚ where both of these systems share mostly the same characteristics and goals‚ and often used interchangeably. Whereas there are similarities between these two methodologies‚ there are also principal differences between them. It should be noted
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Strategically‚ operations management involves the long-term planning and structuring of work. Indeed‚ the task of operations strategy is to design the operating system‚ which is the joint configuration of resources and processes‚ such that its resulting competencies are aligned with the organization’s desired competitive position. In other words‚ operations strategy focuses on how to best enable and implement the organization’s strategy. (For for-profit organizations‚ “best” can be measured as maximizing
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