Assignment (Prof. Kripa Shanker) Books on decision making or operation research The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt‚ Jeff Cox and David Whitford (Jun 2012) Operations Management (Operations and Decision Sciences) by William Stevenson Project Management wMSProject2007 CD and Student CD by Erik Larson and Clifford Gray Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics (Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences) by Douglas Lind‚ William Marchal
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Jennifer Purifoy April 30‚ 2001 Page 1 of 3 Executive Summary for The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 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‚
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Process Improvement Plan University of Phoenix Dr. Anthony Matias March 24‚ 2011 Abstract The premise of this paper is to identify deficiencies in daily managerial processes by using systematic statistical process controls and make the necessary improvements. The paper will employ various examples and calculations along with supporting data to explain control limits and its importance to the statistical process control. The effects of seasonal factors and its relevance to a process
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Process Improvement Best Practices Overview This reference is intended to capture best practices Process Consultants identify from external sources or while working on process improvement projects. Involve Employees: Organizations who involve employees in the process improvement process realize greater success. Employees are critical because they are the best resource for knowing how to increase value to customers. They know where problems exist and often have valuable improvement recommendations
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Running head: Process Design for Riordan Manufacturing Process Design for Riordan Manufacturing University of Phoenix Operations Management – OPS/571 Abstract This paper focuses on a process design‚ production forecast‚ and implementation of said design for Riordan Manufacturing. . Table of Contents Abstract 2 Title of Paper 4 Introduction 4 MRP 4-5 Process Design 5-6 Supply Chain 6 Production Forecast 7 Implementation Plan
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Final project report 1. Introduction of the process The process our team is going to discuss is IKEA shopping process. Customers will flow through the process by first entering a display area. The display area can be a kitchen‚ a dorm‚ a bedroom or a dinning room with all IKEA furniture. It helps customers find their needs about a piece of furniture and how to use them. Also it gives customers a lot of innovative ideas of how to decorate their bedroom or their dinning room with IKEA furniture
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Running Head: PROCESS DESIGN FOR RIORDAN MANUFACTURING Process Design for Riordan Manufacturing STUDENT NAME University of Phoenix Online INSTRUCTOR NAME OPS/571 DATE Process Design for Riordan Manufacturing The Riordan Manufacturing plant in Hangzhou‚ China operates its manufacturing unit to prepare the electric fan to provide the worldwide supply based on the production forecast sales extrapolated using the theory of moving averages for last three years. This paper includes
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Introduction There are numerous definitions of the terms ‘Sustainable’ and ‘Supply Chain’. For the simplistic but practical definition is “Management of raw materials and services from suppliers to manufacturer/ service provider to customer and back with improvement of the social and environmental impacts explicitly considered”. The supply chain considers the interactions between a business and its customers and suppliers. The greatest benefits are derived by extending the focus as far as possible upstream
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Process Improvement Plan Your name OPS/571 June 14‚ 2010 Daryl West Process Improvement Plan The purpose of this paper is to outline the process improvement plan to include the statistical process control identified in week one. To begin‚ I will explain the control limits‚ discuss the effect of seasonal factors and the confidence intervals and their usefulness based on the number of data points. For the past five weeks I have been monitoring and reviewing the process of posting the assignments on
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Consulting approaches to process improvement Bain & Co. Kai A. Simon Viktoria Institute Author’s Note: This is a part of an early draft of my doctoral dissertation that was shortened considerably for the final version. Nevertheless‚ it might be a useful collection of insight for organizations that face a need for redesigning their business processes and wish to learn more about the basic concept and how some major consulting firms approach it methodologically. The series consists of 7 parts
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