A General Strategic Capacity Planning Model under Demand Uncertainty Woonghee Tim Huh‚1 Robin O. Roundy‚2 Metin Çakanyildirim3 1 Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research‚ Columbia University‚ New York‚ New York 10027 2 School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering‚ Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ New York 14853 3 School of Management‚ University of Texas at Dallas‚ Richardson‚ Texas 75083 Received 29 October 2003; revised 24 August 2005; accepted 30 September
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OPER 1027 Term 1 Assessment Case study 1-Capacity Planning in Zara Zara is one of the famous brands of the Spanish retail group. It sells up-to-the-minute ’fashionability’ at low prices‚ in stores that are clearly focused on one particular market. (Slack‚ Chambers‚ Betts‚ & Johnson‚ 2006) The first store opened almost by accident in 1975 due to a large pyjamas order cancellation. But now‚ the holdings group included Zara and the other branded chains Pull and Bear and Massimo Dutti‚ which have over
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Arnold Palmer Hospital’s Supply Chain Case Arnold Palmer Hospital is one of the nations leading hospitals for women and children. It is located in Orlando‚ Florida‚ and is apart of a national purchasing group. Even though being apart of the purchasing group has some advantages‚ there are also many disadvantages. These disadvantages forced the hospital to change its supply chain strategy. After leaving this group the hospital along with several other hospitals from the group formed their own
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Case 2: Project Management at Arnold Palmer Hospital 1- Develop the network for planning and construction of the new hospital at Arnold Palmer. 2- What is the critical path and how long is the project expected to take? The critical path is Activities 1-3-5-6-8-10-11-12-14-16-17-19- 20-21. The project will take around 47 months (4 years). 3- Why is the construction of this 11-story building any more complex than construction of an equivalent office
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keyword(s) Page 1 15 of 63 DOCUMENTS: Carter on Contract/Part IV -- Parties to the Contract/Chapter 16 Capacity/3. MENTALLY DISABLED AND INTOXICATED PERSONS 3. MENTALLY DISABLED AND INTOXICATED PERSONS General principles: (1) A contract is voidable on the basis of mental incompetence arising from unsoundness of mind or intoxication if: (a) the defendant lacked capacity to contract; and (b) the plaintiff knew of the unsoundness of mind or intoxication. Lack of capacity to contract in relation
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Capacity Planning and Control: Nestle Course Work in Operations Management May‚ 2005 A business organization is an entity that inputs capital and resources‚ processes them and gets an output – products and services. Any business invests much capital into R’n’D and marketing for studying the customers’ opinion because it is a priority for any business to satisfy its customers. The more satisfied the customers are the better off the business is. Thus both parties are well off – customers get what
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Chapter Supply-Chain Management Discussion Questions 1. Supply-chain management is the management of the activities that procure raw materials‚ transform them into intermediate goods and final products‚ and deliver the products to customers through a distribution system. 2. The supply-chain function’s role is to help identify the products and services that can best be obtained externally; develop‚ evaluate‚ and determine the best supplier‚ price‚ and delivery for them. 3. The objective of logistics
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chapter 6: Planning capacity Capacity the maximum rate of output of a process or a system. Acquisition of new capacity requires extensive planning‚ and often involves significant expenditure of resources and time. Capacity decisions must be made in light of several long-term issues such as the firm’s economies and diseconomies of scale‚ capacity cushions‚ timing and sizing strategies‚ and trade-offs between customer service and capacity utilization. Planning capacity across the organization
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Arnold Palmer Hospital Case Study 1. The case study indicates that the approach to match capacity to demand utilized by Arnold Palmer Hospital must be approach (a)‚ leading demand with an incremental expansion. The reason for this is that it is evident that Arnold Palmer Hospital is attempting to acquire capacity to stay ahead of demand‚ or in other words by leading capacity‚ on account of the fact that the opening of the new 11-store hospital building will increase yearly birthing capacity
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Capacity Planning & Aggregate Production Planning Capacity Planning • Long term strategic decision • determines overall level of resources • affects product lead times‚ customer responsiveness & operating costs Capacity Planning Three Basic Strategies for Timing Capacity • Capacity Lead Strategy – capacity is expanded in anticipation of demand – aggressive and used to lure away customers from competitors already constrained Capacity Planning Three Basic Strategies for Timing Capacity • Capacity
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