1. How well is the hospital currently utilizing its beds? (60+90+90+90+60+30+30)/ (90*7) =450/630=71.4% The hospital is currently utilizing 71.4% its beds 2. Develop a similar table to show the effects of adding operations on Saturday. (Assume that 30 operations would still be performed each day.) How would this affect the utilization of the bed capacity? Is this capacity sufficient for the additional patients? Check-in Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday 30 30 30
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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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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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dependent variable that we are solving for‚a is the Y-intercept‚ b is the slope‚ and X is the independent variable( In the time series analysis‚ X is the units of time)This method is useful for long-term forecasting of major occurences and aggregate planning. The linear regression model is based on the relative increase in consumer sales‚ which is then translated with a separate retailer model into the sell-out sales forecast of Coca-Cola. The restrictions with this method is that past data and future
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CAPACITY PLANNING Real Options Analysis Practice Questions and Solutions CAPACITY PLANNING Question 1: PROJECT SABLE Use a 30% per year discount rate to evaluate Project Sable‚ which has two phases. You may invest in the first‚ in both or in neither. You may not invest in the second phase without investing in the first. Phase 1 requires an investment of $100. One year later the project delivers on the average $120. At that time‚ after the phase 1 payout has been received‚ you may invest
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Case study report – Shouldice Hospital or Food fight Swathi Mall Sullivan University Operations Strategy April 26‚ 2014 Abstract: Shouldice hospital has been the best service provider for treating hernias and been in demand since a long time. However‚ due to the limited capacity of 89 beds the hospital is not able to meet the market demand which is causing it to lose its market share and success. The main constraints mentioned in this case study are the number of beds in the
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Production Capacity It is highly imperative that management must formulate a strategic plan for operations before any production is carried out. This is basically important in avoiding possible hindrances and excess in capacity. Under capacity may force the firm to cancel production schedules or excess can be fatal due to a broadened fixed cost. Both really would be a financial burden to the firm. Some procedural strategy can be adopted to minimize ill effects of capacity-related problems
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goes to the GP. GP examines the patient and in some cases the GP will refer the patient to the hospital. In the hospital the person will be examined by a doctor and maybe there’s a surgery. After the surgery he needs to go to the local pharmacist for his medicines. The pharmacist sends him a bill. The payment of this bill will be arranged between the patient and the health insurer. 5. Four external factors that influence the costs of the hospital are: If the government doesn’t invest in the healthcare
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The Shouldice Method Two young medical students were standing on a street corner observing people as they passed and discussing any abnormalities with each other that they may have seen in passers-by. They saw this old man walking sort of duck waddling down the street at a slow pace. The two students introduced themselves to the gentleman and told him that they didn’t agree with each other’s diagnosis of the old man’s problem. One says‚ “My friend thinks you have a bad case of hemorrhoids‚ and
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which lay a platform for a good institution. The corner stone of this essay is to determine the role of capacity planning in educational institutions which forms a very important part of strategic plan. Capacity planning is the known as the process of determining the production capacity needed by an organization to meet changing demands of its products. Stevenson ((1999) p. 208) defines capacity as “The upper limit or ceiling of the load that an operating unit can handle‚ with the operating unit defined
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