Chapter 13 Chapter 12 Communication and Governance Discussion Questions 1. Amazon’s inventory increased from $3.2 billion on December 31‚ 2010‚ to $5.0 billion one year later. In addition‚ sales for the fourth quarter of those years increased from $12.9 billion in 2010 to $17.4 billion in 2011. What is the implied annualized inventory turnover for Amazon for these years? What different interpretations about future performance could a financial analyst infer from this change? What information
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COST DEFINITIONS Fixed Cost – expenses that remain constant over a wide range of output volumes Variable Costs – expenses that vary proportionately with changes in output. Sunk Costs – expenses already incurred that have no salvage value Opportunity Costs – profits lost when one alternative is chosen over another that would have provided greater financial benefits. Avoidable Costs – expenses resulting from poor productivity incurred if an investment is not made. Out-of-Pocket Costs – actual
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ARTICLE CRITIQUE The influence of work-cells and facility layout on the manufacturing efficiency‚ Journal of Facilities Management. 1. Introduction This purpose of this paper is to critique the article ‘The influence of work-cells and facility layout on the manufacturing efficiency’ written by SeyedMahmoud Aghazadeh‚ Saeedreza Hafeznezami‚ Lotfollah Najjar and Ziaul Huq. This paper will first summaries the article. Secondly‚ it will briefly critique the article. Thirdly is the conclusion
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equipment during an hour is 500 units and its best operating level is at a rate of 400 units per hour‚ which of the following is the capacity utilization rate? → | 1.25 | 11. award: 0 out of 30 points Compared with a service operation‚ a manufacturing operation’s capacity is which of the following? → | Demand can be smoothed by inventory policies | ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 13. award: 30 out of 30 points The capacity
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|Midterm Example Test v2 | | 1. A manufacturing firm is considering three alternatives for automation. They anticipate annual production volume to be 75‚000 units. The costs for each alternative are as shown: | |Alternative | | |1 |2 |3 | |Annual Fixed Costs |60‚000 |$180‚000 |$300‚000 | |Variable Cost/Unit |$0.65 |$0
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Role of Operations Management Operations management is the design operations and improvement of systems that create and deliver a company’s products and services. In other words‚ “is the process of taking input such as raw material and component and turning it in to out put by adding values” (Shaikh‚ 2010). Any activity that relates to the management of the entire business process that produces goods and services falls into the operations category. Competition among today’s organizations has
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Questions for Chapter 6 True/False 1. A talented entrepreneur should be able to substitute for an experienced management team. (False) 2. The size of your organization is inversely correlated to the amount of revenue your business can derive (False) 3. Hiring a salesperson is more attractive than increasing support staff in regards to revenue generated. (True) 4. Your team members can help you to evaluate feedback from outside sources. (True) 5. Over 95% of entrepreneurs in
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Environmental Aspect It is no longer possible for companies to ignore the environmental impact of their operations as they need to respond to changing shareholder demands in order to remain profitable. Investors are becoming more interested in a company’s environmental performance‚ “aware that the firms understand and manage their environmental impacts are best positioned to benefit from strategic opportunities.”1 According to research published in the Harvard Business Review in 2009‚ 75 percent
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Global Marketing § What is Global Marketing? Global Marketing is the process of focusing the resources and objectives of a company on global marketing opportunities. It means widening the business horizons to encompass the world when scanning for opportunity and threat. This decision to entering new markets depends strongly on the company’s resources‚ managerial mindset and the nature of opportunity and threat‚ which not every company is able to. In the 1990s‚ the
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Case Problems Manual to Accompany An Introduction To Management Science Quantitative Approaches To Decision Making Twelfth Edition David R. Anderson University of Cincinnati Dennis J. Sweeney University of Cincinnati Thomas A. Williams Rochester Institute of Technology R. Kipp Martin University of Chicago South-Western Cincinnati‚ Ohio Contents Preface Chapter 1: Introduction ♦ Scheduling a Golf League Chapter 2: An Introduction to Linear Programming ♦ Workload Balancing
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