FIN 485 – Brief Case #5 The Morrison Company December 5‚ 2013 Case Overview/Key Issues The Morrison Company is a manufacturer of Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFID). These tags can be scanned from small distances away and are used to track items in the shipping and supply chain process. The Morrison Company provides RFIDs to companies in the Pharmaceutical and Retail industries. The company has seen a large increase in sales over the past year‚ which has forced production to increase as
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Production & Operations Management Case Study Analysis COMPANY BACKGROUND Set up in 2003 by CEO Jason Robbins. Idea behind setting up this company was the emerging supply chain management trends including the use of RFID technology to track pallets and cases of goods after they left the shipping dock en route to downstream supply chain positions. Morrison developed and manufactured RFID tags known as smart labels for retail and pharmaceutical industries. RFID Radio-frequency identification
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production lines serving two quite different industries – pharmaceutical and retail. In addition‚ there are longer-range concerns about capacity constraints in the face of rapidly growing demand. 1. Identify and assess the operations problems occurring at The Morrison company. o Significant increases in sales and shortage of available raw material cause problems in the production process o There are inefficiencies that are caused by a shortage of materials‚ especially in ICs‚ because the producers
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1. Introduction This report focuses on the case studies of the Levi Jeans workers and the California Auto Club reengineering customer service. It looks at operations management as a source for gaining a competitive advantage and overcoming potential problems experienced within and organisation or workplace. The questions to be reviewed are as follows: Jeans Therapy - Levi’s factory worker are assigned to teams‚ and morale takes a hit: 1. What went wrong with Levi’s move to teams in their plants
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Case 1: Daikin China (word count 983) Daikin? Maybe you are not familiar with this brand. It doesn’t matter. When Daikin entered China market in 1990‚ many Chinese consumers always asked same questions‚ “What is Daikin?”‚ “Where does Daikin come from?”‚ “What products does Daikin operate?”‚ or “Is it a Korea brand?”. But now‚ Daikin becomes the No.2 air-conditioning manufacturer in the world which is only fall behind Carrier‚ the US air-conditioning giant who was the inventor of air-conditioning
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Operation management week 3-2 1. what is the reason for formulating and implementing an operation and supply chain strategy? The implementation of an operations and supply chain strategy is necessary for an organization in order to provide a clear vision of the value they will provide to the customer. The strategy should detail the competitive advantage the organization seeks to obtain and deliver. To develop a successful strategy‚ the organization must understand the values held by the customer
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and Theodore Streng‚ Head of Supply Chain Management (SCM) of SIG Combibloc‚ the second biggest supplier of aseptic packages for food and beverages just tried to prioritize the aspects he was about to present at the meeting of the executive committee on strategic positioning. The key issue of this meeting was the benchmark report which compared SIG Combibloc to its main competitor Tetra Pak. The results of the study were striking: “Whereas both companies are head to head in all major qualitative
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Consolidated Electric Company Joe Henry‚ the sole owner and president of the Consolidated Electric Company‚ reflected on his inventory management problems. He was a major wholesale supplier of equipment and supplies to electric contractors‚ and his business hinged on the efficient management of inventories to meet his customers’ needs. While Henry had built very successful business‚ he was nearing retirement age and wanted to pass along a good inventory management system. Henry’s two sons-in-law
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Operations management and operations strategy are two very important undertakings for any company that is involved in the production of products and services. This is because operations management ensures that raw materials are successfully converted to finished goods‚ while operations strategy makes sure that whichever goods or services produced have a competitive advantage over similar products offered by rival companies. It is from the business strategy that the operations strategy is derived
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answers to short case study questions– Essential Operations Management Lecturer resources Essential Operations Management Lecturer resources Guideline answers to short case study questions 1 © Alex Hill and Terry Hill 2011 Guideline answers to short case study questions– Essential Operations Management Lecturer resources This document contains answers to the short case study questions contained within each chapter. For extended teaching notes relating to the long case studies at the end
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