on crucial purchases. Purchasing can more effectively deal with this problem by: • Having a system in place to handle Small Value Purchases • Using an E-Procurement System (Makes buyers less likely to be overburdened by Small Value Purchases) 2. Centralized Purchasing – Purchasing decisions are made by a single Purchasing department (usually at the corporate office). Decisions include: Order Quantity‚ Pricing Policy‚ Contracting‚ Negotiations‚ Supplier Selection & Evaluation
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Caroline Walsh BADM 3601 – Operations Management Assignment # 4 Due: Monday November 12th ‐ 5:00 PM (a) A study‐aid desk manned by a graduate student has been established to answer student’s questions and help in working problems in your OM course. The desk is staffed eight hours per day. The dean wants to know how the facility is working. Statistics show that students arrive at a rate of four per hour‚ and the distribution is approximately Poisson. Assistance time averages 10 minutes‚ distributed
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Centre for Continuing Education Executive MBA (OIL & GAS Management) Semester II YEAR: 2013 SESSION: January Assignment – 1 For Operations & Material Management (MBCQ 722D) (To be filled by the student) Name: _______________________ Sap No/Regn No: _______________________ Section A (20 Marks) Write short notes on any four of the following 1. Production management functions 2. The era of scientific management 3. Optimal criteria for selecting a plant location 4.
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quality of a restaurant? Customers judge the quality of restaurants through a set of standards‚ its decore‚ design‚ layout ‚ food‚ menu‚ poesies and services. 2. Indicate how and why each of these factors is important to the successful operation of a restaurant: a. Customer satisfaction: As we all know that customers come first‚ so if we reached to satisfy our customers we will build a strong customer base an
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Small and large businesses today have an obligation to conduct their businesses ethically. If a business makes unethical decisions‚ it could mean the loss of jobs for the employees and or jail time for the leaders of that company. Whole Foods is no exception‚ in order to stay in business it has to make ethical decisions and do so with all stakeholder in mind. Kent Hodgson‚ a management consultant‚ has identified seven general moral principles that he calls “the magnificent seven” (Kreitner
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Management may choose to build up capacity in anticipation of demand or in response to developing demand. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. To illustrate some of the advantages and disadvantages‚ provide specific examples of companies that have used each strategy. Three things that are important when planning capacity is “maintaining system balance‚ frequency of capacity additions or reductions‚ and the use of external capacity.” (Jacobs‚ Chase Pg 75) Some of the advantages
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II S tandard d eviation o f weekly d emand SKU service level WC219 $0.15 13‚000 WC008 1.20 22‚500 WC916 3.25 400 WC887 0.41 6;200 WC397 4.65 12‚300 WC654 2.10 350 WC007 0.90 225 WC419 0.45 6‚500 WC971 7.50 2‚950 WC713 1 200 1‚500 9 0 p ercent C urrent o n-hand inventory 3 5 calculators Scheduled receipts 2 0 c alculators Backorders Exhibit 12.13 ABC D ata f or Problem 3 3.75 calculators
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Many health care organizations are now calling for multicultural competent health care professionals. It is suggested cultural competence is as an ethical obligation and cross -cultural skills should be placed on a level of parity with other specialized skills (2009). Within each culture exists an incredible diversity of groups and subgroups (2011). Achieving a base of knowledge for each group creates a challenge. Social workers are affected by the way they grow up and their own culture. They will
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Why is Operations Management so important in this organisation? In order to define why Operations Management is needed in an organisation knowledge of operations management is required. Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing‚ designing‚ and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and/or services. It includes the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient by using as few resources as needed‚ and effective in terms
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MODULE TITLE: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Hand in date: 6pm Thursday 10th December Alternative Assessment 2‚500 words Report question The aim of the JIT methodology may be deemed to meet demand instantaneously‚ with perfect quality and no waste’. So runs one definition of JIT. Your task is to evaluate the requirements and objectives of a JIT operation and analyse the potential benefits and drawbacks when deciding to apply the JIT methodology to the following operation: A restaurant
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