2013 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PROJECT REPORT Letter of Transmittal: Sir Jawad Bhatti‚ Subject: Operations Management Report on Lux Soap Respected Mr. Jawad Bhatti‚ We present to you our Report on the operation management of Lux‚ a part of our term report. The preparation of this term report was a challenging task but it provided us with the much-important knowledge about the operations of Lux soap. We have put in great efforts in the preparation of this report and have tried
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Australia Airline Report Report on external environment and management functions Taffy Ghozali‚ Hafizhah Chandra Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to examine Virgin Blue’s external environment followed by its impacts to the organization as well as how management functions could help overcome the external environment for the organization to compete properly in the domestic airline market. Virgin Australia is Australia’s second largest domestic airline‚ commenced in operations back
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TRUE or FALSE 1. T F It is impossible to develop a process that has zero variability. 2. T F Assignable variations in a process are also called natural variations. 3. T F An x-bar chart would be appropriate to monitor the number of defects in a production lot. 4. T F The central limit theorem provides the statistical foundation for control charts. 5. T F If we are tracking quality of performance for a class of students‚ we should plot the pass/fail result on a p-chart. 6. T F Sample
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Nature and Scope of Operations Management Operations management is often used along with production management in literature on the subject. It is therefore‚ useful to understand the nature of operations management .Operations management is understood as the process whereby resources or inputs are converted into more useful products .A second reading of the sentence reveals that‚ there is hardly any difference between the terms produ7ction management and operations management .But‚ there are a least
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few years. This financial year‚ it posted a net loss of ksh 7.8 billion. It started experiencing this problem 3-4 years ago. This is occasioned by the following: Lack of marketing intelligence For a long time‚ Kenya Airways has enjoyed monopoly operations in the African market and all connections into and out of Africa. They did not realize when this changed and competitors slowly encroached and took over their traditional markets. 1) Euro crisis The financial crunch that has affected mainly
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OM 1. As a service business‚ the operations management activities of an airline company have nothing in common with the operations management activities within a bicycle manufacturing company. True False 2. Operations managers are responsible for managing systems that produce goods and/or provide services. True False 3. Effectiveness refers to achieving intended goals whereas efficiency refers to minimizing cost and time. True False 4. Operations‚ marketing‚ and finance function
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When marketing‚ engineering‚ and operations simultaneously develop a process (cross -functional integration)‚ this approach is known as __________ ________________. A) sequential process B) traditional approach C) concurrent engineering D) both A and B E) none of the above Feedback: C is the correct answer. Unlike the traditional serial or sequential approach‚ concurrent engineering uses cross-functional integration for concurrent development of a product
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Advances in process technology have radically changed many operations over the last two or three decades. And all indications are that the pace of technological development is not slowing down. Few operations have been unaffected by this because all operations use some kind of process technology‚ whether it is a simple Internet link or the most complex and sophisticated of automated factories. But whatever the technology‚ all operations managers need to understand what emerging technologies can do
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OPRE 6302: Homework Assignment 5 Problem1 a) Draw the project network diagram C(2) E(8) A(3) B(4) G(4) H(9) D(6) F(7) b) List all the paths in the network diagram. Say which one(s) is(are) the critical path(s) and what the minimum project duration is. PATHS ACEG=3+2+8+4=17 months ACEH=3+2+8+9=22 months BDEG=4+6+8+4=22 months BDEH=4+6+8+9=27 months BDFH=4+6+7+9=26 months Critical path: BDEH Minimum project duration: 27 months c) For each activity compute ES
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MSIS 301 – Homework Chapter 4 Carlos Mazur Prof. Davood Golmohammadi 4.10. Data collected on the yearly registrations for a Six Sigma seminar at the Quality College are shown in the following table: Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Registrations 4 6 4 5 10 8 7 9 12 14 15 a) Develop a 3 year moving average to forecast registrations from year 4 to year 12. Year 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Forecast 4.6 5 6.3 7.6 8.3 8 9.3 11.6 13.6 b) Estimate demand again for years 4 to 12 with a 3 year weighted moving
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