Week 1 OPS 571 Quiz 1 Permeable systems are characterized by being penetrable by customers via what two forms of contact? Internet and mail contact Face-to-face and internet contact Internet and phone contact Phone and face-to-face contact Check Answer Correct Permeable systems are penetrable by phone and face-to-face contact‚ but they are not necessarily reactive to such contact. 2 Some may argue that the production-line approach may not treat the process as a service process‚ but as what type
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Running head: PRODUCTION PLAN FOR RIORDAN MANUFACTURING � PAGE * Arabic �1� Production Plan for Riordan Manufacturing OPS /571: Operations Management August 30‚ 2010 � � Production Plan for Riordan Manufacturing In this paper‚ Team B discusses strategic capacity planning and lean production for new process design and supply chain processes for the electric fans at Riordan Manufacturing. This discussion is an outpouring of research and brainstorming between team members and begins with a newly
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The master schedule has three inputs: the beginning inventory‚ product forecasts‚ and customer orders. Customer order quantities may not be committed forecasts. The master schedule has three outputs: projected inventory‚ master production schedule‚ and available-to-promise (ATP). For example‚ a company that makes industrial pumps wants to prepare a master production schedule for June and July. Marketing has forecasted demand of 120 pumps for June and 160 pumps for July. By evenly distributing over
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Piper Industries Corporation Project Management Recommendation Dear Project Manager: With the available information from the previous email regarding the projects of Juniper‚ Palomino and Stargazer‚ I feel it is in the company’s best interest to go with the Palomino project moving forward. The reason for not selecting the other two options is because Juniper carries too low of a risk for completion. Stargazer is not worth the high risk of completion and the unfamiliarity of how the final product
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Riordan Manufacturing Production Plan OPS/571 November 1‚ 2012 Zachary Burk Riordan Manufacturing Production Plan Riordan Manufacturing‚ Inc. is a fortune 1000 company with revenues in excess of $1 billion (University of Phoenix‚ 2012). This wholly owned company is a global plastics manufacturer that employs 550 people with annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan has a reputation for being an industry leader in the industry of polymer materials and has various clout heavy clients such as
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their benefits out ways the pay. With a very extensive benefits package wholefoods has effectively been able to entice workers to be a part of the company. The company offers medical‚ dental‚ 401k‚ personal wellness account‚ health care reimbursement‚ dependent care reimbursement‚ life insurance‚ disability insurance‚ team member stock option plan‚ team member stock purchase plan‚ team member discounts‚ team member emergency sharing account‚ and gain sharing. Having all of these benefits outweighs
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technologies to manage its day-to-day operations. In order to achieve improved performance‚ healthcare supply chain must be efficient and integrated. The driver for this integration is logistics and supply chain management. This paper describes trends‚ issues and some solutions for logistics management for Health Care Supply Chain with concepts drawn from Industrial Engineering‚ and Operations Research disciplines applied to specific domains. A healthcare supply chain template utilizing Ecommerce strategy
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Process Design Matrix Summary J OPS/571 December Rob Process Design Matrix Summary This summary entails three process design approaches for a service providing organization (Chaparral Suits Hotel & Resort) and for a small manufacturing organization (Something Sweet Bakery). Although process design varies for service and manufacturing organizations‚ “process design is a critical function in any operation” (Service versus Manufacturing Process Design Video). The three process design approaches that
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Gonzalez‚ DoLores VanHorn‚ Jaleesa Lankford OPS/571 6/10/2015 Instructor: Peggy Ryan Businesses and companies all over the world are looking for the appropriate tools to help management address the many different duties and actions that have to be taken into consideration when supporting their profits‚ assets‚ employees‚ and overall goals. There are a number of tools available to help achieve those goals and two of them are Total Quality Management‚ “TQM” and International Organization of Standardization
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Riordan Manufacturing Production Plan Pedro A Rios Jr.‚ Nelson Christensen‚ Teresa Swander‚ Chrystal Marcum and Kapricia Crosby University of Phoenix Operations Management OPS 571 Ashley Carr January 10‚ 2011 Riordan Production Plan Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan’s main customers range from automotive parts manufacturers to the Department of Defense. One of Riordan’s main productions
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