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A manufacturer produces a product in batches of Q units to be delivered to a customer. The customer has an annual requirement of D units.
You manufacture wine goblets (fine glassware) in the U.S. In mid-June you receive an order for 10,000 goblets from Japan.
Are many of the allegations by employees at Walmart just reflections of the changing social contract between companies and their workers?
Explain what the major causes were for the success or failure of the system. If you have worked for a company that has an ERP system
A manufacturer of printed circuit boards has a design capacity of 1,000 boards per day. The effective capacity, however, is 700 boards per day.
There are many benefits attributed to supply chain integration. Discuss the link between the supply chain performance and its contribution to company goals
A manufacturing firm produces electric motors for washing machines and vacuum cleaners.
You are the manager of Strategic Sourcing at Toyota Motor Corp and have just been called by the VP of global sourcing to whom you report.
You are managing a project in an industry of your choice. How do you go about identifying the most important areas to focus on?
Many companies implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems but are disappointed by the results when they do not realize the return on investment
A manufacturing shop is designed to operate most efficiently at an output of 950 units per day. In the past month the plant produced 750 units
Managing e-mail is a common and, time-consuming daily activity. For many it is hard to keep up with the volume of messages, let alone provide timely responses.
Many basic, daily communication decisions involve an ethics component. Discuss ethical components of communication and provide examples
A manufacturing firm ships its finished products from three plants to three main distribution centers.
A manufacturer produces three different devices (device A, B and C) at two manufacturing facilities (the San Francisco plant and the New Orleans plant)
A manager would like to discharge an employee who is disrupting department productivity and morale, but this employee has a history of filing
Explain, in your own words what "legitimate business purpose" means in relationship to workplace/hiring discrimination law.
A manager wants to assign tasks to workstations as efficiently as possible, and achieve an hourly output of 331/3 units.
Managers need to understand the rules of the game, particularly the laws, governing domestic and international competition around the world
You are the manager of Strategic Sourcing at Toyota Motor Corp and have just been called by the VP of global sourcing to whom you report
Bloom, Eifert, Mahajan, McKenzie, and Roberts, economists from a range of places including Stanford University and the World Bank, recently published
A manager has been using a "Current Technique" to forecast demand for gallons of ice cream for the past six periods.
As a manager, when and how would you use inductive and deductive reasoning in decision-making
Managers share responsibility for employee performance and have an active role to play in the performance management cycle.
How can managers create value by establishing important relationships among the value chain activities; within the firm and between the firm and its customers