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Develop a plan with at least three action items to move the team from poor communication to effective oral and written communication.
What is the appropriate role of inventory turnover as a measure for evaluating the management of inventory?
What is the annual cost of ordering and carrying tea? What factors might cause the firm to order a larger or smaller amount than the EOQ?
What is the economical lot size for the production of widgets? How many lots will be produced each year?
The Harvard Co-op orders sweatshirts with the Harvard University emblem on them and sells them for $50 each.
.Assignment: The Co-op in problem 6 has discovered that it should establish a safety stock for its sweatshirts.
Compare the inventory investments required for the P and Q systems (from problem 8) for various values of service level.
The Toyota dealer from problem 3 is considering installing either a Q or a P system for inventory control.
For the data in problem: Calculate the annual turnover as a function of service level.
The Cover-up Drapery Company carries four types of fabric with the following characteristics:
Assume your cost of carrying inventory is 15 percent a year, it costs $20 for you to order the material, and you use 50 cases per year.
If the production rate is ignored, what would the lot size be? How much does this smaller lot size cost the firm on an annual basis?
What are the differences between quality of design and quality of conformance?
What would be an appropriate quality planning and control system for this product? Consider such factors as product attributes, measures of quality.
How can supplier certification contribute to quality products or services? Should all suppliers be certified? Why or why not?
What are the costs of prevention, appraisal, external failure, and internal failure?
Contrast and compare the Deming and Juran approaches to quality improvement. How different are these two approaches?
To determine the efficiency of operations, the postmaster wishes to examine several queue operating characteristics.
Is H&R Block Taxed to Its Limits? When you first came to H&R Block 4 years ago, you had a vision: increase the scope of the company.
Tune Products, Inc., offers to sell to Unlimited Sales Company one hundred MP3 players at $50 a piece, subject to certain specific delivery dates.
In our case it would be seeing whether to refine the business strategy towards concentrating more in purchase or refinance transactions.
How are human and other resources arranged within this organisation, what levels of seniority exist.
Consider how and where they manufacture, their logistics approach and how they handle customer delivery/service with their Supply Chain and Logistics network.
Some companies require that employees who receive training at the company's expenses enter into a contractual agreement to stay with the company.
Do you think that companies place enough emphasis on environmental scanning? Why, or why not? In your discussion, give an example of a company.