Assignment:
1. "Management of Inventories" Please respond to the following:
• From the first e-Activity, examine the best practices found in the video on inventory management.
• From the second e-Activity, choose two service companies that manage inventory and compare and contrast their inventory management systems.
• Based on your evaluation of both inventory management systems from Part 2 of this discussion, propose suggestions to management that would ultimately lead to improve operations.
2."Resource Management" Please respond to the following:
• Select a goods-producing organization and a service-providing organization of your choice. Suggest ways each organization can make aggregate planning decisions using the variables described in Exhibit 13.3 (Chapter 13).
• Compare and contrast the operational and managerial impacts of the aggregate planning decisions in terms of customer satisfaction.