Homework: Operations Management
Overview: For the second milestone of your final project, you will submit a quality, process, and location analysis case study analysis that will address the typical problems that operations managers face. This case study analysis will be incorporated into the final summative analysis.
Prompt: Refer to the case study (located in the Reading and Resources area of Module One), your own independent research, and the course materials to answer the following items. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
A. Theories and Techniques
• Explain the five steps of the theory of constraints (TOC) process. To what processes might the company in the case study apply TOC? Why would applying TOC to these processes be advantageous?
• Describe how total quality management (TQM) principles and tools can be used to improve quality in the latest line of products in the context of the case study.
B. Data Analysis
• Draw a cause-and-effect diagram that assesses why some of the company's supply chain partners might have struggled to implement some of the company's newly developed materials. Summarize your findings from the diagram.
• Draw a hypothetical process (time-function) map for producing a recently released (within the past two years) product manufactured by the company. As an operations manager, how will you use the value map? Be sure to include your process map within your case study analysis.
• Considering the data and options below, determine where the company should locate its new manufacturing plant. Explain why this would be the favorable location.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.