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A control building needs to be designed to accomodate a distribution board, traffic control equipment for booms and traffic lights, computers.
Explain how the business risks differ between traditional tax and audit services and management consulting services
A way to reduce those risks is to use an approach called vertical integration. The meaning of vertical integration is developing the ability to produce goods
Apply motivational theory and performance management principles to evaluate the company as a potential employer.
Why do healthcare facilities create improvement plans?
Our constructs of reality are based on stories which we perceive as truth. These stories are our own perceptions, and people consider their perceptions.
A consultative decision style is one in which the leader shares the problem with employees, but makes the decision.
“There seems to be missing, unaccounted-for inventory (“shrinkage”) in our warehouse. We’ve got to stop employee theft. Can you help us?”
Find the ranked position weight line balance (i.e. task-station assignment), the idle time of workers for that assignment, and comment on the optimality.
As a consumer, we purchase merchandise in the store or on the internet. What type of precautions do you take when you purchase merchandise on the internet?
Consider a workstation with 11 machines (in parallel), each requiring one hour of process time per job with c2e = 5. Each machine costs $10,000.
Area population is important, but visibility is twice as important as population, and average income is three times as important as population.
Consider the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services operational environment of your selected organization.
Consider a situation where a particular product is produced and placed in in-process inventory until it is needed in a subsequent production process.
If the availability of station 2 is reduced to 50 percent, what happens to the critical WIP W0? Briefly describe the likely impacts of this change.
Suppose the marginal profit is $100 per piece and the cost of WIP is $0.5 per piece per hour. Find the profits for the above push and pull systems.
There currently is 1 unit in inventory, and we want to have 2 units in inventory at the end of 3 months.
Does judgement play a greater role as the complexity of the methods increases (single versus double versus triple exponential smoothing)? Explain.
Consider a production line with five stations. Station 1 can produce a unit in 10 minutes. Station 2 can produce a unit in 12 minutes.
Considering what a forecasting system must do, select a characteristc of a system (accuracy, cost, flexibility, etc.).
Consider a two-station productin line in which no inventory is allowed between stations (e.e., the stations are tightly coupled).
Briefly describe a recent decision you made that could be viewed from an optimization perspective. In a few words, what were the 'decision variables'?
Consider the house allocation problem with n agents, n objects, and strict preferences. Suppose also that each agent ranks all objects.
Consider a job you hold now or have held recently. Would you want this job to be redesigned to place more emphasis on efficiency.