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What do you think is the purpose of the accident investigation? Explain how the NTSB can be a reactive organization in terms of accident/incident investigation (after the fact) yet, still be a proa
In reflecting on the unpleasant experience, what one thing about the experience made you feel uncomfortable about it? Why?
Use the first four months as the warm-up sample period and the remaining months as the forecasting sample period. The criteria of measuring forecast accuracy to be used are Bias, MAD, MSE, and MAPE.
Identify and describe the benefits that outsourcing logistics will bring to the organizations. List and describe the directives to consider the process of outsourcing if you are a senior manager.
What is the dealers optimal decision without conducting the survey? What is the maximum amount he should pay for this survey?
Determine which database for marketing information you will use in your marketing efforts, and explain why you will use it.
Why is operations management relevant to managers in other organization functions? Base your discussion on your experience of operations within your organization or an organization with which you ar
What are some of the outcomes that companies will experience as they become more organic and less mechanistic? Be sure to include both positive and negative outcomes?
Compute the total hourly truck-and-drivers cost when trucks are in the waiting line. Compute the maximum amount you are willing to pay to have one additional crew-and-dock.
How much total idle time is present each cycle? What is the overall efficiency of the assembly line with 4stations,5stations,and 6 stations?
The normal scrap loss for four successive operations is 5%, 3%, 15%, and 10% respectively. How many units should be started through in order to finish with 1,200 pieces?
A recently negotiated union contract allows workers in a shipping department 29 minutes for rest, 12 minutes for personal time, and 17 minutes for delays for each four hours worked.
Prepare a case by a conservative plant manager for maintaining the status quo until the returns are more obvious. Prepare the case for an optimistic sales manager that you should move ahead with the F
Assign tasks to workstations based on greatest number of following tasks. Use longest processing time as tie-breaker. If ties still exist, assume indifference in choice.
Storage cost amounts to $5 per unity of average inventory. Every time an order is placed for more item X, it costs $10.
Semans is a manufacturer that produces bracket assemblies. Demand for bracket assemblies (X) is 135 units. What are the net requirements of each item in the MPS?
A time study analyst observed a job that is performed continuously and found an average time of 6 minutes per cycle for a worker she rated at 95 percent.
Given your answer to (1), explain how your recommended changes would help Kmart become more profitable and a more viable competitor to stores like Wal-Mart.
Draw an Activity-on-Node Diagram, identify activity duration, slack for each activity, project duration, and project critical path.
What is the minimum number of workstations needed if the maximum output rate is to be sought? (Do not round intermediate calculations.
What are the key facts that you should consider before making a decision, as either the person who discovered the iPod, the friend, or the judicial board member?
As a production manager for RMC, what do you recommend? and why? Prepare a case by a conservative plant manager for maintaining the status quo until the returns are more obvious.
Item X is a standard item stocked in a company's inventory of component parts. Each year the firm, on a random basis, uses about 2000 units of X which costs $25.
Using single exponential smoothing with Alpha = 0.2 and June forecast = 13, find the July forecast. Assume whatever you want to wish.