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Describe some disadvantages of using a slow shipping method? Besides warehouse layout decisions, what are some other applications where ranking items.
Describe how the bullwhip measure can be used to analyze supply chains? Describe some potentially useful categories to include in a factor-weighting analysis.
Still concerned about the risk in Problem, suppose that Phillip is willing to use one local supplier and up to two more located in other territories.
Johnson Chemicals is considering two options for its supplier portfolio. Option 1 uses two local suppliers.
What is the total annual purchasing and transportation cost plus expected annualized disruption cost for option 2?
Last year, the retailer’s weekly variance of demand was 200 units. The variance of orders was 500, 600, 750, and 1,350 units for the retailer.
Handfield has daily shipments of a power-steering pump from its Ohio plant to an auto assembly line in Alabama.
Describe some ramifications of the bullwhip effect ? Describe causes of the bullwhip effect and their associated remedies.
Darden Restaurants (subject of the Global Company Profile at the beginning of this chapter), owner of popular brands such as Olive Garden.
Like most other manufacturers, Regal Marine finds that it must spend a huge portion of its revenue on purchases.
Mattress Wholesalers, Inc., is constantly trying to reduce inventory in its supply chain. Last year, cost of goods sold was $7.5 million and inventory.
Choose a local establishment that is a member of a relatively large chain. From interviews with workers and information from the Internet.
Define supply chain management? What are the objectives of supply chain management?
Explain the principles of SCM and how they provide a framework for planning global supply chain systems and operations
How does one go about finding the quantity coordinates where two constraints cross, not at an axis?
Elizabeth Irwin’s design team has proposed the following system with component reliabilities as indicated.
A medical control system has three components in series with individual reliabilities (R1 , R2 , R3 ) as shown.
RELIABILITY WITH PARALLEL REDUNDANCY A new iPad design that is more reliable because of its parallel circuits is shown below. What is its reliability?
What is the overall reliability that bank loans will be processed accurately if each of the 5 clerks shown in the chart has the reliability shown?
Robert Klassan Manufacturing, a medical equipment manufacturer, subjected 100 heart pacemakers to 5,000 hours of testing.
David Hall, chief of the maintenance department at Mechanical Dynamics, has presented you with the following failure curve. What does it suggest?
Given the following conditional value table, determine the appropriate decision under uncertainty using: Maximin
Determine the alternative that provides Andrew the greatest expected monetary value (EMV).
If you pay a premium, Wing says he can improve all four of the backup units to .93. What is the reliability of this option?
As VP for operations at Méndez-Piñero Engineering, you must decide which product design, A or B, has the higher reliability.