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BUS 446 Week 1 DQ 1

What general features would you look for in a business process that would make that process a candidate for reengineering? Discuss a situation from your own experience in which it was clear that the business process could have been improved through Best Practice. What improvements and Best Practice tools would you have used?

BUS 446 Week 1 DQ 2 Defect Rates

Defect Rates. Studies have shown that the defect rates for many Japanese products are much lower than their American-mad counterparts. Speculate on the reasons for these differences. Respond to at least two of your classmate’s postings. 

BUS 446 Week 1 Quiz

1. _____ is a management strategy that requires a company wide systems approach to quality.

2. The _____ are the descriptors that must be examined to determine the quality of a product.

3. _____ process is used when there are many varieties of products to process in small quantities.

4. _____ are defined as workstations linked together on common sets of projects and families of parts.

5. _____ dimension relates to the quality of the fundamental purpose for which the product is purchased.

6. _____ are the operations or stages within the manufacturing cycle required to transform components into intermediates or finished goods.

7. _____ refers to the ability to resist wear, stress, and decay.

8. In manufacturing, the _____ define(s) the range of acceptable product.

9. The word quality is used in _____ fundamentally different way(s).

10. _____ is (are) a series of activities or steps required to transform materials and deliver goods and/or services. 

BUS 446 Week 2 Assignment Forecasting

Forecasting. In a three- to four-page paper (not including the title and reference pages), analyze the two alternative perspectives on forecasting. Be sure to include the following:

•  A description of the subjective and objective methods and their applications to the forecast.
•  A description of a procedure to evaluate the effectiveness of a particular method’s output/predictions. 
• A description of the similarities and differences of subjective and objective forecasting.
• A description of the methods of application or use of forecasts to support production. Be sure to address
  how the deliverables relate to production.

In your paper, be sure to cite the article by Fildes and Beard (1992) or another scholarly source, in addition to Chapters 13 and 14 in your textbook.
The paper must use APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and include APA-formatted title and reference pages. 

BUS 446 Week 2 DQ 1 Aggregate Planning Policies

Compare smooth or level aggregate production policies with chasing policies. Explain when each is likely to be preferred. Give an example of organization and discuss what type of aggregate planning is used.

BUS 446 Week 2 DQ 2 Cost Implications

Cost Implications. Production control must answer the question of.. “What to order and how much.”Discuss the cost implications of one firm holding too much inventory another firm holding too little inventory and a third firm holding/acquiring the wrong inventory. Respond to at least two of yourclassmate’s postings. 

BUS 446 Week 2 Quiz Answers

1. Is required to design a generalized production schedule.

2. _____ means that there is no good forecast for the probabilities of demand and/or lead- time distributions.

3. Backordered work is shown as

4. _____ is achieved by collecting and lumping information about all items to be produced together. These items require common production materials and facilities.

5. An appropriate inventory cost analysis must be used to

6. The fundamental theorem of linear programming (LP) can best be described as

7. When there is a large amount of demand fluctuation, a variable workforce capability is appealing but there are offsetting costs, which include the areas of:

8. Processing costs that are associated with running the inventory system are referred to as _____ costs.

9. The importance of being on time with project completions has led to the development of

10. How many distinct levels are found in the production planning process?

BUS 446 Week 3 DQ 1 ABC Analysis

ABC Analysis. Describe the ABC classification system. What is the purpose of classifying items in this fashion? What would be the primary value of ABC analysis to a retailer? To a manufacturer? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. 

BUS 446 Week 3 DQ 2 Accuracy

Accuracy. A vendor keeps careful records of the number of magazines she sells each day and the various costs that are relevant to her decision regarding the optimal number of magazines to purchase. For what reason might her results be inaccurate? What would she need to do in order to accurately measure the daily demand for magazines? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

BUS 446 Week 3 Quiz Answers

1. _____ are the inputs that tend to be fully chargeable and directly attributable to the product in the ABC accounting sense.

2. When the Japanese company Quasar purchased the TV division of Motorola, how much did the defect rate drop?

3. In the mail order business, _____ agents are crucial to the success of their companies. In many other kinds of industries, the same type of agents have major responsibilities for bottom line performance, but their role goes (relatively) unrecognized.

4. Which equipment type is used in jobs shops because it is designed for high variety in relatively low volumes?

5. _____ is a systems breakeven value for the cost of layout improvement that takes into account interactions with product quality, process productivity, and employees’ health benefits.

6. _____ organize a lot of information that is relevant for location decisions.

7. The three step procedure—in precise order of accomplishment—to obtain minimum total transport costs is:

8. Management issues such as what items to buy, when to buy it, from whom to buy, how much to buy at one time, and how much to pay, are captured by what systems?

9. Supply chains are

10. Job design and workplace layout interact. Taken together, these are foundations of fine product quality. With that in mind, workplace quality can best be described as

BUS 446 Week 4 Assignment Just-In-Time

Just-in-Time (JIT). In a three-to four-page paper, discuss just-in-time (JIT) as a process of lean production and inventory control. Be sure to address the following topics supported with examples to demonstrate your understanding of these ideas. 

•   Discuss the concept of push versus pull, addressing how it relates to just-in-time and explaining how lean manufacturing is the basis for just-in-time.
•   Analyze the difference between a just-in-time system and a kanban system.
•   Analyze whether just-in-time can be implemented without kanban. Explain why or why not in detail.
  Submit your three- to four-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) in APA format. Be sure to cite from Daniel, Reitsperger, and Morse (2009), Wilding (1998), or other scholarly sources in addition to Chapters 15 and 17 of your textbook. In total, use three scholarly sources including the text. 

BUS 446 Week 4 DQ 1 Lot Sizing

Lot Sizing. What alternatives are there to lot-for-lot scheduling at each level? Identify and discuss the potential advantages and disadvantages of other lot sizing techniques. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. 

BUS 446 Week 4 DQ 2 MRP Systems

MRP Systems. MRP systems have been used with varying degrees of success. Describe under what circumstances MRP might be successful and under what circumstances might it not be successful.Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings

BUS 446 Week 4 Quiz Answers

1. The first book on MRP was written by _____ in 1975.

2. The first step in the planning hierarchy is _____ planning.

3. Key inputs to the MRP information system are:

4. Cycle-time management is the aspect of _____ that applies to running a better production process for a flow shop.

5. Cycle times of inbound and outbound supplies are interconnected with which of the following?

6. _____ line-balancing methods employ “rule of thumb,” common sense, logical thinking, and experience to find near-optimal solutions for large problems.

7. Engineering design will be the preferred method for line-balancing

8. Queuing models make certain specific assumptions. Which of the following choices are reasonable assumptions under certain circumstances?

9. Heuristic models do which of the following?

10. _____ line-balancing exists when the assumption of fixed and deterministic times for operations and total process time is not correct.

BUS 446 Week 5 DQ 1 Project Management

Project Management. Project management as a method has been used in building projects, new product development, movie production projects etc. Discuss why it would or would not be appropriate to use the project management approach to everyday business operations. Provide an example toillustrate this idea. Respond to at least two of your classmate’s postings. 

BUS 446 Week 5 DQ 2 Operations Scheduling

Operations Scheduling. Discuss the use and importance of Gantt charts to support production scheduling. What value do Gantt load charts and Gantt legends provide manufacturing facilities? What is the importance of the assignment method related to production scheduling?

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