This document outlines 10 assignments for an operations management course. The assignments cover topics such as distinguishing between production and operations management, comparing quality standards, relating product design to total quality management, analyzing delivery times and profits for a pizza business, selecting optimal production facility locations, determining optimal healthcare facility locations, comparing alternative facility site options, developing workforce and inventory plans to meet demand forecasts, allocating production to minimize costs given supply and demand data, developing enrollment forecasts using exponential smoothing, and forecasting demand using simple and weighted moving averages. The assignments are worth a maximum of 50% of the course grade.
This document outlines 10 assignments for an operations management course. The assignments cover topics such as distinguishing between production and operations management, comparing quality standards, relating product design to total quality management, analyzing delivery times and profits for a pizza business, selecting optimal production facility locations, determining optimal healthcare facility locations, comparing alternative facility site options, developing workforce and inventory plans to meet demand forecasts, allocating production to minimize costs given supply and demand data, developing enrollment forecasts using exponential smoothing, and forecasting demand using simple and weighted moving averages. The assignments are worth a maximum of 50% of the course grade.
This document outlines 10 assignments for an operations management course. The assignments cover topics such as distinguishing between production and operations management, comparing quality standards, relating product design to total quality management, analyzing delivery times and profits for a pizza business, selecting optimal production facility locations, determining optimal healthcare facility locations, comparing alternative facility site options, developing workforce and inventory plans to meet demand forecasts, allocating production to minimize costs given supply and demand data, developing enrollment forecasts using exponential smoothing, and forecasting demand using simple and weighted moving averages. The assignments are worth a maximum of 50% of the course grade.
This document outlines 10 assignments for an operations management course. The assignments cover topics such as distinguishing between production and operations management, comparing quality standards, relating product design to total quality management, analyzing delivery times and profits for a pizza business, selecting optimal production facility locations, determining optimal healthcare facility locations, comparing alternative facility site options, developing workforce and inventory plans to meet demand forecasts, allocating production to minimize costs given supply and demand data, developing enrollment forecasts using exponential smoothing, and forecasting demand using simple and weighted moving averages. The assignments are worth a maximum of 50% of the course grade.
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Operations Management Assignment
ASSIGNMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED (Max. Mark: 50%)
1. Distinguish between production management and operation
management (5 Points) 2. What are the differences between ISO 9001 and ISO 14001? (5 Points) 3. “A Good Product Design Contributes To “TQM” in the Organization.” Explain how this may happen (5 Points) 4. Selam’s Pizzas has a service guarantee that promises you will not pay for your pizza if it is delivered more than 30 minutes from the order being placed. An investigation shows that 10 per cent of all pizzas are delivered between 15 and 20 minutes from order, 40 per cent between 20 and 25 minutes from order, 40 per cent between 25 and 30 minutes from order, 5 per cent between 30 and 35 minutes from order, 3 per cent between 35 and 40 minutes from order, and 2 per cent over 40 minutes from order. If the average profit on each pizza delivered on time is A1 and the average cost of each pizza delivered is A5, is the fact that Selma’s does not charge for 10 per cent of its pizzas a significant problem for the business? How much extra profit per pizza would be made if 5 minutes was cut from all deliveries? (5 Points) 5. Potential locations X, Y and Z have the cost structures shown below. The ABC company has a demand of 130,000 units of a new product. Three potential locations X, Y and Z having following cost structures shown are available. Select
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which location is to be selected and also identify the volume
ranges where each location is suited? (5 Points)
6. The new Health-care facility is targeted to serve seven
census tracts in Bahir Dar. The table given below shows the coordinates for the center of each census tract, along with the projected populations, measured in thousands. Customers will travel from the seven census tract centers to the new facility when they need health-care. Two locations being considered for the new facility are at (5.5, 4.5) and (7, 2), which are the centers of census tracts C and F. Details of seven census tract centers, coordinate distances along with the population for each center are given below. Find the target area’s center of gravity for the Health-care medical facility (5 Points)
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Let us assume that a new medical facility, Health-care, is to
be located in Delhi. The location factors, weights, and scores (1 = poor, 5 = excellent) for two potential sites are shown in the following table. What is the weighted score for these sites? Which is the best location?
7. Custom Furniture Co. currently has 100 employees and has
forecast quarterly demand as shown in Table 8.11. The historical average production rate is 40 units per employee per quarter, and the firm has a beginning (safety stock) inventory of 1,000 units. The hiring and training cost is Rs. 400 per employee, and the layoff cost is Rs. 600 per employee. Inventory is carried at a cost of Rs. 8 per unit per quarter. Use the data to develop an aggregate plan that
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uses variable employment and inventory to meet demand (5
Points)
8. Given the accompanying supply, demand, cost, and
inventory data for a firm that has a constant work force and wishes to meet all demand (that is, with no backorders), allocate production capacity to satisfy demand at minimum cost (5 Points).
9. A university registrar has adopted a simple exponential
smoothing model ( a = 0.4) to forecast enrollments during the three regular terms (excluding summer). The results are shown in the following table (a) Use the data to develop an enrollment forecast for the third quarter of year 2. (b) What
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would be the effect of increasing the smoothing constant to
1.0? (5 Points)
10. A food processing company uses a moving average to
forecast next month’s demand. Past actual demand (in units) is as shown in the following table (5 Points) A. Compute a simple 5-month moving average to forecast demand for month 52. B. Compute a weighted 3-month moving average, where the weights are highest for the latest months and descend in order of 3, 2 and 1.