Bus 644 Entire Course / Operations Management

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BUS 644 Entire Course / Operations Management
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Ethical Issues and Operations
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Business Processes
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 Midas
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Productivity
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 2 Product Design and Quality
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 Memorial Hospital
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Suppliers
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Forecasting Methods
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 Outsourcing
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 Beck Manufacturing and Plant Capacity
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 1 Process Selection Product Design and Capacity
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 2 Monique Food Processing Company and Capacity
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 5 Alliance Supermarket and Point-of-Sale (POS) systems
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 1 MRP Inventory and Customer Service
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 2 Perpetual versus Periodic Inventory Systems
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Just-in-Time (JIT) Inventories
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 2 Scheduling Procedures
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 Final Paper

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BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Ethical Issues and Operations
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Ethical Issues and Operations. Ethical behavior is a corporate issue that affects the company’s bottom line. How do ethical issues impact organizations and operations? Include an example seen in the workplace, in the news, etc. that relates to real-life situations. Your initial post should be at least 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Business Processes
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Business Processes. Why are the following business processes important? Which process do you feel is most important? Explain your reasoning.

a. Strategy development

b. Product development

c. Systems to produce goods and services

d. Order fulfillment

Your initial post should include real life situations and be at least 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 1 Midas
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Midas. Read the “Midas” case study in Chapter 2 of your text. Answer questions 1through 4 in a two- to- four page paper in accordance with APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points), and supported with the concepts outlined in your text. Provide at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library or other external sources, excluding the textbook. Do not include the original questions of the assignment in the paper.

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BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Productivity
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Productivity. Many times trade-offs are necessary to increase productivity. What are important trades-offs involving the inputs to productivity? Your initial post should include real life situations and be at least 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 2 Product Design and Quality
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Product Design and Quality. What important organizational activities enable a firm to build quality into its products? Explain each of these along with its benefits. Your initial post should include examples and be at least 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 2 Memorial Hospital
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Memorial Hospital. Read the “Memorial Hospital” case study in Chapter 4 of your text. Answer questions 1- 4 in a two- to- four (2-4) page paper in accordance with APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points), and supported with the concepts outlined in your text. Provide at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library or other external sources, excluding the textbook. Do not include the original questions of the assignment in the paper.

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BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Suppliers
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Suppliers. Should a firm attempt to have fewer or more suppliers? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach? Your initial post should be 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Forecasting Methods
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Forecasting Methods. Read Problem 6 in Chapter 6 of your textbook. Calculate and answer parts a through d. Include all calculations and spreadsheets in your post. Explain why the moving average method was used instead of another forecasting method. What might be another forecasting method that could prove to be just as useful? Your initial post should be 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 3 Outsourcing
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Outsourcing. Outsourcing, especially to low labor-cost countries, has grown substantially. What are the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing? Include and describe a product or service of a specific low labor-cost country as an example. Include a recommendation/conclusion based on the research. Answer the question in a two to four (2-4) page in accordance with APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Provide at least two (2) scholarly sources from the Ashford Library or other external sources, excluding the textbook. Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points), and supported with the concepts outlined in your text. Do not include the original questions of the assignment in the paper.

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BUS 644 Week 4 Beck Manufacturing and Plant Capacity
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Beck Manufacturing and Plant Capacity. Read the “Beck Manufacturing” case study in Chapter 8 of your text. Answer questions one through three in a two- to- four page paper in accordance with APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

a. Calculate the capacity of each machine center and the capacity of the system.

b. If Beck wants to expand capacity, where should he focus the company’s efforts? How much extra capacity can he get without causing another operation to become the bottleneck?

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BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 1 Process Selection Product Design and Capacity
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Process Selection: Product Design and Capacity. How is process selection related to product design and capacity determination? Your initial post should be 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 2 Monique Food Processing Company and Capacity
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Monique Food Processing Company and Capacity. Read Problem 6: The “Monique Food Processing Company” in Chapter 8 of your text.

Monique Food Processing Company produces light snacks that can be heated in a microwave. The following steps are included in the process: Steps

Description

Capacity (Units/Hour)

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Prepare food

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BUS 644 Week 5 Alliance Supermarket and Point-of-Sale (POS) systems
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Alliance Supermarket and Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems. Read the “Alliance Supermarket” case study in Chapter 10 of your text. In a two- to- four page paper, answer questions 1 & 2 in accordance with APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Alliance Supermarkets

Alliance Supermarkets has been using a point-of-sale (POS) system for some time to track its inventory. The system uses a laser scanner to read the universal product code (UPC) on each item at the checkout container. The UPC is a number that uniquely identifies the product on which it appears. Currently, Alliance is using the UPC information to update inventory records for each item.

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BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 1 MRP Inventory and Customer Service
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Materials Requirements (MRP) Inventory and Customer Service. Explain how MRP can decrease a company’s inventory while improving its customer service level. Include a real-life example. Your initial post should be 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 2 Perpetual versus Periodic Inventory Systems
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Perpetual versus Periodic Inventory Systems. Describe the perpetual and the periodic inventory systems. How are they different? Are there circumstances in which one system is better than the other? Include real-life examples. Your initial post should be 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Just-in-Time (JIT) Inventories
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Just-in-Time (JIT) Inventories. Choose companies or industries for which JIT would be totally inappropriate? Explain your reasoning with examples in 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 2 Scheduling Procedures
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Scheduling Procedures. Categorize different scheduling procedures for various types of service operations, such as restaurants, hospitals, and airlines. Your initial post should include explanations and examples and be 200-250 words.

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BUS 644 Week 6 Final Paper
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Focus of the Final Paper

Read the “Space Age Furniture Company” case study in Chapter 9 of your text. Answer the following questions: and include any MRP calculations.

1. What options are open to Coral to address this problem?

2. How would reducing the minimum quantity of subassemblies help?

3. What are the costs of carrying excess items in inventory at each stage?

4. What is the trade-off between overtime costs and inventory costs?

5. Which type(s) of production processing – job shop, batch, repetitive, or continuous – is the primary mode of operation? Explain.