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<strong>OPS</strong> <strong>571</strong> <strong>Complete</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 3 <strong>–</strong> <strong>NEW</strong><br />
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<strong>OPS</strong> <strong>571</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 3 DQ 1<br />
Think about your latest trip to a hospital/health care facility. How many different<br />
handoffs did you encounter? How would you rate the quality of the service relative to<br />
the patient experience and relative to that of the friends and family?<br />
<strong>OPS</strong> <strong>571</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 3 DQ 2<br />
With so much productive capacity and room for expansion in the United States, why<br />
would a company based in the United States choose to purchase items from a<br />
foreign firm? Discuss the pros and cons.<br />
<strong>OPS</strong> <strong>571</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 3 DQ 3<br />
From the choice of simple moving average, weighted moving average, exponential<br />
smoothing, and linear regression analysis, which forecasting technique would you<br />
consider the most accurate? Why?<br />
<strong>OPS</strong> <strong>571</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 3 Individual Process Designs and Supply Chains, Pt 2<br />
Write a paper in which you evaluate the current state of the process you selected in<br />
<strong>Week</strong> Two and summarize the proposed future state.<br />
Required Elements:<br />
Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the process selected in <strong>Week</strong> Two<br />
using the data collected.<br />
Determine areas for improvement<br />
Design an improved process flow chart using an appropriate tool.<br />
Summarize two items from this improved process. Include an explanation of<br />
how these items could be used in your personal or professional life to improve<br />
a process.<br />
No more than 700 words<br />
Consistent with APA format<br />
Click the Assignment FIles tab to submit your assignment.<br />
<strong>OPS</strong> <strong>571</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 3 Learning Team Reflection<br />
Discuss the following:<br />
What is the chase strategy?<br />
Identify 2-3 companies that might use the chase strategy<br />
What are some of the challenges associated with using the chase strategy and<br />
why?
Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word paper detailing the findings of your discussion.<br />
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.<br />
<strong>OPS</strong> <strong>571</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 3 Quiz<br />
1.) When considering outsourcing, what should firms tend to avert?<br />
Allowing outsourcing to develop into a substitute for innovation<br />
Losing control of non-core activities<br />
Giving the outsourcing partner opportunities to become a strong competitor<br />
Allowing employees transferred to the outsourcing partner to rejoin the firm<br />
2.) What is the important starting point in developing a capacity plan?<br />
Predicting the ability of suppliers to meet needs<br />
Determining the effective capacity of a resource over some period of time.<br />
Predicting the needs of customers<br />
Understanding key components of the supply chain<br />
3.) Which of the following is an input to the master production schedule (MPS)?<br />
Bill of materials<br />
The aggregate plan<br />
Exception report<br />
Inventory records file<br />
4.) Which of the following is an input file necessary to run an MRP program?<br />
Planned-order schedules<br />
Bill of materials (BOM) file<br />
Exception reports<br />
Quality management report<br />
5.) Which of the following forecasting methods is very dependent on selection of the<br />
right individuals who will judgmentally be used to actually generate the forecast?<br />
Simple moving average<br />
Time series analysis<br />
Delphi method<br />
Weighted moving average<br />
6.) The main purpose of aggregate operations planning is to specify the optimal<br />
combination of which of the following?<br />
Inventory on hand and financing costs for that inventory<br />
Workforce levels and inventory on hand<br />
The workforce level and the degree of automation
The strategic plan and the products available for sale<br />
7.) Which of the following is an essential resource that flows through a hospital<br />
supply chain?<br />
Patients<br />
Medicine<br />
Doctors and Nurses<br />
Information<br />
8.) In business forecasting, what is usually considered a short-term time period?<br />
Four weeks or less<br />
Six months or more<br />
Less than three months<br />
More than three months<br />
9.) Which of the following is an input file necessary to run an MRP system?<br />
Planned order schedule<br />
Exception report<br />
Inventory records file<br />
Computer-aided-design files<br />
10.) Which of the following is most closely related to the reason a firm might<br />
implement MRP?<br />
So they can order the right parts<br />
So they can order parts sufficient for immediate use<br />
To assure appropriate quality levels<br />
So they can insure that parts to arrive D. To assure appropriate quality levels<br />
11.) Which of the following is one of the main purposes of a MRP system?<br />
Decrease labor requirements.<br />
Educate personnel in basic work rules.<br />
Determine the materials needed.<br />
Stimulate the work force.<br />
12.) The text mentions several common approaches to use when developing a<br />
strategy to close a capacity gap (where utilization of a resource exceeds capacity<br />
available). Which of the following is among the common approaches mentioned?<br />
New construction<br />
Hire more employees<br />
Closing a related department<br />
Transferring capacity from other units
13.) Which of the following is a perpetual system for inventory management?<br />
Fixed-time period<br />
P model<br />
Fixed-order quantity<br />
First-in-first-out<br />
14.) Which of the following is considered a pure production planning strategy?<br />
Stable workforce, variable work hours<br />
Variable workforce, stable work hours<br />
Lag demand<br />
Level playing field<br />
15.) In conducting aggregate operations planning there are a number of required<br />
inputs. Which of the following are inputs considered most external to the firm?<br />
Current physical capacity of the organization<br />
Raw material availability and competitor’s behavior<br />
Internal inventory levels and market demand<br />
Subcontractor capacity and inventory levels<br />
16.) In most cases, demand for products or services can be broken into several<br />
components. Which of the following is considered a component of demand?<br />
Future demand<br />
Cyclical elements<br />
Inconsistent demand<br />
Past demand<br />
17.) Which of the following is an input to the master production schedule?<br />
Prototype products from product development<br />
Aggregate component schedule<br />
Peg reports from factory records<br />
Forecasts of customer demand<br />
18.) What is the effect of the lack of synchronization among supply-chain members?<br />
Bullwhip effect<br />
Continuous replenishment<br />
Metcalf’s Law<br />
Forward buying<br />
19.) Which of the following is one of the categories of manufacturing inventory?
Work-in-process<br />
Economic Order Inventory<br />
JIT Inventory<br />
Quality units<br />
20.) Which is the most challenging kind of supply chain to manage according to Hau<br />
Lee?<br />
Risk-hedging<br />
Agile<br />
Efficient<br />
Erratic<br />
21.) What is another name for the fixed-order quantity inventory model?<br />
Cycle counting model<br />
The ABC model<br />
Economic order quantity model<br />
Periodic replenishment mode
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