Questions from General Operations Management

Q: What type of plant tour is designed to determine the “leanness

What type of plant tour is designed to determine the “leanness” of a plant in just 30 minutes?

Q: Sony Electronics produces a wide variety of electronic products for the consumer

Sony Electronics produces a wide variety of electronic products for the consumer marketplace, like laptop computers, PlayStation game consoles and tablet computers. What type of products would these b...

Q: The Dorton University president has asked the OSCM department to assign eight

The Dorton University president has asked the OSCM department to assign eight biology professors (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H) to eight offices (numbered 1 to 8 in the diagram) in the new biology build...

Q: One product that Staples sells a lot of is copy paper.

One product that Staples sells a lot of is copy paper. According to Lee’s Uncertainty Framework, what supply chain strategy is appropriate for this product?

Q: What is the term used for the act of moving some of

What is the term used for the act of moving some of a company’s internal activities and decision-making processes to outside providers?

Q: Which supply chain efficiency measure is more appropriate when the majority of

Which supply chain efficiency measure is more appropriate when the majority of inventory is held in distribution channels?

Q: What do you call the average total value of all items held

What do you call the average total value of all items held in inventory for a firm, at cost?

Q: Discuss the concept of “drum-buffer-rope.”

Discuss the concept of “drum-buffer-rope.”

Q: The owner of a large machine shop has just finished its financial

The owner of a large machine shop has just finished its financial analysis from the prior fiscal year. Following is an excerpt from the final report: a. Compute the inventory turnover ratio (ITR). b....

Q: The McDonald’s fast-food restaurant on campus sells an average of

The McDonald’s fast-food restaurant on campus sells an average of 4,000 quarter-pound hamburgers each week. Hamburger patties are resupplied twice a week, and on average the store has 350 pounds of ha...