Questions from Supply Chain

Q: What are the primary operations management decisions in each of the following

What are the primary operations management decisions in each of the following corporations?

Q: What are the primary resources that determine the capacity of each of

What are the primary resources that determine the capacity of each of the following?

Q: How can a university attain economies of scale? What impact might

How can a university attain economies of scale? What impact might this have on quality and flexibility?

Q: How would you define the maximum capacity for the front desk of

How would you define the maximum capacity for the front desk of a hotel? What is meant by the effective capacity? Define the difference in these two terms relative to the number of customers that can...

Q: Which would require a larger amount of excess capacity – a hospital

Which would require a larger amount of excess capacity – a hospital emergency room or a doctor’s office? Why?

Q: Discuss the challenges that an operations manager can expect to encounter when

Discuss the challenges that an operations manager can expect to encounter when applying the principles of process performance to the upstream (supply-based) section of a supply chain?

Q: Which of the five activity categories is represented by each of the

Which of the five activity categories is represented by each of the following actions?

Q: Under what conditions would inspections, storages and transports be considered value

Under what conditions would inspections, storages and transports be considered value-adding?

Q: How would you define the capacity of your school? In what

How would you define the capacity of your school? In what way does capacity influence the value of your college experience?

Q: Describe a situation where the functional/sequential approach to product development

Describe a situation where the functional/sequential approach to product development might be more appropriate than the integrated/concurrent engineering approach.