Lecture Operations and supply chain management - Chapter 10: Quality management and six sigma. The main goals of this chapter are to: Understand total quality management. discuss how quality is measured and the different dimensions of quality. explain the six sigma quality philosophy,...

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After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: Explain the different purposes for keeping inventory, understand that the type of inventory system logic that is appropriate for an item depends on the type of demand for that item, calculate the appropriate order size when a one-time purchase must be made,...

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The main goals of this chapter are to: Understand how important sourcing decisions go beyond simple material purchasing decisions, demonstrate the “bullwhip effect” and how it is important to synchronize the flow of material between supply chain partners, describe how characteristics of supply and demand have an impact on structuring supply chains,...

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After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: Describe the characteristics of service processes and how they differ from manufacturing processes, classify service processes, explain service blueprinting, understand waiting line (queuing) analysis,...

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The main goals of this chapter are to: Understand what sales and operations planning is and how it coordinates manufacturing, logistics, service, and marketing plans; construct aggregate plans that employ different strategies for meeting demand; describe what yield management is and why it is an important strategy for leveling demand.

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Lecture Operations and supply chain management - Chapter 12: Lean supply chains. After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: Explain what lean production is, describe how a pull production system works, understand toyota production system concepts, summarize important attributes of a lean supply chain,...

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Chapter 14 - Location, logistics, and distribution. The main goals of this chapter are to: Describe what a third-party logistics provider is, assess the major issues that need to be considered in locating a plant or warehouse facility, learn how a factor-rating system can be used to narrow potential location sites,...

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Chapter 1 introduces you to the field of operations management. It describes the nature and scope of operations management, and how operations management relates to other parts of the organization. Among the other important topics it covers are a comparison of manufacturing and service operations, a brief history of operations management, and a list of trends in business that relate to operations. After you have read this chapter, you will...

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Chapter 6 explains the strategic importance and the influence that process selection has on organization. It also includes types of basic processing and reviews automated approaches to processing. It also describes advantages and disadvantages of product and process layouts.

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Chapter 7s deals with concepts of learning curves highlighting relationship between illustrate the basic relationship between increasing repetitions and decreasing time per repetition. This relationship is also referred to as an experience curve, a progress function, or an improvement function.

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In this chapter include objectives: Describe the different environments under which operations are made, describe and use techniques that apply to decision making under uncertainty, describe and use the expected-value approach, construct a decision tree and use it to analyze a problem, compute the expected value of perfect information, conduct sensitivity analysis on a simple decision problem.

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Chapter 8 deals with main reasons and explains why location decisions are important. Location decisions represent a key part of the strategic planning process of virtually every organization. This chapter examines locations analysis. It begins with a brief overview of the reason firms must make location decisions, the nature of these decisions, and a general procedure for developing and evaluating location alternatives.

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