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1. From your experiences, compare your favorite brick-and-mortar department store to a comparable online retailer. Describe the advantages each has over the other. Explain the advantages each type offers you as the customer.
2. Identify a process within your organization that requires improvement. Explain how using the DMAIC method differs from how improvements are currently made.
3. Evaluate the motivations of organizations such as Apple to initiate a facilities location or relocation project? In your response, ensure to use resources to evaluate the stakeholders and pros and cons of domestic vs. international locations.
4. Transportation is required to move both work in process and finished goods. Discuss the considerations required when planning for transportation. Research two organizations and provide examples on the types of transportation and logistics methods used.
5. Describe the different forecasting methods and provide an example of when each is most applicable.
6. Explain the three inventory control models and the driving factor in each model. Provide examples for each one using current companies.
7. Explain the difference between a materials requirement planning (MRP) and Master Production Schedule. Provide examples how each are applied in the supply chain.
8. Compare and contrast JIT, MRP, and synchronized manufacturing, stating their main features, such as where each is or might be used, amounts of raw materials and work-in-process inventories, production lead times and cycle times, and methods for control.
9. In your own experience, identify an instance when the Theory of Constraints (TOC) was successfully used to improve a process, or when you saw the potential for TOC to improve the process. Provide examples of the bottleneck(s) in the process.
10. In your own experience, identify an instance when the Theory of Constraints (TOC) was successfully used to improve a process, or when you saw the potential for TOC to improve the process. Provide examples of the bottleneck(s) in the process.
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Organizational culture impact change process
: How does organizational culture impact the change process? Based on your experience with change, explain how management helped or hindered the change process.
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Managing health care quality
: Imagine that you are a hospital administrator at the Sunlight Hospital in California. The main complaint among the patients is the quality of care.
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Diversified risk stock portfolio
: Briefly explain why you selected each stock and how this investment portfolio would have less risk than selecting just one stock.
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Discuss current beta
: Select a company of your choice, and discuss its current beta. If the company's beta were to double, would its expected return double?
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Requirement planning and master production schedule
: Explain the difference between a materials requirement planning (MRP) and Master Production Schedule. Transportation is required to move both work in process
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Briefly explain vaughan theory
: Briefly explain Vaughan's theory. Explain how this type of communication within one of the organizations
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Influence employee decision to leave
: What are the variables that influence an employee's decision to leave or stay at an organization?
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Is pursuit of single-payer system
: Is pursuit of a single-payer system the solution to workforce challenges? Why or why not? Would similar challenges occur in the United States? Why or why not?
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Logistics research
: What is logistics, its benefits, and types of logistics? The functions of container terminals? What do you do to increase the operational efficiency of the port
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