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Business Cases Chapter 13-
1) Cow Milking Robots
2) Tragedy in Fashion
Please answers these questions with developed thoughts with regards to the learnings from Chapter 13.
1) COW-MILKING ROBOTS (Pg. 383)
1. How can robotic milking systems help deal with an aging farming population?
2. What are the challenges presented by robotic milking?
3. Are robotics suited for all types of farming?
2) TRAGEDY IN FASHION (pg. 382)
1. Discuss this from a value chain management perspective. What happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen?
2. How do incidents like this affect how managers work with a value chain?
3. Do some research on offshoring. What is it? What are the benefits and the drawbacks of offshoring as far as managing the operations system?
4. What can managers learn about managing operations from this situation?
5. Personal moral issue: Would you pay a higher price for "ethical" clothing? Why or why not? Discuss.