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• ASHFORD BUS 644 Entire Course (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style
  Cookies (Old)

• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style
  Cookies (Old)
• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity
  Matters (Old)
• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of
  Forecasting (Old)
• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 Assignment Design of Work
  Systems (Old)
• ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity (Old)

• Home-Style Cookies. Read the Home-style Cookies
  case study below. Answer questions 1-7 in a two
  to four (2-4) page APA style paper. Your paper
  should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of
  bullet points), and supported with the concepts
  outlined in your text. 

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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity
Matters (Old)
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of
Forecasting (Old)
Why Productivity Matters. It is sometimes easy to
overlook the importance of productivity. National
figures are often reported in the media.
Read the M L Manufacturing case on page 130 in
your text. Prepare a weekly forecast clearly
labeling your calculations.
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 Assignment Design of Work
Systems (Old)
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity (Old)
Plant Capacity. A small building contractor has
recently experienced two successive years in
which work opportunities exceeded the firms
capacity.
Design of Work Systems. Read the Making
Hotplates case. Answer questions 1-4 in a two to
four (2-4) page APA style paper. Your paper
should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of
bullet points), and supported with the concepts
outlined in your text.
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Quality improvement
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 Assignment Wal-Mart (Old)
Quality Improvement. Read Chick-n-Gravy Dinner
Line on page 414 in your text. Explain your
analysis using course related principles in 200
words. Respond to at least two of your
classmates postings. 
Wal-Mart. Read the Hello, Wal-Mart? case.
Answer questions 1-2 in a two to four (2-4) page
APA style paper. Your paper should be in
paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points),
and supported with the concepts outlined in your
text
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Inspection of Toys
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 Assignment Inventory
Control (Old)
Inspection of Toys. Read Toys, Inc. on page 460
in your text. Indicate your recommendations using
course related principles in 200 words. Respond
to at least two of your classmates postings.
Inventory Control. Read the case study below
Harvey Industries. Provide reasoning for the
current financial distress of the company and
make recommendations for improvements
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 1 Planning for Service
Operations (Old)
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 2 Production Strategies
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Planning for Service Operations. Service
operations often face more difficulty in planning
than their manufacturing counterparts.
Production Strategies. Read Eight Glasses a Day
(EGAD) on page 507 in your text. Answer
questions 1 and 2. Explain your analysis using
course related principles in 200 words. Respond
to at least two of your classmates postings.
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 5 Assignment Setup Times
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 1 Lean System (Old)
Ive been talking with Anne about a problem we
have with short-term capacity in our pad printing
operation. You know, thats where we print the
logo on the Custom lines
Lean System. 1) What trade-offs are involved in
shifting from a traditional operations system to
a lean system for A) A manufacturing firm?
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 2 Preventive
Maintenance (Old)
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path (Old)
Preventive Maintenance. Determine the optimum
preventive maintenance frequency for each of the
pieces of equipment if breakdown time is normally
distributed
BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path
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ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 2 Waiting Lines (Old)
ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 Final (Stickley Furniture)
(Old)
Read "Stickley Furniture" on pages 550-552 in
your text. Answer questions 1-5. The final case
study should demonstrate understanding of the
reading as well as the implications
Waiting Lines. Trucks are required to pass
through a weighing station so that they can be
checked for weight violations. Trucks arrive at
the station at the rate of 40 an hour between
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