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• BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style Cookies

• BUS 644 Entire Course (Ash Course)

• 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. The Company The Baking
  Company is located in a small town in New York
  State. The bakery is run by two brothers.

• BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style Cookies
• BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity Matters
• BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of Forecasting
• BUS 644 Week 2 Assignment Design of Work Systems
• BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity
• BUS 644 Week 3 Assignment Wal-Mart
• BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Quality improvement
• BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Inspection of Toys

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• BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of Forecasting

• BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity Matters

• Benefits of Forecasting. 
• Read the M L Manufacturing case on page 130 in
  your text. Prepare a weekly forecast clearly
  labeling your calculations. Explain the benefits
  of a more formalized approach to forecasting
  using course related principles in 200 words. You
  must respond to at least two of your classmates
  postings to receive full credit.

• Why Productivity Matters. It is sometimes easy to
  overlook the importance of productivity. National
  figures are often reported in the media. They may
  seem to be ho-hum theres nothing glamorous
  about them to get our attention. But make no
  mistake they are key economic indicatorsbaromete
  r, if you will, that affect everybody. How? High
  productivity and high standard of living go
  hand-in-hand. If a country becomes more
  service-based, as the United States has become,
  some (but not all) high-productivity
  manufacturing

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• BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity

• BUS 644 Week 2 Assignment Design of Work Systems

• Plant Capacity. A small building contractor has
  recently experienced two successive years in
  which work opportunities exceeded the firms
  capacity. The contractor must now make a decision
  on capacity for next year. Estimated profits
  under each of the two possible states of nature
  are as shown in the table below. Which
  alternative should be selected if the decision
  criteria is
• a. Maximax
• b. Maximin
• a. Laplace

• 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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• BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Quality improvement

• BUS 644 Week 3 Assignment Wal-Mart

• 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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• BUS 644 Week 4 Assignment Inventory Control

• BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Inspection of Toys

• Inventory Control. Read the case study below
  Harvey Industries. Provide reasoning for the
  current financial distress of the company and
  make recommendations for improvements to the new
  company president. Include at least one specific
  recommendation for both Supply Chain Management
  (chapter 15) and Inventory Management (chapter
  13), as well as any other recommendations you
  deem necessary from your reading. Provide your
  recommendations in a 2-4 page APA style paper.

• 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.

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• BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 2 Production Strategies

• BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 1 Planning for Service
  Operations

• 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.

• Planning for Service Operations. Service
  operations often face more difficulty in planning
  than their manufacturing counterparts. However,
  service does have certain advantages that
  manufacturing often does not. Explain service
  planning difficulty, and the advantages and
  disadvantages. Give your recommendations to
  management using course related principles in 200
  words. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings.

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• BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 1 Lean System

• BUS 644 Week 5 Assignment Setup Times

• Lean System. 1) What trade-offs are involved in
  shifting from a traditional operations system to
  a lean system for A) A manufacturing firm? B) A
  service firm? 2) Who in the organization is
  affected by a decision to shift from a
  traditional operations system to a lean system?
  3) To what extent has technology had an impact on
  lean systems? Explain your analysis using course
  related principles in 200 words. Respond to at
  least two of your classmates postings.

• Setup Times.
• It was a little past 900 on a Monday morning
  when Jeff Baker walked into your office with a
  box of donuts.
• 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 of yo-yos. We have
  received more orders than usual for July, and I
  want to release the orders to pad printing in a
  way that will enable us to meet our due date
  commitments in the best way possible. Would you
  have time to look at the order list

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• BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path

• BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 2 Preventive Maintenance

• BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path

• Preventive Maintenance. Determine the optimum
  preventive maintenance frequency for each of the
  pieces of equipment if breakdown time is normally
  distributed Clearly label your calculations and
  describe using course related principles in 200
  words.

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• BUS 644 Week 6 Final (Stickley Furniture)

• BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 2 Waiting Lines

• Focus of the Final Paper
• 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 of new
  knowledge. The paper should integrate readings
  and class discussions into work and life
  experiences. It may include explanation and
  examples from previous events as well as
  implications for future applications

• 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
  700 p.m. and 900 p.m. Currently two inspectors
  are on duty during those hours, each of whom can
  inspect 25 trucks an hour.

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