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ISCOM 305 CASE PROBLEM 16 2 Wheres My Cart
ISCOM 305 Assignment New product Launch Plan
organization approval (Apple)

• CASE PROBLEM 16.2 Wheres My Cart?
• The Senior Seminar at Allegheny State requires
  students to complete a process improvement
  project with local industry. Jim Davis and Leanna
  Hearn have been assigned to Wiley Construction.
  Here is their report.

• Research and identify an organization that will
  be used for this and subsequent Learning Team
  assignments.
• Attain faculty approval.
• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you
  identify a new product your company will
  introduce.

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ISCOM 305 Week 1 DQ 1
ISCOM 305 Week 1 Assignment Importance of
Operation

• What is the transformation process?
• Can the transformation process be applied to both
  goods and services?
• How might data be used during the process?

• ISCOM 305 Week 1 Assignment Importance of
  Operation

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ISCOM 305 Week 2 DQ 1
ISCOM 305 Week 2 Assignment Impact of product
Design

• ISCOM/305 - SYSTEMS OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• Write a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper in which you
  describe the impact of product design on
  operations and supply chain strategy. Include the
  following
• Explain the importance of the product design
  process.

• What are the different types of inventories
  maintained by a typical business entity?
• What is the significance of inventory regarding
  customer service levels?
• What are some of your experiences with
  inventories from the customer service
  perspective?
• How would you improve those inventories?

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ISCOM 305 Week 3 DQ 1
ISCOM 305 Week 3 CASE PROBLEM 10 1 Somerset
Furniture Companys Global Supply Chain

• A number of quality-management philosophies hold
  that prevention costs are the most critical
  quality-related costs. What is the logic behind
  this premise?
• Would you apply this logic as an operations
  manager? Explain why or why not.

• CASE PROBLEM 10.1 Somerset Furniture Companys
  Global Supply Chain
• ISCOM/305 - SYSTEMS OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• Read Case Problem 10.1 at the end of Chapter 10
  Somerset Furniture Company's Global Supply Chain
• Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you
  address the following questions

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ISCOM 305 Week 3 DQ 3
ISCOM 305 Week 3 DQ 2

• What are the major elements of project
  management?
• Describe the role of the project manager in
  conjunction with project control.
• What are the requisite skills that the project
  manager must possess?

• What is quality management?
• Why is it important for every manager to
  understand?
• How might a quality-management program affect
  productivity?

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ISCOM 305 Week 4 Chapter Questions
ISCOM 305 Week 3 Supply Chain Strategy and
Project Plan

• 12-1. List some of the operations and functions
  in a company that are dependent on a forecast for
  product demand.
• 12-2. What is the difference between quantitative
  forecast methods and qualitative forecast
  methods?
• 12-3. Describe the difference between short- and
  long-range forecasts.

• ISCOM/305
• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you
  explain your supply chain strategy to include the
  use of global suppliers. You will also develop a
  high-level project plan for the your development
  project, to include project scope and objects,
  schedule with milestones, risks and mitigation
  plans.

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ISCOM 305 Week 4 DQ 2
ISCOM 305 Week 4 DQ 1

• What are the strategic goals of supply chain
  management and how does procurement,
  transportation, and distribution affect these
  goals?

• How might materials requirement planning (MRP) is
  applied to the surgery suite of a hospital,
  scheduling university classes, a chain of
  restaurants, and hotel renovations?

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ISCOM 305 Week 5 DQ 1
ISCOM 305 Week 4 DQ 3

• What are three of the primary obstacles
  encountered by the management team in adopting
  and installing a new information technology
  system?

• Where have you seen the operational components of
  planning, sourcing, making, and delivering
  applied inappropriately?

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ISCOM 305 Week 5 DQ 3
ISCOM 305 Week 5 DQ 2

• Financial justification of a new information
  technology system is difficult at best because
  many of the advantages are intangible. Routine
  capital budgeting often overlooks six areas of
  cost savings or revenue-enhancement factors that
  are realized with new technology. What are four
  of these factors? Why are these factors important?

• We have seen many changes and innovations in the
  application of technology to operations
  management in recent years. Using information
  from your readings, identify the three most
  significant advancements in technology. Explain
  your choice of significant advancements.

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ISCOM 305 Week 5 New Product Launch Plan (Kohls
and Dewalt)

• epare a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation
  with speaker notes of your New Product
  Introduction Plan. You will simulate presenting
  your plan to the senior executive of your
  company. Include the following
• Your materials requirements and resource planning
  strategy
• How you will integrate Lean Systems into
  operations

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