Location, Layout, and Physical Facilities
Please respond to the following:
·Using the same small business you described in the first discussion, determine the best possible location for your business within driving distance of where you now live. Explain your rationale.
·Discuss the layout and design configuration of a building you would like to use to house your business, including how you would comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Supply Chain Management
Please respond to the following:
·From the e-Activity, determine which best practices can be applied to the greatest number of small businesses. Explain your rationale.
·Analyze the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) and Six Sigma in regard to quality control of a product or service, and make at least one recommendation for improvement. Explain your rationale.
Managing Inventory
·Describe a retail business with which you are familiar and determine the most suitable means of inventory control. Provide specific examples to support your response.
·For the same business, discuss what innovative steps you could take to deter employee theft and/or shoplifting.
Management of Inventories” Please respond to the following:
·From the first e-Activity, examine the best practices found in the video on inventory management.
·From the second e-Activity, choose two service companies that manage inventory and compare and contrast their inventory management systems.
·Based on your evaluation of both inventory management systems from Part 2 of this discussion, propose suggestions to management that would ultimately lead to improve operations.
Resource Management” Please respond to the following:
·Select a goods-producing organization and a service-providing organization of your choice. Suggest ways each organization can make aggregate planning decisions using the variables described in Exhibit 13.3 (Chapter 13).
·Compare and contrast the operational and managerial impacts of the aggregate planning decisions in terms of customer satisfaction.
“Evaluate an Experience” Please respond to the following:
·From the e-Activity, analyze the importance of production planning and scheduling within an organization. Evaluate a bad experience you have had with an appointment from both perspectives of the customer (you) and the organization due to inefficient planning and scheduling.
·Analyze the experience you provided in Part 1 of this discussion from a technical perspective and an intangible perspective. Suggest ways the schedules could have been created more efficient and effective.
Balloons Aloha” Please respond to the following:
·From the case study, suggest short-term recommendations for the set of six jobs at the company. Support your recommendations.
·From the case study, evaluate the efficiency of Balloons Aloha’s sequencing system. Provide long-term recommendations with respect to sequencing jobs at the company. Support your recommendations.
