OPS 571 WEEK 2 OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS
OPS 571 Week 2 Operational Analysis,Week 2 Quiz,OPS 571 Week 2 Learning Team Reserved Reading Review
OPS 571 Week 2 Individual Process Designs and Supply Chains
This is part one of a two part assignment starting with an introductory look at process design and supply chains.
Identify a company with which you are familiar. This could be your place of employment, a car wash, a yard service company, and so forth.
Write a paper in which you describe the current state of your selected company’s supply chain and an identified process.
Required Elements:
- Describe the company’s supply chain
- Identify a process internal to the company that you wish to analyze.
- Describe the process internal to the company that you wish to analyze.
- Identify an appropriate design approach for the process you have chosen.
- Create a high-level AS IS process flow chart using an appropriate tool.
- Identify at least one metric to measure the process and its application (how, what, when, and who).
- Use an appropriate tool to collect data for each step of the process.
- No more than 700 words
- Consistent with APA format
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
Review the article “An Approach of Capability Representation for Improving Capacity Planning”.
Requirement: Be prepared to discuss the assignment at the beginning of class.
Submit the Learning Team Charter with this assignment.
- 1
Which of the following is a situation that likely will yield economies of scale?
Large factory with dedicated capacity that is able to produce twice the number of units as locally demanded
Factory that produces low volume, customized products
Company with factories in multiple countries that produces products for local demand
Factory that fully utilizes dedicated resources for information technology, material handling, and administrative support
Correct
- 2
In setting up a kanban control system, you need to determine the number of kanban card sets needed. If the average number of units demanded is 1,000 per hour, the lead time to replenish the order for this item is 10 hours, the container size is 5 units, and the safety stock is estimated to be 5% of the expected demand, what is the number of kanban card sets needed?
210
440
1,050
2,100
Correct
- 3
Which of the following operations consulting tools provide summary performance updates for specific processes and are generally presented in graphical form with color-coding of trend lines and alarms?
Stakeholder analysis
Process dashboards
Decision trees
Responsibility charts
Correct
- 4
In the pull system, which of the following is the partner that begins the process of pulling?
Quality control personnel
Vendors
Customers
Executive management
Correct
- 5
Which of the following terms refers to a special type of flowcharting tool that is valuable for the development of lean processes?
Value stream mapping
JIT production
Kaizen
Kanban production control system
Correct
- 6
Which of the following are possible examples of cycle times?
Time to set up a new assembly line
Time required to produce a batch of parts
Time it takes for an instructor to grade an exam
Time that a part waits in queue
Correct
- 7
Which of the following is a factor that causes a diseconomy of scale?
Increased total operating costs
Increased product value and prices
Increased transportation costs
Increased utilization
Correct
- 8
What is the term that refers to “the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed” (as cited in Jacobs & Chase, 2011, p. 461).
Continuous improvement
Operations consulting process
Reengineering
TQM
Correct
- 9
Which of the following operations consulting tools are used in the cost impact and payoff analysis stage in the operations consulting process?
Plant audits and statistical tools
SPC tools and bottleneck analysis
Customer surveys and gap analysis
Decision trees and stakeholder analysis
Correct
- 10
If the run time for a batch of parts is 25 minutes on a machine, and the setup time is 75 minutes, which of the following is the operation time?
3 minutes
25 minutes
75 minutes
100 minutes
Correct
- 11
Which of the following is a principle of reengineering?
Integrate the outcomes of parallel activities
Capture information many times, at the source and where it is interpreted
Organize around the tasks
Treat geographically dispersed resources as though they were centralized
Correct
- 12
The basic notion of economies of scale assumes which of the following?
Two plants can be operated at the same cost as a single plant
Average cost per unit of output drops as a plant gets larger and volume increases
Total cost of output drops as volume increases
A piece of equipment with twice the capacity of another piece typically costs twice as much to purchase and to operate
Correct
- 13
To implement a flow process in developing a lean system, a firm might do which of the following?
Improve capacity utilization
Eliminate some fixed costs
Build product in anticipation of demand
Reduce setup/changeover time
Correct
- 14
Which of the following is a key metric associated with value stream mapping?
Product demand
Lead time
Defects per million operations
Fixed costs
Correct
- 15
Lean production seeks to achieve high volume production using which of the following?
Minimize utilization
Minimize inventory of raw materials
Maximize capacity
Maximize inventory of work-in-process
Correct
- 16
Which of the following is one of the major types of stakeholders impacted by most consulting projects?
Suppliers
Other consultants
Board of directors
International government regulators
Correct
- 17
An advantage of a make-to-stock process is which of the following?
All units of output are unique
Rapid delivery of a standard product
It responds directly to customer orders
It allows the firm to avoid inventory costs
Correct
- 18
Which of the following production process terms best describes the situation when activities in a stage of production must stop because there is no work?
Buffering
Blocking
Starving
Multiple-stage processing
Correct
- 19
According to Little’s law, which of the following can be used to estimate inventory?
Process time times cycle time
Process velocity times flow time
Throughput rate times flow time
Set up time times throughput rate
Correct
- 20
Which of the following production process terms best describes a stage in a multiple-stage process that limits the capacity of the overall process?
Starving
Blocking
Bottleneck
Buffer
Correct
- 21
In contrast to TQM, what approach seeks radical change through innovation?
Project management
Lean manufacturing
JIT distribution
Reengineering
Correct
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