MGMT 430 complete course unit 1 - unit 5

MGMT 430 unit 1 DQ

Deliverable Length:

3 - 4 paragraphs

The purpose of the Discussion Board is to allow students to learn through sharing ideas and experiences as they relate to course content and the DB question. Because it is not possible to engage in two-way dialogue after a conversation has ended, no posts to the DB will be accepted after the end of each unit.

As a new member of the production planning management staff, you will be expected to help develop strategies to support the expanded growth plans. Your team faces several fundamental issues. First, are the individual plant layouts conducive to the expanded growth expected by the company? Second, are individual plant layouts optimized for the most efficient performance and lowest cost? Third, is the existing supply chain interaction among all the various components optimized in the same manner individual layouts are expected to be optimized? Finally, your group must consider capacity planning and workflow to ensure the company can meet its contractual obligations with the maximum revenue and profitability.

Consider the following:

As the company's newest production planning staff member, you've been asked to join one of three teams: Strategic Planning, Tactical Planning, or Detailed Production Planning.

Discuss the elements of each component planning group. Detail what do they do, give examples, and tell their timeframe for planning.
Select a team to join and defend your rationale as to why it is most strategic and why you would be the most useful in that planning group.

In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on 2 other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.

MGMT 430 unit 1 Individual project

Deliverable Length:

1-2 pages

Assignment Type:

Individual Project

Scenario:
A specialty memory chip manufacturer is located in Southern California with manufacturing plants located in the United States, Europe, Singapore, and Japan. Additionally, it has branch sales offices located in major metropolitan areas across the globe. The market for its six key products included original equipment manufacturers of personal computers, cellular telephone manufacturers, electronics distributors, and government organizations. The market environment for its products is extremely volatile with fluctuating demand and rapidly changing prices. The company uses short-term contracts (less than 1 month) and spot pricing for irregular customers. Internally, the operation is capital-intensive with depreciation running approximately $1.2 million per day (depreciation has an impact on revenue streams). The 6 key products had further specialized components, making the possible line mix total 24 distinct products. Further, the manufacturing process required high manufacturing lead times and various product yields. In the high technology memory arena, product life cycles were dramatically shortened because of rapid obsolescence. To coordinate the manufacturing activity, the company has an established process and system that helped optimize resource utilization, improve shop floor efficiencies, and manage customer demand.

The company is experiencing 10–15% growth in revenues and volume, primarily tied to increased worldwide demand, product type, and market variables. Most significantly, the company received a major preorder for a new cellular phone memory chip that is scheduled to come out in 3 months. This preorder is scaled for up to 10 million units, and management is concerned that the existing process and system may not be suitably optimized for this order. Additionally, the forecast in sales figures for all six key product lines is higher than it has been in the past. With the increase in volume, management is concerned about the quality management process as well—can the existing processes maintain the highest degree of quality needed?

Using course materials and other resources, research and identify potential software applications with consideration for the following:

1) Should the company use an ERP package or specific manufacturing production planning utilities?
2) What are the advantages and disadvantages of each course of action?
3) Identify the candidate pool of software you considered for selection, select a single product, and justify your reasoning. Some of those for consideration may include the following: SAP, i2, Seibel, and SAS for the larger ERP/CRM/SCM vendors. Alternatively, Production Scheduling, RSS Solutions, Preactor International, or others.

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MGMT 430 unit 2 DQ

Deliverable Length: 3 - 4 paragraph

In your role as the memory chip company's production planning staff member, one of your tasks is to help the supply chain team focus on capacity planning. The company has determined it will use one or more of the following options to optimize capacity planning:

The use of dedicated and flexible facilities: The company has several permanent storage facilities and has used temporary storage in the past.
Flexible workforce: The company's workforce generally works 8–5 Monday through Friday, though some Asian locations have different days of working. Management is considering adjusting existing workforce time structures to meet planned demand.
Subcontracting: With the planned demand increasing, perhaps temporarily, subcontracting the additional resources might be an option.
Product design flexibility: The company is considering modifying its factory production lines to be better able to handle future demand.

Using course materials and other research, complete the following:

Identify one or more capacity planning methods that you will recommend for the company, and explain the method and how it is used in various industries. Are there other options?
Identify the advantages and disadvantages of your proposal.

Comment on other postings by critiquing the other proposals and suggesting aspects of your classmates' plans that may have been overlooked.

In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on 2 other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

MGMT 430 unit 2 Individual project

Production Planning and Quality Management: MGMT430

Deliverable Length: 3 - 4 pages

Assignment Type: Individual Project

As the company prepares to meet demand and capacity requirements for its planned future growth, you have been asked to review the current forecasting strategy and help implement a new strategic plan for forecasting demand. The new forecasting plan ties directly to the overall strategic planning methodology established by the company. The company historically has used a time series method. The forecasting methods under consideration are the following:

Qualitative: human judgment, usually best used when little data is available
Simulation: the use of computer models or judgment to imitate customer behavior
Causal: used when there is a direct tie between demand and an environmental factor, such as cold weather
Time series: the use of historical data to predict future needs

Using course materials and other research, complete the following:

Identify which forecasting technique or multiple techniques should be used in the future for the company's strategy. Are there other techniques available that are not listed above?
Explain the technique you identify, and give an example of how it is used in the manufacturing, retail, and health care industries.
Detail if 1 of the 4 techniques listed above should NOT be used and why.
Evaluate the significance of forecasting error for the technique or techniques you have selected. What is the impact of error on your chosen technique?

Please submit your assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course material

MGMT 430 unit 3 DQ

Deliverable Length: 3 - 4 paragraphs

In your role as the memory chip company's production planning staff member, one of your tasks is to help the supply chain team focus on capacity planning. One of the key production plants in the supply chain currently uses a lead capacity strategy in which they make enough chips to offset demand, even when this means excess inventory levels at times.

Using course materials and other research, complete the following:

Define the lead, lag, and match strategy for capacity planning.
Recommend a better strategy for the the company's production strategy, outlining the advantages of your proposal. Be sure to provide a mathematical basis for your recommendation. Should it change from the lead strategy or not?

Comment on other postings by critiquing the other proposals and suggesting aspects of your classmates' plans that may have been overlooked.

In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on 2 other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

MGMT 430 unit 3 Individual project

Production Planning and Quality Management: MGMT430

Deliverable Length: 3 - 4 pages

Assignment Type: Individual Project

Unit3 - Individual Project

Review the scenario at beginning of the assignment list.

As the company examines various methods to assess its performance and design processes, it is looking for an analysis of the existing workflow production process and the factors that most directly impact such measurements. As a review, the most common metrics for production processes are as follows:

Quality: the number of defects associated with a given produc
Cost: material and labor cost
Timeliness: how quickly products are manufactured and delivered
Flexibility: the degree to which the production process can be adapted to produce other products or specific products more quickly
Productivity: a ratio of outputs divided by inputs
Efficiency: a ratio of actual outputs divided by standard (or expected) outputs, multiplied by 100% to give a total efficiency percentage
Cycle time: the total time it takes to complete a production process
Theory of Constraints and Queuing Theory

Using course materials and other research, complete the following:

Explain how each measure can be applied to the company's production planning process. Can the company use each one? How?
Rank the criteria listed above in order of importance to the company's production planning strategy detailing your rationale for such a ranking.
Identify other measures that might apply to the company and explain them.

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For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course material

MGMT 430 unit 4 DQ

Deliverable Length:

3 - 4 paragraphs

The memory chip company has determined that there are 3 possible general locations for building a key production facility as follows:

A rural location in the Southwest United States that has offered major tax incentives and promised to make the company exempt from certain local environmental restrictions
An overseas location in Southeast Asia that will provide low cost labor, no tariffs consisting of 12–25 year old employees that have been well-trained
A major metropolitan U.S. city that is the most optimal from a workflow standpoint, has minimal tax incentives, and more stringent local restrictions with the potential for an excellent employee pool (numbers and quality)

Using course materials and other research, complete the following:

Identify the ethics implications of each alternative: Postulate what situations might prove problematic, and describe how the company should handle them.
Identify the methods the company should use in making the final decision on this facility location.
Comment on other postings by critiquing the other proposals and suggesting aspects of your classmates' plans that may have been overlooked.

In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on 2 other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Unit Materials

MGMT 430 unit 4 Individual project

Production Planning and Quality Management: MGMT430

Deliverable Length: 3-4 Body Pages

The memory chip manufacturer is also thinking about relocating one of their existing plants. Your boss is not sure that they should do so. He has asked you to write a white paper on the pros and cons of relocating facilities. In this paper, he wants you to specifically discuss:

What motivations typically cause firms to initiate a facililties location or relocation projects?
How would a facility location decision for our company differ from one for a service organization?
Discuss five metrics which should be used when selecting a new production facility location.
Based on the these metrics, describe where in the United States you would locate this facility. Please be specific as to why you would choose this location.

Please submit your assignment.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

TITLE PAGE. Remember the Running head: AND TITLE IN ALL CAPITALS
ABSTRACT. A summary of your paper…not an introduction. Begin writing in third person voice.
BODY. The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The type face should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3-4 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
REFERENCE PAGE. References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper and lower case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference Page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

This assignment will be assessed using the additional criteria provided here.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

MGMT 430 unit 4 group project

Production Planning and Quality Management: MGMT430

Deliverable Length: 3 - 4 pages

Unit4 - Group Project

The memory chip manufacturer, having identified the appropriate location for its major production facility, now wants your team to determine the optimal internal layout for the facility based on the following criteria:

The facility will manufacture several lines of memory chips, some with compatible components and some that do not have compatible components.
The facility will also house an administrative support workgroup that will receive and process orders, bill customers, and provide payroll/HR support for the local workforce.
The facility will also be responsible for shipping to national, international, and local customer locations.

Using course materials and other research, complete the following:

Individual: There are 4 types of potential layouts: product-based, functional, cellular and fixed-position layouts. Divide the work up with equality among individual team members so that each of the listed layouts is defined from an academic context and it is specified how it might apply to the company's facility.

Please add your file.

Group: As a team, discuss your justification and choice for the most appropriate method for the company, and come to a consensus.

Finally, as a team, determine the most appropriate optimization models of the chosen layout(s). In other words, identify the best methods that the company can use to optimize workflow amongst those methods (individual layout types). Provide a full rationale.

Please add your file.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

MGMT 430 unit 5 Discussion

Production Planning and Quality Management: MGMT430

Deliverable Length: 3 - 5 paragraphs

Assignment Type: Discussion Board

Using the library and Web resources, complete the following:

Select 4 types of quality management tools or methods. These could include control charts, diagrams, flow charts, consensus building, calculations, histograms, checklists, and so forth.
Contrast and compare these tools or methods, identifying their purpose and relationship.
Which ones would be most useful for the company?
Comment on at least 2 other postings related to Question 1.

In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on 2 other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

MGMT 430 unit 5 Individual project

Production Planning and Quality Management: MGMT430

Deliverable Length: 5 - 6 pages

After all your production planning analysis, you have been asked to prepare a Quality Management Planning Strategy for management and employees.

Using course materials and other resources, develop a strategy document with the following action items:

Identify the overall Quality Management Process (TQM, ISO 9000, Six Sigma) the company will use, and explain the rationale for such change. Be aware of industry requirements (i.e. service operations are different from manufacturing, and each process may offer specific advantages for a specific industry). Describe how you will implement the process in the company (make any necessary reasonable assumptions you need with the scenario, such as company organization or structure).
Once you identify and explain the process, outline the specific tools and techniques the company will use for quality management. Consider the usefulness of all the charting and statistical quality metric techniques and identify which ones it should use.
Develop a communications memorandum to the factory workers announcing these changes and explaining the value of them. Remember, quality management principles all focus on employee involvement and continuous improvement.

Please submit your assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

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