MG375DLBU1A2020 Production & Operations Mgmt

Overview

The purpose of this discussion exercise is to provide you with a forum to discuss your newly discovered production and operations management concepts considering current issues and real business situations. This is a practice ground for ensuring that your reasoning and foundation of these concepts are secure. This portion of the course requires you to interact with your fellow classmates and critique their submissions.

Note that all these topics refer to the Operations function of a business, to manufacture a product or create a service.  We all know that these topics may be used in other business functions, such as in marketing or finance, but for the discussions in this course, please focus on Operations examples and articles.

See the  Assignments and Grading page  for more grading information.

Resources

· Refer to this  sample format for an article analysis .  Follow this format to ensure that you include both information about the situation within the article, as well as concepts from our readings that explain it.  

Due Date

· Analysis post: By Thursday at 11:59 P.M., CT.  

· Three or more peer and instructor responses: By Sunday at 11:59 P.M., CT.

Directions

1. Select one of these concepts

a. Project Management using network diagrams (PERT and CPM) in Operations Projects.

b. Finding and using the Critical Path in network diagrams in Operations Projects.

c. Reducing the project completion time (crashing) in Operations Projects.

d. Application of the Gantt Chart in Operations Projects.

e. Components of Earned Value Management in Operations Projects.

2. Then find a current event in an article from the resources below to illustrate that concept. 

. Library Resources

. Industry Week (Links to an external site.)

. Wall Street Journal (Links to an external site.)

. Industry Week  (Links to an external site.)

. Project News Today (Links to an external site.)

. Project Management World  (Links to an external site.)

. Global Manufacturing  (Links to an external site.)

· Analysis Post

. After reviewing and analyzing at least one of the current events articles, compose an analysis of that event or situation using the unit operations concept that you selected.

. Note: Remember to focus upon your selected operations concept in your analysis. 

· Response Posts

. Respond to at least three classmates’ posts or your Instructor's responses.

. Note: If your instructor asks you a question about your analysis, you must respond to them to receive full credit.