Mass work (Prof Nicholas ONLY)

PROJECT 3

Capacity planning has become an important strategic variable for many companies. Capacity related decisions could either enhance or worsen competitiveness over the long term. Describe the specific objectives of capacity planning and how it best supports a company’s competitive strategy. Since we have been using a number of computer based models in our class this term, I would like you to put together an example with some sample data to demonstrate the concepts you have discussed and include this model with your submission. Note: Long before this project is due, we will have covered Decision Support Modeling and you will have several examples to draw from.

Work STUDY

Please select a company that you have feelings about and think about that company in respect to at least one of the concepts that we have talked about in class up till now such as:

 

Strategy

Computer Modeling

Forecasting

Design

 

See if you are able to find out from both "peer reviewed" and non "peer reviewed" sources the approach that company uses for this type of operations decision.  The peer reviewed literature

is more likely to cover the topic and the Internet "at large" likely to cover a specific organization.   When you have lined up your sources, prepare a 3 - 5 page write up that follows our usual

format for papers.

PROJECT 4

Please complete the following analysis:

 

Discuss the basic relationships in an mrp system. Use the text and any other resources for this project.  I am intentionally giving a lot of latitude here so you can either find an article that suits you or take a more basic approach to increase your understanding of the concepts.

Project 5

Global supply chain productivity and synergy goals. Describe the critical success factors for organizational collaboration.

 

This topic is wide open for you to elaborate. Pick an area from this term that you enjoyed and use it to develop your theme.  The early and later chapters in our text point to this but do not feel restricted by that.  It should be easy to find an area that requires a lot of synergy as almost all areas of supply chain do.