For Professor KimWood

E-Activity 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Z3IApWCNQ E-Activity 2: Use the Internet to research service or product companies; take a note on how they manage their inventories. Be prepared to discuss

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.

"Project Management" Please respond to the following:

Provide at least two examples of companies that have used project management techniques such as CPM or PERT. Evaluate their success in operations.

Determine at least two factors that impact the quality of project management. Suggest ways these factors can be mitigated without affecting project operation