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Chapter 1: 4OQ (page 38)
How often should a company develop and refine its operations and supply chain strategy?
A supply chain strategy is a structured way to control the network that connects a company to its providers.
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Match the following product types to the appropriate product development description.
Technology-push products A. Entail unusually large uncertainties about the technology or market. The development process takes steps to address those uncertainties.
Platform products B. A firm with a new proprietary technology seeks out a market where that technology can be applied.
Process-intensive products C. Uses a repeated prototyping cycle. Results from one cycle are used to modify priorities in the ensuing cycle.
High-risk products D. The production process has an impact on the product properties. Therefore, product design and process design cannot be separated.
Quick-build products E. Products are designed and built around a preexisting technological subsystem.
A fast-food restaurant serves hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and chicken sandwiches. The restaurant counts a cheeseburger as equivalent to 1.25 hamburgers and chicken sandwiches as 0.8 hamburger. Current employment is five full-time employees who each work a 40-hour week. If the restaurant sold 700 hamburgers, 900 cheeseburgers, and 500 chicken sandwiches in one week, what is its productivity? What would its productivity have been if it had sold the same number of sandwiches (2,100), but the mix was 700 of each type?
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Question: Bragg鈥檚 Bakery is building a new automated bakery in downtown Sandusky. Here are the activities that need to be completed to get the new bakery built and the equipment installed.
a. Draw the project diagram.
b. What is the normal project length?
c. What is the project length if all activities are crashed to their minimum?
d. Bragg鈥檚 loses \(3,500 in profit per week for every week the bakery is not completed.
How many weeks will the project take if we are willing to pay to crash cost as long as it is less than \)3,500?
Question: Sail master makes high-performance sails for competitive windsurfers. Below is information about the inputs and outputs for one model, the Windy 2000.
Calculate the productivity in sales revenue/labor expense.
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