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• BUS 644(ASH) All Exercises (Ash CourseBUS 644
  Entire Course (Ash Course))

• BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style Cookies

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• BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style Cookies
• BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity Matters
• BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of Forecasting
• BUS 644 Week 2 Assignment Design of Work Systems
• BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity
• BUS 644 Week 3 Assignment Wal-Mart
• BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Quality improvement
• BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Inspection of Toys
• BUS 644 Week 4 Assign

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• . Home-Style Cookies. Read the Home-style
  Cookies case study below. Answer questions 1-7
  in a two to four (2-4) page APA style paper. Your
  paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use
  of bullet points), and supported with the
  concepts outlined in your text. The Company The
  Baking Company is located in a small town in New
  York State. The bakery is run by two brothers.
  The company employs fewer than 200 people, mainly
  blue-collar workers, and the atmosphere is
  informal.
• The Product The company's only product is soft
  cookies, of which it makes over 50 varieties.
  Larger companies, such a

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• BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity Matters

• BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of Forecasting

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• Why Productivity Matters. It is sometimes easy to
  overlook the importance of productivity. National
  figures are often reported in the media. They may
  seem to be ho-hum theres nothing glamorous
  about them to get our attention. But make no
  mistake they are key economic indicatorsbaromete
  r, if you will, that affect everybody. How? High
  productivity and high standard of living go
  hand-in-hand. If a country becomes more
  service-based, as the United States has become,
  some (but not all) high-productivity
  manufacturing jobs are replaced by
  lower-productivity service jobs. That makes it
  more difficult to support a high standard of
  living.
• Productivity levels are also important for
  industries and companies. For companies, a higher
  produ

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• Benefits of Forecasting. 
• Read the M L Manufacturing case on page 130 in
  your text. Prepare a weekly forecast clearly
  labeling your calculations. Explain the benefits
  of a more formalized approach to forecasting
  using course related principles in 200 words. You
  must respond to at least two of your classmates
  postings to receive full credit.
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• BUS 644 Week 2 Assignment Design of Work Systems

• BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity

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• Design of Work Systems. Read the Making
  Hotplates case. Answer questions 1-4 in a two to
  four (2-4) page APA style paper. Your paper
  should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of
  bullet points), and supported with the concepts
  outlined in your text.
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• small building contractor has recently
  experienced two successive years in which work
  opportunities exceeded the firms capacity. The
  contractor must now make a decision on capacity
  for next year. Estimated profits under each of
  the two possible states of nature are as shown in
  the table below. Which alternative s

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• BUS 644 Week 3 Assignment Wal-Mart

• BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Quality improvement

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• Wal-Mart. Read the Hello, Wal-Mart? case.
  Answer questions 1-2 in a two to four (2-4) page
  APA style paper. Your paper should be in
  paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points),
  and supported with the concepts outlined in your
  text

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• Quality Improvement. Read Chick-n-Gravy Dinner
  Line on page 414 in your text. Explain your
  analysis using course related principles in 200
  words. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings. 
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• BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Inspection of Toys

• BUS 644 Week 4 Assignment Inventory Control

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• Inspection of Toys. Read Toys, Inc. on page 460
  in your text. Indicate your recommendations using
  course related principles in 200 words. Respond
  to at least two of your classmates postings.
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• Inventory Control. Read the case study below
  Harvey Industries. Provide reasoning for the
  current financial distress of the company and
  make recommendations for improvements to the new
  company president. Include at least one specific
  recommendation for both Supply Chain Management
  (chapter 15) and Inventory Management (chapter
  13), as well as any other recommendations you
  deem necessary from your reading. Provide your
  recommendations in a 2-4 page APA style paper.
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• BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 1 Planning for Service
  Operations

• BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 2 Production Strategies

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• Planning for Service Operations. Service
  operations often face more difficulty in planning
  than their manufacturing counterparts. However,
  service does have certain advantages that
  manufacturing often does not. Explain service
  planning

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• Production Strategies. Read Eight Glasses a Day
  (EGAD) on page 507 in your text. Answer
  questions 1 and 2. Explain your analysis using
  course related principles in 200 words. Respond
  to at least two of your classmates postings.

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• BUS 644 Week 5 Assignment Setup Times

• BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 1 Lean System

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• Setup Times.
• It was a little past 900 on a Monday morning
  when Jeff Baker walked into your office with a
  box of donuts.
• Ive been talking with Anne about a problem we
  have with short-term capacity

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• Lean System. 1) What trade-offs are involved in
  shifting from a traditional operations system to
  a lean system for A) A manufacturing firm? B) A
  service

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• BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 2 Preventive Maintenance

• BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path

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• Preventive Maintenance. Determine the optimum
  preventive maintenance frequency for each of the
  pieces of equipment if breakdown time is normally
  distributed Clearly label your calculations and
  describe using course related principles in 200
  words.

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• BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path
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• BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 2 Waiting Lines

• BUS 644 Week 6 Final (Stickley Furniture)

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• Waiting Lines. Trucks are required to pass
  through a weighing station so that they can be
  checked for weight violations. Trucks arrive at
  the station at the rate of 40 an hour between
  700 p.m. and 900 p.m. Currently two inspectors
  are on duty during those hours, each of whom can
  inspect 25 trucks an hour.
• a. How many trucks wou

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• Focus of the Final Paper
• Read "Stickley Furniture" on pages 550-552 in
  your text. Answer questions 1-5. The final case
  study should demonstrate understanding of the
  reading as well as the implications of new
  knowledge. The paper should integrate readings
  and class discussions into work and life
  experiences. It may include explanation and
  examples from previous events as well a

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