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BUS 644 Entire Course (Ash Course) For more
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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
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BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style Cookies (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
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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.
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BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity Matters (
Ash Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   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 indicatorsbarometer, if you will,
that affect everybody. How? High productivity and
high standard of living go hand-in-hand.
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BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of Forecasting (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
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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
(Ash Course) For more course tutorials
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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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BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity (Ash Course)
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m   Plant Capacity. A 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 should be selected if the decision
criteria is a. Maximax
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BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity (Ash Course)
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m   Plant Capacity. A 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 should be selected if the decision
criteria is a. Maximax
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BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Quality improvement (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
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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 (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
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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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BUS 644 Week 4 Assignment Inventory Control (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   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.
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BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 1 Planning for Service
Operations (Ash Course) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   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 difficulty,
and the advantages and disadvantages. Give your
recommendations to management using course
related principles in 200 words. Respond to at
least two of your classmates postings.
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BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 2 Production Strategies (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   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 (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   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 in our
pad printing operation. You know, thats where we
print the logo on the Custom lines of yo-yos
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BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 1 Lean System (Ash Course)
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m   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 firm? 2) Who in the organization is
affected by a decision to shift from a
traditional operations system to a lean system?
3) To what extent has technology had an impact on
lean systems? 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 DQ 2 Preventive Maintenance (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
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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. Equipment
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BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path (Ash Course)
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m   BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Critical Path
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BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 2 Waiting Lines (Ash Course)
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m   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
would you expect to see at the weighing station,
including those being inspected?
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BUS 644 Week 6 Final (Stickley Furniture) (Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
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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 as
implications for future applications
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