Get fully
solved assignments at nominal price of Rs.150 each.
08627023490
Summer-2013
Master of
Business Administration- MBA Semester 4
MB0044-Production
and Operation Management-4 Credits
(Book ID: 1627)
Assignment
(60 Marks)
Note: Answer
all questions (with 300 to 400 words each) must be written within 6-8 pages.
Each Question carries 10 marks 6 X 10=60
Q1. Explain
the four basic varieties of layouts for manufacturing facilities.
Answer. PROCESS
LAYOUT
It involves grouping together like machines in one
department based upon their operational characteristics. E.g.. Machines
performing drilling operations are installed in the drilling dept, machines
performing casting operations are grouped in casting dept, and so on..Machines
in each dept attend to any product that is taken to them. These machines are
therefore called as ‘General purpose machines’.
Q2. The
major decision areas in supply chain management have both strategic and
operational elements . Explain these decision areas in detail.
Answer. Supply chain management operates at three levels;
strategic, tactical and operational. At the strategic level, company management
makes high level strategic supply chain decisions that are relevant to whole
organization. The decisions that are made with regards to the supply chain
should reflect the overall corporate strategy that the organization is
following.
The strategic supply chain processes that management
has to decide upon will cover the breadth of the supply chain. These include
product development, customers, manufacturing, vendors and logistics.
Q3. Business
process is a total response that a business undertakes utilizing the resources
and delivering the outputs that create a value for the customer. Business
process modeling refers to a set of activities undertaken to optimize the
business process. Business process modeling can be categorized into two parts –
Logical processing modeling and physical process modeling. Explain in detail of
the two processes of modeling.
Answer. Logical
Process Modeling is the
representation of a business process, detailing all the activities in the
process from gathering the initial data to reaching the desired outcome. These
are the kinds of activities described in a logical process model:
Ø Gathering the data to be acted upon
Ø Controlling access to the data during the process execution
Ø Determining which work task in the process should be
accomplished next
Ø Delivering the appropriate subset of the data to the
corresponding work task
Ø Assuring that all necessary data exists and all
required actions have been performed at
Q4. In the
recent times, operations are considered from end to end of value chain which
means the operations that start from sourcing of materials and other inputs to
successful delivery of products to customers or end users. Implementation is
the process of executing the planned operations. When planning and controlling
functions are put together, we call it as Implementation of Operations. Tools
for implementation are a set of specialized techniques which can be standardized
for ease of Write a brief note on “implementation of operations” and tools for
implementation.
Answer. Planning
- The first of the managerial
functions is planning. In this step the manager will create a detailed action
plan aimed at some organizational goal. Planning is an ongoing step and can be
highly specialized based on organizational goals, division goals, departmental
goals, and team goals.
Controlling
- Controlling is the final function
of management. Once a plan has been carried out the manager evaluates the
results against the goals. If a goal is not being met, the manager must also
take any necessary corrective actions to continue to work towards that goal.
Q5. It is
possible to work according to the project plan only by careful monitoring of
the project progress. There are various steps involved in monitoring and
controlling a project from start to end. One of the steps is progress control
of a project which can be achieved by completing certain steps. Explain the
steps of progress control.
Answer. The various steps involved in monitoring and
controlling a project from start to end are as follows:
Preliminary
work- the team members understand the
project plans, project stage schedule, progress controls, tracking schedules,
summary of the stage cost and related worksheets. All the members have to
understand the tolerances in any change and maintain a change control log. They
must realize the need and importance of quality for which they have to follow
strictly a quality review schedule and frequently discuss on the quality
agendas. They must understand the stage status reports, stage end reports,
stage end approval reports.
Q6. Value
analysis is a methodology by which we try to minimize the cost and improve the
revenue of a product or an operation. Value analysis looks at the manufacturing
activities with a view to make the components simpler, processes faster, and
the products better. Explain the process of value analysis.
Answer. A strategy that businesses use to determine whether
all of their operational expenses are necessary and if they could be operating
more efficiently. Process value analysis
looks at what the customer wants and then asks if each aspect of operations is
necessary to achieve that result. The goal of process value analysis is to
eliminate unnecessary expenses incurred in the process of creating a good or
service without sacrificing customer satisfaction.
Gather information
Ø Find the main function and the
secondary functions of an item. Get the cost of realizing each function.
Ø The attitude of a value analyst
should be critical, aggressive, nonconformist, never satisfied with what she/he
receives for the money given.
Get fully
solved assignments at nominal price of Rs.150 each.
08627023490
No comments:
Post a Comment