COURSE #: D30

SECTION: 71& 72

COURSE NAME: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

INSTRUCTOR: THONDAVADI

CASEPACKET (YES or NO?): YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read chapters 1&2 in text: Read all Materials from case packet in introduction and session 1.

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AUTHOR: CHASE, AQULANO AND JACOBS

PUBLISHER: IRWIN/McGRAW HILL

TITLE: "Production and Operation Management and service

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COURSE #: D54A

SECTION: 71

COURSE NAME: OPERATIONS STRATEGY

INSTRUCTOR: TUITE

CASEPACKET (YES or NO?): YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: READ: Chapter 1 & 2 from Managing Business Process Flows, The OMD30 text (a copy of these chapters is in the case packet) The Copeland Corporation: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy, (in the case packet) Submit written responses to the following (due at class #1): 1. From your reading of the MBPF chapters, discuss which "product attributes" are most important to Copeland’s customers of: a. Their CR line of Copelaweld produced which are produced in the new plant at Hartselle.

b. The large Copelametic Products produced at the new plant at Shelby. C. The "remanufactured" product now being processed at the new plant at Rushville.

Ion your discussion of product attributes, keep in mind that each of the new Copleland plants has been designed to incorporate "process Capabilities" which facilitate the production of products which meet customer needs (possess the product attributes they desire). In each of your answers, briefly point out what special capabilities are possessed by attributes if the products they make. 2. In explaining what is meant when we say a plant is "focused" use the Hartselle plant as an example and contrast it with the original Sidney plant.

3. Draw a "product-process matrix"(p.35,fig. 2.3) and indicate on the matrix diagonal the relative positions of the Hartselle and Shelby plants.

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COURSE #: E12 B

SECTION: 71

COURSE NAME: INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

INSTRUCTOR: TUITE

CASEPACKET (YES or NO?): YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read: " Making the most of Foreign Factories" by Kasra Ferdows, HBR 1997, (Case Packet). Managing Innovation at NYPRO, Inc. (A), (Case Packet). Submit written responses to the following (due at class #1): 1. Give brief Hypothetical examples of each of the six strategic roles of foreign factories that are defined in Ferdows’ article. Include likely country locations for the example factories and explain your reasons for their placement. Consider the U.S. as your base of operations.

2. Discuss the strategic roles of NYPRO’s foreign factories.

3. Which of the six roles apply equally to domestic factories. Explain why. How so the roles apply to NYPRO’s U.S. factories?

4. Write a 1-page (single-spaced, 12 font) recommendation as to which of the three cosidered options NYPRO should adopt for rollout of its new Noaplast molding machine. Give reasons why you support the selected option.

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