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This document contains 10 questions related to operations management topics such as critical path scheduling, demand forecasting, inventory systems, scheduling in services, outsourcing, MRP systems, forecasting techniques, and assembly line balancing. The questions address key concepts like the characteristics of projects suited for critical path analysis, addressing outsourcing through operations management, determining if a supply chain can be too lean, proposing a demand forecast for a new product, choosing appropriate inventory systems, challenges in scheduling services, pros and cons of offshoring manufacturing, sources of demand and their use in MRP, selecting an accurate forecasting technique, and the objective and handling of imbalance in assembly line balancing.

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Assignment 512

This document contains 10 questions related to operations management topics such as critical path scheduling, demand forecasting, inventory systems, scheduling in services, outsourcing, MRP systems, forecasting techniques, and assembly line balancing. The questions address key concepts like the characteristics of projects suited for critical path analysis, addressing outsourcing through operations management, determining if a supply chain can be too lean, proposing a demand forecast for a new product, choosing appropriate inventory systems, challenges in scheduling services, pros and cons of offshoring manufacturing, sources of demand and their use in MRP, selecting an accurate forecasting technique, and the objective and handling of imbalance in assembly line balancing.

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1. Which characteristics must a project have for critical path scheduling to be applicable? What
types of projects have been subjected to critical path analysis?
2. Recent outsourcing of parts and services that had previously been produced internally is
addressed by which current issue facing operation management today?
3. Can a supply chain become too lean? Explain your answer with suitable example.
4. Let’s say you work for a company that makes prepared breakfast cereals like corn flakes. Your
company is planning to introduce a new hot breakfast product made from whole grains that would
require some minimal preparation by the consumer. This would be a completely new product for
the company. How would you propose forecasting initial demand for this product? Explain your
answer.
5. Which type of inventory system would you use in the following situations?
a. Supplying your kitchen with fresh food. b. Buying gas for your car; c. Obtaining a daily
newspaper.
To which of these items do you impose the highest stockout cost?
6. Explain why scheduling personnel in a service operation can be challenging.
7. What are the pros and cons of relocating a small or midsized manufacturing firm (that makes
mature products) from the United States to China?
8. What are the sources of demand in an MRP system? Are these dependent or independent, and
how are they used as inputs to the system?
9. From the choice of the simple moving average, weighted moving average, exponential
smoothing, and linear regression analysis, which forecasting technique would you consider the
most accurate? Why?
10. What is the objective of assembly-line balancing? How would you deal with the situation where
one worker, although trying hard, is 20 percent slower than the other 10 people on a line?

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