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Some of the issues that Obermeyer facesd are: 1. Measuring demand uncertainty from disparate forecasts 2. Allocating production between factories in Hong Kong and China, determining how much of each product to be made in each factory. 3. Long lead times for orders. 4. Little of no feedback from market – the only little feedback that they get is at trade shows in Las Vegas (American Styles) and the in Munich (for European Styles). 5. Inaccurate forecasts resulting in loss of sales and deep discounts

Daphne 2383 1394 989 989 Total 20001 NA 10573 11574 2 Question What operational changes would you recommend to Wally to improve performance? Answer Key problems: 1. Short life cycle products with short selling season 2. Long manufacturing lead time from planning to production 3. Highly uncertain demand Operational changes: 1. Cut down on number of styles and forecast customer demand for each style 2. Develop promotion schemes to encourage retailers to order more 3. Improve the China workers’

must first identify the bottleneck in the process. The MRI machine and the time it takes perform a scan is the bottleneck of the process. Each scan can have different times associated with it depending on the type of scan that will be performed. This will limit the capacity of the overall process. For example, a scan without contrast will usually take 30 minutes. A scan that requires contrast will double that time to 60 minutes. According to exhibit # 2, in order to break even annually, the

constant level of production. 5. The last option available with Kelsey was subcontracting part of work, such as the manufacture of seats for stackable chairs. Q2. What are the financial implications of the three options? How does it impacts the lead time? Wages of the Skilled workers is = 19 + 33% of 19 = 25.27 Wages of the Unskilled workers is = 9 + 10% of 9=9.9 Change Strategy In alstrong, the hiring cost would be zero for skilled and $2593.5 for unskilled labors. The layoff

stock monitoring should be directed at vital and essential drugs. Safety stock should be higher for vital and essential drugs. »» Enough quantities of vital and essential drugs should be bought first. »» Procuring and storing of VED drugs ensures all time availability of very essential drugs in health facilities. Once VED analysis is done, a comparison should be made between the ABC and VED analyses in order to identify whether there is relatively high expenditure on low priority drugs. In particular

makes pasta and bread products is experiencing rising costs due to extreme variability in demand from its distributors. In order to improve company’s sale margins, Giorgio Magialli, the Director of Logistics at Barilla suggests to implement a Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system. The JITD system is a continuous replenishment distribution strategy, which the responsibility for determining inventory quantities shifts

LEAD LEVELS OF BUFFALO Buffalo is one of the biggest places for poisoning people with lead. Lead has mostly come from paint and air pollution. Air pollution comes from oar and metals processing and planes operated on metal fuel. Water pollution comes from factories on the coast of Lake Erie and the Niagara River. Scientists say that pollution in the lake is creating lead, and then lake water is being mixed into the paint formula causing lead levels to rise. Why it is hard to stop lead poisoning

from China are found to be contaminated with high levels of lead and infecting American children with lead poisoning. Some people may say that this is an unnecessary argument, that China isn’t doing anything harmful, maybe it was just a few faulty toys,

why India continues to draw in the waste of developed countries are not difficult to find. High profit margins, owing to poor environmental regulation is a major factor. In developed countries, it is extremely expensive to get rid of such waste. Most lead smelters in the U.S. have been shut down, and those that remain can spend more than $10 million per year on pollution control alone. In India's unregulated backyard smelter industry, there are very high profit margins. Indian traders thus outbid

Superfund Site as a case-study," n.d.). All of the information was finally out. The hazards were known. It was time for the clean up to begin. Where do you begin when a problem is this large? The Environmental Protection Agency was tasked to take the lead in the clean-up. It was easy to identify the hazards: contaminated water, contaminated soil, possible area collapse, and the lead laced chat piles. To begin the Superfund site cleanup the EPA started with monitoring of the surface water, acid