Discipline: Business Finance - Operations Management

   Case Analysis: Xample Manufacturing Annual Draft Operating Budget [WLO: 2] [CLO: 6] Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the A Budget Model for a Small Manufacturing Firm article. A Writing a Case Study AnalysisLinks to an external site. resource is available in the Writing Center. Review the Xample Manufacturing Case below. Using […]

 • Find a problem in managing international operations supply chain from the real business  world (from your own work experience or from any business articles/cases)   • Identify specific IOSCM concepts/tools that can be applied to the problem  • Apply at least two operation supply chain concepts/tools to propose a solution to the  problem  • […]

 Business Report – Delaying Entry into Russia Market Doing business overseas cannot happen without learning about and trying to understand the customs, cultures, and work habits of people in other countries. Equally, effective management styles must be developed. The example of Russia follows. Russia is moving from a central to a market economy, and management […]

   1. Give one specific example of something you felt was beneficial in working in this team.  2. Give one specific example of something you felt negatively impacted the overall team experience. 3. Suggest one specific, practical change the team could make that would help improve everyone’s learning.

 Today’s organizations engage in a variety of e-business activities to enhance production, marketing, customer relations, and communications. It is important to understand the impact of each area of the e-business system to maximize a company’s operational effectiveness. E-business is more than conducting business via the internet. It involves a multitude of databases, networking technologies, web […]

  Using the information from the Week 4 lecture, you will analize the film 12 Angry Men and its characters from a communications perspective.You must watch the film in its entirety, take notes and answer the specific questions posted in the Week 5 Discussion Board forum. You may want to have the questions with you as […]

Operational risk can sneak up on an organization that is not vigilant. What looks like an opportunity can become a risk. Success with an operational process today can quickly become a failure tomorrow. From a global perspective find an event that occurred in the last ten years that illustrates the negative effects on an organization […]

See the links below. The Thai floods are discussed along with the resulting disruptions to the supply chain. Review this information and do a bit of research on the Internet. Then, List the risks what the companies in Thailand experienced, List the risks what companies outside Thailand experienced, and State which which insurance policy(ies) might have […]

Read http://www.industryweek.com/procurement/managing-supplier-information-dynamic-environment ( Minter, S. (2009). Managing Supplier Information in a Dynamic Environment. Industry Week/IW, 258(10), 22.), and answer the following questions:  In the article it mentions that buyers and suppliers need more insight into trade compliance. What examples can you give that illustrate the benefits and/or challenges with having or not having this insight? Information […]

  1.  Develop forecasts using regressions of sales on each of the series of rain forecasts, respectively. Calculate the MFE (bias), MAD, and MAPE for the two forecasting models. Which rain forecast seems to be better at predicting Rachel’s daily sales, the five-day forecast or the two-day forecast? 2.  How can Rachel make use of […]