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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT


CASE-1 (16 Marks)
Bloomsday Outfitters produces T-shirts for road races. They need to acquire some new stamping machines to produce 30,000 good T-shirts per month. Their plant operates 200 hours per month, but the new machines will be used for T-shirts only 60 percent of the time and the output usually includes 5 percent that are "seconds" and unusable. The stamping operation takes 1 minute per T-shirt, and the stamping machines are expected to have 90 percent efficiency considering adjustments, changeover of patterns, and unavoidable downtime. How many stamping machines are required?

CASE-2 (16 Marks)
In the table given below the Distribution Manager is expected to service these DCs as per the demands placed. If the actual sales after completing week one is as follows, what would be the quantities that would need amendment as far as Distribution Manager is concerned to service for week two and onwards?
After week one the actual sales to Forecasted sales for week one ratio is as under: Mumbai did 80 % of forecast , Lucknow did 75 % of forecast Kolkata did 60 % of week one forecast Chennai did 125 % of forecast and Delhi did 150 % of week one forecast

CASE-3 (16 Marks)
After working for 30 years, Ramjee Somjee Dutt opted for VRS and started a courier company and did very well in the first four years. He was now looking for expansion of his business and decided to venture into Road transportation business between Chennai and Mumbai and Mumbai and Delhi as he felt that he could do well on this line. However before taking a final decision he hires your Management Consultant firm formed by yourself. He has requested you to work out the Price to quote
his clients for these two routes considering the costs involved. He expects to earn a minimum profit of Rs 1000 per day per truck after meeting all expenses. Your analysis of market conditions tell you the following:
Vehicle cost Rs 7 lacs Depreciation 15 % Maintenance costs per day Rs 150 Drivers monthly Salary Rs 5000 : Attendants monthly salary Rs 3000 . Misc expenses Rs 200 per day. Driver allowance is Rs 125 per day and attendant gets Rs 75. Diesel cost per liter is Rs 25 and the vehicle gives an average mileage of 4 km to a liter. The Financial institutions offer loans at 10 % interest pa, which Ramjee has been negotiating. It has been observed that on an average the vehicle covers 400 km per day. The
distance between Mumbai to Delhi is 1500 km and Mumbai to Chennai is 1350 km. The driver gets rest day in Mumbai only for one day after they return from any trip.

CASE-4 (16 Marks)
A company is operating in two unrelated businesses. The first one is making common salt, which is sold in one-kilogram consumer packs. The second business is making readymade garments. The owner of the businesses has decided to implement Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) in one of the two businesses, which is likely to give him greater benefit. Assuming that the current turnover and profits of both the units are comparable, compare the relative benefits and limitations of Materials
Requirement Planning (MRP) for these two businesses.


CASE-5 (16 Marks)
A Manufacturer of motorcycles buys spark plugs at Rs.15 each. Now he wishes to manufacture the plugs in his own factory. The estimated cost for the manufacture of spark plugs is around Rs.50,000=00 and the variable cost comes to Rs.5 per spark plug. The Production Manager advises the Manufacturer that the factory should go for manufacturing instead of procuring them from the open market. List out reasons for the decision of the Production Manager backed up by the necessary data.


Operation Management


1.    What is the vision of AECS? What is the role of operations in meeting it?

2.   Can this system be replicated to other aspects of health care? Other services? What will be the problems? What will be the advantages?

3.   How do different elements of AECS work together to deliver the vision of Dr. V?

4.   What are some of the problems AECS facing? Are they inherent in its model or they could be rectified while keeping the model intact?
1.    Given the activities and precedence relationships described in the (A) case, develop a network diagram for the wedding plans.

2.   Identify the paths. Which are critical?

3.   What is the maximum cost plan that meets the March 22nd deadline?
1.    Given your answers to the (A) case, describe the effects on the wedding plans of each incident noted in the (B) case.
1 ) Briefly  sketch  the  product  development  process .

2 ) What do you mean by continuous improvement ? Give two examples of continuous improvements that organizations undertake .

3 ) Suppose you want to visit your bank to deposit your salary cheque and then withdraw some money from your account . Use your know ledge of process mapping  and  draw  the  process .


Operation Management


Where are they located? What kind of customers they intend to serve?

Do they serve you while you are standing or do they first seat you? How big is their seating capacity?

How do they take orders?

What is the process of communicating your orders to the others working in the outlet so that you can be served?

Are the items prepared after taking your order or are they already prepared?

Do they allow any customization in your order or is it one standard order?

Do they take large orders for, say, parties?

What parts of their processes are visible to you?

How do they handle any quality issues which might prop up?

Are employees doing skilled work? What kind of job allocation is visible to you?

What is the extent of automation? What work is being done manually? What is automated?

After completing your meals, what is the process of clearing the table? What could be to motivation behind designing such a process?

Do the same kind of operational comparisons for different grocery stores, movie theaters. Car service centers, banks, etc., and see if their operational design gels with the kind of customers they want to serve.

1.Using the project planning data from the FPDS, develop a plan that shows what car projects will be happening during the first week of January each year. Assume that the launch date for new models is the first week of August (week 33) each year. Also, assume that the division operates only 50 weeks each year (the division is idle during Christmas and New Year’s each year).

2 How are these data useful to the Thunderbird team?

3 What additional data would be useful to the team? How would these data be used?

4 Given the very dynamic nature of the luxury automobile market, and the complex engineering and design issues associated with building new cars, what would you consider the most important features of a product development system for the Thunderbird product planning group?


Operation Management

1)         What are the objectives of purchase department? Explain briefly the purchase procedure?
2)        What are the factors to be considered for planning the lay-out of a new factory?
3)        What is waste management? Explain the importance of waste management.
4)        What are the advantages & disadvantages of different types of site location?
5)        What is power supply? What alternative power supplies are available to an industrial unit?
6)        What provisions of Indian Factories Act of 1948 apply to Industrial sanitation? Explain each point clearly.
7)        Explain briefly the functions of production planning & control.
8)        What are the usual errors made in plant location selection?
9)        Explain the steps involved in maintenance job planning and scheduling
10)      Write short notes on any two of the following:
(a)       Material requirement planning. (b)        Safety management (c)      Time study


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