BUS 307 BUS307 BUS/307 ENTIRE COURSE HELP – ASHFORD UNIVERSITY

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BUS 307 BUS307 BUS/307 ENTIRE COURSE HELP – ASHFORD UNIVERSITY

BUS 307 Entire Course (3 Papers for Assignment)

This Tutorial 3 Papers for each Assignment + 1 Ans for DQs

BUS 307 Week 1 DQ 1 Value Index

BUS 307 Week 1 DQ 2 Business Mapping of Processes

BUS 307 Week 1 Quiz

BUS 307 Week 2 DQ 1 Gantt vs Network Based Approach

BUS 307 Week 2 DQ 2 Expected Values and Decision Trees

BUS 307 Week 2 Quiz

BUS 307 Week 3 DQ 1 Forecasting Models

BUS 307 Week 3 DQ 2 Pros and Cons of Outsourcing

BUS 307 Week 3 Spend Analysis (3 Papers)

BUS 307 Week 3 Quiz

BUS 307 Week 4 DQ 1 Level vs Chase Production Plan

BUS 307 Week 4 DQ 2 IT/EOQ/ROP Interrelationships

BUS 307 Week 4 Quiz

BUS 307 Week 5 DQ 1 ERP Solutions

BUS 307 Week 5 DQ 2 Calculation of Kanban Cards

BUS 307 Week 5 Final Paper (3 Papers)

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BUS 307 Week 1 DQ 1 Value Index

Value Index. Complete Problem 1 from the end of Chapter 2: You have just graduated from college and are looking to buy your first car. Money is tight right now, so you are concerned with initial cost as well as ongoing expenses. At the same time, you don’t want to drive a slow, ugly car like your parents do.

You have narrowed your choices down to two vehicles: a Honda Enigma and a Porsche Booster. Based on the rankings in the table (found under Chapter 1, Problem 2 in the textbook), calculate the value index for each car. Which car provides you with the greatest value? Use formulas to calculate the answer to one decimal point. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings

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BUS 307 Week 1 DQ 2 Business Mapping of Processes

Business Mapping of Processes. From Chapter 3, Problem 13, read the current home equity loan process at Faircloth Financial and map the current process. Identify any rework loops and delays in the process. What causes these? What is the impact on cycle times?

How might this affect customers’ willingness to do business with Faircloth? What changes might you recommend to redesign this process with the needs of the customer in mind? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

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BUS 307 Week 1 Quiz

1. Which of the following is NOT a trend in operations

management?

2. Damron Inc., wants to purchase a shear for their sheet metal

shop and chooses dimensions of cost, reliability, and flexibility

as critical to their long term success.

They evaluate three different shears and rate their performance on each criterion

on a scale from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). What is the value index

for the shear made by Belsky Manufacturing?

Dimension Importance Belsky Mfg. Reber Ind. Floyd Co.

Cost 4 1 5 3

Reliability 2 5 2 1

Flexibility 3 3 3 4

3.Structural elements of a business include:

4.Most organizations function as part of a larger supply chain.

5.Which of the following is primarily a supply chain management decision?

6.Which tool should be used to track the movement of a customer’s complaint from one department to the next until it is resolved?

7. While efficiency can exceed 100%, percent value-added time has a maximum of 100%.

8.Which of the following statements regarding the supply chain is TRUE?

9. Cycle time is the total time needed to complete a business process.

10. A laundry tracks clean linen output in pounds and their inputs of gas, water, electricity, and labor. A productivity measure incorporating all of these inputs is a multifactor measure.

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BUS 307 Week 2 DQ 1 Gantt vs Network Based Approach

Gantt vs. Network Based Approach. From the end of Chapter 5, complete Discussion Question 3: What are the main advantages of using a network-based approach to project management rather than a Gantt chart? Under what circumstances might a Gantt chart be preferable to a network-based approach? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

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BUS 307 Week 2 DQ 2 Expected Values and Decision Trees

Expected Values and Decision Trees. From the end of Chapter 8, consider the two capacity options for Arktec manufacturing from Problem 2 and the three possible demand scenarios from Problem 4, then complete Problem 5. First, draw the decision tree for Arktec Manufacturing.

When drawing your tree, assume that managers must select a capacity option before they know what the demand level will actually be. Then, calculate the expected value for each decision branch. Which option would you prefer and why? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

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BUS 307 Week 2 Quiz

1.In the project definition phase, project planners identify, among other tasks, how to accomplish the work and how to organize for the project.

2.A bottling machine has a theoretical capacity of 100 bottles per minute. During every ten hour shift it operates continuously but is shut down once for 30 minutes for cleaning, inspection, and lubrication. What is its rated capacity?

3.A project is comprised of 6 activities that have durations and precedence requirements shown in the table. Which of these activities is not on the critical path?

Activity

Length

Predecessor

A

5

—

B

7

A

C

4

A

D

7

B, C

E

7

B

F

6

D, E

4.Which of the following statements about theoretical capacity is best?

5.An airline specifies a wider monitor for installation on their overseas flights. The airframe manufacturer will accommodate this order by issuing an engineering change.

6.A firm’s capacity can be limited by members of its supply chain.

7.An expectation that a new building’s foundation would be poured and cured by the end of the year is an example of a(n):

8.Robust design is the design of products to be less sensitive to manufacturing variation and misuse.

9.Performance or time targets for each major group of activities in a project are set during the planning phase of a project.

10.Product design refers to the development of physical products and intangible services.

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BUS 307 Week 3 Assignment Spend Analysis (3 Papers)

This Tutorial contains 3 Papers of this Assignment

Spend Analysis. From the end of Chapter 11, read the Case Study: The ABCs of Spend Analysis. Respond to the following questions in a one to three page document to submit to your instructor. The submission must adhere to APA style guidelines and should include at least two scholarly references.

a. Why are data analysis skills and thinking so important to spend analysis? Can’t software applications be used to generate the information needed automatically?

b. How might a structured process such as Six Sigma methodology (Chapter 3) be useful here?

c. Why is it important to get other functional areas, notably finance, involved in spend analysis efforts? Can you think of some other functional areas that should be involved?

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BUS 307 Week 3 DQ 1 Forecasting Models

Forecasting Models. From Chapter 9, answer Discussion Question 1: Which forecasting techniques do you think Ford should have used to forecast changes in the demand, supply, and price of palladium? Time series models? Causal models? Qualitative models? Justify your answer and respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

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BUS 307 Week 3 DQ 2 Pros and Cons of Outsourcing

Pros and Cons of Outsourcing. From Chapter 10, answer Discussion Question 1: What are some of the pros and cons of outsourcing? Why do you think many firms are experiencing an increase in their levels of outsourcing? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

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BUS 307 Week 3 Quiz

1.The greater the randomness in the model, the greater the number of periods should be used in a moving average forecast.

2.The ratio of earnings to sales for a given time period is a firm’s profit margin.

3.A company that uses portfolio analysis would probably classify things like office supplies in the Bottleneck quadrant.

4.A qualitative forecasting technique in which individuals familiar with specific market segments estimate the demands within these sectors that are then summed to get an overall forecast is called

5.The use of supply chain partners to provide products or services is called:

6.Fed up with her working conditions at the call center, Lisa decides to invest in a state-of-the-art sewing machine and produce limited quantities of her own clothing designs. After a few months of operation, she decides to apply some of the forecasting techniques she mastered in school. Which of these statements about her forecasts is correct?

7.Which of these is a direct cost associated with outsourcing?

8.Which of these is NOT a logistics activity?

9.Portfolio analysis begins with assignment to a quadrant before a sourcing strategy is formulated.

10.Forecasts are almost always wrong.

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BUS 307 Week 4 DQ 1 Level vs Chase Production Plan

Level vs. Chase Production Plan. From the end of Chapter 13, answer Discussion Question 3: In general, under what conditions might a firm favor a level production plan over a chase plan? A chase production plan over a level plan? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

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BUS 307 Week 4 DQ 2 IT EOQ ROP Interrelationships

JIT/EOQ/ROP Interrelationships. From the end of Chapter 14, answer Discussion Question 6: The just-in-time (JIT) movement has long argued that firms should

a. Maximize their process flexibility so that ordering costs are minimal;

b. Stabilize demand levels;

c. Shrink lead times as much as possible; and

d. Assign much higher holding costs to inventory than has traditionally been the case.

Using the economic order quantity (EOQ) and reorder point (ROP) formulas, explain how such efforts would be consistent with JIT’s push for lower inventory levels. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings

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BUS 307 Week 4 Quiz

1.Sales and operations planning indicates how the organization will use its tactical capacity resources to meet expected customer demand.

2.Available to promise inventory is always zero for the first week in the master schedule record.

3.A company that orders at their economic order quantity has an annual ordering cost that is half of their total cost.

4.Sales and operations planning must consider:

5.Last month a firm made 100 model A’s using all of their available labor. If they have already taken orders for 150 model A’s for next month, then their planning value must be 1.5.

6.Given the forecast and booked orders shown in the table, and a beginning inventory of 25, what is the master production schedule quantity for period 4?

Period

1

2

3

4

Forecasted

Demand

70

65

60

55

Booked

Orders

80

50

30

10

Projected ending inventory

Master production schedule

55

Available to

Promise

0

7.In order for the economic order quantity model to work, demand must be known and constant.

8.A hospital’s biomedical repair shop uses a 4-week periodic system to maintain the inventory on the blood pressure cuff repair parts. They use an average 40 adult arm cuffs with a standard deviation of 6 cuffs every four weeks. Cuffs aren’t the most critical item they carry, but the manager would like to avoid the embarrassment of a stockout at least 95% of the time. What should their restocking level be?

9. Question : Which of the following statements regarding master production

scheduling calculations is best?

10. Question : This graph of expected sales level and expected output

shows:

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BUS 307 Week 5 DQ 1 ERP Solutions

ERP Solutions. From the end of Chapter 12S, answer Discussion Question 4: SAP is the world leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems software, and has developed tailored ERP systems for different industries. Go to SAP Industry Solutions and examine the solutions for (1) a service industry and (2) a manufacturing industry of your choice. How are they similar? How are they different? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

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BUS 307 Week 5 DQ 2 Calculation of Kanban Cards

Calculation of Kanban Cards. From the end of Chapter 13, answer Discussion Question 4: The chapter notes that kanban is not a planning tool but a control mechanism. What does this mean? How does the Marsica MRP-kanban example in Example 16.4 in Chapter 13 of the textbook illustrate the point? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

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BUS 307 Week 5 Final Paper Realco, Toyota (3 Papers)