MGT 311 SEU The Operations Management in The Supply Chain Questions
Question Description
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Question 1:
Workers should be given more control over the inspection for their own work. Discuss the pros and cons of this situation? (Marks 02)
Question 2:
2(a)What are the advantages of Exponential smoothing over the Moving average and the Weighted moving average? (Marks 02)
2(b)Explain the aggregate planning strategy? (Marks 02)
Sequence the jobs shown below by using a Gantt chart. Sequence the jobs in priority order 1, 2, 3, 4.
Job Work Center/Machine Hours |
Due Date (days) |
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1 |
A/3, B/2, C/2 |
3 |
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2 |
C/2, A/4 |
2 |
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3 |
B/6, A/1, C/3 |
4 |
|
4 |
C/4, A/1, B/2 |
3 |
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3.1Using finite capacity scheduling, draw a Gantt chart for the schedule (Marks 01)
3.2What is the makespan? (Marks 0.5)
3.3How much machine idle time is there? (Marks 0.5)
3.4How much idle time (waiting time) is there for each job? (Marks 0.5)
3.5When is each job delivered? (Marks 0.5)
3.6Which department is the bottleneck? (Marks 0.5)
3.7Calculate the machine utilization? (Marks 0.5)
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