Tag: Supply Chain Management / Operations Management

Is Twitter Better or Worse One Year After Musk’s Takeover?
It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk, known for leading big companies like SpaceX and Tesla, bought Twitter. He paid a huge $44 billion for it, an amount that many thought was too much. Since then, Musk has taken some bold steps. Now called ‘X’, the social media platform has seen a lot of big changes, a drop in some key numbers, and Musk has big plans to transform it for the future.
As an external and independent expert professional in change management, you have been given the task of finding solutions to the myriad of problems facing Twitter (now known as X) at the moment.
1 Evaluate the origins of, and need for, any of the changes made by the organisation prior to the takeover. Support your evaluation with evidence from the research you carry out on Twitter and changes implemented therein. Very good submission, well supported by appropriate examples, excellent grasp of origins of change, apparent good research conducted, theoretical concepts fused with application, application is pragmatic and exceeds third-year level

Colonial State College
Colonial State College is considering building a new multipurpose athletic complex on campus. The complex would provide a new gymnasium forintercollegiate basketball games, expanded office space, classrooms, and intramural facilities. The following activities would have to be undertaken beforeconstruction can begin.
Activities
Survey building site
Develop intial design
Obtain board approvi
Select architect
Establish budget
Finalize design
Obtain financing
Develop the activity schedule for the project
Hire contractor
Draw a project network
Tasks and Prompts
Draw a project network. (Submit a file with a maximum size of 1 MB.)
Earliest Start
Latest Start
Earliest Finish
Identify the critical path. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
Does it appear reasonable that the athletic complex could be completed from initial design plans? What is the expected completion time for the project?
Finish one year after the decision to begin the project with the site survey and Slack

If a brand rating is less than 70, what should you do with this brand? Choose all that apply.Compare its features to the best rated brand(s) in the targeted segment in order to make adjustments to its designAdvertise it moreDiscontinue the brandGive it a higher priority in salesPrice it lower
True or false? The Recreation segment is willing to pay more than the Speed segment.TrueFalse
In the simulation, how can overtime pay be useful for the business?It can increase the job satisfaction of the workforce.It can reduce the number of salespeople needed in sales outlets.It can reduce production cost per unit for the bikes.It can increase operating capacity if demand exceeds projections.
What is considered a good price judgment?80 to 8485 to 8990 to 9495 to 99
Can you revise the brand(s) you designed last quarter?YesNo
A balanced scorecard (BSC) is used to measure the performance of the simulated business. Which indicators are used in the calculation of the BSC? Choose all that apply.Financial PerformanceCustomer SatisfactionMarket PerformanceMarketing Effectiveness

One of the benefits of contracting with celebrities to endorse the company/s brand of athletic footwear isboosting the company’s branded sales volume by as much as 250,000 pairs in a geographic when it spends at least $8 milion on brand atvertising in that region.
that hwing two or more celetrity endorsers can boost a companys EPS by as much as 10% above what the company would earn if it had no celebrity endorsers.
that having two or moee celebrity endorsers can boost a company/s stock price by as much as 510 above what it would be if the compary had no celeteity endoners.
when a company achieves a celebrity appeal rating of 150 or moee in a given geographic region then it can raise its internet and wholesale prices for beanded lootwear in that region by up to $3 per pair without causing any adverse effect on pairs sold in the region.
that celebrity endorsements strengthen a company/s overall competive effort wis-a vis rivals and make a compary’s band move appealing to the buyers of branded athletic fooheear, thereby boosting the compary’s buanded sales wolume.

Production Problem
Production ProblemThe bicycle company Goliath is deciding on their production schedule for the next month. They produce two types of bikes, a basic version, and a premium one. They are in the enviable position that they have so many customers they will be able to sell any bike that they make. Counting just material cost, the profit per bike is EUR 175 for the basic and EUR 400 for the premium version.
To make the bikes, several production steps must be done. The following table shows informaiton on this, including the number of hours the employees in this department normally work, and the amount of time needed per department for the different types of bike.
Department
Time available
Basic
Premium
Frame
160 hours
1.2 hours
1.8 hours
Mechanical
160 hours
0.5 hours
2.7 hours
Painting
80 hours
0.25 hours
0.4 hours
To increase production, it is possible to ask employees to work overtime. However, this costs EUR 100 per hour, and is limited to 10% of the regular working hours.
(a) Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.

Managing Customer Requirements and Project ResourcesEvery project team has the same mission as an organization: to meet the needs of their customers within organizational constraints, whether those customers are internal or external. Gathering project requirements is essential in determining project needs and assessing appropriate project resources related to time, scheduling, and cost.Identify the critical success factors in project management for identifying customer requirements and transferring those requirements into an understanding of what resources will be required for the project. You must be sure to list what needs to be considered when assessing customer requirements and why it is important for the project manager to have a clear definition of what the customer views as project success.In your initial post, discuss the methods you would use to gather and valid project requirements. Further, discuss how you would map project resources to each of the requirements. Feel free to find and use one or more current events as an example to support your narrative.

Outsourche strategies can offer such advantages as Inceasing a company/s abily to strongly differtiate in product and be successful with elither a broad differentiation stn seary or a focusted differentiation strategyspebing a company’s entry inte foreion markets, providing a meass of more stisngly differentiating the firm’s productule mices from the offerings of fluals, and helping the company earn a repution with customers as a best-value provider.reducha company’s risk exposure to changing technology or whiting buyer preferences and enabing a company to concentrate on its core butiness, leverage its key resources, and do eunn better what it already does best.faclitating greater suse of strategic allances and collaborative partiventips, making it easier to employ a backward integration strategr, and opening greater opporturitios for mergers and acquslions that will strengthen a company’s competitiveness.owing a firm more direct control ower the costs of value chain activities, reducing distribution-related costs, and lowering the costs of bulding a global brand name.

Universal Paper has the following 6 demand locations. Help Universal to determine the locationof a new plant to meet this demands.
(a) (15 pts) Consider the (unweighted) rectilinear (street) distance (the minimax problem).
(b) (10 pts). If the new plant is located at (30,28), calculate the total (unweighted) rectilinear(street) distance from demand locations to the new plant.
(c) (10pts). If the new plant is located at (30,28), calculate the total weighted rectilinear (street)distance from demand locations to the new plant.
(d) (10pts) Consider the gravity problem discussed in class. Find the location of the new plant.

A certain company produces​ clothing, footwear, and accessories for dancing and gymnastics.
They produce three models of pointe shoes used by ballerinas to balance on the tips of their toes. The shoes are produced from four​ materials: cardstock,​ satin, plain​ fabric, and leather. The number of square inches of each type of material used in each model of​ shoe, the amount of material​ available, and the​ profit/model are shown. Complete parts a and b.
Material
Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Material Available
Cardstock
1313
1010
1313
1 comma 1001,100
Satin
2222
2020
2121
2 comma 0002,000
Plain Fabric
3535
3535
2525
8 comma 5008,500
Leather
1212
1212
1010
1 comma 0001,000
Profit per model: $5151   $4343   $4040
Part 1 a. Identify the decision​ variables, objective​ function, and constraints in simple verbal expressions. Identify the decision variables. Select all that apply.
A. Number of model 3 shoes produced
B. Number of model 1 shoes produced
C. Profit
D. Number of model 2 shoes produced
E. Cost
F. Material used

Mark Weiner, an engineer specializes in braking systems is working with several braking system manufacturers: Bosch, Bendix, and Akebono. He is targeting a tolerance of \( +/-9 \) feet with average (mean) braking distance of 75 feet, for his next generation deluxe model car. Bosch produces an anti-locking braking system, with braking distance average of 78.0 feet, and standard deviation of 2.15 feet. Bendix has a servo braking system, called brake booster; with braking distance average of 80 feet, standard deviation of 1.75 feet. Akebono’s system has an average of 77.0 feet, standard deviation of 1.95 feet.
What is the design tolerance (difference from Upper to Lower Specification Limits), from Mark’s specifications. 18.0
What is Cp of Bosch 1.395 and Cpk of Bosch \( \square \) [Select]
Cp of Bendix \( \square \) 1.714 and Cpk of Bendix \( \square \) [ Select]
Cp of Akebono \( \square \) 1.538 and Cpk of Akebono \( \square \) [ Select ]
Which braking system should Mark be selecting based on evaluating Cpk? \( \square \) Bendix