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BUS 515 Discussions
Week #1-1
Compare and contrast an existing organizations three major
functions (i.e., finance, marketing, and operations), and then justify
the interdependence that operations have to finance and marketing.
Provide examples to support your rationale.
The major functions of Verizon Wireless are key to their success.
The finance area of Verizon ensures that good decisions are made in
regards to the products and services that are offered to their
customer where the marketing comes in and ensure that the
customers are aware of the many products and services that are
offered by the company and coming up with ideas that will captivate
the customers. All the while operations is there to ensure that all
the links of the business work hand in hand.
Week #1-2
Evaluate three historical developments in OM, focusing on one
major movement in history. Next, assess the significance that each
of the three selected developments had during the corresponding
time period.

Week # 2-1
Analyze one existing business operations strategy, and then
evaluate how well or how poorly the chosen strategy supports that
business vision, mission, and business plan. Provide support for
your rationale.

Suggest the competitive priorities that the existing business that

you chose used in the development of its operations strategy.
Provide specific examples to support your suggestion.
Week #2-2
Using product screening, analyze a new product from operations,
marketing, and finance perspectives. Predict whether or not the
product is likely to be successful, based on your analysis.
Analyze an existing product, and discuss two to four OM strategy
changes that occurred during the products life cycle. Provide
examples to support your analysis.
Week #3-1
Analyze the supply chain of an existing service or manufacturing
organization, and justify two to three competitive advantages that
the service or organization gains by utilizing the supply chain.
Provide specific examples to support your rationale.
Select three problems that brick-and-mortar organizations face as
they transition toward becoming virtual organizations. Debate
whether the operations of virtual organizations exacerbate brickand-mortar organizations existing problems or whether they create
new problems. Provide specific examples to support your rationale.

Week #3-2
From the e-Activity, evaluate the pros and cons of an existing
organizations business strategy, and identify three supply chain
performance metrics that align with customers expectations.
Provide specific examples to support your rationale.
Evaluate the likelihood of success in an organization with poor
supply chain performance metrics. Then, determine three supply
chain performance metrics that were, in your opinion, misaligned
with the customers expectations. Provide specific examples to
support your rationale.
Week #4-1
From the first e-Activity, select three of Demings 14 points, and
evaluate how each point is critical to the success of a TQM program.
Provide specific examples to support your rationale.
Select three specific concepts from the philosophy of TQM, and
present three situations in which organizations can identify quality
problems and correct them at the source. Provide specific examples
to support your rationale

Week #4-2
From the second e-Activity, select an organization that received the
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and assess two to four
contributions to quality that the chosen organization displayed.
Compare the success of the chosen organization with organizations
within similar industries, and judge whether TQM did or did not
correlate with success.
Develop five strategies to share with an organization that would
improve its quality standards. Provide specific examples to support
your rationale.
Week #5-1
Develop three examples that illustrate how a manufacturing
company of your choice uses JIT, and then determine three to four
benefits of JIT for that particular organization. Provide specific
examples to support your rationale.
Develop three examples that illustrate how a servicing company of
your choice uses JIT, and then determine three to four benefits of JIT
for that particular organization. Provide specific examples to support
your rationale.
Week #5-2
Defend the benefits of the Delphi Method, and suggest two to three
situations in which your past or current employer should have used
it. Provide specific examples to support your rationale.
Compare and contrast the primary differences between a timeseries model and a casual model. Debate two advantages and two
disadvantages of each model. Provide specific examples to support
your rationale

Week #6-1
From the e-Activity, analyze two to three different types of control
charts, focusing on which aspects of each control chart would fit well
in the industry that you chose to research.
Reconstruct a situation where a process was deemed out of control.
Focus your reconstruction on key variations related to assignable
causes or Type I errors. Next, determine the steps you could take to
ensure that the process is maintained in the UCL, CL, or LCL of the
control chart.
Week #6-2
Using the Six Sigma Approach (DMAIC), provide an example
situation that utilizes the five-step plan, and determine three to four

challenges you may encounter using this approach. Provide specific

examples to support your rationale.
Using acceptance sampling, propose a situation in which you would
be forced to utilize both the consumers risk and the producers risk,
and then justify key usages of both within an industry of your
choice. Provide specific examples to support your rationale
Week #7-1
Analyze two or three differences between design capacity and
effective capacity, and then predict one or two challenges that you
may encounter when using each method. Provide specific examples
to support your rationale.
Using the three-step process found in the textbook, formulate a
situation in which you must make a capacity planning decision.
Provide three positive and three negative events that may occur
during the process in question
Week # 7-2
Using the three steps found in the textbook for designing process
layouts, critique a poor layout plan in your area and analyze two to
three challenges you observed in the use of the poor layout plan.
Then, develop a comprehensive plan to mitigate each challenge that
you identified.
Determine key layout variables that you consider to be particularly
important at your current or past employment location, and then
describe three advantages and three disadvantages evident in the
layout you observed.

Week #8-1
Describe one of the worst jobs you believe you have encountered,
and speculate on why people are still attracted to this job. Create a
redesign plan for this job which focuses on improved productivity.
Evaluate a compensation system of your choice in terms of how the
compensation reinforces the behaviors needed to meet the
companys objective. Next, propose three improvements to the
compensation system based on your evaluation

Week# 8-2
Using the four steps in network planning techniques, select a
personal project that you have recently completed or are in the
process of completing. Determine three to five challenges that could
affect the estimated completion time.

Defend the determination of crashing a non-critical activity in your

personal project network. Provide specific examples to support your
rationale.
Week #9-1
Analyze the purpose of inventory management as it applies to
operations management, and then evaluate the advantages and
disadvantages evident in the use of the ABC classification system.
Suggest a situation in which safety stock must be utilized, and then
determine how the organization should decide on the reorder point
when using this methodology.

Week #9-2
Illustrate, using one example, a situation that utilizes aggregate
planning, and then determine which level (chase or hybrid) should
be used by the organization in the situation you have illustrated.
Provide specific examples to support your rationale.
Compare and contrast two or three aggregate plans for companies
with tangible products against aggregate plans for companies with
nontangible products. Provide specific examples to support your
rationale.
Week #10-1
From the e-Activity, analyze three to four benefits of the ERP, and
then select an ERP vendor. Determine two or three factors that
contributed to the selected vendor having improved productivity.
Compare and contrast independent and dependent demand, and
then provide three to four advantages and disadvantages that are
evident in both. Provide specific examples to support your rationale
Week # 10-2
Using the priority rules steps, propose a situation where you must
utilize priority rules. Determine the effectiveness of priority rules in
the situation you have selected. Provide specific examples to
support your rationale.
Select an industry, and then discuss any bottleneck challenges you
have witnessed in that specific industry. Suggest two to four
methods in which those challenges can be mitigated by operations
managers using the Optimized Production Technology (OPT)
principles defined by Eli Goldratt.