This document provides details on a winter 2014 assignment drive for MBA students, outlining various subjects and themes within which they need to prepare assignments. Key topics include concepts like world-class manufacturing, job analysis, industrial location theories, and inventory management practices like the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model. Students are instructed to submit their semester and specialization details to receive fully solved assignments.

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ASSIGNMENT
DRIVE WINTER 2014
PROGRAM MBADS (SEM 3/SEM 5)MBAFLEX/ MBA (SEM 3)
PGDOMN (SEM 1)
SUBJECT CODE & NAME OM 0013 – ADVANCED PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT
BK ID B1935
CREDITS AND MARKS 4 CREDITS & 60 MARKS
Note: Answer all questions. Kindly note that answers for 10 marks questions should be
approximately of 400 words. Each question is followed by evaluation scheme.
Q. 1. Write short notes on:
a) Worldclass manufacturing concept:Manufacturinghasevolved considerably since the advent of
industrial revolution. In current global and competitive age, it is very important for organization to
have manufacturing practice which is lean, efficient, cost-effective and flexible.
World class
b) Job analysismethod ofimproving productivity:A jobanalysisisa step-by-stepspecification of an
employmentposition'srequirements,functions,andprocedures.Justasa seed cannot blossom into
a flower unless the ground is properly prepared, many human resource management (HRM)
practicescannot blossomintocompetitiveadvantage unlessgrounded on an adequate job analysis.
Job analysis also plays an
c)Siddal’s classification of design approaches: Managers must make choices about how to group
people together to perform their work. Five common approaches — functional, divisional, matrix,
team, and networking—help managers determine departmental groupings (grouping of positions
intodepartments).The fivestructuresare basicorganizationalstructures,whichare thenadapted to
an organization's needs. All five
d) Expert opinion poll: The opinion poll methods aim at collecting opinion of those who are
supposed to possess knowledge of the market e.g. sales representative, professional marketing
experts and consultants. The opinion poll method include

2. Expert opinion
Q. 2. Differentiate between infinite and finite loading. Explain sequencing. Mention the rules of
sequencing.
Answer:The concept of infinite loading is to take everything that is scheduled, and load it into the
work center to an infinite level without taking available capacity into consideration. The problem
with this approach is that work
Q. 3. Write short notes on:
a) Alfred Weber’s theory on industrial location:Alfred Weber, a German economist, attempted to
analyse the factors that influence industrial location. Before Weber, another German economist
Launhardtgave the simple principle of industriallocation based on minimum transport cost. Weber
followed
b) Relationship between design capacity , system capacity and actual output: Capacity is the
throughput or number of units a facility can hold, receive, store, or produce in a period of time.
Design capacity is the theoretical maximum output of a system in a given period under ideal
conditions.
c) Aggregate planning process:Aggregate planning is an operational activity that does an aggregate
planfor the productionprocess, in advance of 2 to 18 months, to give an idea to management as to
whatquantity of materials and other resources are to be procured and when, so that the total cost
of operations of the organization is kept to the minimum over that period.
The quantity of outsourcing,
d) Approaches to updating MRP:Material requirement planning (MRP) is a computer-based
informationsystemdesignedtohandle orderingand scheduling of dependent-demand inventories
(e.g.,rawmaterials,componentparts,andsubassemblies).Material requirementplanningisas much
a philosophy as it is a technique, and as
Q . 4. What is purchasing? Briefly explain the purchasing procedure.
Answer:Purchasingreferstoabusinessororganizationattempting to acquiring goods or services to
accomplish the goals of its enterprise. Though there are several organizations that attempt to set
standards in the purchasing process,

3. Q. 5. Calculate the EOQ. Analyse if EOQ has helped ABC in managing inventory.
Answer:Calculation of EOQ: Economic order quantity (EOQ) is the order quantity of inventory that
minimizes the total cost of inventory management.
situationthat ledto the use of the EOQ model:Orderingcostsand carrying costs are quite opposite
to each other. If we need to minimize carrying costs we have to place small order which increases
the orderingcosts.If we want minimize ourorderingcostswe have toplace few orders in a year and
this requires placing large orders which in turn increases the total carrying costs for the period.
We need to minimize the total inventory costs
Q. 6. Write short notes:
a) Plan-Do-Check-Action(PDCA) cycle: PDCA (plan–do–check–act or plan–do–check–adjust) is an
iterative four-step management method used in business for the control and continuous
improvement of processes and products. It is also known as the Deming circle/cycle/wheel,
Shewhart cycle,
b) Quality circles:A qualitycircle isa group of workers who do the same or similar work, who meet
regularlytoidentify,analyze and solve work-related problems. Normally small in size, the group is
usuallyledby a supervisor or manager and presents its solutions to management; where possible,
workers implement the
c) ObjectivesofJIT: Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturingisaprocessby whichcompaniesdon’tkeeplots
of excessinventory; instead, they manufacture a product as an order comes in. It is a management
philosophy of continuous and forced problem solving.
The objective of JIT manufacturing system is to:
 Eliminate waste that is, minimise the amount of equipment, materials, parts, space, and
worker’s time, which adds a
d) Maintenance managementsystem:Computerizedmaintenance management system (CMMS) is
also known as computerized maintenance management information system (CMMIS).
A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organization’s
maintenance operations,i.e.CMMIS – computerizedmaintenance managementinformationsystem.
This information is intended to help maintenance workers do their jobs more effectively (for
example, determining which machines require maintenance and which storerooms contain the
spare parts they need) and to help

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