Instructions
Need 3 resources Attached is an example of what I require you will be preparing a scheduling plan for K&S production based on incoming contracts.
You can pick one planning methodology such as first-in-first-out, and augment it with other approaches in the the textbook or those you find in research. In other words, you are not confined to a single production planning methodology. Limit your scheduling plan to prioritizing production within the K&S production department. You are not required to include receiving or shipping Let me know if you have questions.
Introduction Kibby and Strand is holding its quarterly production meeting and discussing upcoming contracts and forecasts for future work. The operations manager (you) expresses concern that marketing is promising deliver dates to customers too quickly, and production may not be able to make those dates. The CEO replies, “having too many contracts is a good problem to have, so figure out how we meet those dates.” As you leave the meeting, you are saying to yourself, “If the CEO thinks it is easy then let her come down on the operations floor and see what I have to go through to produce and deliver products.”
This scenario is realistic. Not all CEOs are going to have personal experience in the day-to-day details required to manage operations. Many CEOs come up through marketing or the accounting /financial departments of a company and they never worked in production. In some cases, you have individuals who never worked in the company at all prior to being named CEO. Take John Sculley for example. He was the CEO of Apple from 1983-1993, and prior to that he was the president of Pepsi.
Talk about different industries! Do you think Scully had detailed knowledge of how to manufacture computers or the culture prevalent in an IT company like Apple? The evidence would indicate he did not. Scully fired Steve Jobs, so that shows how different his business philosophies were from those of the Apple founder. The point being made is that often you find yourself in a situation where you know your job better than your leadership. If that happens embrace the opportunity. You are the expert, so show them you know how to get things done. In this unit’s discussion you will have the opportunity to establish the production schedule based on incoming contracts, and forecast production.
You will be making lots of decisions and there are impacts. Not all decisions are “Win-Win”. Some will be “Win-Lose” and the most onerous ones are “Lose-Lose”, in other words there is not a good outcome. Source: http://www.biography.com/people/john-sculley-21187457#apple-years (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Unit Learning Outcomes Prepare a strategy for capacity planning for an organization. (CLO 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7) Analyze the risks to an organization resulting from a poorly designed process flow. (CLO 2, 6, and 7) Examine considerations for optimizing facility layout of an organization. (CLO 2, 6, and 7) Evaluate the impact of facility layout on process efficiency and suggest changes to improve operational outcomes. (CLO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7)