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About your operation part 5

About your operation part 5

Q Answer the following questions about YO: Submit the 1/2 to 1 page response you provided to the preceding assignment (This will remind me what operation you chose, your role in it, etc. and so it will help me more fairly evaluate your answers to the following questions. 1. The three topics this week are "demand", "capacity", and "supply chain inventory". Using your own words, describe each topic and explain how it applies to YO. 2. Does YO's management team understand the importance of these three topics to YO success and do they manage them effectively? Is YO success most constrained by a lack of demand, a lack of capacity, or inventory mismanagement? 3. Does YO have capacity flexibility? In other words, explain whether the operation can increase or decrease its capacity to deliver the customer benefit package? 4. Explain which two tools, methods, or concepts described in chapters 9, 10, and 11 would be most helpful for YO's management team to understand. 5. Section 11-1 describes three main types of inventory; inputs to manufacturing, work-in-progress, and finished goods inventory. Explain how each of the three does, or does not, apply to YO. What is "safety stock" inventory? Does YO maintain "safety stock"? Should it? A typical high scoring response to this assignment would be 1,000 - 1,500 words long.

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