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1.      (20pts) Discussion Questions <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />

a.       Whatis Operations Management? What is the difference between effective process andefficient process?

b.     State the relationship between CorporateStrategy and Operations Strategy. Can you illustrate the above by one or twoexamples?

c.      In the Littlefield simulation, the high revenue contract could notbe met with a batch size of 60 (the batch size the game is initializedwith).  Explain why reducing this batchsize may help in meeting the high revenue contract.  Following this reasoning, why shouldn’t thebatch size be as small as possible (so break each lot into 5 batches of 12) inthe game?

2.   (20pts)  One Hour Loan offers customizedloans. Customers call a toll free number with a specific loan request, andobtain a response within an hour. One Hour Loan’s business process includesfive activities which must be conducted in the sequence described below. (Thetime required for each activity is shown in parenthesis):

Activity 1: Answer customer call and record key information.   (4 minutes)

Activity 2: Gather and format the information (obtain creditscores, organize customer specific needs) for analysis   (5 minutes)

Activity 3: Analyze the information: Check the credit worthiness,and decide loan amount and APR to offer. (7 minutes)

Activity 4: Perform final checks on loan offer (2 minutes)

Activity 5: Call customer back with the new loan offer and close.(4 minutes)

The whole process is conducted bythree workers in a worker paced line. The assignment of tasks to workers is thefollowing:

W1 does Activity 1.

W2 does Activities 2 and 3.

W3 does Activities 4 and 5.

a. What isthe bottleneck of the process?

b. How muchtime will it take to process 100 loans? (Assume that the process starts with astable production line)

c. What is theutilization of worker 3? (You can assume that the process operates at capacityand you do not have to consider any empty system effects)

d. What isthe average labor utilization of the workers? Assume the process operates atits capacity and there are no empty system effects.

3.      (8pts) The following table shows financial data (year 2006) for Dirt CheapWholesale and Kwiki-Mart, two US retailers.

Semester number

Complaints

1

8

2

9

3

8

4

6

5

6

6

20

7

10

8

10

9

4

10

3

11

8

12

10

13

7

14

4

15

2

 

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When you are an administrator for the Contoso Corporation, your manager says that there is a need to save money when possible and he notices that at night, several computers remain running. He wants you to devise a solution to automatically put the computers to sleep when they are not being used. Describe your recommended solution.

What is your opinion of these messages from under the below?

To solve the issue of automatic computer shutdown at a particular time, group policy is likely the most comfortable and most efficient solution. To implement this policy, open Server Manager and in the Tools menu, open Group Policy Management. Expand Forests > Domains > [Domain Name] > [Target OU], where the Target OU is the group of computers that need to be automatically shut down. Right-click the OU and select Create a GPO in this domain and Link it here. After the initial setup, edit the GPO and navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management > Sleep Settings and double click Specify the system sleep timeout (plugged in) and (on battery). In the properties box, set how long until the computer goes to sleep. Then run gpupdate /force to implement the new group policy on the domain.

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Couple more questions I need help with –

Your company estimates its WACC. You know the following information:

a. The company’s capital structure consists of 60% common equity and 40% debt

b. Tax rate is 40%

c. Your company has 20-year bonds outstanding with a 9%annual coupon and currently that bond is trading at par

d. 5.5% is the risk-free rate

e. 5% is the market risk premium 

f. 1.4 – is the company stock’s beta 

 Calculate the company’s WACC. 

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The WACC is 7.5%.  

Project: Investment / NPV / IRR

A: 3000 / -0.99 / 14%

B: 2500 / 500 / 5%

C: 2750 / 145 / 11%

D: 4250 / 1 / 7.4% 

a. Based on NPV which project or projects would you select? Projects are mutually exclusive.

b. Based on NPV which project or projects would you select? Projects are independent.

c. Based on IRR which project or projects would you select? Projects are mutually exclusive.

d. Based on IRR which project or projects would you select? Projects are independent.

e. Based on NPV and IRR which project or projects would you select? Projects are mutually exclusive.

f. Based on NPV and IRR which project or projects would you select? Projects are independent 

 

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