MGMT
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| Supply Chain Management | Compare the supply chain management between any two top competitors.
Specific requirements: – Provide a brief profile. – Draw and describe the supply chain of those companies – Discuss the structural differences between their supply chains (be specific) – Evaluate the effectiveness of their supply chain managements with emphasis on: customer relationship, supplier relationship, purchasing process, order fulfillment process, and distribution process (provide data to support your analysis) – Discuss any software or IT they use to facilitate the supply chain management. – Which company will be more successful than the other? Why? |
| Capacity Planning | Find the most recent top hotel ranking in the US market (provide the sources). Select any two of these hotels, compare and evaluate their capacity planning and utilization.
Specific requirements: – Provide a brief profile of each hotel – Compare the current capacity of two hotels, with emphasis on the types of room, number of rooms, facilities, and spaces – Compare the utilization with emphasis on the number of customers using those hotels in various years, and various seasons – Discuss how those hotels plan their capacity (provide data to support your analysis) – Should they expand their capacity? Why?
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| Inventory Management | Study the impact of RFID usage on inventory
Specific requirements: – What is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)? – Describe how RFID works – Possible applications of RFID in different areas. Benefits and Risks of using RFID – Identify two specific companies using RFID. Discuss how RFID can improve their inventory management, with emphasis on: ordering process, inventory tracking process, distribution process, lead-time, stock-out situation, and inventory cost (Provide data to support your analysis) – Which one is doing better? Why? – Recommendation on the future of RFID
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| Inventory Management | Select any two competing retailers in the US market. Compare and evaluate the effectiveness of their inventory management
Specific requirements: – Provide a brief profile for each retailer. – Evaluate the quality of services provided by each retailer, their ability to meet the customer demand, and stock-out situation. – Compare and evaluate the effectiveness of their inventory management, with emphasis on how and when to place an order, how to determine the order quantity, when to receive the shipment, lead-time, and how to deal with stock-out situations (provide data to support your analysis). – Discuss any tools, software, IT applications used by those retailers in order to facilitate the ordering, distribution, and inventory control process.
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| Facility Layout | Select any two well-known US airports. Compare and evaluate the effectiveness of their facility layout
Specific requirements: – Provide a brief profile of each airport – Evaluate the capacity of each airport (number of terminals, airplanes, facilities, and services) and quality of services provided by each airport – Compare and evaluate the effectiveness of their layout design, with emphasis on the configuration of terminals, gates, ticketing centers, baggage claims, security checkpoints, shops, restaurants, transportations, work centers, and the movement of passengers through the system (provide the airport design and data to support your analysis). – Which airport will be more successful? Why?
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| Total Quality Management | Find the most recent top car ranking in the US market (provide the sources). Select any two of these companies. Compare and evaluate the effectiveness of Total Quality Management implementation between them.
Specific requirements: – Provide a brief profile of each company – How do they define quality? – Compare the quality of products and services provided by them – Compare and evaluate any specific tools and methods they use to implement TQM (be very specific and provide data to support your analysis) – Which company will be more successful than the other? Why?
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