SYE 6075 Warehousing and Inventory Control Spring 2018

Assignment Problems #1

1. What are the key components in the manufacturing system/supply chain?

2. A large international computer manufacturer is designing a new model of personal

computer and must decide whether to produce the keyboards internally or to purchase
them from an outside supplier. The supplier is willing to sell the keyboards for $50 each,
but the manufacturer estimates that the firm can produce the keyboards for $35 each.
Management estimates that expanding the current plant and purchasing the necessary
equipment to make the keyboards would cost $8 million. Should they undertake the
expansion?

3. What are the four phases of the manufacturing process that appear in the product-process
matrix? Discuss the disadvantages of operating off the diagonal of the matrix.

4. Locate the following operations in the appropriate position on the product-process matrix:
a. A small shop that repairs musical instruments
b. An oil refinery
c. A manufacturer of office
furniture
 d. A manufacturing firm in the start-up phase
I-I, Low Volume, Jumbled flow

5. What are the general principles for the business process reengineering?
a. Several jobs combined into one.
b. Workers make decisions.
c. Steps of the process are performed in a natural order.
d. Process should have multiple versions.
e. Work is performed where it makes the most sense.

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guideline to the dropbox 1 in the d2l website by 1/21/13.