[SOLVED] Operation Management Assessment
Part A The following questions require a review of the case study cited in the article (Ho, Daniel, Nadeem, Garza-Reyes, & Kumar, 2018)- in the attachment : 1. Describe the importance of warehouse/ Distribution center operations management 2. Why it is crucial to solve problems that often face 3PL operations? 3. Departing from a relevant information within the article and possibly extending to other resources of your choice, discuss the value of considering warehouses as a strategic element within the overall supply chain management. 4. Departing from a relevant information within the article and possibly extending to other resources of your choice, discuss the critical success factors that improve warehouse reliability. 5. Describe the main processes of warehouse operations. 6. What are the risks/ issues and challenges often encountered in warehouse operations? Part B The Adoption of Lean at Nibbly Bits Bakery – in the assessment paper attached 1- What are the challenges facing Nibbly Bits company? 2- What are the issues frequently faced during scaling and Batching? 3- What are the issues frequently faced during mixing stage? 4- What are the issues frequently faced during production? 5- What were the two critical things that determined the quality of rusks during baking? 6- What were the critical things that determined the quality of rusks during Breaking and Drying? 7- While implementing Lean, what waste was addressed when Stephan removed the surplus of machines and hand tools? Which waste was reduced with the color coding of items and floor demarcations for carts? 8- How lean helped the workers to organize their work with the aid of the pull system that Stephan had invented? 9- How lean assisted in improving meetings efficiency? 10- What were the benefits of implementing quality parameters and why they were color coded?
