Operations Managers

Final Project Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric Overview: For the second milestone of your final project, you will submit a quality, process, and location analysis case study analysis that will address the typical problems that operations managers face. This case study analysis will be incorporated into the final summative analysis. This milestone is due in Module Four. Prompt: Refer to the case study (located in the Reading and Resources area of Module One), your own independent research, and the course materials to answer the following items. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:I. Theories and Techniques A. Explain the five steps of the theory of constraints (TOC) process. To what processes might the company in the case study apply TOC? Why wouldapplying TOC to these processes be advantageous? B. Describe how total quality management (TQM) principles and tools can be used to improve quality in the latest line of products in the context ofthe case study.II. Data Analysis A. Draw a cause-and-effect diagram that assesses why some of the company’s supply chain partners might have struggled to implement some of thecompany’s newly developed materials. Summarize your findings from the diagram. B. Draw a hypothetical process (time-function) map for producing a recently released (within the past two years) product manufactured by thecompany. As an operations manager, how will you use the value map? Be sure to include your process map within your case study analysis. C. Considering the data and options below, determine where the company should locate its new manufacturing plant. Explain why this would bethe favorable location.Factor Weight Mexico City Columbia, SCPolitical Risk .25 70 80Transportation Costs .20 40 90Labor Productivity .20 85 75Rental Costs .15 90 55Labor Costs .10 80 50Taxes .10 90 50Guidelines for Submission: The format for this assignment will be a Word document using a business writing format of your choice. There is no minimum page length requirement, but the submission should be double spaced, and no more than four pages in total. If you used a program such as Excel to complete any of the assignment, copy and paste this into your Word document for submission. You may also include your original document from another program as supplementary material if you believe this will strengthen your contribution.RubricCritical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) ValueTheories and Techniques:Theory of ConstraintsCorrectly explains the five steps of TOC and explains why it would be advantageous to apply TOC to specific processes in the case studyCorrectly explains the five steps of TOC but does not explain why it would be advantageous to apply TOC to specific processes in the case studyDoes not explain the five steps of TOC or explanation is incorrect18Theories and Techniques: Total Quality ManagementDescribes how TQM can be used to improve quality in the context of the case studyDescribes how TQM can be used to improve quality but does not provide context in the case studyDoes not describe how TQM can be used to improve quality18Data Analysis: DiagramProperly draws a cause and effect diagram assessing the struggle to implement newly developed materials and summarizes findingsProperly draws a cause and effect diagram assessing the struggle to implement newly developed materials but does not summarize findingsDoes not properly draw a cause and effect diagramData Analysis: Process MapAccurately draws and includes a process map for product and thoroughly describes how it would be used by an OM managerDraws and includes a process map for product, but drawing is inaccurate, and description of how it would be used by OM manager is either not thorough or missingDoes not draw and include a process map for a product18Data Analysis: DataCorrectly determines where the new plant should be located and explains why this is a favorable locationCorrectly determines where the new plant should be located but does not explain why this is a favorable locationDoes not correctly determine where the new plant should be located