You work for a small shipping company and warehouse. The owners have decided to update the software used for tracking, shipping, receiving, and inventory. Fifteen computers need to be updated. Hours of operation are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Each computer must be updated manually by one of two trained employees, both of whom must be borrowed from other managers. The update procedure consumes 4 hours of the updater's time and generates an additional 1.5 hours of computer downtime. The work must be performed at a central loading station, away from the current location of the computer. How does the project portfolio management approach lead to enhanced strategic management for an organization and give an example how you woulduse this in a work place?

You are the manager of a clinical laboratory at a mid-size (200-bed) community hospital. Physicians and nurses are concerned about the turnaround time for laboratory tests ordered on early morning rounds. It appears that the samples are collected by the phlebotomy team on the 6:00 A.M. rounds. Physicians begin their patient rounds at 7:30 A.M. The physicians prefer to review the results of the laboratory tests ordered at the time they see the patient. They explain to you that they cannot make decisions with regards to further patient treatment or dischargewithout these results. Time is of the essence, as the hospital is cutting the budget, and it is important to decrease the patient length of stay. You are expected to look into this matter and make recommendations regarding the most efficient and effective way to address this problem. Question: 1. What is the best method of addressing this problem? (What styles is the best in managing the field Autocratic, democratic or laissez-faire.)

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P1 P4 P2 P3 P5 P5 P5 P6 ... P1 has a production rate of 15 units/hour, P2 = 30 units/hour, P3 = 10 units per hour, P4 = 4 units/hour, P5 = 1 unit(s) per hour for each P5 and P6 = 6 units per hour. Operation P4 occurs seperately from and simultaneously with operations P1-P3. Operation P5 has three parallel and identical lines; therefore, each part only needs to go through one of the three lines. Consider the following two independent improvements: Improvement 1: Change station P4 into two connected stations (P4-1 and P4-2, connected in series) that have process times of 4 min/unit and 6 min/unit respectively. Improvement 2: Add two additional P5 stations to give you 5 parallel and identical lines. Improvement 2 increases capacity because it improves the bottleneck. The new bottleneck is station P4 since the original bottleneck has a process time of The new yearly capacity would be units per year. a) Which of the two improvements will provide the largest increase in capacity? What is the…

Meritor, a company that makes muffler assemblies for the automotive industry, is committed to the use of kanban to pull material through its manufacturing cells. Meritor has designed each cell to fabricate a specific family of muffler products. Fabricating a muffler assembly involves cutting and bending pieces of pipe that are welded to a muffler and a catalytic converter. The mufflers and catalytic converters are pulled into the cell based on current demand. The catalytic converters are made in a specialized cell.   Catalytic converters are made in batches of 10 units and are moved in special hand carts to the fabrication cells. The catalytic converter cell is designed so that different types of catalytic converters can be made with virtually no setup loss.   Meritor hires a team of consultants. The consultants suggest a partial robotic automation as well as the safety stock to be 9 percent. Meritor implements these suggestions. The result is an increase in efficiency in both the…

You are the manager of a clinical laboratory at a mid-size (200-bed) community hospital. Physicians and nurses are concerned about the turnaround time for laboratory tests ordered on early morning rounds. It appears that the samples are collected by the phlebotomy team on the 6:00 A.M. rounds. Physicians begin their patient rounds at 7:30 A.M. The physicians prefer to review the results of the laboratory tests ordered at the time they see the patient. They explain to you that they cannot make decisions with regards to further patient treatment or dischargewithout these results. Time is of the essence, as the hospital is cutting the budget, and it is important to decrease the patient length of stay. You are expected to look into this matter and make recommendations regarding the most efficient and effective way to address this problem. Question: 1. What decision-making tools would facilitate the analysis of the problem?