TERM 1 DEFINITION 1
BUS 644 Entire CourseBUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Eth ical Issues and Operations
(New) BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Business Processes (New) BUS 644 Week 1 Midas
Case Study (New) BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Produ ctivity (New) BUS 644 Week 2 DQ
2 Product Design and Quality (New) BUS 644 Week 2 Memorial Hospital Case
Study (New) BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Suppliers (New) BUS 644 Wee k 3 DQ 2
Forecasting Methods (New) BUS 644 Week 3 Outsourcing (New) BUS 644 Week 4
DQ 1 Process Selection Product Design and Capacity (New) BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 2
Monique Food Processing Company and Cap acity (New) BUS 644 Week 4 Beck
Manufacturing and Plant Capacity (New) BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 1 MRP Inventory
and Customer Service (New) BUS 644 Week 5 DQ 2 Perpetual versus Periodic
Inventory Systems (New) BUS 644 Week 5 Alliance Su permarket and Point-of-Sale
(POS) systems (New) BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 1 Just-in-Time (JIT) Inventories (N ew)
BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 2 Scheduling Procedu res (New) BUS 644 Week 6 Fina l Paper
(Space Age Furniture Problem) (New)
TERM 2 DEFINITION 2
BUS 644 Week 1 Midas Case StudyMidas. Read the Midas case s tudy in
Chapter 2 of your text. Answer questions 1th rough 4 in a two- to- four page paper
in accordance with APA guidelines as outlin ed in the Ashford Writing Center. Your
paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points), and
supported with the concepts outlined in you r text. Provide at least two scholarly
sources from the Ashford University Library or other external sources, excluding
the textbook. Do not include the original que stions of the assignment in the
paper. a. What are the anticipated impac ts upon operating efficiency? How would
you attempt to minimize the negative impac ts? b. Should some operating
practices be changed to accommodate the tu ne-ups? c. Should input be gathered
from the shop owners? If so, what? d. If Midas decides to launch this new
program, how should it begin?
TERM 3 DEFINITION 3
BUS 644 Week 2 Memorial Hospital Cas e StudyMemorial Hospital. Read
the Memorial Hospital case study in Chapter 4 of your text. Answer questions 1-
4 in a two- to- four (2-4) page paper in accorda nce with APA guidelines as
outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Your paper should be in paragraph form
(avoid the use of bullet points), and supporte d with the concepts outlined in your
text. Provide at least two scholarly sources fro m the Ashford University Library or
other external sources, excluding the textboo k. Do not include the original
questions of the assignment in the paper. a. Discu ss some ways that a hospital
might measure quality. b. What are t he potential costs of quality for Memorial
Hospital? How could the value of a human l ife be included? c. Are there any ideas
or techniques from TQM that Janice could use to help Memorial focus on providing
quality health care? d. What measures could Memo rial use to assess the quality
of health care it is providing? Carefully review the Gr ading Rubric for the criteria
that will be used to evaluate your assignmen t
TERM 4 DEFINITION 4
BUS 644 Week 3 OutsourcingOutsourcing . Outsourcing, especially to low
labor-cost countries, has grown substantially. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of outsourcing? Include and des cribe a product or service of a
specific low labor-cost country as an example . Include a
recommendation/conclusion based on the r esearch. Answer the question in a two
to four (2-4) page in accordance with APA gu idelines as outlined in the Ashford
Writing Center. Provide at least two (2) schola rly sources from the Ashford
Library or other external sources, excluding th e textbook. Your paper should be in
paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points ), and supported with the concepts
outlined in your text. Do not include the orig inal questions of the assignment in
the paper. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to
evaluate your assignment.
TERM 5 DEFINITION 5
BUS 644 Week 4 Beck Manufacturing and PlantBeck Manufacturing and
Plant Capacity. Read the Beck Manufacturing case study in Chapter 8 of your
text. Answer questions one through three in a two- to- four page paper in
accordance with APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. a.
Calculate the capacity of each machine cente r and the capacity of the system. b.
If Beck wants to expand capacity, where sho uld he focus the companys efforts?
How much extra capacity can he get withou t causing another operation to
become the bottleneck? c. How m ay Mr. Beck expand capacity without
purchasing new equipment? Be specific. Your paper should be in paragraph form
(avoid the use of bullet points), and supporte d with any formulas, calculations,
and concepts outlined in your text. Do not in clude the original questions of the
assignment in the paper. Carefull y review the Grading Rubric for the criteria tha t
will be used to evaluate your assignment.
