What is your opinion of the manager’s approach?How does it compare with the Deming philosophy?

Disciplinary Action

A local delivery service has 40 drivers who deliver packages throughout the metropolitan area. Occasionally, drivers make mistakes, such as entering the wrong package number on a shipping document, failing to get a signature, and so on. A total of 280 mistakes were made in one year as shown in the Excel file C02-CaseData in the Student Companion Site for this chapter. The manager in charge of this operation has issues disciplinary citation to drivers for each mistake.

Discussion Questions

1. What is your opinion of the manager’s approach? How does it compare with the Deming philosophy?

2. How might the analysis of these data help the manager to understand the variation in the system? (Plot the data to obtain some insight.) How can the data help the manager to improve the performance of this system?

 

What must the contracting officer do if a requested change is determined to be outside the scope of the contract?

Changing Requirements after Contract Award

Assignment instructions: You are required to submit a 3-to-4 page research paper (not counting the references page) and an accompanying PowerPoint presentation which you will present during a 7-10 minute briefing to the class.

Within the context of your paper and your presentation you should (at a minimum) address the following:

1. Under what authority are changes to the requirements allowed after contract award?

2. Discuss how changes to requirements after award may affect the scope of the contract.

3. What must the contracting officer do if a requested change is determined to be outside the scope of the contract?

4. Describe how contract scope decisions have been addressed by GAO, courts, etc. Provide at least two cases with different decision outcomes.

 

Do you notice any potential pitfalls in the process?

Your discussion this week asks that you describe JCIDS.

Let’s take this a step further and talk about the application of JCIDS.

Create a fictional capability (it can be just about anything the Department of Defense could use) and run through the process.

Address a few questions:

Do you notice any potential pitfalls in the process?

What is your opinion of the process?

JCIDS has come under fire recently as there are some that believe the entire concept must be revamped; some say the process is just more “red-tape” and the emphasis on jointly assessing capabilities slows down the process.

Introduction to Defense Acquisition Management Ch 6

Joint Program Management Handbook Ch 5

Explain three infrastructural requirements within freight forwarding and their importance.

Freight Forwarding

This Assessment is designed to assess your knowledge and understanding of in order to fulfil the Assessment Criteria (AC) for Learning Outcome (LO) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

In order to fulfil all the Learning Outcomes, produce an essay which covers the following:

LO1: Understand the importance of freight forwarding.

Assessment Criteria for LO1:

AC 1.1 Describe what is meant by freight forwarding (400 words)

AC 1.2 Explain the purpose of freight forwarding (400 words)

LO2: Understand how to identify the factors that influence freight forwarding

Assessment Criteria for LO3:

AC 2.1 Explain the suitability of key performance indicators (KPIs) used to measure freight forwarding within own organisation (400 words)

AC 2.1 Describe the freight forwarding policy used by own organisation (400 words)

AC 2.1 Explain the advantages of the policies identified in AC 2.1 to an organisation (400 words)

LO3: Understand the importance of appropriate infrastructure and equipment requirements for freight forwarding

Assessment Criteria for LO2:

AC 3.1 Explain three infrastructural requirements within freight forwarding and their importance (400 words)

AC 3.2 Explain three equipment requirements within freight forwarding and their importance (400 words)

LO 4: Understand the importance of monitoring and control in regard to freight forwarding

Assessment Criteria for LO 4:

AC 4.1 Explain the importance of monitoring performance in freight forwarding (400 words)

AC 4.2 Describe how to select the best technique to monitor performance in freight forwarding (400 words)

AC 4.3 Describe Describe the benefits of effective operational performance in relation to freight forwarding (400 words)

To satisfy all the Learning Outcomes you will need to meet all of the Assessment Criteria (AC) above. Next to each of the above Assessment Criteria, is the word count for that AC.

Ensure you answer each question under a subject heading i.e. AC1.1 should have a title of Assessment Criteria 1.1 with your answer written beneath. This needs to be repeated for each criteria (AC1.1, AC1.2, AC2.1…).

There is a requirement for evidence of research, this must be through the use of Harvard style referencing.

Bibliography,See attached file

How was this stress obvious to the viewer through the actor’s portrayal?What symptoms did you notice?

Psychological Combat Stress

Watch EITHER Lone Survivor or American Sniper.
Answer the following questions in a 3 paragraph essay.

1. Describe the primary stressor(s) experienced by the main character in the film.

2. How was this stress obvious to the viewer through the actor’s portrayal?What symptoms did you notice?

3. How did the character cope with this stress? Was it successful or not in your opinion?

Discuss how implementation of Lean Principles and Just  in Time (JIT) manufacturing may assist in achieving a more flexible and yet efficient process design.

Different manufacturing processes have different strengths and weaknesses as some are best suited to making small numbers of customized products, while others excel at producing large volumes of standard item. Companies must therefore carefully consider the strengths and weaknesses of different processes and make appropriate decisions as part of their overall business strategy not just in relation to the right equipment but also to include people, facilities and physical layouts as well as information systems (Bozarth and Handfield, p. 55). Consequently, an ideal manufacturing system must be flexible and yet efficient, with low unit production costs.

Based on the above, you are asked to take as an example a product or a service from an industry that you are familiar with (e.g., food, technology, healthcare, retail, services, automotive), and critically:

Examine the current process design of that product or service in alliance with the 4 Vs model and illustrate the operational process by using either a Flow Chart or Value Stream Map technique.

Discuss how implementation of Lean Principles and Just  in Time (JIT) manufacturing may assist in achieving a more flexible and yet efficient process design. Justify your answer by referring to the 5 Performances model.

Follow a report format. Therefore, you should have a title page, contents page, sections and sub sections, page numbers, appendix section etc.Use diagrams, illustrations, tables, graphics etc. wherever these are helpful, and remember that these do not count towards your word limit.

Try to use theory explicitly at all stages, but do not spend too much time describing a theory. While you must be explicit about the theories, models, techniques etc. that you use, you can assume that the reader is familiar with them. What the reader requires is evidence of your ability to understand and apply the theory and learn from in order to support the development of your findings and/or ideas.
You must cite all sources on which you have relied, for example textbooks, journal articles, web pages etc. using the Harvard Bibliographic referencing system

You will also need to take the following into account when completing your assignment:

Quality of executive summary (does it give a brief complete summary of your paper for an executive to read?)
Establishment of relevant theory
Allocation of credit and sources used (have included references and citations to the material have used?)
Clarity of argument
Overall report presentation including spelling and grammar
Adherence to nominated word limit
Word processed (letter size 12, times new roman, 1.5 space), fully referenced (Harvard Referencing System)