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3. BUS 644 Slingshot Academy / Tutorialrank.com Tutorialrank.com ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style Cookies (Old) ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 1 Why Productivity Matters (Old) ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 DQ 2 Benefits of Forecasting (Old) ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 Assignment Design of Work Systems (Old) ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 2 DQ 1 Plant Capacity (Old) Home-Style Cookies. Read the “Home-style Cookies” case study below. Answer questions 1-7 in a two to four (2-4) page APA style paper. Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points), and supported with the concepts outlined in your text ASHFORD BUS 644 Entire Course (Old) ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 1 Assignment Home Style Cookies (Old)

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6. BUS 644 Slingshot Academy / Tutorialrank.com Tutorialrank.com Wal-Mart. Read the “Hello, Wal-Mart?” case. Answer questions 1-2 in a two to four (2-4) page APA style paper. Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points), and supported with the concepts outlined in your text Quality Improvement. Read “Chick-n-Gravy Dinner Line” on page 414 in your text. Explain your analysis using course related principles in 200 words. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 Assignment Wal-Mart (Old) ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 1 Quality improvement (Old)

7. BUS 644 Slingshot Academy / Tutorialrank.com Tutorialrank.com Inspection of Toys. Read “Toys, Inc.” on page 460 in your text. Indicate your recommendations using course related principles in 200 words. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings Inventory Control. Read the case study below “Harvey Industries”. Provide reasoning for the current financial distress of the company and make recommendations for improvements to the new company president ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 3 DQ 2 Inspection of Toys (Old) ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 Assignment Inventory Control (Old)

8. BUS 644 Slingshot Academy / Tutorialrank.com Tutorialrank.com Planning for Service Operations. Service operations often face more difficulty in planning than their manufacturing counterparts. However, service does have certain advantages that manufacturing often does not. Production Strategies. Read “Eight Glasses a Day (EGAD)” on page 507 in your text. Answer questions 1 and 2. Explain your analysis using course related principles in 200 words. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 1 Planning for Service Operations (Old) ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 4 DQ 2 Production Strategies (Old)

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11. BUS 644 Slingshot Academy / Tutorialrank.com Tutorialrank.com Waiting Lines. Trucks are required to pass through a weighing station so that they can be checked for weight violations. Trucks arrive at the station at the rate of 40 an hour between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Currently two inspectors are on duty during those hours, each of whom can inspect 25 trucks an hour Focus of the Final Paper Read "Stickley Furniture" on pages 550-552 in your text. Answer questions 1-5. The final case study should demonstrate understanding of the reading as well as the implications of new knowledge ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 DQ 2 Waiting Lines (Old) ASHFORD BUS 644 Week 6 Final (Stickley Furniture) (Old)

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