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Business Process Mapping: The Darden School Mailroom
Landel, Robert D.; Snyder, AndrewTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1444-EService and Operations ManagementThe Darden School mailroom and the activities of its manager are analyzed using process mapping and waste identification tools. The note illustrates how one can observe and analyze a process for which opportunities to create process maps, evaluate waste and savings potential, and create stakeholder buy-in for improvements are identified. Lean tools discussed include process flowcharts, SIPOC, seven waste analyses, and stakeholder engagement. Stud...Starting at €8.20
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Southeastern Mills: The Improvement Journey (A)
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1419-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for courses in operations design and performance management. Owners and employees of this company spent considerable effort developing a unique, extremely successful high-performance work place culture based on trust and a decentralized structure and little direct supervision from middle and upper management. Now management wants to consider blending a Lean or Six Sigma program into their work-place culture. A Business Process Improve...Starting at €8.20
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Supplier Development at SysInteg (A)
Landel, Robert D.; Karri, ChitanyaCase DARDEN-OM-1355-EService and Operations ManagementAn intern in the Supplier Development department at XS Inc. is participating in a two-day Value Stream Mapping (VSM) event at SysInteg. As this is XS’s first time sponsoring an improvement initiative led by a third party, it is under tight scrutiny by XS corporate-level senior management. XS considered this an opportunity to deploy external lean experts to convince some members of senior management who were skeptical about the lack of oversight o...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Inventories: Fundamentals
Freeland, James R.; Landel, Robert D.; Weiss, Elliott N.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-1397-EService and Operations ManagementThis overview of inventory management covers ways to categorize inventories and measure performance. The financial implications of inventory, inventory management systems, economic order quantities, and decision rules for determining safety stocks are discussed.Starting at €8.20
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We Can Hear You Now (B): Voice of the Customer Project at Crutchfield Corp.
Landel, Robert D.; Taylor, Laure; Zimmerman, AlanCase DARDEN-OM-1343-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for marketing and operations management courses. The director of customer service in an electronics catalog business has asked a Six Sigma Black Belt for assistance in evaluating several ideas to effectively obtain and analyze feedback from users of its customer service department. Students are asked to evaluate the design and findings from a previously run project focused on sales agent performance and then to recommend a Six Sigma p...Starting at €5.74
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Southeastern Mills: The Improvement Journey (C)
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1421-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for courses in operations design and performance management. A Business Process Improvement team has evaluated a different systems design for launching a Lean-Six Sigma improvement journey and selected an advisory firm to implement it into a high-performance workplace system infrastructure. This case is the third of a three-part series with OM-1419 and OM-1420. Students are asked to comment on the final selection of the advisory firm ...Starting at €5.74
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Opportunity Consultants, Inc., 2007
Reynolds, William; Landel, Robert D.Case DARDEN-OM-1331-EService and Operations ManagementStudents' preparations and first-class discussions focus on the key resources, factors, and relationships that could be causing the poor performance of the student-run consulting organization. Students should develop a causal-loop diagram showing the key resources, feedback relationships, and delays in the system. As a follow up assignment, sufficient information is available for the students to develop a system simulation model. Instructors can ...Starting at €8.20
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Supplier Development at SysInteg (C)
Landel, Robert D.; Karri, ChitanyaCase DARDEN-OM-1364-EService and Operations ManagementOn day two of the Value Stream Mapping (VSM) event, the legal counsel for the XS division was brought to the meeting by the XS division manager who viewed the suggestions and recommendations made the supplier during the Current State exercise on the first day as push backs and wanted to ensure that he had no unreasonable plans for improvement when he left the VSM event. The attorney was concerned that any changes to existing processes would leave...Starting at €5.74
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United Technologies Corporation Fire & Security: Field Operations (A)
Landel, Robert D.; Stanley, Anand; Hoffman, Tom; Brash, DanielCase DARDEN-OM-1422-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for courses in operations strategy and general management. Some 400 Fire & Security branches are given the opportunity for improvement. Executives call for the design and deployment of a global initiative aimed at the cost-overrun issues. But how much emphasis should be placed on grass-roots, branch-level continuous improvement of the bidding and installation processes, and how much direction and implementation should be driven by div...Starting at €8.20
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End-Stage Renal Disease and Dialysis Care
Rogers, James; Landel, Robert D.Technical Note DARDEN-OM-1319-EService and Operations ManagementThis technical note introduces students to the treatment options available to patients with end-stage renal disease, the dialysis process, and the role of dialysis care facilities. Its purpose is to set the stage for the Springfield Dialysis Services (A), (B), and (C) casesStarting at €8.20