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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in 2009: Operational Transformation
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1400-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for general management courses emphasizing operations strategy and senior leadership. Senior leadership in a global manufacturing company must respond to the critical directive to achieve a 25% cost reduction. Under the direction of an advisory firm, an operational transformation strategy is developed and implementation proceeds in the company's 28 sites. Elements of the transformational program, including leadership challenges and pr...Starting at €8.20
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The Perfect Storm: A Low-Performing Biotech Plant
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1463-EService and Operations ManagementFor the past 12 months, a major pharmaceutical company had rolled out a comprehensive set of cultural changes and breakthrough lean-process activities that were instigated by the need to cut nearly 25% of costs across its key global production facilities. The cultural changes and breakthrough lean-process activities called for aggressive action, and company leadership thought that the company’s cost reduction goal could only be achieved through o...Starting at €8.20
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in 2009: Transformation at the Site Level
Landel, Robert D.; Goldberg, RebeccaCase DARDEN-OM-1402-EService and Operations ManagementAppropriate for general management courses emphasizing lean operations strategy implementation and large-scale change management across a network of global manufacturing facilities. In this case, site-level leadership, including senior, midlevel, and supervisory positions, must respond to a critical corporate directive to achieve a 25% cost reduction. Under the direction of an advisory firm, the development and implementation of an operational Tr...Starting at €8.20
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Shrimp Commodity Systems Learning Lab: Guidance Notes
Landel, Robert D.; Soderquist, ChrisTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1428-EService and Operations ManagementThis technical note supports the “Shrimp Commodity Systems Learning Lab” (SCSLL) simulation (UVA-OM-1405S) used in environmental sustainability or systems thinking courses. It offers detailed guidance for the progression of interactive learning experiences in the SCSLL. Through the simulation, users develop an understanding of the issues facing the shrimp industry system and how policy alternatives could improve the industry’s typical boom-and-bu...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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Congestion in Café 67
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanCase DARDEN-OM-1550-EService and Operations ManagementIn this exercise the manager of Café 67 asks for help dealing with the large queues of students during the Darden school's second coffee (approximately 20 minutes) who all want lunch at the same time.Starting at €8.20
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Bank Office Simulation Tutorial and Technical Note
Landel, Robert D.; Porter, Christopher; Mexis, GeorgeTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1549-EService and Operations ManagementTutorial and tech note combined to introduce students to model building and outputs in AnyLogic.Starting at €8.20
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Congestion in Café 67: Model Documentation and Guide
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1552-EService and Operations ManagementThe purpose of this document is to describe each step in the development of a model for the exercise “Congestion in Café 67.” The system itself is described in Appendix 1. A short and simple description of the model’s objects is included in Appendix 2.Starting at €8.20
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A Late Night at The Virginian Restaurant
Landel, Robert D.; Boes, SeanExercise DARDEN-OM-1551-EService and Operations ManagementIn this exercise, the manager of The Virginian, a small restaurant and bar in Charlottesville, has asked for help in reducing the average queue size at its bar. The Virginian prides itself on its fast and consistent service. (View the video at http://thevirginiancville.com/.) Students are offered four scenarios to guide their analyses. Students conduct analyses by preparing a simulated model on their own or using a simulation created with AnyLogi...Starting at €8.20
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Accounts Payable at Rockwell Collins: Process Simulation Model Note
Landel, Robert D.; Mexis, Georgios; Porter, ChristopherTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1554-EService and Operations ManagementThe note provides documentation of a process simulation model that was prepared to simulate the invoicing work of 16 accounts payable analysts described in the case "Accounts Payable at Rockwell Collins" written by Professor Philip C. Jones, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa.Starting at €8.20