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ABC Shipyard: The Facility Layout
Vijaya Dixit; Piyush Raj; Jitendra R. SharmaCaso IVEY-9B16D023-EDirección estratégica, Servicios y operacionesIn October 2014, the chief operating officer of ABC Shipyard was trying to decide how to respond to a request from a renowned marine logistics company for five large naval bulk carriers. The shipyard could manufacture the ships, but with its current layout and throughput, the ships could not be completed within the requested two-year delivery time. A modular approach was necessary to build large and complex products such as ships, complicating th...Desde 8,20 €
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Convocation Ceremony at TIMES: A Process Analysis
Jitendra R. SharmaCaso IVEY-W33706-EServicios y operacionesThis case looks at the issues involved in planning the 2022 convocation (graduation) ceremony at the Delhi-based Trident Institute of Management and Entrepreneurial Studies (TIMES). The dean of academics, who was responsible for piloting the convocation, needed to be certain that the ceremony could be completed within a limited time to accommodate the schedule of the chief guest (the leader of a multinational conglomerate). The convocation had tw...Desde 8,20 €
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Decision-making at A-Cat Corp.
Jitendra R. SharmaCaso IVEY-9B11D011-EGobierno corporativo, Marketing, Servicios y operacionesThe case describes the situation faced by the vice president of A-CAT Corp. The company was a mid-sized manufacturer and distributor of domestic electrical appliances, largely catering to the price-sensitive rural population. The firm operated two medium-sized facilities in a remote district in Vidarbha, India. A-CAT manufactured a wide range of electrical appliances including TV signal boosters, transformers, FM radio kits, electronic ballasts, ...Desde 8,20 €
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Material Requirements Planning at A-Cat Corp.
Jitendra R. Sharma; Tinu AgrawalCaso IVEY-9B12D003-EServicios y operacionesMaterial requirements planning (MRP) systems have been widely used by manufacturing firms to maintain an optimum flow of inputs for the best production results. By using an MRP system, a firm can prepare a production plan that specifies the number of sub-assemblies that go into a final product along with the exact timeline of an order, from placement to completion. In the case, an A-CAT employee is assigned the task of preparing an operating plan...Desde 8,20 €
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Location Planning at A.B. Corp.
Jitendra R. SharmaCaso IVEY-9B12D008-EDirección estratégica, Gobierno corporativo, Servicios y operacionesIn March 2010, the management of A.B. Corp. announced its plan to select a definite location for its central warehouse. The company, a major producer of agriculture and farm equipment, had gone through three consecutive years of financial loss as a result of increasing production costs. Management had to select a central warehouse between four candidates, based on the location of five distribution centres, the loads to be transferred, and other f...Desde 8,20 €
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Convocation at the National Institute of Management's Central India Campus (B)
Srinivasan Maheswaran; Jitendra R. Sharma; John S. Haywood-FarmerCaso IVEY-9B13D004-EDirección estratégica, Servicios y operacionesThis is a supplement to Convocation at the National Institute of Management's Central India Campus (A), 9B13D003.Desde 5,74 €
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Convocation at the National Institute of Management's Central India Campus (A)
Srinivasan Maheswaran; Jitendra R. Sharma; John S. Haywood-FarmerCaso IVEY-9B13D003-EDirección estratégica, Servicios y operacionesThe (A) case involves managing the planning and execution of the first convocation held at one of the campuses of a business school in Nagpur, India, at fairly short notice. The school’s chairperson of post-graduate studies in management programs has been appointed as the chief co-ordinator of the event. Leveraging his operations-management background and working in collaboration with other faculty, he sets about identifying the required activiti...Desde 8,20 €
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A-CAT Corp.: Forecasting
Jitendra R. SharmaCaso IVEY-9B13D016-EServicios y operacionesA-CAT Corp., a company that produces domestic electrical appliances in a poor region of India, largely caters to the price-sensitive rural market. During the past several months, there has been an alarming dip in sales of its major product, a voltage regulator that is used for varied purposes but most commonly as a protective device for refrigerators and television sets, to protect the latter from the vagaries of load fluctuations and/or frequent...Desde 8,20 €
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Toffee Inc.: Demand Planning for Chocolate Bars
Jitendra R. SharmaCaso IVEY-9B15D003-EDirección estratégica, Servicios y operacionesThe inventory manager of sales and distribution for Toffee Inc., a confectionery company, had just concluded a meeting with all relevant personnel. The meeting had not been entirely positive. The words of the production manager still echoed in his ears: “If the ingredient inventory is not re-examined and re-worked to the firm’s advantage then [soon] the final products based on these ingredients will cease to yield the kind of profits that the fir...Desde 8,20 €