Q.1 Inventory Location Balance Accuracy is

Q.2 An MRP explosion

South Shore Construction builds permanent docks and seawalls along the southern shore of Long Island, New York. The following data show quarterly sales revenues (in $’000s) for the past 5 years.

Question 4

Now make adjustments for trend and seasonality.

1. Quantify the trend in the time series. What does the trend equation tell you?
2. Quantify the seasonality in the time series by calculating seasonality indexes. What do these indexes tell you?
3. Using the trend and the seasonality information from (a) and (b) make forecasts from Q1 Year 1 through Q4 Year 5.
4. Calculate the Mean Absolute Percent Error for this set of forecasts.
5. Plot the forecasts from (c) on the graph in Question 1. Your graph should now have the original data and 3 sets of forecasts plotted on it. Label the different plots appropriately.

Question 5

Using the method in Question 4, calculate forecasts for each of the 4 quarters of Year 6. These forecasts should be adjusted for both trend and seasonality.

Imagine that you are a systems administrator withing your company that has decided to leverage Azure for resource deployment. You have done research on Azure and learned about Azure Automation and how it can help simplify some of the management and configuration activities you execute on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. You decide that you want to recommend piloting Azure Automation to show the value, but need to decide on one or two tasks to prove the value of Azure Automation to your manager.  

Thinking about the various management and configuration tasks that happen within an on-premises and/or cloud environment, what one or two tasks would you recommend as candidates for this pilot. Why would your pilot these tasks? Examples of candidate tasks may pertain to security, system maintenance, and/or service configuration at the resource level.

Consider a nonproduction support function (accounting, marketing, MIS, HR, etc.) that you have experience with or interest in.

• Name the department and briefly discuss how the four concepts of lean can/should be applied to that activity.
• What can that department do to become lean?

A project manager and the project team should not focus on ‘project firefighting ‘but should allocate sufficient time and resources to preventing problems throughout the life of the project. Project Risk management is one way of preventing problems that can negatively affect the project objectives of cost, schedule, scope, and quality. Effective risk management is directed at eliminating threats and increasing opportunities to ensure project success.

(1) Examine a project that you have worked on or know about and discuss the types of risks or opportunities did the project face (be specific) and how did you/ the organization deal with uncertainty of these events?

(2) Identify and explain the key processes required for effective project risk management.

What is PESTEL model and explain the all parts of it. And what is Porter's five forces model and explain the all parts of briefly.     

Provide information regarding the job market and future job trends as they relate to your potential career What academic and other training / preparation are required to enter this career?

What academic and other training / preparation are required to enter this career?

As part of the project management process, consideration must be given to acquiring the products and services that will be used during the project to produce the desired product. Project managers are tasked with sourcing these goods and services and creating and managing contracts with the sellers

1. Explain the importance of project procurement management.
2. Explain the activities associated with conducting and controlling procurements.

How does the example below, show that there could be a problem with risk reduction through goal of diversification in businesses?(within a firm)

ex.1 First Reason, Firm stockholders can diversify their portfolios at much lower cost than a corporation, and they don't have to worry about integrating the acquisition into their portfolio.

Q2 - what strategy do you believe is best in this industry? and why?

Q3 - Recommendations for Seagate

Q4 - Recommendations for Quantum

1)

______ demand items are typically ______ whose demand is determined primarily by ______ conditions.

2)

Which of the following is an assumption of the EOQ model?

3)

The optimal ordering amount for companies that order seasonal items should achieve a balance between ______ and ______ costs.

4)

The ______ is the amount to which the inventory of an item should fall before the firm places a new order to replenish it.

5)

The two fundamental questions in inventory management are ______ and ______ to order.

Jack recently attended a one-day instructor-led class that concluded with a written assessment. Throughout the day each lesson was reviewed, which focused on the main points presented during that particular lesson. While the test was all multiple choice, very few of the main points that were presented and/or reviewed were on the test. Jack, as well as others, was extremely frustrated.

Discuss how applying the ADDIE model and acknowledging adult learning principles could have provided a better learning experience. What would you have done differently?