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Assignment 2 Vice President of Operations, Part 2
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1.Evaluate two to four (2-4) weaknesses that are evident in the selected organization’s product life cycle. Generate a new product design and product
selection, and then determine three (3) strategies that the organization needs in order to strengthen the operation. Provide support for the rationale.
2.Determine the key components of supply chain management for the company you have selected. Determine three (3) major issues that could affect
the structuring, sourcing, purchasing, and the supply chain of your organization. Provide a solution to each issue.
3.Develop a total quality management tool that identifies and analyzes any future issues. Provide a rationale for developing the selected tool.
4.Analyze three (3) advantages in employing the just-in-time philosophy in your organization. Evaluate three to five (3-5) means in which the
philosophy could potentially impact quality assurance. Provide specific examples to support your response.
5.Determine a qualitative and quantitative forecasting method for your operation. Next, create a table in which you identify the characteristics of the
operation that relate to each method. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each method.
6.Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
•Determine the key components of supply chain management including structuring, sourcing, purchasing, and managing the supply chain.
•Examine how the total quality management process is a strategy for a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
•Identify the key elements of just-in-time manufacturing and its impact on quality assurances.
•Develop a forecasting method appropriate to a production or service operation.
•Use technology and information resources to research issues in operations management.
Supply Chain Management
Introduction
Supply chain management is a very important department of the organization because it
helps the operation management of the organization to pick up the finished goods from the
inventory and deliver it at the door of customers without any delay to satisfy their needs and
wants completely (Schwalbe, 2009). For completing these objectives and aims of this
assignment, the selected organizations are L&J. G. Stickley Company. This organization
produces the wood products along with leather products such as table, chair, doors, etc. It also
produces oak furniture that is a very old product line of the organizations (L. & J.G. STICKLEY.,
2013).

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Weaknesses in the Product Line
The organization produces its products with the help of wood and leather products. The
products are also directly related to the ecosystem of the societies. Hence, the organization faces
huge problems due to the parent materials of the products that also increases the risk to the
growth of the organization. Therefore, it could be stated that L&J. G. Stickley Company has two
major weaknesses with its product line such as he timely delivery of the products and low
demands of the products because of non-environmental nature of the products (Woodall,
Spitzner, Montgomery & Gupta, 2004). The both weaknesses also affect the product life cycle
(PLC) because every product gets the maturity in the target market in less time that creates a
huge problem for the organization.
New Product Design and Product Selection to Improve PLC
The reduction in the demand causes negative impacts over the organizations that forces
the production management people to reduce the production of existing products. This change in
production policy also affects the delivery system of its existing products to the existed
customers those are demanded its products because of the less availability of the products at the
place of its distributors ((Woodall, Spitzner, Montgomery & Gupta, 2004). Hence, it is a basic
need of the L&J. G. Stickley Company to hold the sustainability of its products in the market.
Therefore, the organizations should also use the alternative of oak and leather such as
Bamboo and other wood that could easily get within the country without affecting any ecological
concern. These options would also help the organizations to improve the product life cycle of the
new products. On the other hand, the new products would be able to improve the demand of its
products by which the company and its management could improve its PLC. On the other hand,
the L&J. G. Stickley Company could also include some metallic parts as a compliment that

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Assignment 2 Vice President of Operations, Part 2 Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1.Evaluate two to four (2-4) weaknesses that are evident in the selected organization's product life cycle. Generate a new product design and product selection, and then determine three (3) strategies that the organization needs in order to strengthen the operation. Provide support for the rationale. 2.Determine the key components of supply chain management for the company you have selected. Determine three (3) major issues that could affect the structuring, sourcing, purchasing, and the supply chain of your organization. Provide a solution to each issue. 3.Develop a total quality management tool that identifies and analyzes any future issues. Provide a rationale for developing the selected tool.? 4.Analyze three (3) advantages in employing the just-in-time philosophy in your organization. Evaluate three to five (3-5) means in which the philosophy could potentially impact quality assurance. Provide specific examples to support your response. 5.Determine a qualitative and quantitative forecasting method for your operation. Next, create a table in which you identify the characteristics of the operation that relate to each method. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each method. 6.Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources. The specific course learning outcomes associ ...
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