1.) Compare the production processes selection or design that new breed buffalo hunter used to the production processes selection or design the approach used by the old timers.
The production processes selection and design that new breed buffalo hunters used are different from the production processes selection design and approach used by the old timers. The buffalo hunter of the 1870’s used five four-horse wagons with one driver for each wagon. The stock tender, camp watchmen cook, and four other men were there to skin the kill. The early white hunters had followed the American Indian practice of shooting buffalo from the back of a horse for food. The old timers soon realized that shooting from the back of a horse was not the most proficient way to kill a buffalo for its skin.
The new breed hunter used one wagon, four sound animals for harness and one to ride. He engaged in a straight profit-sharing scheme with the skinner. This was unlike the old timers who split as many shares as there were drivers, skinners, and helpers with each getting a share as his seasonal wage.
2.) Discuss what’s involved in the Case from Operations Perspective in each of the Operational activities.
Innovation can be seen in the case when the demand for buffalo had increased to such a degree that year-round work was available for hunters. Trading centers for buffalo hides and tanneries found even more uses for buffalo material, such as making drive belts for industrial machines and grinding buffalo bones into fertilizer. Learning can be seen in the case when the new breed of hunters emerged who were more efficient in realizing that gain and profit was a measure of success.
Operations Strategy can be seen in the case in both the ways of the veteran hunters and the new breed production control hunters. The veteran hunter provided the horses, wagons, and supplies for several months and