...1. A batch process is used. A worker checks the master list for ingredients, and enters that information into the computer. The computer determines ingredient quantities, and then automatically orders the ingredients, which are automatically sent to mixing machines. After mixing, the batter is poured into a cutting machine. Individual cookies are then dropped onto a continuous band and transported through an oven. Filled cookies require an extra step. After baking, cookies are cooled on a spiral cooling rack. Cookies are inspected, defectives are removed and the remaining cookies are packaged and labelled. 2. The use of automation in the mixing process resulted in a reduction in waste; cookies are cut on a diagonal; and the company recently increased the length of its ovens (i.e., more cookies can be baked at the same time).3.All companies have a moral obligation to their employees. Small companies with local owners, particularly in a small community, are more likely to be influenced by such considerations than large companies, in large communities, even with local owners, and even less likely to be influenced if owners are distant, or uninvolved in operations. The issue is a difficult one, often without easy solutions. Cost and efficiency may favor layoffs, but ill will and the effects on morale of employees that remain are important considerations. 4. Freshness of cookies, frequent changes of label requirements, and baking to customer order are factors that favor minimal inventories...
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...Can You Really Test Quality Into a Product? Have you ever been involved in a software project that was totally out of control; no one seemed to know what anyone else was doing and the project was being pushed in a hundred different directions? After seeing this happen time and time again, I realized that many software projects perfectly matched what I call The Parable of the Cookie. Let me share it with you. (Actually this is a true story.) The parable of the cookie One night mom is gone… 17-year-old daughter needs some cookies for an activity she is in charge of. She has no time to make them so she asks her 10-year-old sister and her friend who is over for a visit if they will make them. They are not sure if they can, but they have made cookies in the past. And so they are willing to try. The older sister says she will tell them the recipe and answer any questions. She then runs off to do her planning leaving the young girls to make the cookies. The recipe, as it turns out, was pretty much your basic chocolate chip cookie recipe with a few optional ingredients so you could customize the cookies to your taste. The girls did not write down recipe because they did not have a paper to write on or a pen to write with, and besides the older sister was supposed to be there to answer questions The first problem arose when they could not find any butter, so they used margarine instead. This may not seem like a big deal, but anyone who is an honest cook knows these two ingredients...
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...A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, that the man sitting beside her, as bold as could be. . .grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between, which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene. So she munched the cookies and watched the clock, as the gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock. She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by, thinking, “If I wasn’t so nice, I would blacken his eye.” With each cookie she took, he took one too, when only one was left, she wondered what he would do. With a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, as he ate the other, she snatched it from him and thought… oooh, brother. This guy has some nerve and he’s also rude, why he didn’t even show any gratitude! She had never known when she had been so galled, and sighed with relief when her flight was called. She gathered her belongings and headed to the gate, refusing to look back at the thieving ingrate. She boarded the plane, and sank in her seat, then she sought her book, which was almost complete. As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise, there was her bag of cookies, in front of her eyes. If mine are here, she moaned in despair, the others were his, and he tried to share. Too late to apologize...
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...Kristen’s cookie company pre-case report DSC335 1. Draw a flow chart of the cookie-making process 2. How long will it take to fill a rush order of 1-dozen cookie? It will take 26 minutes to fill a rush order of 1-dozen cookie. (I revise my chart to 4 cycle orders) 3. What is the cycle time? How many orders can you fill in a night (4-hour period)? Does your answer depend on the size of the order, 1-dozen, 2-dozen, or 3-dozen? 1-dozen orders: The cycle time is 10 minutes. The first order of 1-dozen cookies will take 26 minutes, and each 10 minutes for another 1-dozen cookie order. (4*60-26)/10=21.4 plus the first order, we can make 22 orders of 1-dozen cookie fill in a night. 2-dozen orders: The cycle time is 20 minutes. The first order of 2-dozen cookies will take 36 minutes, and each 20 minutes for another 2-dozen cookie order. (4*60-36)/20=10.2 and plus the first order, we can make 11 orders of 2-dozen cookie fill in a night. 3-dozen orders: The cycle time is 30 minutes. The first order of 3-dozen cookies will take 46 minutes, and each 30 minutes for another 3-dozen cookie order. (4*60-46)/30=6.47 and plus the first order, we can make 7 orders of 3-dozen cookie fill in a night. 4. What is the difference in labor (both you and your roommate’s time) per dozen among 1-dozen, 2-dozen, and 3-dozen orders? 1-dozen orders: Me: Wash and Mixing 6 minutes + fill the tray 2 minutes = 8 minutes +my roommate: Setting timer and putting in the oven 1 minute...
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...Case Study: Kristen’s Cookie Company Key questions to answer before you launch the business: 1) How long will it take you to fill a rush order? If we consider that one order is a dozen, the flow time is 26 minutes for the first order. 2) How many orders can you fill in a night, assuming you are open four hours each night? (4 hours = 240 minutes) If we consider that one order is a dozen, it will take me: * For the first order: 26 minutes * For the second order: 20 minutes (excluding backing and mixing because 6 min can be for 3 dozens) * For the third order: 20 minutes → So, it will take 66 minutes for 3 orders. → (240 / 66)* 3 = 10 orders/ night. 3) How much of your own and your roommate’s valuable time will it take to fill each order? If we assume that we will work 4 hours (240 minutes) each night, and it takes us on average 22 minutes (26+20+20 /3) to produce a dozen. (Considering that one order is a dozen.) 4) Because your baking trays can hold exactly one dozen cookies, you produce and sell cookies by the dozen. Should you give any discount for people who order two dozen cookies, three dozen cookies, or more? If so, how much? Will it take you any longer to fill a two-dozen cookie than a one-dozen cookie order? Because producing a second and a third dozen cookies will take less time than producing the first dozen cookies (excluding the washing and mixing steps), we can give a discount for people ordering two or three dozens...
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...In the Girl Scout cookie marketing case there are four Ps that the business tried to touch on and maintain as they try and keep the business running smoothly as they have for years. There have been rough patches and the company has hired specialist to work on this project to make it more profitable. On top of that the girl scouts are asking each member to sale at least one hundred boxes each to make the profit goal. They think if the girls sale the cookies with a smile and good attitude there will be more boxes sold. The product would the cookies that have been distributed all over the world by many girls. There are many types of cookies being sold over the years, but they would like to cut the number of types of cookies down to the top selling...
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...Cookie Types and Ethics of Their Use Matthew Fones IFSM 201 06/30/2013 The purpose of this research paper is to identify and explain three commonly seen cookies used on the Internet, along with identifying any potential ethical issues with such activities. The two most commonly used cookies are session cookies, persistent cookies. I will also describe a third type of cookie known as a flash cookie. First I will define what a computer cookie is. A cookie is a piece of text that a Web server can store on a user's hard disk or equivalent. Cookies allow a Web site to store information on a user's machine and later retrieve it (Brain, 2000). Cookies are created when a user's browser loads a particular website. The website sends information to the browser which then creates a text file. Every time the user goes back to the same website, the browser retrieves and sends this file to the website's server. Without cookies, websites and their servers have no memory. Computer Cookies are created not just by the website the user is browsing, but also by other websites that run ads, widgets, or other elements on the page being loaded. These cookies regulate how the ads appear or how the widgets and other elements function on the page. The first type of cookie to be described is the session cookie. This type of cookie allows users to be recognized within a website so any page changes or data selection you do is remembered from page to page. The most common example of this functionality...
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...Northridge Cookie Fundraiser Each year student council comes to a decision on what the annual Fall Football Fundraiser will entail. Our graduating class came to the conclusion that a home game bake sale would be our best opportunity to generate funding for the annual senior trip. The fall football fundraiser, here at Northridge High, has become something of a tradition in our recent history. Previous classes have tried many different approaches towards creating revenue for the annual senior trip. From my research I have discovered that our bake sale has by far surpassed any other attempt to maximize profits in the past. In our decision to have a bake sale as our fundraiser, we had to come to a consensus on what we were actually going to bake. We wanted to create something generally easy to bake to cut down on labor, while being able to make mass amounts of our product at the same time. Our decision was unanimous, that a cookie sale would be the ideal approach. Our class decided to go with the classic chocolate chip cookies. We wanted to sell them in large packages in order to raise prices, all the while ensuring our customers felt satisfied with their purchase. You can only sell so many cookies for a good cause when the price is too high. When giving quality and quantity, we ensured happy customers and often multiple packages were purchased. Although out ingredients were by far the most expensive disbursements we encountered, the profits vastly outweighed the...
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...Cookie It was late, nine oclock late, the alarm on the end table blaring. Ming Long is late for work. As he struggles to get out of the door by nine fourty-five his boss calls. He does not pick up. He hops in his car and hurries to work. As he arrives at work Lisa greets him at the front desk. “Hey Ming, you’re late, that’s odd” she says with a weird grin “Hello, Lisa” he yells as he runs past As Ming is strolling down the hallway he feels something that is a little odd. He arrives at his office, papers stacked up to the ceiling. He got to work sorting as soon as he walked in. In the middle of his sorting process the boss walks in. “Good morning Ming.” He says happily “Hello, Lary” Ming says anxiously Ming still half asleep starts his lunch break, 15 minutes in Lary comes over, with no conversation subject in mind Ming says “Hello.” “Hi.” Says Lary That was the whole conversation, it was pretty off because Lary usually talks Mings ear off. Something must be wrong with him, he wasn’t even mad about Ming coming in late. As Ming walks curiously back to work he sees a new person, dressed in a nice suit with white pin stripes, slicked back black hair, dark red tie, and brand new dress shoes, or at least he thought they were new. Ming walks back to his office and sits because he is already caught up with his work. Lary comes walking over with this suspicious person and introduces him to me. “Ming, this is Chris, Chris this is Ming.” Lary says ...
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...04-75-100-Section 30 Introduction to Business Summer 2015 04-75-100-Section 30 Introduction to Business Summer 2015 Class meetings: | Tuesdays: 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. (OB B14) | Professor: | Prof. Nicole Anderson | Office: | Room 118 OB | Office hours: | Tuesdays, 5:30PM – 7:00PM | E-mail: | nsleiman@uwindsor.ca | Secretary:Office: | Ms. May NhanRoom 405 OB | E-mail: | nhan@uwindsor.ca | Teaching Assistants: | To Be Assigned | | | This course will familiarize students with business including marketing, operations, finance, accounting international business and human resource management. By the end of the course students should develop a general understanding of business including but not limited to its various applications and forms, key challenges to ethical decision-making, key success factors for a career in business, and the impact on, and the impact of, business on political, legal, social, cultural and economic environments. Methodology This class follows a lecture-discussion format. Students are expected to be prepared to discuss readings assigned for each class. With only limited time to meet during the semester, is it essential that students be prepared to engage, participate and contribute in each session. Lectures and readings will be supplemented by discussion, videos, and case studies, which apply concepts to real-world situations. Textbook, Other Materials and Course Web Site * Bissonette, G. 2012. Business:...
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...Cookies 2 cups whole-wheat flour 3/4 cup water 1/4 cup peanut butter 3 tsp. molasses Few dashes ground cloves Couple dashes cinnamon Topping Yogurt chips Candy decorating bag | Directions: | 1. Mix all ingredients to form dough. 2. Roll out dough to approximately a 1/2" thickness. 3. Use a variety of cookie cutters to cut out shapes. 4. Bake at 350 degrees F. Go about 30 minutes for less-crunch cookies; up to 45 to 50 minutes for crunchier cookies (depending on your pooch's taste). 5. Let cookies cool. 6. Using a microwave-safe candy decorating bag, melt yogurt chips to desired consistency for decorating (Bardy uses defrost mode and kneads it in the bag in increments). 7. Clip the tip off the end of the bag and decorate away – drops, stripes, squiggly lines – use your imagination! | | | Homemade Dog Treat Recipe Fido's Favorite Treats 1 cup rolled oats 1/3 cup margarine or butter 1 cup boiling water 3/4 cup cornmeal 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons chicken or beef instant bullion 1/2 cup milk 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1 egg, beaten 2 cups white or wheat flour Preheat oven to 325 degrees.Grease cookie sheets. In large bowl combone rolled oats, margarine and water; let stand for 10 minutes. Sitr in cornmeal, sugar, boullion, milk,cheese and egg. Mix well. Add flour 1 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition to form stiff dough. On floured surface, knead in remaining flour until...
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...Jehovah's Witnesses is a group[->0] with more than seven million members throughout the world. They believe God[->1] is about to end the present system of life in the world, with its crime, violence, sickness and death, and replace it with his Kingdom which will bring about peace for all humans who live by Bible[->2] standards. Most of the religion's beliefs are based on the Bible and these beliefs were taught by Charles Taze Russell, a preacher who started a Bible study group in Pennsylvania[->3], USA[->4] in 1876, and later started publishing a religious magazine called The Watchtower[->5]. Many of those beliefs, especially about who God is and what his plans are for humans and the earth, are different to what is taught in mainstream Christian churches. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that only 144,000 people will go to heaven and that the remaining people who obey God will live forever[->6] on a paradise[->7] Earth[->8]. They do not believe that God is a Trinity[->9], and teach that when people die, they remain in their grave until Jesus Christ[->10] resurrects them after God's Kingdom, or government, is ruling over earth. Witnesses are best known for preaching[->11] their beliefs from door-to-door and in other public places, and offering their magazines, The Watchtower and Awake! They are also well known for refusing to join armies and refusing blood transfusions. In 1870 a young clothing shop owner named Charles Taze Russell heard an Adventist[->12] preacher explain that...
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...and domain names in e-business is subject to the regulations of each country in which the e-business operates (Burke, 2002). Although e-business has the ability to offer secure purchasing transactions combined with immediate verification and confirmation of credit card transactions, there are still some risks that are involved regarding ethical and legal issues. In e-business there are many ethical and global issues relating to Information Technology. E-businesses use log files which extracts information on how visitors use a site. This process is known as web tracking. Companies use cookie analysis and tracking software to track an individual’s movement (Burke, 2002). Each tracking record is stored on the individuals PC’s hardware, and whenever the individual revisits the website, the system becomes aware of it. Many knowledgeable users install programs such as Spam Butcher and Cookie cutters, which provide them some form of control over the cookies. There is an ongoing battle between web trackers and smart end users. Educated users utilize software such as My Privacy and Privacy Guardian to protect their online privacy by erasing surfing history, browser’s cache and cookies. Spyware can be detected and...
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...batches a night. 3.How much of your own and your roommates valuable time will it take to fill each order? Assuming the order is one dozen: Kristen’s time would be 8 minutes per batch and the roommate 4 minutes per batch. Breakdown: Time taken by Kristen is 8 minutes (washing, mixing, and spooning tray). Time taken by roommate is 4 minutes (setting timer, packing and collecting money). Time remaining is 12 minutes (accounting for the baking and cooling process). 4.Because your baking trays can hold exactly one dozen cookies, you will produce and sell cookies by the dozen. Should you give any discount for people who order two-dozen cookies, three-dozen cookies, or more? Will it take you any longer to fill a two-dozen cookie order than a one-dozen cookie order? One Dozen: Activity Resource Cycle Time Oder email 0 min Wash, bowl, and mix self 6 min Fill tray self 2 min Prep oven roommate 1 min Bake oven 9 min Remove roommate 0 min Cool none 5 min Pack collect money roommate 3 min Kristen 8 minutes Roommate 4 minutes Total Labor 12 minutes Two Dozen Activity Resource Cycle Time Order email 0 min Wash, bowl, and mix self- 6 min Fill tray 1 self- 2 min Fill tray 2 self- 2 min Prep oven 1 roommate 1 min Bake 1 oven 9 min Remove 1 roommate 0 min Cool 1 none 5 min Prep oven 2 roommate 1 min Bake 2 ovens 9 min Remove 2 roommates 0 min Cool 2 none 5 min Pack 1 roommate 2 min Pack 2 roommates 2 min Collect Money roommate 1 min...
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...ONE GOOD COOKIE A Final Business Plan Presented to Professor Hal Lefkowitz School of Business and Management National University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for MGT 610C and the Degree Master of Business Administration by Virginia C. Hire Damrauer September 2010 Copyright 2010 Virginia C. Hire Damrauer ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Executive Summary When I was traveling for work, it struck me that the interesting places were *not* the chains I find at home, it was the unique experiences that I was craving. Not a franchise, and not an internet thing, just a face-to-face unique experience kind of place. One Good Cookie is a sole proprietorship business with the vision of providing “One Good Cookie at a Fair Price.” Our slogan is “One Good Cookie Deserves Another! TM” and our mission is “To make unique, creative, high quality cookies and provide them locally at a fair price in a single-store cookie shop.” Our values are community, quality ingredients, and fair prices. Our financial objectives are to achieve an average sales transaction of $4.50 per customer by the end of the first year and to increase the first year profit by 5% in the second year of business. The top local competitors are profitable with revenues of over $500,000 per year (Manta.com, 2010b, 2010d) and are sustainable as most have been in business for 15 years or more (Manta.com, 2010a, 2010b, 2010d). Financial projections show that the business...
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