1. Identify the operations management problems that Dr. Barr is having at the clinic? The Operations Management problems that Doctor Barr are facing are planning, organizing, staffing, and inventory control. For planning she needs to figure out what hours of operations works best for this location. Instead of being open late on Wednesday, she should be open all day Saturday. Organizing she needs to put more thought into the scheduling, instead of everyone in the office on Wednesday when there is no need have people scheduled to work later on Friday and all day Saturday. Staffing she needs to make adjustments to the scheduling less on Wednesday more on Friday and if she decides to open on Saturday schedule according to the business needs. There needs to be only one person allowed to order inventory, the current method has no systematic order which lead to the problems she is currently having. 2. The schedule Doctor Barr set up worked well at the clinic where she was a resident. What are some of the reasons why it might not be working here? Could be the location of the office. The hours of operations, the services offered. She could fix this by offering the late night service on Friday and all day services on Saturday. 3. Identify some of the reasons the clinic is having inventory problems? The main problem is that everyone is allowed to order inventory. The office asstiaant should be the one doing the inventory. And she should have some sort of systematic way of doing it.If everybody is ordering and nobody knows what anybody else is ordering there is bound to be too much of something and not enough of something else. 4. What are some of the things Doctor Barr could have done differently to avoid some of the problems she is currently experiencing? She should have adjusted her hours of operations after noticing
