To: Chad Thomas Founder Chad's Creative Concepts From: Subject: Chad's Creative Concepts Date: Jan. 07, 2015 Chad's Creative Concepts is a small custom furniture manufacturing company that has earned a reputation for innovative designs and excellent quality by focusing production on specialty designed furniture. Chad's Creative Concepts has grown substantially and has caused significant problems between standardized furniture and specialty designed furniture production. The problems
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To: Chad Thomas From: Subject: Impact of standard line on manufacturing process Date: 05/24/15 Business Brief Chad Thomas is the founder of Chad’s Creative Concepts, a company that designs and manufactures wood furniture near Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio. Thomas, an “outdoors” type of person, wanted to bring that design into the home, and began creating custom-made wooden furniture for vacation homes along Lake Erie, Kelly’s Island, and Bass Island. Sales took off, and the company chose
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Service and product design, Quality management, Process and capacity design, Location, Layout design, Human resources and job design, Supply-chain management, Inventory management, Scheduling, and finally Maintenance decision. Based on Chad’s Creative Concepts case study, I can conclude that Chad Thomas is now need to make those decisions to make sure the operation of his company flows effectively without stopping at any stage up to the current situation. The situation that Chad is facing
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CHAD’S CREATIVE CONCEPTS Main Problem: The standard lines sales is steadily increasing but the costumed furniture is given more attention because it has more sales compared to the standard lines. This leads to the standard furniture not being finished and requires stages to complete. Not just that, but also company needs to have bigger storage or space for this kind of situation. Objectives: 1. To rent a bigger warehouse wherein they can accommodate the inventory resulting to increase the holding
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and Accountancy A CASE ANALYSIS ON CHAD’S CREATIVE CONCEPTS Presented to JOHN E. TAMPO Professor In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in MBA 723- Production and Operations Management Submitted by Ardaña, Kris Diane Dacayo, Leslie Espera, Cindy Espinosa, Brix Farren, Su Sherrie Phan, Nghia Trong Sugalam, Junie December 6, 2014 CASE No. : 1 TITLE : Chad’s Creative Concepts I. TIME CONTEXT This business situation
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President, Chad’s Creative Concepts From: Consultant Background Chad’s Creative Concepts located on the banks of Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio, designs and manufactures wood furniture. The company developed a solid reputation for creative designs and high-quality workmanship. They focused entirely on custom made furniture. Their customers specify the kind of wood that’s used to create the pieces they want. As the company’s reputation grew and sales increased, the Chad’s Creative Concepts began
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University of the East Graduate School MBAN Program Operation Management (GMB 723) 9:00-12:00 Case Analysis: Chad’s Creative Concept Submitted by: Renz Marion G. Aquino Submitted to: Engr. Melodia Pahati Chad’s Creative Concept Case Analysis I. View Point As the founder of the company our objective is to maximize the sale of both standard and custom made furniture at the same time create a good production system. II. Time Context The problem started when the
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29/10/2014 REPORT 29/10/2014 REPORT CHAD’S CREATIVE CONCEPTS BUSINESS REPORT Synergy Business Solutions 6 Success Drive 1778 Lake Erie Cohort Sandusky Ohio Company Overview Synergy Business Solutions (SBS) is a business located in Lake Erie, Sandusky, Ohio, specializing in consulting services for small, medium and large businesses. SBS’ primary services include market feasibility studies, business plans, operational reviews, re-engineering, strategic planning, seminars and workshops
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capability planning, process improvement, managing production and project, managing and scheduling resources and quality control. It is exciting to have the business expansion and increasing sales in order to gain profit. However, in this case, Chad’s Creative Concept does not have the capability to meet the soaring customer demand. Thus, identifying the company’s capability and production bottleneck are most important and must be considering at first. Secondly, design new processes to optimize the firm’s
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Production and Operations Management Chapter One: Case Study Chad’s Creative Concepts 1. Decisions: a. What types of decision must Chad Thomas make daily for his company’s operations to run effectively? i. To finish the work in process of the standard line to clear up room in the plant at the temporary expense of holding off on the current delivery of custom furniture ii. Find alternative storage capability 1. Less expensive rental 2. Allocate
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