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
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Case II: Home-Style Cookies Case Facts: * The baking company is located in a small town in New York State. * It is run by two brothers. * The company employs fewer than 200 people, mainly blue-collar workers, and the atmosphere is informal. * The company’s only product is soft cookies, of which it makes over 50 varieties. * The bakery is run very efficiently and has minimal amounts of scrap. Questions: 1. Briefly describe the cookie production process. The processes of producing
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Fortunes from Fortune Cookies Did you ever wonder who was writing all of those fortunes every time you opened a fortune cookie? Well no one actually knows where the fortune cookie came from. What is known is that this cookie made its first appearance in the U.S. at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, California in the 1890s. Two people say that they had the idea about fortune cookies. One is David Jung the owner of Hong Kong Noodle Company who says he invented them in 1918 which is much later
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flow-rate (capacity) of a system Case: Kristen’s cookie company 1 Course Roadmap Operations Management Strategic View Process View Process Flow Metrics Flow Rate 2 Recap Basics Steps of Process Flow Analysis 1. Define the process 2. Draw the process flow diagram 3. Determine the basic process flow metrics: flow rate, flow time, inventory Little’s Law I=RxT 3 Kristen’s Cookie Co. • Process Flow Diagram 4 Kristen’s Cookie Co. Q1. How long will it take
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Case Three: Kristen’s Cookie Company Kate Johnson INTRODUCTION For many students on a college campus, late nights are as common as group projects and comprehensive tests. During these late nights, snacks can help keep a student focused. Kristen’s Cookie Company (KCC), hopes to capitalize on this fact by providing these students with customizable (perceived quality), high quality, freshly made cookies (aesthetic quality) with a quick delivery time (serviceability) in close proximity to the
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Kristen’s Cookie Co. – Katherine Fanola Individual Assignment Question 1: Draw a Flow Diagram Question 2: How long will it take to fulfill a rush order? The answer is 26 minutes. First, the customer will order which will not take any time. Then, Kristen begins by washing and mixing which will have a cycle time of 6 minutes. Next, spooning will take Kristen 2 minutes, leaving a finish time at 8 minutes (6 min+2min). Then Kristen’s roommate will heat the oven which will take 1 minute
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Kristen’s Cookie Company You and your roommate are preparing to start Kristen’s Cookie Company in your on‐campus apartment. The company will provide fresh cookies to starving students late at night. You need to evaluate the preliminary design for the company’s production process to figure out many variables, including what prices to charge, whether you will be able to make profit and how many orders to accept. Business Concept Your idea is to bake fresh cookies to order
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Running Head: KRISTEN’S COOKIE COMPANY 1 Kristen’s Cookie Company: An Effective Production Process ABSTRACT This paper will explore the Kristen’s Cookies business concept and evaluate if the company current status is profitability. We will review the ability to take orders, pricing the product, developing policies. Kristen’s Cookie Company is a business idea thought up by two roommates who are trying to tap into a market which caters to starving college students in the late night
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Case Report: Kristen’s Cookie Company Question 1 How long will it take to fulfill a rush order? | Gantt Chart for Kristen's Cookie Case | | | | | | | | | | | | | To fulfill the rush order it is still necessary to go through all parts of the process illustrated on the process flow diagram of the cookie-making process (it can be found on the last page). As there are no processes that can be done in a parallel way, every stage follows the other. Calculating the time needed for
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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
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