Jennifer Purifoy April 30, 2001 Executive Summary for The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt The heart of this story is based around the life of Alex Rogo, Plant Manager for Uniware a division of Unico. After a very upset customer approaches Alex’s boss, Bill Peach, he is given an ultimatum to turn the plant around in three months. Due to the limited amount of time available, there are not many outside tools available such as consultants, surveys, etc. With very few
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Jennifer Purifoy April 30, 2001 Executive Summary for The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt The heart of this story is based around the life of Alex Rogo, Plant Manager for Uniware a division of Unico. After a very upset customer approaches Alex’s boss, Bill Peach, he is given an ultimatum to turn the plant around in three months. Due to the limited amount of time available, there are not many outside tools available such as consultants, surveys, etc. With very few
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BIDDY’S BAKERY BY Vernell Murray Operations Management-BUS 515 Professor George H. Barbosa Strayer University April 16, 2012 Introduction This paper presents discussions of several concerns and issues regarding Biddy’s Bakery. This paper will explain the challenge Elizabeth faced in meeting her capacity needs and what she should have considered before moving into the larger facility. Determination will be given as to what was wrong with the proposal made by the team of business students
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Performance Measurement Promotes Effective Management Effective management is based on a foundation of effective measurement, and almost everything else is based on that. Bain & Company director emeritus and customer loyalty expert Frederick Reichheld unequivocally put it this way: "Measurement systems create the basis for effective management."[7] As Figure 1-1 illustrates, measurement determines what management does, and it works—through management—to touch every part of the organization, including
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Executive summary The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt is about a plant manager named Alex Rogo and his quest of knowledge to make his company profitable again. Alex does this while battling family issues at home with his wife. In the beginning, Alex has no idea where he is going to start or even understand why they are losing money. Everything that he reads according to the numbers of the company says that he is running a very efficient company. Given three months to turn the plant around, Alex
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The Goal was the first manufacturing management book I read in English. There is no theoretical framework in the book, so it is both interesting and easy to understand. This book was written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, tells a fictional story about Alex Rogo, a manufacturing plant manager who struggled with situation that his plant faced with losses and shut, with the help of Jonah and through the efforts of the team, Rogo finally found out the way to save the plant and increase production
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Introduction The book “The Goal” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt tells a story about how a plant manager of UniCo succeeded in redirecting the company to become profitable again by implementing the theory of constraints. It is written as a novel to help teach people on how imply the theory of constraints to the real life situation. The Goal Summary Alex Rogo is the main character in the novel and he is the plant manager of UniCo. He was given a three-months period by the vice-president of the company
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techniques first created by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt beginning around 1980 and later applied and augmented by a number of others. The Theory of Constraints has been applied to production planning, production control, project management, supply chain management, accounting and performance measurement, and other areas of business as well as such not-for-profit facilities as hospitals and military depots. It has also been applied to decision making in educational settings. Dr. Goldratt holds a Ph. D. in physics;
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Constraint Management at UniCo: Analyzing “The Goal” as Fictional Case Study Abstract As a fictional case study, Eliyahu Goldratt’s novel about manufacturing, “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement,” presents a constraint-focused approach to production management. As a novel, the book does not emphasize the quantitative details of the plant improvements. However, a great amount of information about the plant is spread throughout the book. By collecting and analyzing this data, a concrete
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techniques first created by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt beginning around 1980 and later applied and augmented by a number of others. The Theory of Constraints has been applied to production planning, production control, project management, supply chain management, accounting and performance measurement, and other areas of business as well as such not-for-profit facilities as hospitals and military depots. It has also been applied to decision making in educational settings. Dr. Goldratt holds a Ph. D. in physics;
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