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    Kristen's Cookies

    Solution to Kristen's Cookie Company (A) Before answering specific questions, it is useful to make a diagram of the overall process: [pic] Note that in this diagram, activities are arranged in columns to indicate which resources are being used. Inside each activity symbol are written the capacity (in dozens of cookies) and the cycle time (in minutes). 1. How long will it take for you to fill a rush order? Assuming this order is for one dozen cookies, we will need to do the following: |Activity

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    Kristen's Cookies

    to understand the bottleneck step and calculate the cycle time. In our process the bottleneck is the oven with a total cycle time of 10 minutes. The capacity of this process is 6 trays per hour. So in 4 hours we would have ( 6 x 4 ) 24 trays of cookies. *This assumes that the after baking activities could be completed after store closing. If we take into consideration the open hours only, the real capacity would be ((60 x 4)-8 / 60) or 3.73 hours and be able to produce only 22.38 trays. 3

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    Kristen's Cookies Case

    Kristen’s Cookies 1. How long would it take to process a rush order of one dozen? Two dozen? Three dozen? Based on the diagram below it would take 26 min to make 1 batch of cookies. Considering it takes 10 total minutes to bake a dozen, each additional dozen cookies would add 10 minutes to the total time. Therefore, to produce 2 dozen (assuming they are the same ingredients) would take 36 minutes. Three dozen would take 46 minutes and so on. Activity | Resource used | Time for activity

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    Kristen's Cookies Case Anaysis

    Kristen’s Cookie Company Case Study OPTM 6090 Spring 2014 Team 1 Executive Summary Kristen and her roommate have planned the Kristen’s Cookie Company (KCC) as a joint venture to create and operate a successful business operated in a college campus apartment, with potential to grow in the future. The core competency is providing made-to-order fresh cookies after standard business operating hours. There are several immediate decisions to address including scale of operation, business

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    Case Study Kristen's Cookie

    Case Report: Kristen's Cookie company 1. It takes 26 minutes to complete a rush order, that is, the addition of the time it takes to complete each step: 6 (wash and mix) + 2 (spoon) + 10 (load and bake) + 5 (unload and cool) + 2 (pack) + 1 (pay) = 26. Process flow diagram of the cookie-making process: Me Mixer Me Spoon and tray Roommate Oven and tray Oven and tray INPUT OUTPUT Roommate Oven and tray Tray Roommate Roommate Remarks: Since it does not consume any time

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    Kristen Cookies'

    For the exclusive use of S. Zhang, 2015. 9-686-093 REV: JULY 13, 2006 ROGER BOHN 1 Kristen's Cookie Company (A1) You and your roommate are preparing to launch Kristen’s Cookie Company in your on-campus apartment. The company will provide fresh cookies to hungry students late at night. You need to evaluate the preliminary design for the company’s production process in order to make key policy decisions, including what prices to charge, what equipment to order and how many orders

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    A Fortune

    A Fortune The short story A Fortune is written by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi. In the short story A Fortune the reader acquires knowledge about a first-person narrator, a young boy who shares the same destiny as the little boy we hear about later in the story despite of differences in social status. They both hunger after acknowledgement from their fathers, they have both been ignored and mistreated by their fathers; they both suffer from the same privations and both are searching for redemption.

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    Essay of a Fortune

    pickpocketing, because he wants to prove himself to his father by giving him all the money, when he comes back. The “I” is for that reason focusing on the future all along, which probably lies at the root of him being so excessively fond of fortune cookies, because they tell you about the great things, which the future holds in store for you. In addition to the main character we have the young boy Jeremy, who is almost the very picture of the “I” as a child. Jeremy isn’t like other kids at

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    A Fortune

    A Fortune The short story “A Fortune” is written by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi, the story is about a man who is pick pocketing people, and that is what he is doing for living. He often visits a local Chinese restaurant where he gets free fortune cookies, and one day he gets one that says: “a change in you daily routine will lead you to treasure”. Does this mean he need to pick pocket more, less, stop it, increase the picking? It deffinently will change everything. The title “A fortune” is actually

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    Ebola

    “Sorry sir, our hospital can’t cure Ebola… We recommend you to go to another hospital.” “But.. but I can’t, I’ve already been to many other hospitals. Please, please doctor…” “I am really sorry sir. All we can do is keep you quarantined in the hospital,” the doctor replied with a deep cold voice. This is 11th hospital that had rejected me, and they all rejected me since I have no money. My friend, Peter, also suffered from Ebola, but he had the best doctors in the world to cure him. The only

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