• Select an Operations Management topic covered in the course or in the text book. Relate this topic to an existing company. For example, Total Quality Management at Toyota - JIT at Ford - Supply chain Management at Home Depot, Inventory Control at Wal-Mart, Forecasting at a local bakery, 6-Sigma at GE, etc.

This is a research project and it is expected that each paper addresses the following:

1. Company background.
   1. How large (sales, employees).
   2. Product or service mix.
   3. Who is the competition.
2. What conditions lead the company to implement to the selected topic.
3. When did the company implement the Operations Management tool.
4. Document results of the implementation of the Operations Management tool. Profit/productivity improvement etc. ( one page of supporting graphs or charts is allowed)
5. Future of the company. How has the success of the implementation affected the plans of the company going forward.

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