Operations and Supply Chain
Management - C720 (WGU)
5S Methodology - ANS-Sort, straighten, shine, standardize, and sustain; used to create visual
manipulate of the place of work.
ABC Analysis - ANS-Used to determine which inventory objects need to receive the best degree
of manipulate, via multiplying the greenback cost of every item by means of its annual
utilization. Items are ranked by way of greenback utilization, from highest to lowest. Following
the Pareto Principle, the first 20% of the objects are assigned to Class A, characterized as
having close control and monitoring via a perpetual stock gadget. Class B items include the next
30%, and that they deserve less interest. Class C items are the final 50% of stocked gadgets,
characterised with the aid of lowest dollar utilization and may be monitored loosely through a
periodic overview gadget.
Actual Output - ANS-The powerful ability minus extra factors that lessen production, which
include a fuel forestall.
Adjustable Capacity - ANS-The capacity the use a portion of facilities or personnel at any given
time, together with last off a section of a eating place while demand is low in order that some
wait body of workers can put together for peak demand.
Aggregate Planning - ANS-The mixture of character cease gadgets into companies or
households of parts for planning purposes; as an instance, an equipment producer may
additionally start medium-variety making plans by using determining manufacturing rates for
each product family, consisting of refrigerators, stoves, and dishwashers.
Agile Supply Chains - ANS-Fast and dependable deliver chains that may transmit data reliably,
accurately, and fast from the market to deliver chain participants; can create flexible and
responsive manufacturing processes that allow product differentiation.
Appraisal Costs - ANS-Investments in measuring excellent and assessing purchaser
satisfaction.
Assembly Line - ANS-The meeting of low-range discrete merchandise, which includes washing
machines, at excessive quantity; every output is trackable.
Assembly-Line Balancing - ANS-Having the premiere variety of appropriate workstations and
the ideal quantity of work per station so that idle time is low, ideally zero.
,Assurance - ANS-Knowledge and courtesy of personnel and their ability to convey accept as
true with and confidence.
Available-to-Promise - ANS-Inventory that has now not yet been offered. Take the on-hand
stock and subtract it from the client orders booked.
Backward Vertical Integration - ANS-Owning its providers.
Batch Flow - ANS-A method that aggregates similar products together to generate sufficient
extent for green use; transition/changeover time is required among batches; an example is the
manufacturing of ache medicines.
Bill of Materials (BOM) - ANS-Lists the wished substances and portions of materials; it also
provides information on how the substances come collectively; like a recipe.
Black Belts/Green Belts - ANS-When the use of Six Sigma, those professionals are advanced
within an company who're experts in particular methods.
Bottleneck - ANS-The most limiting constraint on the gadget, wherein requiring the longest time
or slowest fee.
Build-Up Method - ANS-Adding collectively estimates from each detail from an enterprise, from
the lowest to the top; for instance, income representatives at the lowest of the organisation may
be asked for their estimates of the revenue that they generate; this information is then handed
directly to the subsequent-higher stage of the organisation, and revised and subtle at some
stage in this procedure.
Capacity - ANS-A measure of an organization's capacity to offer customers with items in the
quantity asked and in a well timed way, given present day resources; the most sustainable
charge of manufacturing.
Capacity Planning - ANS-Planning an business enterprise's ability to deliver at ability; giant
capital is generally involved to build centers and purchase device; require cautious attention of
lengthy-term goals, current call for, and lengthy-time period demand.
Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) - ANS-Used to decide potential.
Capacity Utilization - ANS-Actual Output / Design Capacity; used to measure how lots capability
is truly getting used on an average foundation.
Capital - ANS-Facilities and device
, Cash-to-Cash Cycle - ANS-The time among when a agency owes cash to suppliers whilst it
receives money from clients.
Chase Demand - ANS-The manner of varying the team of workers and the usage of overtime to
adjust production costs to healthy call for; this strategy calls for a flexible team of workers.
Check Sheets - ANS-Used to record statistics factors in real-time at the site wherein the data is
generated; uncooked facts is accrued with out interpretation and then depicted using a special
statistical device.
Competitive Advantage - ANS-Developing capabilities that clients value, may be sustained over
the lengthy-time period, and competitors find tough to duplicate.
Concurrent Engineering - ANS-Completing product layout and manner layout simultaneously.
Constraint - ANS-When a useful resource's capacity to much less than or equal to call for for
that aid.
Consumer Participation - ANS-Requiring customers to exert effort for the duration of
transactions, including pumping one's own gasoline or serving themselves at a buffet; this
method saves money.
Continuous Flow - ANS-Where low-range devices are mixed and waft collectively in a
excessive-quantity continuous movement, along with oil refining or processing checks; the main
scheduling catch 22 situation stems from understanding the high-quality time to replace from
making one product to any other.
Control Chart - ANS-A graphical depiction of technique outputs where the raw information is
plotted in actual-time inside top control limits (UCL) and decrease manage limits (LCL); this lets
in one to determine if a method is strong or trending toward instability and take corrective action
earlier than versions bring about non-conforming merchandise (see Page 30 for example).
Converting - ANS-Converting weaknesses or threats into strengths or possibilities.
Conveyance Kanban (C-Kanban) - ANS-An authorization to move a field of components or
substances; not anything can pass without it.
Costs of Quality - ANS-Failure fees, appraisal costs, and prevention prices.
Cross-Docking - ANS-The logistical practice of unloading substances from one truck and
loading them into every other automobile with minimum garage in between.
Cross-Functionality - ANS-When people with special understanding paintings toward a
commonplace aim; that is an crucial enterprise manner.
Management - C720 (WGU)
5S Methodology - ANS-Sort, straighten, shine, standardize, and sustain; used to create visual
manipulate of the place of work.
ABC Analysis - ANS-Used to determine which inventory objects need to receive the best degree
of manipulate, via multiplying the greenback cost of every item by means of its annual
utilization. Items are ranked by way of greenback utilization, from highest to lowest. Following
the Pareto Principle, the first 20% of the objects are assigned to Class A, characterized as
having close control and monitoring via a perpetual stock gadget. Class B items include the next
30%, and that they deserve less interest. Class C items are the final 50% of stocked gadgets,
characterised with the aid of lowest dollar utilization and may be monitored loosely through a
periodic overview gadget.
Actual Output - ANS-The powerful ability minus extra factors that lessen production, which
include a fuel forestall.
Adjustable Capacity - ANS-The capacity the use a portion of facilities or personnel at any given
time, together with last off a section of a eating place while demand is low in order that some
wait body of workers can put together for peak demand.
Aggregate Planning - ANS-The mixture of character cease gadgets into companies or
households of parts for planning purposes; as an instance, an equipment producer may
additionally start medium-variety making plans by using determining manufacturing rates for
each product family, consisting of refrigerators, stoves, and dishwashers.
Agile Supply Chains - ANS-Fast and dependable deliver chains that may transmit data reliably,
accurately, and fast from the market to deliver chain participants; can create flexible and
responsive manufacturing processes that allow product differentiation.
Appraisal Costs - ANS-Investments in measuring excellent and assessing purchaser
satisfaction.
Assembly Line - ANS-The meeting of low-range discrete merchandise, which includes washing
machines, at excessive quantity; every output is trackable.
Assembly-Line Balancing - ANS-Having the premiere variety of appropriate workstations and
the ideal quantity of work per station so that idle time is low, ideally zero.
,Assurance - ANS-Knowledge and courtesy of personnel and their ability to convey accept as
true with and confidence.
Available-to-Promise - ANS-Inventory that has now not yet been offered. Take the on-hand
stock and subtract it from the client orders booked.
Backward Vertical Integration - ANS-Owning its providers.
Batch Flow - ANS-A method that aggregates similar products together to generate sufficient
extent for green use; transition/changeover time is required among batches; an example is the
manufacturing of ache medicines.
Bill of Materials (BOM) - ANS-Lists the wished substances and portions of materials; it also
provides information on how the substances come collectively; like a recipe.
Black Belts/Green Belts - ANS-When the use of Six Sigma, those professionals are advanced
within an company who're experts in particular methods.
Bottleneck - ANS-The most limiting constraint on the gadget, wherein requiring the longest time
or slowest fee.
Build-Up Method - ANS-Adding collectively estimates from each detail from an enterprise, from
the lowest to the top; for instance, income representatives at the lowest of the organisation may
be asked for their estimates of the revenue that they generate; this information is then handed
directly to the subsequent-higher stage of the organisation, and revised and subtle at some
stage in this procedure.
Capacity - ANS-A measure of an organization's capacity to offer customers with items in the
quantity asked and in a well timed way, given present day resources; the most sustainable
charge of manufacturing.
Capacity Planning - ANS-Planning an business enterprise's ability to deliver at ability; giant
capital is generally involved to build centers and purchase device; require cautious attention of
lengthy-term goals, current call for, and lengthy-time period demand.
Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) - ANS-Used to decide potential.
Capacity Utilization - ANS-Actual Output / Design Capacity; used to measure how lots capability
is truly getting used on an average foundation.
Capital - ANS-Facilities and device
, Cash-to-Cash Cycle - ANS-The time among when a agency owes cash to suppliers whilst it
receives money from clients.
Chase Demand - ANS-The manner of varying the team of workers and the usage of overtime to
adjust production costs to healthy call for; this strategy calls for a flexible team of workers.
Check Sheets - ANS-Used to record statistics factors in real-time at the site wherein the data is
generated; uncooked facts is accrued with out interpretation and then depicted using a special
statistical device.
Competitive Advantage - ANS-Developing capabilities that clients value, may be sustained over
the lengthy-time period, and competitors find tough to duplicate.
Concurrent Engineering - ANS-Completing product layout and manner layout simultaneously.
Constraint - ANS-When a useful resource's capacity to much less than or equal to call for for
that aid.
Consumer Participation - ANS-Requiring customers to exert effort for the duration of
transactions, including pumping one's own gasoline or serving themselves at a buffet; this
method saves money.
Continuous Flow - ANS-Where low-range devices are mixed and waft collectively in a
excessive-quantity continuous movement, along with oil refining or processing checks; the main
scheduling catch 22 situation stems from understanding the high-quality time to replace from
making one product to any other.
Control Chart - ANS-A graphical depiction of technique outputs where the raw information is
plotted in actual-time inside top control limits (UCL) and decrease manage limits (LCL); this lets
in one to determine if a method is strong or trending toward instability and take corrective action
earlier than versions bring about non-conforming merchandise (see Page 30 for example).
Converting - ANS-Converting weaknesses or threats into strengths or possibilities.
Conveyance Kanban (C-Kanban) - ANS-An authorization to move a field of components or
substances; not anything can pass without it.
Costs of Quality - ANS-Failure fees, appraisal costs, and prevention prices.
Cross-Docking - ANS-The logistical practice of unloading substances from one truck and
loading them into every other automobile with minimum garage in between.
Cross-Functionality - ANS-When people with special understanding paintings toward a
commonplace aim; that is an crucial enterprise manner.
