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Navrachana University
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End-Semester Assignment June 2020
FYMBA - II
Operations Management II – MG109

Date: 02nd June, 2020 Marks: 20

Time:
Instructions:
 Each question carry equal marks, there are total 4 questions.
 Submit the images of your handwritten notes via the link provided in the mail
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Q1. A firm of landscape gardners is asked to quote for constructing a garden on a new site. The
activities involved are shown in the table.

*Note also that the patio can not begin to be laid until 2 days after the start of the building of
the retaining wall

A) Draw the network diagram.

B) Find the earliest and latest start time for each activity.
C) Identify the critical path.

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Q2. Two different forecasting techniques (F1 and F2) were used to forecast demand for cases of bottled
water. Actual demand and the two sets of forecasts are as follows:

A) Calculate MAD, MSE & MAPE for each set of forecast.

B) Which forecast appears to be more accurate, based on the results from A?

Q3. Eighty units of end item X are needed at the beginning of week 6, and another 30 units are needed
at the beginning of week 8. Prepare a material requirements plan for component D. D can only be
ordered in whole cases (50 units per case). One case of D is automatically received every other
week, beginning in week 1 (i.e., weeks 1, 3, 5, 7). Also, there are 30 units of B and 20 units of D now
on hand. Lead times for all items are a function of quantity: one week for up to 100 units, two
weeks for 101 to 200 units, three weeks for 201 to 300 units, and four weeks for 301 or more units.

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Q4. The following table contains figures on the monthly volume and unit costs for a random sample of
16 items from a list of 2,000 inventory items at a health care facility:

A) Develop an A-B-C classification for these items.

B) How could the manager use this information?

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