College of Business Administration

Fall Semester 2016 2017

Operations & Supply Chain Management (10112)

Please note:
Deadline: 12 Dec., 2016
Presentation: 14 Dec., 2016
Maximum word counts: 3000.
Duration of the presentation for each group is 15 min.
Maximum number of students is 6 per group.
The project MUST be submitted as a SOFT COPY format using Blackboard
Formatting and Grammar must be maintained
Be specific and use examples to support your argument
The paper will be checked against plagiarism. If the lecture finds out copied works, the
assignment will get 0%.
The project
Select ONE of the following topics and write a report about its application to local or
international organizations:
The topics are
1. Capacity and loading of operations
2. Sequencing rules and the application of one of the rules to a production or service organization
3. Bottleneck in the production of a specific good or service
4. Application of forecasting to a production or service organization
5. Application of decision trees to a production or service organization
6. An application of Gantt Charts
Project Structure
Your report should include the following parts
1. Introduction
2. Definition(s) or explanation of the topic
3. Importance or significance of the topic
4. Advantages and Disadvantages
5. Application to a local or international organization (Cases and/or examples without using data)
6. Recommendations
7. References