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Supplier Development at SysInteg (A)
Landel, Robert D.; Karri, ChitanyaCase DARDEN-OM-1355-EService and Operations ManagementAn intern in the Supplier Development department at XS Inc. is participating in a two-day Value Stream Mapping (VSM) event at SysInteg. As this is XS’s first time sponsoring an improvement initiative led by a third party, it is under tight scrutiny by XS corporate-level senior management. XS considered this an opportunity to deploy external lean experts to convince some members of senior management who were skeptical about the lack of oversight o...Starting at €8.20
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Supplier Development at SysInteg (B)
Landel, Robert D.; Karri, ChitanyaCase DARDEN-OM-1363-EService and Operations ManagementThis file contains the Future State Map created at the Value Stream Mapping event. A teaching note (OM-1355TN) is available.Starting at €5.74
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Value Stream Mapping at SysInteg (A)
Karri, Chitanya; Landel, Robert D.Case DARDEN-OM-1369-EService and Operations ManagementThis case focuses on the application of Value Stream Mapping as a means of identifying waste in a supplier's logistics- services activities. Students are given the information needed to construct a Value Steam Map, identify value-added and non-value-added activities, and develop opportunities for reaching 50% improvement in throughput time. It is based on the case Supplier Development at SysInteg (A) UVA-OM-1355, about a summer intern in the Supp...Starting at €8.20
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Leading and Managing Change in Contracting and Acquisition
Cross, Tom; Davies, GregoryCase DARDEN-OM-1478-EService and Operations ManagementThe Chief of Contracting for the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) responsible for all U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contracting in 12 African nations has reviewed the results of several audits and inspections, including his own, on the state of DoD contracting in expeditionary environments. The reports are anything but encouraging. It is clear that the contracting operations at CJTF-HOA are on the verge of system and operati...Starting at €8.20
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Eagle Industries: Office Supplies Sourcing - Teaching Note
Cross, TomTeaching Note DARDEN-OM-1181TN-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for product OM-1181Starting at €0.00
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A Rush to Failure? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Cross, TomArticle HBS-R1104N-EService and Operations ManagementWhen a set of giant robotic arms developed for the International Space Station breaks down during a crisis, project manager Samantha Van Sant finds herself in the hot seat. Did her team compromise quality by pushing the contractors too hard on speed? How can she prevent future mishaps-should the arrangement with the contractors be renegotiated to include different incentives or more safeguards? Gary L. Moe, a director of McKinsey's Business Techn...Starting at €8.20
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A Rush to Failure (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Cross, TomArticle HBS-R1104Z-EService and Operations ManagementWhen a set of giant robotic arms developed for the International Space Station breaks down during a crisis, project manager Samantha Van Sant finds herself in the hot seat. Did her team compromise quality by pushing the contractors too hard on speed? How can she prevent future mishaps-should the arrangement with the contractors be renegotiated to include different incentives or more safeguards? Gary L. Moe, a director of McKinsey's Business Techn...Starting at €8.20
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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD): Five Failures and Counting (A)
Cross, TomCase DARDEN-OM-1185-EService and Operations ManagementTHAAD was a kinetic-energy weapon designed to protect the United States against enemy missile attack. But after $3.2 billion had been spent, the program was deemed a failure, as all five of the initial tests had missed the targets. This case is about how a strategic sourcing project ran into trouble and what options could be pursued to rescue the project, given the multiple stakeholders involved. The (B) case presents what actually happened.Starting at €8.20
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Supplier Development at SysInteg (C)
Landel, Robert D.; Karri, ChitanyaCase DARDEN-OM-1364-EService and Operations ManagementOn day two of the Value Stream Mapping (VSM) event, the legal counsel for the XS division was brought to the meeting by the XS division manager who viewed the suggestions and recommendations made the supplier during the Current State exercise on the first day as push backs and wanted to ensure that he had no unreasonable plans for improvement when he left the VSM event. The attorney was concerned that any changes to existing processes would leave...Starting at €5.74
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Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle
Cross, TomCase DARDEN-OM-1375-EService and Operations ManagementSoldiers in Iraq are dying in increasing numbers from improvised explosive devices planted in roads by insurgents. Up-armored Humvees offer little to no protection. Specialty vehicles with v-shaped bottoms to deflect blasts had been developed in South Africa and Rhodesia in the 1970s.The MRAP Vehicle Joint Program Office's mission is to procure up to 20,000 of these commercial off-the-shelf vehicles and get them to Iraq within 30 months. Yet U.S....Starting at €8.20