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Management School – Undergraduate Coursework Specification 2022-23

MGT253

Principles of Operations Management

Submission details: Friday 21st of April 2023, 12pm (noon)

Your submission consists of two files: a MS Excel spreadsheet with the results of your simulation; and a MS Word file with your report.

Electronic submission only through Blackboard. There will be two submission points, one for the MS Excel file and the other one for your report.

You can submit your assignment multiple times to the submission link on the module Blackboard site. Each time you submit you will receive a Similarity Report. You can check this and improve your referencing before the final deadline.

After 3 submissions you will need to wait 24hrs before you receive a new report.

Please note: each new submission replaces any previous submission. It is not possible to retrieve a previous submission.

Your final submission must be made before the deadline to avoid late penalties.

You should note that the time of submission is taken from once the document has been successfully uploaded and confirmed – this may take more than five minutes during busy periods. Late penalties will be applied to any work submitted from 12.01pm on add full date onwards. Details of how to calculate a late penalty can be found in your programme Handbook. It is your responsibility to ensure the correct document/file has uploaded successfully.

When submitting students must:

1. Include a completed cover sheet (available from Blackboard). Only for the simulation report (MS Word document).

2. Use ‘Student Number, MGTXXX-X’ (e.g. 18203206-MGT253-X) as the Excel file name and also as the Assignment Title in Turnitin.

3. Use ‘Student Number, MGTXXX-W’ (e.g. 18203206-MGT253-W) as the MS Word document name and also as the Assignment Title in Turnitin.

Contribution to Final Mark for Module: 30%

Maximum Word Length: xxx

Unless otherwise specified, the word count is for the main body of the text and ignores the reference list and appendices. If you exceed the word length you will be penalised. For details see the Management School Handbooks.

Please note that SUMS does not have a word count tolerance - it is a stated maximum as outlined above.

Requirements:

The Theory of Constraints, introduced and popularised by the book The Goal. A Process of Ongoing Improvement. by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox, is a body of knowledge that deals with all the obstacles that limit or constraint the organisation’s ability to achieve its goals.

In this work you will use a spreadsheet to conduct a simulation to represent and evaluate the impact of bottlenecks in an industrial setting.

This work will be explained and an example, inspired by Goldratt’s book, will be presented during tutorial sessions 1 to 3 (weeks 25 [3], 26 [5], and 29 [7], and 26 [4], 28[6], and 30 [8], depending on your tutorial group) and must be finished and submitted as an individual work by the end of Week 33 (Friday 21 st of April 2023).

The submission consists of the MS Excel file containing the simulation exercises, and a short essay answering the questions indicated in the statement of the problem.

The essay should also include:

A short description of the experiment.

A thorough reflection about the impact of bottlenecks on a company’s processes. You should show that you clearly understand what a bottleneck is in an industrial process, and how can a manager avoid and/or correct them. Your reflection should link what you observed in the simulation experiment with real life situations in industrial and service settings.

The report must include some graphic support.

Further details of the exercise are provided in the document associated to this specification form.