In an attempt to improve customer service, Alpha Toys Inc. decided to assign a team to investigate the kinds of services offered by competing companies. The team discovered that a smaller company, AB Games Co., seemed to have outstanding customer service. The team then determined the major differences between the two companies and developed a plan to incorporate the best elements of AB Games into Alpha Toys. Which of the following is being implemented by Alpha Toys? a. environmental dynamism.
b. benchmarking.
c. strategic maneuvering.
d. cooperative action.
e. forecasting.

Owning a word is a characteristic of a powerful a. productb. servicec. organization d. brand

Owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. production time for product tlx is two units per hour and for product mtv is four units per hour. the machine’s capacity is 2,100 hours per year. both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company’s output up to a maximum of 3,570 units of product tlx and 1,610 units of product mtv. selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow. product tlx product mtv selling price per unit $ 11.50 $ 6.90 variable costs per unit 3.45 4.14 determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?