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****Please do not respond if you do not have access to the required Text book as it has to be quoted directly verbatim with the page number included***

Your response should be at least 100 or 250 words in length. You are required to use your textbook as source material for your response. Textbook must  be referenced; paraphrased and quoted once per answer

The Text Book:

Jacobs, F. R., & Chase, R. B. (2010). Operations and supply chain management (13th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

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·         If you were charged with the task of reengineering a process, would you be concerned with integrating only the outcomes of parallel activities that must eventually come together? Defend your response. (100 words)

·         Identify the typical processes in manufacturing firms. Discuss how the new product development process interacts with the traditional function in the firm. (100 words)

·         As a supplier, which factors about a buyer (your potential customer) would you consider to be important in setting up a long-term relationship? (100 words)

·         In discussing characteristics of efficient plants, Goodson, developer of rapid plant assessments, suggests that numerous forklifts are a sign of poor space utilization. What do you think is behind this observation? (100 words)

·         Which of the rules of reengineering do you feel would be the most difficult to satisfy? Why? (100 words)

·         How do facility location decisions differ for service facilities and manufacturing plants? (250 Words)

·         What are the pros and cons of relocating a small or midsized manufacturing firm (that makes mature products) from the United States to Mexico in the post-NAFTA environment?  (250 words)