Business Operations
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Business Operations TUTORS......................................................................................... ..................................................................................................... DATE OFSUBMISSION................................................................... GROUP NAME............................................................................ JMU REGISTRATION NUMBER......................................................... OVERALL COURSEWORK MARK AND ADDITIONAL COMMENTS IF REQUIRED IV................................................................................................... EV.................................................................................................. Table of Contents 1. Draw a detailed cycle of service for Southwest Airlines. 3 2. Describe the Service-Product Bundle of Southwest Airlines and discuss how customers can evaluate it. 3 3. For Southwest Airlines: 3 3.1. What are the order Winners? 3 3.2. What are the order Qualifiers? 3 4. The Corporate Mission of Southwest Airlines is "Dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride and Company Spirit" 3 4.1 What is the Southwest's Distinctive Competence? 3 4.2 What is the Operations Mission? 3 5. Schroeder identifies four Operational Objectives: Cost, Quality, Delivery and Flexibility. Rank these in order of importance to Southwest Airlines and discuss how it achieves each of the objectives. 3 6. How can Southwest improve its operations systems still further with regards to processes, quality, capacity and inventory? 3 7. What impact does the lack of a "hub and spoke" system have on Southwest's inventory management...

