Browsing Mini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Subject "Operations management"

Browsing Mini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Subject "Operations management"

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  • Alignment of planning and execution phases within Denel Dynamics 
    Booyens, M.L.; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2010-12-17)
    Operations Management encompasses a wide variety of activities. At Denel Dynamics the most important of these is the Planning Phase which directs the flow of production and is thus critical to the success of the company. The ...
  • Designing a simulation and forecast model for PruHealth's call centre 
    Van der Wat, Albert Wilhelm Kieser; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2009-12-07)
    PruHealth was launched in 2004. It provides health care in the UK. PruHealth is struggling to forecast what future caller volumes will be and the effect on the call centre. The project consists of building forecasting ...
  • Financial modelling and price setting strategy for the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences at Onderstepoort 
    Van Sittert, B.; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2011-05-04)
    Financial feasibility justifies any business institution from an economic point of view. Cost analyses and pricing strategies assist in the investigation into the financial feasibility of an institution, whilst a financial ...
  • Maximize the resource utilization in outbound call center operations by using simulation modeling 
    Laas, Cornelius Petrus; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2011-05-11)
    A call center consists of different departments, various physical, intellectual and human resources and the data is managed by an ERP system. Cell C makes use of the C-Advance ERP system in their call centers, and this ERP ...
  • Operations management and logistics improvement – Oasis Water 
    Swart, Bernard; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2010-12-17)
    Oasis Water is a company trading in ozonated, filtrated water. The water is bottled on site. The distribution/transport entails only materials, not finished products. The company currently consists of 105 franchises ...
  • The optimization of optical fibre installation methods in South Africa 
    Vorster, Pierre Jacques; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2011-05-11)
    Optical fibre is an old technology that has found numerous new applications as the telecommunications industry has flourished. The South African optical fibre market has exploded and the race is on to install fully functional ...