Fin 571

Fin 571

Running head: Bottleneck

Prairie Tumbleweed Bottleneck
Quenana Dea Kent
OPS/571 – Operations Management
Instructor: Christine Becker

Prairie Tumbleweed Flow Chart

      As the reading states, the bottleneck is defined as   “any resource whose capacity is less than the demand placed upon it. A bottleneck is a constraint within the system that limits throughput. It is that point in the manufacturing process where flow thins to a narrow stream.” (Chase, 2006)
      While shipping tumbleweeds is very simple and basic, the data charts have shown a bottleneck in “unfilled orders and shipped orders.”
      The “unfilled orders” time increased by 68% from last week; the bottleneck is found in the time it takes to research the dropped orders. The “shipped orders” time also increased by 50% from last week; the bottleneck was found in packaging the tumbleweeds due to special packaging and labeling instructions.
      The supporting data that show the increase in time is as follows:
|                      |# of Shipped Orders   |Time In Min           |# of Unfilled Orders |Time In Min           |
|Week 1               |12                   |48                   |7                     |50                   |
|                     |                     |                     |                     |                     |
|                     |                     |                     |                     |                     |
|Week 2               |                     |                     |                     |                     |
|                     |20                   |120                   |20                   |240                   |
|                     |                     |Time/Order           |                     |Time/Order           |
|                     |                     |Shipped               |                     |Unfilled             |
|Week 1               |                     |                     |...