Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: KUIPER LEDA
Problem Solution: Kuiper Leda
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Problem Solution: Kuiper Leda
Kuiper Leda being a medium based electronics supplier will align inventory to increase production of ECUs and RFIDs while decreasing costs of inventory with effective operations management. Decreasing the operations management will increase revenue for stakeholders and allow Kuiper Leda the necessary tools for its future growth. Kuiper Leda Inc. needs to find ways to optimize operations management practices while minimizing additional cost to ensure future profitability and expansion.
Kuiper Leda will keep its operations management and inventory in check by direct observation of its inventory and positive order control. Kuiper Leda should lend them to provide a decrease in production, expenditures in operation and transportation of supplies to its customers by centralization of the company coupled with the increased production levels within the plant operations.
Situation Analysis
Issue and Opportunity Identification
Issues
Kuiper Leda's issues are constraints in the production, operations and growth of the company. They must face the future of its operational management and warehousing distribution by looking at managerial growth, resources and the timeliness in order to meet the large demand placed upon them by their automotive customer.
Ineffective inventory management
Supplier base too large
Limited production process and production capacity
Lack of logistics
Timeliness of product delivery
Opportunities
Effective inventory management and increased production within its own facility would keep traditional costs d ...