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Operations Management Case Study: Scotsburn Creamery

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INTRODUCTION
Scotsburn Creamery was established by a small group of local farmers in the village of Scotsburn, Nova Scotia, on April 12, 1990. They decided to establish a creamery to manufacture dairy products, such as butter from their supply of milk. Now, Scotsburn Creamery has been the largest Atlantic Canadian dairy producer. Its line of products includes milk, butter, cottage cheese, sour cream, and frozen dairy desserts. In addition, they also include drinks and water. In recent years, Scotsburn has become one of Canada’s largest ice cream producers; some of which are produced under private label for major retail customers. These products are distributed to west of Atlantic Canada and throughout the world.
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The constraints from the monthly model is to minimize the inventory carrying costs and production setup costs, then the weekly model use production grouping to reach the goals. In the case of Scotsburn Creamery, they produce the ice cream with the same base mix or similar packaging to reduce changeover and eventually the setup cost. The output of the model is cost-effective production schedule for only a week, which consider the production and inventory plan from the monthly model to maintain the integration between …show more content…

Souder had come up with several criteria which represents a good management science models. The result of the research was there are five criteria and their characteristics to include as a good management science model. Those are realism criterion (accuracy of the model to represent reality), capability criterion (refers to the ability of the model to perform different types of analysis), flexibility criterion (refers to the diversification of applications of the model), use criterion (refers to the degree of difficulty to use the model), and cost criterion (refers to the expense of setting up and using the model).
Researches has always been an ongoing process and lead on to a new and more reliable models. Laibson and Gabaix (2008) found out that many successful economic models have several of the seven properties they define. The seven properties are:
1. Parsimony
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2. Tractability

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