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·         Develop a project plan for the establishment of your production facility, including a Gantt chart with key deliverables and milestones. Describe the Project Stage Gates and success criteria. (approx. 500 words)

·         Justify the employment of a specialist project manager for this project (approx. 500 words)

Guys how do we divide the work of the last 2 parts?

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The factor rating is looking good.

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The factors I considered while preparing this layout.

1. Production Wok cell: Machine handling, Utilities
2. Admin: IT's, Utensils
3.Warehouse: Storage cells, Wagons eg, forklift, conveyors

Parking lot for employees with the road access parallel to the admin office.

Dispatching area which will be located near to the 2nd road access for trucks or vans to enter and exit.

Addition to the design we can allocate space for the security at both entrances to make mote of the vehicles in and out. Guys, need to suggestion it it.

WENTAO:
Nice work bro. Let's discuss tmr

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Guys, check the production layout I designed for our Chocolate Cup preparation under Batch Production method. Our production layout consists of three work cell layouts.

1. Production cell: Where the machines needed for preparing Chocolate cups will be assembled.
2. Administration cell: Where the IT hub and staff management team will be located.
3. Warehouse: Where the storage and dispatching team will be.

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Guys check out the Factor Rating Method I just made, see if it is suitable for our case, thanks.

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How do I make chocolates that don't melt even at 40 degree Celsius?

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How do I make chocolates that don't melt even at 40 degree Celsius?

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We can incorporate this in our project. Guys should we make our own chocolate or should we outsource the chocolate and make the cups inside our factory? what are your thoughts on this?

@JK In this case I think we made the chocolate cup our own is better. But we also need to import cocoa powder/liquor, don't know which one is cost efficient.

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How do I make chocolates that don’t melt even at 40 degree Celsius?

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Answer (1 of 3): A chocolate rich in cocoa powder, sugar etc. with less fat used does not melt because fat despite its high viscocity has a lower melting point than water. 40 degrees celsius is the melting point of chocolate. Some chocolate does not melt even at 50 degrees celsius. Hot chocola...

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Waikato Valley Chocolates Limited

could be our supplier.  Its' factory located in Hamilton, North Island.

JK - http://www.waikatovalleychocolates.co.nz/

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JK - Hi guys, How are you all? I have been analysing the different ways for mass production of our chocolate cups. I wanted it to be logical. We cannot just use balloons like the one we have seen in the video for a mass production, so I've improvised ;)

This is an illustration I've made. Did you get the idea?

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Ideas on Factor Rating Method:  firstly we need to identify several factors (e.g. land rental cost, transportation, geographic area etc) that affect the selection of location, then we rank them in the Factor Rating Form. 1stly, Assign a weight to each factor, with all weights totaling 1.00. 2ndly, determine common scale for all factors, usually 0 to 100 and finally score each alternative. The alternative with the highest score is considered the best option.
TipTop base facility is located at Mt Wellington which the cost is pretty high on rental. I did some research show that there are some options for setting up a new facility: East Tamaki, New Lynn, Onehuanga, Wiri.
Hope it helps our coordination. @JP@JK

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I analyzed the different layout and I found U Shaped layout is more efficient and productive with more damage control. Please find the rough pic of the U shaped layout.

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Ok guys, We have divided our jobs now. Lets make it official.
1. Wentao - Location
2. JK - Production process
3. JP - production plant layout

Collect, collate and present your findings on these by next week.

@wentao - bro please include the weighted method that we discussed while analyzing the location

Alright, will study on that.@JK

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Factors Influencing Facility Location

If the organization can configure the right location for the manufacturing facility, it will have sufficient access to the customers, workers, transportation, etc. For commercial success, and competitive advantage following are the critical factors:

Customer Proximity: Facility locations are selected closer to the customer as to reduce transportation cost and decrease time in reaching the customer.

Business Area: Presence of other similar manufacturing units around makes business area conducive for facility establishment.

Availability of Skill Labor: Education, experience and skill of available labor are another important, which determines facility location.

Free Trade Zone/Agreement: Free-trade zones promote the establishment of manufacturing facility by providing incentives in custom duties and levies. On another hand free trade agreement is among countries providing an incentive to establish business, in particular, country.

Suppliers: Continuous and quality supply of the raw materials is another critical factor in determining the location of manufacturing facility.

Environmental Policy: In current globalized world pollution, control is very important, therefore understanding of environmental policy for the facility location is another critical factor

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jk - factors to consider while choosing location for production facility (sep 8)

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jk - factors to consider while choosing location for production facility (sep 8)

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1. Customer density
2. Proximity to transport
3. Land rent

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Business Flow:
New Production house-Auckland consumers-Producing Edible chocolate cups and chocolate cup Ice creams and selling through Franchise and Super market.

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Describe the process of production-->Location selection (factors influencing the location)-->Production Layout (e.g. process oriented, fixed-position)-->Develop Project Plan (Gantt chart, key deliverables)-->Specialist project manager

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Hi guys,

So we can go ahead with the chocolate cup right? Let's discuss about it

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Jp-Hi FELLAS!!!!!!! Sep/8: Let start work on the Location and then we can go for the layout of our production house. I will look for the location. Before looking for the location we need to figure out the following requirements like:

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Jp-Hi FELLAS!!!!!!! Sep/8: Let start work on the Location and then we can go for the layout of our production house. I will look for the location. Before looking for the location we need to figure out the following requirements like:

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Who our customer is?
What production method we are going to follow?
Delivery options?

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I think people will love it.

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Chocolate Cups for Valentines Day | Byron Talbott

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While I was searching for ice cream ideas I saw an interesting idea which could be implemented in our project. It's about serving ice cream in an edible cup, to be exact, chocolate cup. Isn't it wonderful? It's fun as well as interesting. With a bit if thinking, we could implement it here in new zealand. I'll post a video about it. Do tell me your opinion.

WENTAO : re-@raje45 Yea man it looks interesting.  It's the similar thing as the ice cream cake idea. It can be a new ice cream dessert--easy to preserve if only put ice cream ball on it, easy to manage and produce, as well as cost-efficient . Here comes a question,  if Tiptop produce this product, do you think they should produce as a well-packed product for supermarket or open a public dessert shop?   @jp bro share your ideas as well.  @jp@raje Select a suitable case for our assignment is super crucial for next steps.

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WENTAO:
I think you misunderstand what our tutor need.  We are not looking for a new product for NZ market, however we need to assuming an NZ company (eg. Tiptop) develop a new product that they never done before (even though NZ already have this product produced by other competitors- we need these competitors to analyze in this assignment)  They never did ice cream cake before base on my research,  well they might try before. Anyway thats not the main point, what we should focus is how to develop a new production process, factors that affect production facility; where it should locate ; then use some project management knowledge to analyze such as Gantt chart, major deliverable then develop project plan; finally justify the employment of a specialist project manager for this project.  @raje-45 sup bro, what's your opinion? If you guys agree that then we move on. Time is $$$,  hustle hard man !

jp - Thanks for the clarification. Yes, ice cream cake is new for the tip top. Let's proceed to the next step.

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Jp-Fellas I searched for options for an ice cream products. We can go for ice cream cake factory but this product is already familiar in NZ. But there is another product called " dippin dots " which is a ice cream snack which is not yet lauched to NZ and its a good option for a product to launch. Here is the pic. Pls look in to it fellas.

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Jp-Fellas I searched for options for an ice cream products. We can go for ice cream cake factory but this product is already familiar in NZ. But there is another product called " dippin dots " which is a ice cream snack which is not yet lauched to NZ and its a good option for a product to launch. Here is the pic. Pls look in to it fellas.

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@wentao- that's something to think about. But it should be a NEW product. May be we could think about a new kind of ice cream or a totally new frozen dessert.

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@wentao- that's something to think about. But it should be a NEW product. May be we could think about a new kind of ice cream or a totally new frozen dessert.

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I've got a nice idea which I believe we can well address the requirement of Assignment 2-- how about open a new branch of ice-cream cake shop for Tip Top (well-known NZ ice cream brand)