Programme and Performance Budgeting (PPB)

Define 'Investment Centre'. Why are investment centres established? What are the different overall measures of effectiveness for determining performance of Investment Centres? Discuss their relative merits and demerits.

What is 'Responsibility Centre' and why are they established? What criteria would determine the designation of a responsibility centre?

Explain the concept of 'Strategy' and describe Corporate Level Strategies and Business Unit Level Strategies. Discuss the concept of Radical Performance Improvement (RPI) and the role of Management Control System in facilitating RPI.

Using the following cost matrix, determine (a) optimal job assignment and (b) the cost of assignments 

“When it becomes difficult to use an optimization technique for solving a problem, one has to resort to simulation technique.” Discuss.

An agriculturist has a 125-acre farm. He produces radish, muttar (Peas) and potato. Whatever he raises is fully sold in the market. He gets Rs. 5 for radish per kg, Rs 4 for muttar (Peas) and Rs 5 for potato per kg. The average per acre yield is 1500 kg of radish, 1800 kg of muttar (Peas) and 1200 kg of potato. To produce each 100 kg of radish and muttar (Peas) and 80 kg of potato, a sum of Rs 12.50 has to be used for manure. Labour required for each acre to raise the crop is 6 man-days for radish and potato each and 5 man-days for muttar (Peas). A total of 500 man-days for labour at a rate of Rs 40 per man-day are available. Formulate this as a linear programming model to maximize the agriculturist's total profit.

What constitutes inventory ordering costs, carrying costs and stock out costs? Explain the behaviour and relationship of these costs.

Define Operations Research and explain its scope. Discuss the limitations of Operations Research and enumerate the major techniques used in OR for managerial decision-making.

Describe the objectives, planning procedure and organizational structure required for commissioning of projects.

Explain for concept of control and discuss the factors affecting control of project cost.

What are the different organization structures used for project organizations? What is matrix organizations and discuss the advantage of this organization design for project management.

What are Activities on Arrow (AOA) diagrams? What information is required for drawing of networks? For time analysis of networks what are forward pass, backward pass and total, free & independent slack.

What is demand forecasting? Explain various methods used for Forecasting Demand. Discuss the commonly occurring errors in demand forecasting.

Describe the CAD and CAM system in Operations Management. Can they be integrated? If so give details of its working.

Discuss preventive maintenance. In what ways is preventive maintenance absolutely necessary in JIT/ kanban/ pull manufacturing as opposed to push manufacturing.

What relationship exists between layout decision, capacity decisions & scheduling? Define and describe the operating capacity of a college of business administration. How should its capacity be measured?

How does a quantitative forecasting differ from a qualitative forecasting? What do you understand by time series analysis?

Illustrate how the TQM concept can integrate design, engineering, manufacturing and services. Explain why quality should be better by following the TQM concept than in a system that depends on final inspection.

What are the main types of computer viruses? What steps can be taken to protect a computer system from viruses? Discuss