US Winery Case Study

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Introduction
Case studies provide in-depth examinations of a process, product or an organization. Case studies usually entail observing the general organization’s practices and identifying the bottlenecks. Advertisements depict the capability of a product, the problems it addresses and its past successes CITATION Geo05 \l 1033 (George, 2005). (a) The common industry practice of labeling as a "case study" what is obviously an advertisement
Case-studies and advertising are related but are quite distinct from each other. This scenario depicts an advertisement setting. While this scenario provides an in-depth understanding of the wine-making business and variables involved like the capacity planning, advertisements serve to inform us the existent of an issue or situation preferably a good one like the successes involved and how the much needed or advertised quality would bolster the success, for example, the $1 Million capital avoidance CITATION Geo05 \l 1033 (George, 2005). The model, in this case, is being advertised-that it improved the winery stakes. The advantages of the decision support tool have been enlisted as the benefits of the support tool to the winery. This is meant to market the decision support tool as the best choice in management and planning operations.
(b) How much and about what someone is supposed to learn from the US Winery Case Study
In this case, the US winery had problems planning their capacity expansion. They wanted to increase the efficiency of the winery while at the same time trying to minimize the capital cost incurred. The decision support tool fulfills the problems presented by the US Winery. From this case, we can deduce: 1. The model improves the company’s savings considering the $1 Million avoidance by the US Winery in the first year of model usage.
2. The model is a reliable tool considering the US Winery had operationalized it in 2008 and have enjoyed significant benefits. 3. The tool, besides helping in capacity management, provides other functions like being a training simulato...