Data Analysis Case Study

DATA ANALYSIS CASE STUDY
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Contents
Questions.........................................................................................................................................3
What approaches does McDonald’s Seem to take for its capacity management to reconcile
capacity and demand....................................................................................................................3
Analyse the implementation of the four D’s by McDonald’s restaurants...................................4
Identify the five performance objective which means for operation in McDonald’s..................5
Calculate the Average number of consumers arriving at till and average time...........................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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Summarize-
This documentation is mainly focused on the McDonald’s and also analysis the operations
management overview of enterprise. The company was founded in 1940s, established a strong
business position in global marketplace. Nowadays, many consumers have been preferred to
select the McDonald’s product as well as service. This can possible because organization also
including innovation in their business to attract more consumer towards fast-food brand. As per
case study, McDonalds is a leading fast food brand in global world with over 36,000 restaurants
in 100 nations (Anaf and et.al., 2017). McDonald’s serve 70 million customers a day. The
organization has been franchised the majority of its restaurants.
Questions
What approaches does McDonald’s Seem to take for its capacity management to reconcile
capacity and demand.
In traditional operation management, different kind of inventories related finished items, raw
materials which held as reserve as per needed. As a result, McDonald’s should have included the
specific methodology or approaches in order to handle the overall business capacity and
production management (Anaf and et.al., 2017).
McDonald’s has been implemented as different strategies or approach in order to control
the flow of food processing within different stages.
Just-in-time (JIT) Approach-
It is based on the management approach that is used to control or manage the entire flow
of inventory and business to reduce level of inventory, also continuously improve its efficiency
in context of manufacturing processes. This type of JIT approach is helping to arrange the order
of raw materials in which suitable to organise in proper manner (Mathur, 2017). That’s why,
McDonald’s can use Just-in-time approach and aligning with orders placed by potential
consumers. So, implementation of JIT approach which makes actual raw material level that will
be used effectively and efficiently. McDonald’s has been used the JIT approach and focus on the
reduce time intervals which taken between placing of order by organization. Therefore,
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