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Instructions

Read the Hewlett-Packard Company: Network Printer Design for Universality Case Study in the Simchi-Levi et al. text.

1. Submit a thread of 500–700 words and respond to each of the 5 end-of-case discussion questions.
2. Each question must be answered thoroughly, and responses must be supported by the concepts introduced in the reading/study materials.
3. Provide a brief description of the concepts and the significance of the concepts to practice in general, as well as what problems might be resolved through successful implementation of the concepts.
4. Support your thread by citing at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles.
5. Must be in current APA format and must include a reference list, and each question/answer must be delineated under an APA heading.

Questions:

1. In what way is a universal power supply a postponement strategy
   2. What are the costs and benefits of a universal power supply?
   3. How would such costs and benefits be different over the product life cycle?
   4. Besides deciding on a universal power supply, what other operational improvements can you suggest to HP Boise?
   5. What would be your recommendations about the adoption of a universal power supply?

References

Barzel, B., & Barabási, A. (2013). Universality in network dynamics. Nature Physics, 9(10), 673-681. doi:10.1038/nphys2741

Eliazar, I., & Shlesinger, M. F. (2018). Universality of accelerating change. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 494, 430-445. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2017.12.021

Feitzinger, E., & Lee, H. L. (1997). Mass customization at Hewlett Packard: The power of postponement. Harvard Business Review, 75(1), 116.

Musa, A., Gunasekaran, A., & Yusuf, Y. (2014). Supply chain product visibility: Methods, systems and impacts. Expert Systems with Applications, 41(1), 176-194. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2013.07.020

Nelson, N. L., & Russell, J. A. (2013). Universality Revisited. Emotion Review, 5(1), 8–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073912457227

Simchi-Levi, D., Kaminsky, P., & Simchi-Levi, E. (2008). Designing and managing the supply chain: Concepts, strategies and case studies (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Richard D. Irwin, Inc. ISBN: 9780073341521.

Wang, L. (2011). Universality of design and its evolution: Comment on “The constructal law and the evolution of design in nature”. Physics of Life Reviews, 8(3), 257-258. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2011.08.003

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