One of the new drives is the effective supply chain management which brings customer satisfaction and profitability. Many retailers especially supermarkets and grocery stores use different strategies in order to achieve an effective supply chain management. Faced with predictable variability‚ a company’s goal is to respond in a manner that balances supply with demand to maximize profitability (Chopra & Meindl‚ 2013: 247). Inventory management is the activity of planning and controlling accumulation
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face-to-face customer service‚ and usually always has a building for their operations. A “brick and mortar” grocery has advantages and disadvantages compared to an online operation‚ like Theorganicgrocer.com. First of all‚ their major disadvantage is the overhead. The cost of property‚ insurance‚ taxes and staff is much higher for a “brick and mortar” operation than an online operation. The biggest advantage for a “brick and mortar” operation is customer security. To a customer‚ if a company has physical presence
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explores one of the fundamental processes in most businesses‚ the make-or-buy decision. This research scrutinizes the theory related to the make-or-by decision‚ its importance in businesses strategy‚ criterions to be considered in the process as well as its advantages and disadvantages. Further investigation conducted revealed the reality of make-or-buy decision and it was found that decision makers rarely apply strategic decision making rules based on sound reasons resulting in unpremeditated and irrational
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School Master of Science in Global Operations ISOM 5700 Operations Management Fall 2014 Instructor: Professor Albert Y. Ha Department of Information System‚ Business Statistics and Operations Management Room 4023‚ LSK Business Building (852) 2358 7724 imayha@ust.hk http://www.bm.ust.hk/~isom/staff/imayha.html Teaching Assistant: Edmond Ho imhcf@ust.hk Course web site: http://lmes2.ust.hk Course Description Operations management is the management of business processes that produce
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Science and Technology Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management Final Year Project Waiting Line Managementin Supermarket Check-Out Process Group Member | : | Chan WaiNok | | | Chow Yuen Ching | | | Wong Wai Ki | Project Advisor | : | Prof. Rachel Zhang | Content 1. Introduction 3 1.1 Waiting Line System 3 1.2 Reasons for Managing the Waiting Line in the Check-out Process 6 1.3 Making Decisions 14 1.4 Our Main Focus 19 2. Backgrounds 21 2.1 Specifications
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Sammanfattning – KURS 190: FÖRETAGANDE – OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT – VT08 Operations management p. 3-35 What is operations management? Operations management is the activity of managing resources which are devoted to the production and delivery of products and services. 3 core functions Marketing function – communicating the products to the market. Product/service development function – creating new products/services. Operations function – fulfilling customer requests. Support functions
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The importance of data for operations management and decision making In order to be able to make well guided decisions‚ one needs well based facts and therefore one is in continuous need of quality data. The same goes for operations management; data of substance is a must to run a company in its optimal levels of efficiency‚ effectiveness and capacity. The five levels of Data Quality Maturity according to Gartner are Aware‚ Reactive‚ Proactive‚ Managed and Optimized. Using these levels and applying
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MD 021 - Management and Operations Capacity Planning and Decision Theory ▪ Measures of capacity ▪ Bottlenecks ▪ Capacity strategies ▪ A systematic approach to capacity decisions ▪ Make or Buy Problem ▪ Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Risk‚ Decision Trees Capacity Planning Capacity is the maximum rate of output for a facility. Capacity planning
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money in inventories. Inventory management is considered very important for supermarkets due to the fact that it allows the replacement of a great variety of products at the right time and with low costs. As a consequence‚ organizations are focusing on controlling the capital in the activities involved in inventory management. Additionally‚ this field presents many important opportunities for potential improvements in the sector retails. To achieve this‚ supermarkets are using different methodologies
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enzer 10 Critical Decision Area for OM 10 Critical Decision areas of operation management I. Goods and service design. According to Henzer (2004)‚ design of goods and design defines much of the transformation process. The factors of cost‚ quality and human resources must be made during the stage. Operation management of product and services is also different because due to different characteristic and tangible / intangible feature. II. Quality. Customer has a very high quality standard nowadays
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