Chapter 1 Operations and productivity 1. Why should one study operations management? We study OM for four reasons. We study how people organize themselves for productive enterprise. We study OM because we want to know how goods and services are produced. We study OM to understand what operations managers do. We study OM because it is such a costly part of an organization. Productivity can be measured in a variety of ways‚ such as by labor‚ capital‚ energy‚ material usage‚ and so on. At Modern
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ust-In-Time (JIT) is a very simple idea but one that is essential in modern supply chain management. JIT sets out to cut costs by reducing the amount of goods and materials a firm holds in stock. JIT involves: producing and delivering finished goods ‘just in time’ to be sold partly finished goods ‘just in time’ to be assembled into finished goods parts ‘just in time’ to go into partly finished goods materials ‘just in time’ to be made into parts. The principle that underpins JIT is that production
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Contents Introduction 1 1. Key challenges that have become very significant to IKEA managers with regard to operations management 1.1 Changing Technologies 1.2 Continued Globalization of Markets 1.3 Changing Customer Expectations 1.4 Changing Job Designs 1.5 Quality Management 1.6 Global Manufacturing 3 3 4 5 6 6 7 2. Areas of operations management likely to to have the most impact on the success of IKEA
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[pic] Keele University Management School Marketing & Operations MAN 40037 Marketing & Operations Management – 2012 |Course Tutor |Andrew Wagg | |E Mail Address |a.l.wagg@ippm>keele.ac.uk | Contents The Marketing Context 1.1 Introduction 8 1.2 The Marketing Environment 11
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KAIZEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MARKS: 80 COURSE: _______ SUBJECT: OPERATION MANAGEMENT N.B: 1} Attempt all the questions 2} All Questions Carries Equal Marks Name:___________________ Reference Number: ________________ Case – 1 OM IN SNACKS Let’s say that you decided to go for some snacks with your friends. Among many options‚ you can go to a roadside thela (cart)‚ a snack joint like are Udipi restaurant or some restaurant which serves many things including full meals‚ to name few
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Coursework of Operations Management Comparison and contrast of operation problems among Executive Holloware ltd.‚ Oilpartz ltd. and London zoo Summary In this article‚ three operations management related cases are studied and analysed. The writer compares and contrasts similarities and differences in these cases in the following aspects: the transformation process model‚ types of operations‚ the objectives of operations. By looking into more detailed problems in each case‚ those more complex items
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...................... 3 5.0 Organization Overview ............................................................................................................ 3 6.0 Operation of Square Pharmaceuticals....................................................................................... 4 7.0 Organizational hierarchy for operation in Square Pharmaceuticals............................................. 5 8.0 Techniques followed by Square Pharmaceuticals............................................
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An operations strategy focuses on specific capabilities of the operation that give the company a competitive edge. Factors used in developing an operations strategy includes: Cost Competition is used when a company uses cost as a strategy by offering a product at a low price relative to the prices of competing products. Take for example: Wal-Mart‚ this company is cost competitive often outsourcing their labor to impoverished countries that are willing and able to make any product for mere pennies
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The Encyclopedia of Operations Management Terms by Professor Arthur V. Hill Curtis L. Carlson School of Management 321-19th Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis‚ MN 55455-0413 USA ahill@umn.edu Revised July 20‚ 2003 P O M S Production Operations Management Society The electronic version of this encyclopedia is distributed free of charge by the Production Operations Management Society (POMS) under the conditions that (1) you send corrections and additions to ahill@umn.edu
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Journal of Operations Management 20 (2002) 419–433 Effective case research in operations management: a process perspective I. Stuart∗ ‚ D. McCutcheon‚ R. Handfield‚ R. McLachlin‚ D. Samson Faculty of Business‚ University of Victoria‚ P.O. Box 1700‚ Victoria‚ BC‚ Canada V8W 2Y2 Received 8 August 2001; received in revised form 26 October 2001; accepted 11 March 2002 Abstract Despite many calls for case-based operations management research‚ the successful publication rate of such articles
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