Unit 1: Introduction – Consumer Needs‚ Motives and Values Operation Management (OM) is the science and art of ensuring that goods and services are created and delivered successfully to customers. Applying the principles of OM entails a solid understanding of people‚ processes‚ and technology and how they are integrated within business systems to create value. Nature of Operations Management The traditional management paradigm revolves around four basic functions – Planning‚ Organizing‚ Directing
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flexible operations. C) Low price leading to a need to excel at low cost. D) Reliable delivery leading to a need to excel at effective customer service. E) Speed of operations leading to a need to excel at efficient distribution. 4) There are four perspectives on operations strategy. The term ’emergent strategy’ is most closely associated with which perspective? A) Bottom-up perspective B) Market requirements perspective C) Operations resources
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view on operations of SAINSBURY’S ‚ the third largest supermarket chain across United Kingdom. SAINSBURY’S ‚ in spite of being the longest standing retail chain has been facing stiff competition from rivals like TESCO ‚ MORRISONS. The competitors seemed to have developed at a faster pace since SAINSBURY’S has been through a difficult time in recent years and TESCO is now twice the size in terms of turnover. Matter of analysis in terms of SAINSBURY’s supermarket is the operational strategies that
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Strategically‚ operations management involves the long-term planning and structuring of work. Indeed‚ the task of operations strategy is to design the operating system‚ which is the joint configuration of resources and processes‚ such that its resulting competencies are aligned with the organization’s desired competitive position. In other words‚ operations strategy focuses on how to best enable and implement the organization’s strategy. (For for-profit organizations‚ “best” can be measured as maximizing
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10a) Suggest reasons for the changes shown in the size and distribution of megacities Megacities‚ with a population of at least 10 million‚ have grown in number to 26 in 2009. This is because of the general growth in world population and especially the g r o w t h in NICs such as India‚ Brazil and Indonesia. Their Economic growth has increased rapidly due to industrialisation which has encouraged rural-urban migration to escape rural poverty. This has increased the size of some megacities to
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Module: Operations management Title: -Operations management and Ethics! - Student: Katerina Zafirovska Lecture: Prof. D-r Aleksandra Shumar Contents: Introduction……………………………………………………………………..….3 1. Operations management…………………………………………..5 2. History of operations management……………………………….6 3. Ethics ……………………………………………………………15 4. Operations management
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Operations Management Project Report Company: Corona Group: J Section: B Group Members: Aatka Zafar BBA 02093054 Adeel Shafique BBA 02093090 Faiza Ahmed BBA 02093071 Usman Ali BBA 02093108 Hina Jabbar BBA 02093052 Submitted to: Sir Sarmad Irfan Executive Summary In this era of globalization and immense competition‚ the only organizations with lean and fittest operations
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Supply Chain Management Case study of Seven-Eleven Japan Company A. Background Seven-Eleven‚ a famous convenience store‚ was established in 1973 and had its first store in Tokyo in May 1974. It was found by Masatoshi Ito while he thought that superstores were the wave of the future after a trip to the United States. The company was first listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1979. During 1985-2009‚ the numbers of store and its annual sales experienced tremendous growth that the
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£60 million. It will also look at how the operations functions carried out by Sainsburys can be linked in with other areas of the business like Finance‚ Human Resource Management and Marketing. The main contents of this report will be based on the theory about performance management; it will start with a section explaining what the theory is and how it is generally applied in business. It will also contain my own experiences and insight into how operations have had an effect from my own viewpoint
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difficult operating conditions in the business environment. This essay seeks to give a general understanding of operations management framework‚ also evaluate the contribution of performance measurement to the effective and efficient management of operations. The activity of managing the resources and the processes which are used to produce and deliver goods and services is known as the operations management (Slack and Lewis‚ 2002‚ p.4). It is the systematic design‚ and control of processes that are used
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