Unit-4 Secondary objectives of materials management: secondary objectives are limited in number or in scope as primary objectives. Since they represent the materials management contribution to the achievement of primary objectives of some other departments‚ they can vary widely from industry to industry. 1. Reciprocal relations: when a company deliberately buys as much as possible from its own customers it is said to practice reciprocity. 2. New materials and products: engineering and manufacturing
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Without innovation organisations can lose their competitive edge to competitors in the market every operation department in any organisation need to develop innovative products‚ services‚ process‚ designs and manufacturing processes in order to respond to customer requirement and improve services delivery of an organisation. African organisation need to integrate operation strategy with innovation management in order to effectively compete with world-class organisation and improve their operational efficiencies
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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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agement AEREN FOUNDATION’S Maharashtra Govt. Reg. No.: F-11724 [pic] SUBJECT : OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Total Marks : 80 CASE-1 (16 Marks) Bloomsday Outfitters produces T-shirts for road races. They need to acquire some new stamping machines to produce 30‚000 good T-shirts per month. Their plant operates 200 hours per month‚ but the new machines will
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Operations Management assignment Supply Chain Management Supply chain management is the coordination of the processes and functions within a business‚ adopted by most companies in the UK in the late 1990’s. It deals with the internal and external factors that‚ when dealt with correctly and systematically‚ can determine a businesses success or failure. A supply chain is the network of activities that delivers a finished product service to the customer. By definition‚ supply chain management
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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 and operation management decision in quality
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Operations management focuses on managing the processes of producing and distributing products and services. Operations activities often include product creation‚ development‚ production and distribution. It deals with all operations within the organization. Related activities include managing purchases‚ inventory control‚ quality control‚ storage‚ logistics and evaluations. The nature of how operations management is carried out in an organization depends very much on the nature of products or services
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Topic 1: Introduction to Operations Management Operations - The part of a business organization that is responsible for producing goods and services Operations Management - management of systems or processes that create goods and/or provide services - Science and art of ensuring that goods and services are created and delivered successfully to customers Operations Managers - make decisions regarding the operations function and its connection with other functions - plan and control the production
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Case study of Dupont: Marketing of “Disappearing” products. 1. What are the markets for Lycra? The market for Lycra is vast. It’s not easy to pinpoint a particular market as Lycra is being used by different manufacturers such as Wacoal‚ Liz Claiborne‚ Macy’s‚ etc. and they are targetting different consumers. In general‚ the market for lycra is the manufacturers of garments and retailers. Being specific‚ Its market are Baby boomers because as they are getting aged‚ they are gaining weight
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Operation management can be summarized as techniques for restructuring the infrastructure to gain a competitive advantage to optimize decisions and processes utilized in business practices. Operation management gives the managers a systematic way to enhance their day to day processes and assist in maximizing revenues. One of the key objectives practiced by an OM manager is making ethical decisions during the planning‚ reviewing‚ and implementation stages of new processes. This paper will briefly
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