Chapter 1 Introduction to Operations Management Adding Value by Improving Operations Management Better management of a company’s operations can add substantial value to the company by improving its competitiveness and long-term profitability. Poor operations decisions can hurt a company’s competitive position and increase its costs on the other hand; good operations decisions can improve the value of the company by increasing profitability and growth. Operations management is an important discipline
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Introduction to Systems and Operations Management Lecture 1 Week commencing 30 January‚ 2012 What is this module about? Introduction Introduction Definitions Input-Process -Output Typology of Ops Self-managed Learning • Role of systems and operations management and its integration into efficient and effective running of business. • Process analysis; improvement and quality management • The soft systems approach of SSM to systems development will be used to analyse and define business requirements
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 Company Background 2 Operations‚ inputs and outputs of HMV 3 Business Processes of HMV 4 Structured Decision making 5 Semi-structured decision making 6 Unstructured decision making 6 Strategic radar plotting technique 8 Goal setting analysis and what if analysis 9 Forecasting and Trend Prediction 11 Data Analysis with SPSS 12 Descriptive statistics - Frequencies 12 Descriptive statistics - Descriptive 13 Descriptive statistics – Explore
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Operation Management Case 1 Birmingham International Airport Operations Management Operations management is concerned with the design‚ planning‚ control and improvement of an organization’s resources and processes to produce goods or services for customers. Whether it is the provision of airport services‚ greetings cards‚ plastic buckets or holidays‚ operations managers will have been involved in the design‚ creation and delivery of those products or service each part of the airport – terminals
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advantages of continuous production. 15. Mention any four limitations of continuous production. 16. Define production management. 17. Mention any four objectives of production management. 18. Define operating system. 19. How do you manage operations? 20. What do you mean by operations? 21. What do you mean by manufacturing operations? 22. What do you mean by service operations? 23. What do you mean by ‘globalization’? Section B 1. Briefly explain the production system and its characteristics
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MBA 4th Semester Paper – MB19 APPLIED MANAGEMENT OPERATION RESEARCH M.M. – 20 ASSIGNMENT 1 1- Describe the Sensitivity Analysis in operation management in detail. 2- Describe the Application of the Simplex Method in operation research. MBA 4th Semester Paper – MB19 APPLIED MANAGEMENT OPERATION RESEARCH M.M. – 20 ASSIGNMENT 2 1- Describe the Linear Programming for Optimization in detail. 2- What is Integer Programming and discuss in detail. MBA 4th Semester
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Strategy‚ competitiveness and productivity Lina Vallejo Florida National College Operations Management March 13‚ 2010 Dr. Harvey J. Weiss Strategy‚ Competitiveness‚ and productivity Strategy Organization strategy has a major impact on operations management depending on the variations for operations and supply chain. Operations strategy can have a major influence on the competitiveness of an organization and when it is properly applies and well executed‚ there are good chances that the
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OPM 530 – INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT JAN 2014 – APRIL 2007 CHAPTER 1- Introduction to Operations Management and Productivity DEC 2013/JAN2014 a) Define Operations Management (2 marks) b) Explain any for(4) reasons why we need to study Operations Management (8 marks) JUN 2012 a) Define productivity and elaborate on any four (4) importance of productivity to an organization. (10 marks) b) Discuss any five (5) challenged faced by today’s operations managers (10 marks) APR
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Production and Operation Management Chapter One: an introduction What do we mean by POM? POM is the management of operation system within the organization‚ which converts inputs into the organization’s products and services. Discuss the relationship between POM and other organization’s functions? Three basic functions in a typical business organization: - Finance - marketing - production operations The production operations integrates with marketing and finance to accomplish
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530 – INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT JAN 2012 – OCTOBER 2006 CHAPTER 1- Introduction to Operations Management and Productivity JUN2012 a) Define productivity and elaborate on any four (4) importance of productivity to an organization. (10 marks) b) Discuss any five (5) challenged faced by today’s operations managers (10 marks) APR 2011 a) Define operations management with the aid of appropriate diagram. b) Discuss any four (4) ethical challenges faced by the operations managers. (8 marks)
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