I. Discussion and Review Question: 1. Briefly describe the term operations management? Answer: Operations Management is management of system or processes that create goods or provide service. The term operations management includes interrelated activities such as forecasting‚ capacity planning‚ scheduling‚ managing inventories‚ assuring quality‚ motivating employees‚ and deciding where to locate facilities and more. 2. Identify the three major functional areas of business organization and
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Barriers to Entry In the 1980s‚ when personal computers first made their debut in the market‚ the barrier to entry was low. This was due to the relatively low startup cost‚ which is a huge contrast to the present industry. Meanwhile‚ the barrier to entry today is moderate. While the threat of new entrants is low in most places‚ the same cannot be said about emerging economies such as India and China. Apart from the high capital cost required‚ qualities of the PCs are of the most important purchasing
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Operation Flood was a rural development programme started by India’s National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970. One of the largest of its kind‚ the programme objective was to create a nationwide milk grid. It resulted in making India the largest producer of milk and milk products‚ and hence is also called the White Revolution of India. It also helped reduce malpractices by milk traders and merchants. This revolution followed the Indian Green Revolution and helped in alleviating poverty and
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both types of people. For the first group‚ he envisions serving as parts broker for NOS (“new old stock”)‚ new parts that were manufactured few years ago and still packaged in their original cartons. It can be a tie consuming process to find the right part. BASS could also machine new parts to
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OPERATIONS STRATEGY PRODUCTIVITY‚ COMPETITIVENESS‚ STRATEGY Productivity is about how effective an organization is in the use of its resources. Competitiveness is how effective an organization is in the marketplace compared with other organizations that offer similar products/services. Strategy shapes the plans that determine the direction an organization takes in pursuing its goals. (US companies‚ suffering from impressive success of foreign companies on the US marketplace place increased
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between operations‚ marketing and product/service development at Acme Whistles? Page 3 2. Oxfam International case study What are the main issues facing Oxfam’s operations managers? Page 4 3. Formule 1 & Mwagusi Safari Lodge 3.1 For each hotel‚ what is the role of technology and the role of operations Page 6 staff in delivering an appropriate level of service? 3.2 What are the main differences in the operations management
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and effectiveness of operations and increasing customers’ satisfaction‚ as shown in Figure 1. Operational Audit Corrective actions by the management Increase customer satisfaction 10. Follow up - How to conduct Operational Audit? to increase Enable management to identify ways operational control. 1. Select procedures or departments whose operations are to be audited 2. Determine audit objectives 3. Select the audit team and determine the schedule 4. Define the operations to be audited 5. Determine
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Sunderland Business School Level: M Module: Operations Management Module Code: PGBM03 Module Leader: Tom Cuthbertson Issue Date: 26th July 2011 Return Date: 16th August 2011 Contribution to Module Assessment 100% This is an individual assignment. Work submitted must adhere to the University policy on Cheating‚ Collusion and Plagiarism. Introduction If Marketing’s function is to identify the needs of customers‚ then it is Operations Management which has the role of providing the
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QUESTION 1 Operations management must be managed properly in order to improve an organization’s productivity and profitability. In the Cadbury World case‚ several micro and macro processes are involved and those processes bring some impacts to Cadbury World. Thus‚ Cadbury World must possess a sustainable micro and macro processes to achieve the best outcome and performance. Micro processes that involved are easily to manage compared to macro processes because macro processes are hard to manage
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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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