The process of operations strategy – substitutes for strategy? (Week 9) Lecture aims This lecture is a little different from the other lectures in the book. It deals with a number of ‘new’ approaches to the management of operations that are often seen as operations strategies‚ but are not actually strategies in themselves. Six of the more important ‘new’ approaches are treated in this lecture‚ namely‚ Total Quality Management‚ lean operations‚ Business Process Reengineering‚ Enterprise Resource
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1. Explore through the literature the concept of (Business) sustainability and explain it briefly. Also using references on Operations Strategy describe what sustainability in operations strategy means. Answer: Traditional cost management models tend to only focus on production costs‚ whilst ignore product’s cost of design‚ development and customers using. In other words‚ the business concern visible costs and ignore intangible costs that means the destruction of the surrounding environment such
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a centralized corporate level Materials Management System to consolidate buying decisions for each of the 4 dealerships. This would facilitate greater leveraging with suppliers for consistent quality-control. They should study‚ calculate and make effective decisions on the materials that should be brought for each of the four dealerships instead of allowing each dealer to do it on their own. An automated EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) inventory management system that interconnects with each of
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“Managing a virtual workplace‚” Academy of Management Executive‚ 14 (3)‚ Aug. 2000‚ pp. 81-90. Chidambaram‚ L.‚ and Jones‚ B.‚ "Impact of Communication Medium and Computer Support on Group Perceptions and Performance: A Comparison of Face-to-Face and Dispersed Meetings‚" MIS Quarterly (17:4)‚ 1993‚ pp. 465-516. Cox‚ T.‚ Lobel‚ S.‚ and McLeod‚ P.‚ "Effects of ethnic group cultural differences on cooperative and competitive behavior on a group task‚ " Academy of Management Journal‚ 34‚ 827–847‚ 1991. Dash‚
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Operation Management criteria The task of production and operations management is to manage the efforts and activities of people‚ capital‚ and equipment resources in changing raw materials into finished goods and services. Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services‚ and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. It is the management of resources‚ the distribution of goods and services
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Operations strategy at Galanz Operations Management 1. Rank the importance if Galanz’s operations objective of cost‚ quality‚ flexibility‚ delivery‚ service and innovations. How has the importance changed over the years? The order winners and order qualifiers for the business in the early stages of was the same – price/cost. This competitive characteristic is what caused the customers to choose the companies good and services over those of our competitors along with making Galanz a viable competitor
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6/hour 6 orders x 4 hours = 24 orders Therefore Kristen can fill 24 orders each night. 3. How long will it take her to fill a rush order? A ‘rush’ order will still take 26min as this is how long the operations time is. None of the processes can be eliminated with rush orders therefore the operations time cannot be minimized. 4. How busy (utilization) will she be? With processing 24 orders each night over four hours‚ Kristen will be fully utilized with the time activated equaling the time available
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McDonald’s utilizes an excellent operations strategy in order to gain a larger market share and increase value to the shareholders. The corporation specifically focuses on speed‚ standardization‚ quality‚ and affordability. McDonalds has moved ahead of the competition by focusing on these factors. McDonald’s competes on three main bases‚ such as speed‚ affordability‚ and standardization‚ mainly to make their customers happy. Through extensive market research and surveys‚ the organization discovered
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Group # 05 Aray Nugumarova 20110252‚ lyas Galyamov 20123841‚ Tair Akimzhanov 20112420‚ Akmaral Zholshybekova 20100078 Waterless mobile car wash Proposal Nowadays there are a lot of opportunities to start a business. However‚ the most challenging part is choosing a target sector. After a profound research of the market some potential segments for entry have been chosen by the members of our group. One of them is chemical industry where potential consumer demand is very high
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1. ------------------------------------------------- Consider a firm with a daily demand of 100 units‚ a production rate per day of 500 units‚ a setup cost of $200‚ and an annual holding cost per unit of $10. Suppose that the firm operates 300 days per year. How many units of inventory must their storage area be able to hold? ------------------------------------------------- Answer | | close to 975 | | | close to 980 | | | close to 1095 | | | close to 1224 | | | close to 1225 | 5 points
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