Winter / November 2012 Master of Business Administration - Semester 2 MB0044 - Production and Operation Management ASSIGNMENT- Set 1 Q1. Explain the basic competitive priorities considered while formulating operations strategy by a firm? Competitiveness is at the core of all strategies. Even among them‚ priorities tend to bring the organisation’s focus on the areas to be dealt with in terms of allocation of resources – people‚ money‚ and time. This means that different functional areas with
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role of operations management The operations management can be defined as the systematic processes which convert inputs in to finished goods or service by adding the value. The operations management is very important in modern days as the competitiveness among the businesses very high. Therefore most of the organizations do have a special functional unit for manage the operational activities of the organization. According to Nigel Slack‚ we can identify three different roles in operations management
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Advances in process technology have radically changed many operations over the last two or three decades. And all indications are that the pace of technological development is not slowing down. Few operations have been unaffected by this because all operations use some kind of process technology‚ whether it is a simple Internet link or the most complex and sophisticated of automated factories. But whatever the technology‚ all operations managers need to understand what emerging technologies can do
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Operations Management True/False 1. Operations managers are responsible for assessing consumer wants and needs and selling and promoting the organization’s goods or services. Answer: False Page: 4 Difficulty: Easy 2. Often‚ the collective success or failure of companies’ operations functions will impact the ability of a nation to compete with other nations. Answer: True Page: 4 Difficulty: Easy 3. Companies are either producing
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is basically a services output organisation and Bakers Pride Limited which is a product output organisation in the following areas: 1. The process of transformation of inputs to outputs 2. Process and capacity design. 3. Supply chain management. 4. Scheduling. 2.1. The process of transformation of inputs to outputs The creation of goods or services involves transforming or converting inputs into outputs. (William J. Stevenson 8th Ed.: 4). 2.1.1 Inputs The inputs for the two
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the freezer in a temperature between – 18° and -23°. The rule for the frozen food is that the first to come in is the first to come out. Health‚ safety and hygiene issues are taken seriously; the manager is responsible of the good following of the operations. In the kitchen‚ every employee is assigned a specific task‚ meat is bake between two heating plate that are cleaned every 30 minutes‚ after it’s done they use a special thermometer to make sure that the meat is at least 69 °‚ employees that are
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manages customer demands. They also generate future sales and manage partnership technology initiatives for future projects within the navigation industry. The operations department manages people‚ schedules‚ equipment‚ technology‚ materials and information. Planning and scheduling production for each month was determined by operations management. The timing of packaging and delivering was forecasted and pushed through the information process internally to the packaging manager. The finance department
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MODULE TITLE: SUPPLY CHAIN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT TITLE: ESSAY ON SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0 Executive summary 3 2.0 Introduction 4 3.0 Risk identification 5 4.0 Risk assessment
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References: Blackstone‚ J.‚ 2010. APICS Dictionary. 13th ed. Chicago: American Production & Inventory Control Society‚ Inc. . Bozarth‚ C. C. & Handfield‚ R. B.‚ 2013. Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management. 3rd ed. s.l.:Pearson Education Limited. Bridge‚ V.‚ 2013. Vietnamnet. [Online] Available at: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/73719/vietnamese-labor-force-is-cheap-or-expensive-.html Guy‚ Q.‚ 2011. Cost of quality. [Online]
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Zakir ALI ALAMI Yakult’s Operation Management Process: Research Activities Part A: Background Information Questions 1) What is Yakults corporate philosophy? Ans: Yakult ’s greatest goal is to bring smiles to faces everywhere. The global corporate philosophy of the Yakult Group is: "We contribute to the health and happiness of people around the world through pursuit of excellence in life sciences in general and our research and experience in microorganisms in particular. 2) What type
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