1. ASSIGNMENT 2: OPERATIONS DECISION Introduction This document will briefly describe the details of a fictitious business (X-QUIZIT INC). It will show an assessment of the current environmental scan factors that are relevant to the business decision making process and the factor that will have the greatest impact on the business operations and management’s decision to continue or discontinue its operation. It will also show an evaluation of the financial performance of the company using the
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Operation anaconda was US operation against the Taliban. The operation took place in the Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains southeast of Zormat. This operation was the first large-scale battle in the United States War in Afghanistan since the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001. The operation consisted of 1‚700 airlifted U.S. troops and 1‚000 pro-government Afghan militia battled between 300 too 1‚000 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters to obtain control of the valley. The Taliban and al-Qaida forces
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides a view on operations of SAINSBURY’S ‚ the third largest supermarket chain across United Kingdom. SAINSBURY’S ‚ in spite of being the longest standing retail chain has been facing stiff competition from rivals like TESCO ‚ MORRISONS. The competitors seemed to have developed at a faster pace since SAINSBURY’S has been through a difficult time in recent years and TESCO is now twice the size in terms of turnover. Matter of analysis in terms of SAINSBURY’s supermarket
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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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OPERATION MANAGEMENT Question 1 Briefly explain the activities in Operation Management. Operations management refers to the activities‚ decisions and responsibilities of managing the resources which are dedicated to the production and delivery of products and services.The part of an organisation that is responsible for this activity is called the operations function and every organisation has one as delivery of a product and/or service is the reason for existence. Operations managers are the people
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Police Operations CJA214 January 30‚ 2012 Police Operations Police Operations There are many types of Police operations. Policing in general has a wide range of different kinds of strategies and areas. To begin with one of the most important‚ in my opinion in police operations is the dangers of policing. The main principle that contributes to policing in general is the danger that comes with this sort of job. As police officers they are putting their lives at risk each and every single
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Managing IT Operation (Ho Jun Wai TP028378) Introduction Naturally‚ IT systems are supposed to provide their own specific services when they are working. However‚ if the system stopped by any failure‚ it unable to provide its service anymore and sometimes it will often affected the company reputation and customers. For example‚ if the system inside the bank is stopped‚ clients and companies account unable to perform any transaction due to the failure. Thus‚ the IT operation ’s purpose is to prevent
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SUB: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 1. Production planning functions can be broadly identified as a) Estimating ‚ routing ‚ distribution b) Estimating‚ routing‚ scheduling c) Estimating‚ distribution‚ collection d) Distribution‚ collection‚ scheduling 2. For efficient process of order picking by personnel‚ communication plays a vital role in any Organization and the directives they need to have are ____‚ _____ and _______. a) Simple‚ clear and straight b) Straight‚ clear and easy
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Key operations questions Chapter 1 Operations management ➤ What is operations management? ➤ Why is operations management important in all types of organization? ➤ What is the input–transformation– output process? ➤ What is the process hierarchy? ➤ How do operations processes have different characteristics? ➤ What are the activities of operations management? Chapter 2 Operations performance ➤ Why is operations performance important in any organization? ➤ How does the operations function incorporate
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Task 1 There are four product levels such as core product‚ facilitating products‚ supporting products and augmented products. Core product is a basic level of product selling to the consumer at every product and sells the benefits to the guest. Facilitating products are goods which are presented to guests can use for core product. As we can see that‚ core products require facilitating products but do not require supporting products. The difference between facilitating and supporting products is
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