Ch3 – O.M 1) Strategic decisions are those which: A) Only involve senior managers B) Require the input of external consultants and management accountants. C) Seek to move the whole organisation towards its overall long-term goals D) Define the position of a business unit with respect to its operational capabilities 2) The determination of performance priorities is normally influenced by: A) The specific needs of the company’s customer
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Operation management can be summarized as techniques for restructuring the infrastructure to gain a competitive advantage to optimize decisions and processes utilized in business practices. Operation management gives the managers a systematic way to enhance their day to day processes and assist in maximizing revenues. One of the key objectives practiced by an OM manager is making ethical decisions during the planning‚ reviewing‚ and implementation stages of new processes. This paper will briefly
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face-to-face customer service‚ and usually always has a building for their operations. A “brick and mortar” grocery has advantages and disadvantages compared to an online operation‚ like Theorganicgrocer.com. First of all‚ their major disadvantage is the overhead. The cost of property‚ insurance‚ taxes and staff is much higher for a “brick and mortar” operation than an online operation. The biggest advantage for a “brick and mortar” operation is customer security. To a customer‚ if a company has physical presence
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show how Sainsburys have used performance management to increase their ability to provide a quality service and gain a competitive advantage‚ it will also show how systems have been implemented to achieve this and what Sainsburys have changed in recent years to achieve the competitive advantage it was looking for‚ The main area Sainsburys have changed is there Supply chain which had a cost gap of around £60 million. It will also look at how the operations functions carried out by Sainsburys can be
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Unit-4 Secondary objectives of materials management: secondary objectives are limited in number or in scope as primary objectives. Since they represent the materials management contribution to the achievement of primary objectives of some other departments‚ they can vary widely from industry to industry. 1. Reciprocal relations: when a company deliberately buys as much as possible from its own customers it is said to practice reciprocity. 2. New materials and products: engineering and manufacturing
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...................... 3 5.0 Organization Overview ............................................................................................................ 3 6.0 Operation of Square Pharmaceuticals....................................................................................... 4 7.0 Organizational hierarchy for operation in Square Pharmaceuticals............................................. 5 8.0 Techniques followed by Square Pharmaceuticals............................................
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Operations management focuses on managing the processes of producing and distributing products and services. Operations activities often include product creation‚ development‚ production and distribution. It deals with all operations within the organization. Related activities include managing purchases‚ inventory control‚ quality control‚ storage‚ logistics and evaluations. The nature of how operations management is carried out in an organization depends very much on the nature of products or services
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Journal of Operations Management 20 (2002) 419–433 Effective case research in operations management: a process perspective I. Stuart∗ ‚ D. McCutcheon‚ R. Handfield‚ R. McLachlin‚ D. Samson Faculty of Business‚ University of Victoria‚ P.O. Box 1700‚ Victoria‚ BC‚ Canada V8W 2Y2 Received 8 August 2001; received in revised form 26 October 2001; accepted 11 March 2002 Abstract Despite many calls for case-based operations management research‚ the successful publication rate of such articles
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Vidhya Shikshak Seva Mandal [pic] Government Registered INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY Government Recognized An ISO 9001: 2008 International B-School SUB: PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Section –A Fill in the blanks 1. Production planning functions can be broadly identified as ______‚ _______ and _______. a) Estimating ‚ routing ‚ distribution b) Estimating‚ routing‚ scheduling
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difference between the operations management chain for both goods and services? The operations management cares about the study of how products and services are created in an efficient way while meeting customer needs. The main focus lies in managing the process that convert raw material or human labor into goods and services. According to article written in the Journal of Supply Management by Sengupta‚ K; Heiser‚ D; Cook‚ stated: “The distinction between the operation management of goods and services
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