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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Chapter 8. CASH MANAGEMENT AND THE TREASURY FUNCTION1 A. THE TREASURY FUNCTION Governments need to ensure both efficient implementation of their budgets and good management of their financial resources. Spending agencies must be provided with the funds needed to implement the budget in a timely manner‚ and the cost of government borrowing must be minimized. Sound management of financial assets and liabilities is also required. Financial management within the government includes various
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2013 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PROJECT REPORT Letter of Transmittal: Sir Jawad Bhatti‚ Subject: Operations Management Report on Lux Soap Respected Mr. Jawad Bhatti‚ We present to you our Report on the operation management of Lux‚ a part of our term report. The preparation of this term report was a challenging task but it provided us with the much-important knowledge about the operations of Lux soap. We have put in great efforts in the preparation of this report and have tried
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nonalcoholic beverage segment of the commercial beverage industry is highly competitive‚ consisting of numerous companies. These include companies competing in multiple geographic areas‚ as well as businesses that are primarily regional or local in operation. Competing products include numerous nonalcoholic sparkling beverages; various water products‚ including packaged flavored and enhanced waters; juices and nectars; fruit drinks and dilutables (including syrups and powdered drinks); coffees and
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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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about scientific management in McDonald’s operation‚ I believe the largest fast food McDonald’s is the most successful model on scientific management. Scientific management is a branch of classical approach; Taylor said scientific management is standardisation which means people in organization should be uniformed by company rules or policy which are some written documents. Scientific management is a very important part in management area‚ since look at the history of management. People are living
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1 Chapter 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 goods or delivering services. This means that
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cell. Using Group Technology Cells can reduce movement and improve product flow. Smooth the flow-> pull system-Kanban: Kanban means “sign” or “instruction card” in Japanese; the authority to produce or supply additional parts come from downstream operations; -small lots: Require less space and capital investment‚ Move processes (work stations) closer together‚ make quality problems easier to detect-quick setups-uniform production‚ and continuously improve-> quality at the source-total productive
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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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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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