Introduction to Operations Management Learning Objectives * Define the term operations management * Identify the three major functional areas of organizations and describe how they interrelate * Compare and contrast service and manufacturing operations * Describe the operations function and the nature of the operations manager’s job * Differentiate between design and operation of production systems * Describe the key aspects of operations management
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MGT 502 Final Review Questions 1. List and explain the three ways to decrease process throughput time. 1) Perform activities in parallel a. A serial approach results in the throughput time for the entire process being the sum of individual steps plus transport and waiting time between steps. Using a parallel approach can reduce throughput time by as much as 80 percent and produces a better result. 2) Change the sequence of activities b. Altering the sequence of activities
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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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Fairynails Beauty Products and Services S.A. Operations Management Project Due Date: May 2nd 2011 1 Table of contents Table of contents ........................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 2 Company Information ...............................................................
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Without innovation organisations can lose their competitive edge to competitors in the market every operation department in any organisation need to develop innovative products‚ services‚ process‚ designs and manufacturing processes in order to respond to customer requirement and improve services delivery of an organisation. African organisation need to integrate operation strategy with innovation management in order to effectively compete with world-class organisation and improve their operational efficiencies
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PLC (ELICO) Awash Tannery For the Course Production /Operations Management (MBAd 632) (Educational Visit Report) Submitted To Tadesse Negash (PhD) Prepared by ABERAHAM MELSE MEKURIA ABERA MESFINE TELILA MERGIA BAYISSA TADESSE BIRU TENA H/MARIAM WOSSEN HAILU August 2013 Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We are strongly indebted to our instructor of production and operations management Dr. Tadesse Negash for his intimacy with us‚ continuous
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What recommendations would you make to John Wolf with respect to structuring the supplier relationship process for the Wolf Motors dealership network? The recommendations I would suggest for structuring the supplier relationship process for the Wolf Motors dealership network are Wolf Motors should consider 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
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Assignment 1Course Number: OPM300Intro. to Operations Mgmt Professor: Dr. Nicholas BowersoxDate: 10 April 2013 | Operation management “the hard rock café” | | The Hard Rock Café has been able to not only survive the times but thrive and expand its company. From the changes in its menus to the sale of its trendy merchandise the company continues to stay at the top of the service industry. Continual improvement of its processes and sound management practices make this possible. Hard Rock
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DRIVE WINTER 2013 PROGRAM/SEMESTER MBADS (SEM 3/SEM 5) MBAFLEX/ MBAN2 (SEM 3) PGDOMN (SEM 1) SUBJECT CODE & NAME OM 0010 - OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT BK ID B1232 CREDITS & MARKS 4 CREDITS & 60 MARKS Question 1 : Write short notes on : Operations as Transformation Systems : Answer : Operational transformation is a technology for supporting a range of collabouration functionalities in advanced collabourative software systems. OT was originally invented for consistency maintenance and
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Critical Decision areas of operation management I. Goods and service design. According to Henzer (2004)‚ design of goods and design defines much of the transformation process. The factors of cost‚ quality and human resources must be made during the stage. Operation management of product and services is also different because due to different characteristic and tangible / intangible feature. II. Quality. Customer has a very high quality standard nowadays and operation management decision in quality
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