THE NESTLE STORY Nestle S.A. the present Switzerland based international food group‚ originally consisted of two companies and two products: Henri Nestle and his baby food in Vevey‚ and the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk company and its condensed Milk Company and its condensed milk in Cham‚ both in Switzerland. In 1866 the Page Brothers form the United States set up a new industry in Cham‚ making condensed milk from a raw material that was available in abundance in the region. In 1867 Henri Nestle a
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Topic 1: Introduction to Operations Management Operations - The part of a business organization that is responsible for producing goods and services Operations Management - management of systems or processes that create goods and/or provide services - Science and art of ensuring that goods and services are created and delivered successfully to customers Operations Managers - make decisions regarding the operations function and its connection with other functions - plan and control the production
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position in supply chain. Zara Zara is an innovating clothing company which sells clothes throughout the world. Its first shop opened in Spain in 1975. It belongs to Inditex which is one of the largest distribution groups in the entire world. Zara has clothing‚ shoes‚ handbags and furniture. There are over 3.000 Zara stores around the world‚ 205 Zara Kids stores and 272 Zara Home stores. This means that Zara is larger than the American Gap and Swedish H&M! Zara launches about 12.000 collections
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1885 when Frederick W. Taylor emphasised the application of scientific analysis to methods of production. The name (OR) probably came from a programme under taken by Great Britain during world war2‚ “research in military operations”. After the success of OR in military operations‚ it quickly spread to all phases of Industry and Government. By 1951‚ OR had take place as a distinct science in the United States. Hence it is said that Or is “the art of winning war without actually fighting it”. OPERATIONAL
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1. Features of Zara’s business model that affect its operating economics: • Zara owns much of its production and most of its stores‚ while competitors Gap and H&M own all of their stores but outsource all of their production. Benetton‚ on the other hand‚ owns all of its production but goes to market through licensing agreements. • Zara places more emphasis on backward vertical integration. Production runs are short and inventory is strictly controlled. This is in contrast to industry trends
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[pic] OPERATION AND STRATEGY USED IN INDIA FOR IMPLEMENTATION MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY NAME: - Shashank Kumar FACULTY: - Prof. Rajiv Misra XAT ID: - 2406497 BATCH: - PGCBM-18 CENTRE:-Patna ABSTRACT With rapid increase of mobile service provider
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A. Why does the "proper" operation strategy keep changing for A. companies that are world-class competitors? The world is evolving every day and is at a constant change or upgrade. So it only makes sense that the “proper ” operation strategy will also evolve and change over time‚ otherwise your corporation could easily get run over by the competition and transforming market. As a company it ’s important to position yourself with your product or service in the market‚ whether it would be high
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Introduction to Operations Management After completing this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Define the term operations management. 2. Identify the three major functional areas of organizations and describe how they interrelate. 3. Identify similarities and differences between production and service operations. 4. Describe the operations function and the nature of the operations manager’s job. 5. Summarize the two major aspects of process management. 6. Explain the key aspects of operations management
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6935 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MIT CAMPUS‚Melbourne. Individual Assignment Word Count: 1798 LECTURER:- DR. Maria Mullin TUTOR:- DR. Maria Mullin Student Name Kalani Swarnamalee Jayathunga UB 30079319 Executive Summary: The Following report explained about “Cargills (Ceylon) PLC”‚ the biggest producer and retailer of foods in Sri Lanka. Specially discussed about the five objectives of the operations management
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The Encyclopedia of Operations Management Terms by Professor Arthur V. Hill Curtis L. Carlson School of Management 321-19th Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis‚ MN 55455-0413 USA ahill@umn.edu Revised July 20‚ 2003 P O M S Production Operations Management Society The electronic version of this encyclopedia is distributed free of charge by the Production Operations Management Society (POMS) under the conditions that (1) you send corrections and additions to ahill@umn.edu
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