OPERATIONS STRATEGY PRODUCTIVITY‚ COMPETITIVENESS‚ STRATEGY Productivity is about how effective an organization is in the use of its resources. Competitiveness is how effective an organization is in the marketplace compared with other organizations that offer similar products/services. Strategy shapes the plans that determine the direction an organization takes in pursuing its goals. (US companies‚ suffering from impressive success of foreign companies on the US marketplace place increased
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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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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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stores. Operations Strategy “In many companies‚ the key to success is often an operations-based advantage. Superior operations effectiveness not only serves to buttress a company’s existing competitive position‚ but‚ when based on capabilities that are embedded in the company’s people and operating processes‚ is inherently difficult to imitate.” --R. H. Hayes and D. M. Upton‚ “Opeations-based Strategy.” California Management Review‚ Summer‚ 1998. McDonald’s utilizes an excellent operations strategy
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extended the international brands in small towns of India. Of course‚ many other business brands in India now follows Arvind brand. The other Indian businesses should learn a lot from Arvind Mills: international outset of market; Multi-regional integration approach; union and attainment‚ strategic alliances‚ international delegates‚ global network formation; changes in internal organization‚ etc. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Case 1:-BPO – BANE OR BOON? Which of the theories of international
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and effectiveness of operations and increasing customers’ satisfaction‚ as shown in Figure 1. Operational Audit Corrective actions by the management Increase customer satisfaction 10. Follow up - How to conduct Operational Audit? to increase Enable management to identify ways operational control. 1. Select procedures or departments whose operations are to be audited 2. Determine audit objectives 3. Select the audit team and determine the schedule 4. Define the operations to be audited 5. Determine
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Sunderland Business School Level: M Module: Operations Management Module Code: PGBM03 Module Leader: Tom Cuthbertson Issue Date: 26th July 2011 Return Date: 16th August 2011 Contribution to Module Assessment 100% This is an individual assignment. Work submitted must adhere to the University policy on Cheating‚ Collusion and Plagiarism. Introduction If Marketing’s function is to identify the needs of customers‚ then it is Operations Management which has the role of providing the
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QUESTION 1 Operations management must be managed properly in order to improve an organization’s productivity and profitability. In the Cadbury World case‚ several micro and macro processes are involved and those processes bring some impacts to Cadbury World. Thus‚ Cadbury World must possess a sustainable micro and macro processes to achieve the best outcome and performance. Micro processes that involved are easily to manage compared to macro processes because macro processes are hard to manage
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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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THREE ETHICAL APPROACHES BASED ON VIRTUE‚ DUTY AND CONSEQUENCE Three ethical approaches have evolved as the focus of those who study moral philosophy: virtue ethics‚ duty ethics and consequential ethics. Virtue ethics‚ associating ethics with personal habits‚ is associated with Aristotle. Duty ethics is associated with religious beliefs‚ although Kant tried to create a system of duties independent of belief in God. Consequential ethics is associated with the quest for rationalism during the Enlightenment
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