Chapter 01 : INTRODUCTION TO P & O MGMT Concept of Production Production : * A crucial function in any organisation * Transformation of a range of inputs into the planned outputs ( goods or services ) meeting laid down quality standards * Step-by-step conversion of one form of material into another form through chemical or mechanical process to enhance the utility of the product to the end users. * Value addition process at each stage * A process by which “goods and
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overall success of the economy. Production of goods of any sort stemmed from the division of labor. Production teams were originally thought to increase quality of work‚ dexterity‚ productivity and quantity. The Wealth of Nations discusses that if every country specializes in what they do best‚ then this must result in a more efficient economy for everyone. Before the rise of corporations‚ American farms relied on a local‚ craft production market. Craft production consisted of high skilled workers
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FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT Planning It is the basic function of management. It deals with chalking out a future course of action & deciding in advance the most appropriate course of actions for achievement of pre-determined goals. According to KOONTZ‚ “Planning is deciding in advance - what to do‚ when to do & how to do. It bridges the gap from where we are & where we want to be”. A plan is a future course of actions. It is an exercise in problem solving & decision making. Planning
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in process create value for customers and solve their problems. Production and operations management talks about applying business organization and management concepts in creation of goods and services. 1.1. PRODUCT Though many authors define the product with Consumer orientation‚ it is better for us to deal with different angles‚ because it will be helpful for us to understand the subject of production and Operation Management. (i) For a Consumer: The product is a combination of or optimal
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BBA – 305 PRODUCTION & OPERATION MANAGEMENT Model Questions based on Previous years Question Papers UNIT – I Qs. 1 : Explain the importance of Production & Operation Management in current scenario. Why it has become an integral part of Business Education ? State with examples. [BBA-IP: Dec. 2011] Qs. 2 : Operation Management is becoming a very important subject in Business Education in the last few
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developing a value stream to eliminate all waste‚ including time‚ and to ensure a level schedule. Agility means using market knowledge and a virtual corporation to exploit profitable opportunities in a volatile marketplace. Leagile is the combination of the lean and agile paradigms within a total supply chain strategy by positioning the decoupling point so as to best suit the need for responding to a volatile demand downstream yet providing level scheduling upstream from the marketplace. The decoupling point
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296 HANDOUT: CONTINUOUS FLOW (PRODUCT ORIENTED LAYOUT) AND BOTTLENECK ANALYSIS Reference: Operations Management by Mark A. Vonderembse and Gregory P. White. The Product Layout and System Capacity The capacity of a product-oriented system can be visualized as a series of pipes of varying capacity‚ with the smallest diameter or capacity holding back the entire system. Exhibit 9.3 illustrates five pipes (departments or machines) with different diameters (capacities). The output
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MGMT 405 Operations and Production Management Answer set 2 (Reference chapter 2 – William J. Stevenson-2007‚ ninth edition) Problems and Solutions 1. Suppose that a company produced 300 standard bookcases last week using eight workers and produced 240 standard bookcases this week using six workers. In which was productivity higher? Explain. Ans: Productivitylast week = standard bookcases produced as output / labor= 300/8= 37.8 sbc/worker Productivity this week = standard bookcases produced
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Production & Operations Management–Homework 1 for Section 4 Due Tuesday October 16‚ 2012 1.1 Eastman publishing Company is considering publishing a paperback textbook on spreadsheet applications for business. The fixed cost of manuscript preparation‚ textbook design‚ and production setup is estimated to be $80‚000. Variable production and material costs are estimated to be $3 per book. Demand over the life of the book is estimated to be 4‚000 copies. The publisher plans to sell the text to college
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Forecasting Forecast can help managers by reducing some of the uncertainty‚ thereby enabling them to develop more meaningful plans than they might otherwise. A forecast is a statement about the future. Features common to all forecasts 1. The same underlying causal system that existed in the past will continue to exist in the future. 2. Forecasts are rarely perfect; actual results usually differ from predicted values. 3. Forecasts for groups of items tend to be more accurate than forecasts
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