Process Types P. 101-108 Basic Concept Volume and variety affect process type; usually low variability goes together with high volume and vice versa. Other factors involved or affected are diversity and repetition as well as continuality or intermittency of production. The position in the volume variety matrix shapes the design and approach to managing activities. These approaches are called process types. Process Types Project Processes Discrete‚ highly customized products/goods
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Bachelor of Science Operations Management Pre course assignment Intake: BSc14L Student Name: Wu Linlin Student Number: 10287698 Lecturer: Professor Brian Fynes & Dr. Chang Chen Sheng Date of Submission: 21 February 2012 For the fast food chains‚ it is no doubt that McDonald ’s is successful in the world. It is known to all from children to elder. This is closely relevant to organization operation that produces food and services. Operation plays an important
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Ali Alogaili MacDonald’s Operations MC Donald Corporation was Born in 1940s. It was the first fast food industry in the world market. And who started a chain system in the world market. It serves some of the world favorite and famous food like French fries‚ Big Quarter Pounder‚ Chicken Nuggets and sausage McMuffin with egg as a breakfast. MC Donald is the leading global food service retailer with more than 33000 local restaurants served by more than 1.7 million employees
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McDonald’s utilizes an excellent operations strategy in order to gain a larger market share and increase value to the shareholders. The corporation specifically focuses on speed‚ standardization‚ quality‚ and affordability. McDonalds has moved ahead of the competition by focusing on these factors. McDonald’s competes on three main bases‚ such as speed‚ affordability‚ and standardization‚ mainly to make their customers happy. Through extensive market research and surveys‚ the organization discovered
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Marshall- Assistant Vice President of US Operations “I think one of the biggest things we found was that we didn’t really have a repeatable process that the store would do consistently throughout the day or store to store. The only way we could add new menu items in the way that we had done it was to continually add new processes on top of other processes. It really ended up with a lot of steps‚ it ended up with some very confusing steps and it ended up with a process that wasn’t readily repeatable by the
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mcdonalds quality process matrix( customisation‚ flexibility‚ delivery‚ reliability‚ quality‚ cost) When looking at the quality of McDonalds in terms of the customization‚ we can understand that it sits on a high level on the product process matrix. McDonalds’ offer a range of healthy products in conjunction with their less ‘healthier menu’ weather it be breakfast‚ lunch or dinner. For instance a customer going to McDonalds for breakfast who was interested in choosing a light meal such as a light
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Operations process design 1. Introduction The assignment will be on the manufacturing of concrete stone paving. This product has been chosen because its demand is growing rapidly as most people are concerned about the need for decorating their homes‚ businesses‚ municipalities are involved in small town regeneration programmes and there is growth in development buildings and malls in the Eastern Cape. Concrete stone paving is preferred instead of other forms because it is versatile‚ aesthetically
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The process of operations strategy – substitutes for strategy? (Week 9) Lecture aims This lecture is a little different from the other lectures in the book. It deals with a number of ‘new’ approaches to the management of operations that are often seen as operations strategies‚ but are not actually strategies in themselves. Six of the more important ‘new’ approaches are treated in this lecture‚ namely‚ Total Quality Management‚ lean operations‚ Business Process Reengineering‚ Enterprise Resource
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Operations Management: Process Analysis and Applications Module • Changing Sources of Competitive Advantage • Operational Measures: Time T‚ Inventory I‚ Throughput rate R • • • • Link through Little’s Law Link to Financial Measures Levers for Improvement CRU Computer Rentals S. Chopra/Process Flows 1 How can operations help a company compete? The changing sources of competitive advantage • Low Cost & Scale Economies (< 1960s) – You can have any color you want as long as it is black Focused
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Final Assignment HU Ruonan‚ Student number: 610035877 Candidate number: 021596‚ Tutorial Group: T1/02 Part 1: Diagrammatic Flow Chart Description of activity 1. Going to first meeting at Forum 2. Waiting for group members 3. Talking about the requirement about the presentation 4. Making a rough plan to research deeply by individual 5. Continue communicating via facebook 6. Going to the second meeting 7. Waiting for group members 8. Discussing about the key idea about sustainable
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