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What is Operations?

What is Operations?. Operations – One Word. Efficiency Production Supply Boring Team building Decision making Strategy BLAH! Unfamiliar Never heard of it Mathwork. So, you want to start a cheese steak shop . . . What are the three most important decisions to start a steak shop?.

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What is Operations?

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  1. What is Operations?

  2. Operations – One Word • Efficiency • Production • Supply • Boring • Team building • Decision making • Strategy • BLAH! • Unfamiliar • Never heard of it • Mathwork

  3. So, you want to start a cheese steak shop . . . What are the three most important decisions to start a steak shop? What are the three most important decisions in running a steak shop?

  4. So, you want to start a cheese steak shop . . . Where should we locate? . Facility location

  5. Cheese Steak shop . . . Predict steak sales? . Forecasting

  6. So, you want to start a cheese steak shop How should you design the shop to meet potential customer needs?? Quality management

  7. So, you want to start a cheese steak shop . . . Where should we locate? Interior layout? . Facility layout

  8. Cheese steak shop . . . How do we manage the construction project? . Project management

  9. Cheese steak shop… How should we spend our advertising budget? . Resource allocation

  10. Cheese steak shop… QUALITY… Order qualifier or Order winner? How well are we doing relative to our competitors? Productivity measures .

  11. Cheese steak shop… Tracking ingredients Product quality? Ensuring steaks have enough steak Quality management .

  12. Cheese steak shop… How can we improve customer service? Focus on most important problems Safety stock to maintain service levels? …when to reorder? Balancing customer service with cost Service system management . Inventory control

  13. Cheese steak shop… Evaluating expansion plans Additional capacity? Decision trees . Capacity decisions

  14. Cheese steak shop… Which shops should ship to which customers? (and how much) . Supply Chain Management

  15. Cheese steak shop… How much / when to produce in aggregate? How many workers to have each period? .

  16. Cheese steak shop… How much/when to produce … …meal components? .

  17. Where we are going… Module 1: Foundation intro, strategy Module 2: Analyzing the Market forecasting, location, capacity Module 3: Creating a value proposition product design, process choice, project management Module 4: Systems improvement process analysis, quality, inventory Module 5: Systems Integration supply chain, lean systems .

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