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BUSINESS PLUG-IN B16. Operations Management. LEARNING OUTCOMES. Define the term operations management Explain operations management role in business. LEARNING OUTCOMES. Describe the correlation between operations management and information technology
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BUSINESS PLUG-IN B16 Operations Management
LEARNING OUTCOMES • Define the term operations management • Explain operations management role in business
LEARNING OUTCOMES • Describe the correlation between operations management and information technology • Describe the five characteristics of competitive priorities
OM FUNDAMENTALS • Production - is the creation of goods and services using the factors of production • Production management - describes all the activitiesmanagers do to help companies create goods • Operations management (OM) - the management of systems or processes that convert or transform resources into goods and services
OM FUNDAMENTALS • Transformation process - the actual conversion of inputs to outputs
OM FUNDAMENTALS • Value-added - the term used to describe the difference between the cost of inputs and the value of price of outputs
OM IN BUSINESS • How does an airline service organization’s OM team adds value? • Forecasting • Capacity planning • Scheduling • Managing inventory • Assuring quality • Motivating and training employees • Locating facilities
IT’S ROLE IN OM • Managers use IT to heavily influence OM decisions including : • What: What resources will be needed and in what amounts? • When: When should the work be scheduled? • Where: Where will the work be performed? • How: How will the work be done? • Who: Who will perform the work?
OM Strategic Business Systems • Operations strategy addresses broad questions about using major resources to achieve corporate objectives • Major long-term issues addressed in operations strategy include: • How big to make the facilities? • Where to locate the facilities? • When to build additional facilities? • What type of process(es) to install to make the products?
OM Strategic Business Systems • Strategic planning - focuses on long range planning • Strategic business units (SBUs) - consist of several stand-alone businesses • Materials requirement planning (MRP) - use sales forecasts to make sure that needed parts and materials are available at the right time and place
OM Strategic Business Systems • Tactical planning - focuses on producing goods and services as efficiently as possible within the strategic plan • Global inventory management system - provides the ability to locate, track, and predict the movement of every component or material anywhere upstream or downstream in the production process
OM Strategic Business Systems • Operational planning and control (OP&C) - deals with the day-to-day procedures for performing work, including scheduling, inventory, and process management • Inventory management and control system • Transportation planning system • Distribution management system
COMPETITIVE OM STRATEGY • Five key competitive priorities which a company can add value to its OM decisions including: • Cost • Quality • Delivery • Flexibility • Service
COMPETITIVE OM STRATEGY • Cost: There can be only one lowest-cost producer, and that firm usually establishes the selling price in the market • Quality: Is divided into two categories product and process quality • Six Sigma Quality • Malcolm Balridge National Quality Awards • ISO 900, ISO 14000 • CMMI
COMPETITIVE OM STRATEGY • Delivery: a firms ability to provide consistent and fast delivery • Flexibility: a firms ability to offer a wide variety of products • Service: high-quality customer service adds tremendous value to an ordinary product
OM AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN • Supply chain - consists of all parties involved, directly or indirectly, in the procurement of a product or raw material • Supply Chain Management(SCM) – involves the management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability
OM AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN • Typical manufacturing supply chain
OM AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN • Typical service supply chain
CLOSING CASE ONEHow Levi’s Got Its Jeans into Wal-Mart • How did Levi Strauss achieve business success through the use of supply chain management? • What might have happened to Levi’s if its top executives had not supported investments in SCM? • David Bergen, Levi’s CIO, put together a cross-functional team of key managers from IT, finance, and sales to transform Levi’s systems to meet Wal-Mart’s requirements. Analyze the relationships between these three business areas and OM. How can OM systems help support these three critical business areas?
CLOSING CASE ONEHow Levi’s Got Its Jeans into Wal-Mart • Describe the five basic SCM components in reference to Wal-Mart’s business model • Explain RFID and provide an example of how Levi’s could use the technology to increase its business operations • Identify any security and ethical issues that might occur for a company doing business with Wal-Mart
CLOSING CASE TWOThe Digital Hospital • Why would operations management be a critical component to a hospital? • How would a hospital use each of the three OM planning strategies to improve its operations? • How might a hospital use each of the five competitive priorities to increase value to its goods and services?