Management principles.ppt

Chapter 1 – Basics of
Operations Management
Operations Management
by
R. Dan Reid & Nada R. Sanders
4th Edition © Wiley 2010

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Learning Objectives
 Define and explain OM
 Explain the role of OM in business
 Describe the decisions that operations
managers make
 Describe the differences between service
and manufacturing operations
 Identify major historical developments in
OM

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Learning Objectives – con’t
 Identify current trends in OM
 Describe the flow of information between
OM and other business functions

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Operations Management is:
The business function responsible for
planning, coordinating, and
controlling the resources needed to
produce products and services for a
company

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Operations Management is:
 A management function
 An organization’s core function
 In every organization whether Service
or Manufacturing, profit or Not for profit

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Typical Organization Chart

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What is Role of OM?
 OM Transforms inputs to outputs
 Inputs are resources such as
 People, Material, and Money
 Outputs are goods and services

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OM’s Transformation Process

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OM’s Transformation Role
 To add value
 Increase product value at each stage
 Value added is the net increase between output product
value and input material value
 Provide an efficient transformation
 Efficiency – means performing activities well for least
possible cost

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Manufacturers vs Service
Organizations
 Services:
 Intangible product
 Product cannot be
inventoried
 High customer contact
 Short response time
 Labor intensive
 Manufacturers:
 Tangible product
 Product is inventoried
 Low customer contact
 Longer response time
 Capital intensive

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Similarities for Service/Manufacturers
 Both use technology
 Both have quality, productivity, & response
issues
 Both must forecast demand
 Both can have capacity, layout, and location
issues
 Both have customers, suppliers, scheduling
and staffing issues

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Service vs Manufacturing
 Manufacturing often provides services
 Services often provides tangible goods
 Some organizations are a blend of
service/manufacturing/quasi-
manufacturing Quasi-Manufacturing
(QM) organizations
 QM characteristics include
 Low customer contact & Capital Intensive

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Growth of the Service Sector
 Service sector growing
to 50-80% of non-
farm jobs
 Global competitiveness
 Demands for higher
quality
 Huge technology
changes
 Time based
competition
 Work force diversity

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OM Decisions
 All organizations make decisions and
follow a similar path
 First decisions very broad – Strategic
decisions
 Strategic Decisions – set the direction for the
entire company; they are broad in scope and
long-term in nature

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OM Decisions
 Following decisions focus on specifics -
Tactical decision
 Tactical decisions: focus on specific day-to-day
issues like resource needs, schedules, & quantities
to produce
 are frequent
 Strategic decisions less frequent
 Tactical and Strategic decisions must align

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Plan of Book-Chapters link to Types
of OM Decisions

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Historical Development of OM
 Industrial revolution Late 1700s
 Scientific management Early 1900s
 Human relations movement 1930s-60s
 Management science 1940s-60s
 Computer age 1960s
 Environmental Issues 1970s
 JIT & TQM* 1980s
*JIT= Just in Time, TQM= Total Quality Management

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Historical Development con’t
 Reengineering 1990s
 Global competition 1980s
 Flexibility 1990s
 Time-Based Competition 1990s
 Supply chain Management 1990s
 Electronic Commerce 2000s
 Outsourcing & flattening of world 2000s
For long-run success, companies must place much importance on their
operations

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Today’s OM Environment
 Customers demand better quality, greater
speed, and lower costs
 Companies implementing lean system
concepts – a total systems approach to
efficient operations
 Recognized need to better manage
information using ERP and CRM systems
 Increased cross-functional decision making

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OM in Practice
 OM has the most diverse organizational
function
 Manages the transformation process
 OM has many faces and names such as;
 V. P. operations, Director of supply chains,
Manufacturing manager
 Plant manger, Quality specialists, etc.
 All business functions need information from
OM in order to perform their tasks

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Business Information Flow

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OM Across the Organization
 Most businesses are supported by the
functions of operations, marketing, and
finance
 The major functional areas must
interact to achieve the organization
goals

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OM Across the
Organization – con’t
 Marketing is not fully able to meet customer needs if
they do not understand what operations can produce
 Finance cannot judge the need for capital
investments if they do not understand operations
concepts and needs
 Information systems enables the information flow
throughout the organization
 Human resources must understand job requirements
and worker skills
 Accounting needs to consider inventory management,
capacity information, and labor standards

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Chapter 1 Highlights
 OM is the business function that is responsible for
managing and coordinating the resources needed to
produce a company’s products and services.
 The role of OM is to transform organizational inputs
into company’s products or services outputs
 OM is responsible for a wide range of decisions,
ranging from strategic to tactical.
 Organizations can be divided into manufacturing and
service organizations, which differ in the tangibility of
the product or service

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Chapter 1 Highlights – con’t
 Many historical milestones have shaped OM. Some
of these are the Industrial Revolution, scientific
management, the human relations movement,
management science, and the computer age
 OM is highly important function in today’s dynamic
business environment. Among the trends with
significant impact are just-in-time, TQM,
reengineering, flexibility, time-based competition,
SCM, global marketplace, and environmental issues
 OM works closely with all other business functions

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