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Operations Management

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In charge of supplying products and services in the right amount, at the right place, at the right time and at the right quality.

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Corporate Sustainability

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Business approach that creates long-term value through green strategy aimed at natural environment that considers how a business operates in social, cultural, and economic context

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Shareholders

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People who have an equity share in a company

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Stakeholders

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Shareholders, employees, customers, society, interested institutions; anybody/group involved with the company

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Scholastic + Harry Potter

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Distributed millions, no info leak, coordinated, sustainable.
Done through bypassing warehouses, thousands of trucks, same-size pallets, and GPS transponders to coordinate delivery

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Apple

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Had to double production to keep up with demand. Leader in operations –> former COO Tim Cook became CEO. Understands impact of products, life cycles, and supply chain.

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Marketing

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Creates demand and generates sales of outputs

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Operations

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Supplies good and services while also translating materials/services into outputs

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Finance

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Manages resources/capital and acquires them for the inputs

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Support Functions

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Include accounting , IT, HR, and engineering

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Process

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Activity of activity group that takes input(s) and transforms them into output(s)

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Manufacturing Process Characteristics

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Physical, durable input
Output can be inventoried
Low customer contact
Long response time
Capital intense
Quality easily measured
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Service Process Characteristics

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Intangible/perishable input
Output can't be inventoried
High customer contact
Short response time
Labor intense
Quality hard to measure
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Core Processes

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Set of activities that directly deliver value to external customers and help drive core competencies

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Support Processes

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Provides vital resources/inputs to core processes and are essential

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4 kinds of Core Processes

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Supplier relationship process
New service/product development
Order fulfillment process
Customer relationship process

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Supplier relationship process

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Process that selects that suppliers of services, materials, and information and facilitates inflow of these

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New service/product development

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Process to design and develop new services or products from customer/market inputs

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Order fulfillment process

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A process to produce and deliver services or products to the external customer

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Customer relationship process

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A process that identifies, attracts and builds relationships with external customers and facilitates the placement of orders

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Corporate Strategy

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Provides an overall direction that serves as the framework for carrying out organizations functions (such as finance, marketing and operations).
It includes the firms overall goals with its core competences.

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Environmental Scannning

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Understanding key trends in industry/marketplace/society and economic trends, technological changes, and political conditions

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Core Competencies

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Identifying the unique resources and strengths.

Examples include workforce, facilities, sector understanding, cutting-edge/proprietary technology, etc

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Global Strategies

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Having a response to global trends, opportunities and risks; can take form of strategic alliances and overseas expansion

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Market Analysis
Consists of market segmentation and needs assessment
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Market Segmentation
Find a group of customers with enough in common to warrant the design and provision of products and services
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Needs Assessment:
Identify customers needs and understand how well competitors are addressing those needs.
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Competitive Priorities
What you want to deliver; the critical dimensions that a process or supply chain must possess to satisfy its internal or external customers, both now and in the future
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Competitive Capabilities
What you can deliver; the cost, quality, time, and flexibility dimensions that a process or supply chain actually possesses and is able to deliver.
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Order Qualifiers
The minimum level required from a set of criteria for a firm to do business in a particular market segment; allows product to be considered but not selected for final purchase; only positions firm to compete
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Order Winners
The criterion customers use to differentiate the services or products of one firm from those of another (and make a final decision).
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Example Order Winners
Low price, quality, time, flexibility, after sale support, tech support, reputation
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Southwest Airlines
Priorities: Deliver connection services at low cost, timely and frequent. Product Planning: Minimize costs and idle land-time, simplify operations, pleasant travel, on-time performance Process Planning: No ticket/seat reservations, no meals, no baggage transfer, lean/quick processes, flexible employees, secondary airport usage Order Winners: Frequent/reliable departures, lean/flexible/productive ground and gate crew, high aircraft utilization/standardization, low ticket price, limited service, short routes
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3 trends in Ops Management
Productivity Improvement Global Competition Ethical/Workforce Diversity and Environmental Issues
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Productivity Meaning/Equation
The value of outputs (services and products) produced divided by the values of input resources (wages, costs of equipment, etc.) Productivity = Outputs' Value/Inputs' Value
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Labor Productivity
Labor Productivity = (Units of Work Done)/(Employee Hours)
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Global Competition
Advantages: Increased market penetration, comparative cost advantages Disadvantages: Political risks, lower skilled workers, vulnerability to supply chain disruptions
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4 Decisions of Process Strategy
Process Structure, Customer Involvement, Resource Flexibility, and Capital Intensity
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Process Structure
Determines process type relative to kinds of resources needed and characteristics. Includes layout decisions
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Dimensions of Customer Contact (Services)
Physical presence, what is processed, contact intensity, personal attention, and method of delivery
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Front Office
High customer interaction and customization. | Flexible flows with individualized processes
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Hybrid Office
Some customer interaction, standard services with some options Flexible flows but with dominant paths, and few exceptions to workflow
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Back Office
Low customer interaction and very standardized | Line flows, and routine work done the same for all customers
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Job Process
Low-volume products made to order | Customized process with flexible/unique task sequence
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Batch Process
Multiple products of low/moderate volume | Disconnected line flow, moderately repetitive
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Line Process
Few major products, high volume | Connected line, highly repetitive
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Continuous-Flow Process
High volume/standardization, usually commodity products | Continuous flow
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Make-to-Order
Built exactly to customer specifications
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Make-to-Stock
Mass production, created to fill a forecasted need
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Assemble-to-Order
Made of modular parts; involves mass production of modules, which can then be mass customized through postponement of creation until customer orders
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Layouts
Efficient layout can reduce handling, lower costs, and maintain product flow
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Walmart
Corporate strategy is based around quality goods at competitive prices Operations strategy involves short flow times and low inventory levels Operations structure involves cross docking, EDI (electronic data interchange), logistics, focused locations, store-supplier communication
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Key to Walmart's Low Prices
Huge volume of sales Supply chain that maximizes efficiencies and reduces outlays Minimizes overhead and operational cost Leverages bargaining power to force suppliers to lower prices
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Customer Involvement
Way in which customers become part of the process and participate; essential to service processes Process and equipment must be easy/friendly to use
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Starbucks
Process, layout, cup, and communications are designed to deal with high variety/volumes of drinks 80,000 drinks possible, done using universal code Coffee cups are a concise/clear medium of communication between cashier and barista
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Advantages of Customer Involvement
Better net value/quality/delivery speed/flexibility to customer, lower costs, supply chain coordination, more accommodating process revisions
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Disadvantages of Customer Involvement
Disruptive, time/volume management can be challenging, hard to measure quality, interpersonal skills needed, revised layouts, multiple locations may be needed
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Resource Flexibility
Ease with which employees and equipment can handle a wide variety of products, output levels, duties and functions.
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General-Purpose Equipment
If you are producing at Low Volumes Low investment/fixed cost, but may have high variable cost May be good to do the job but not at peak efficiency
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Special-Purpose Equipment
High volumes and low customization | High investment/fixed cost, but may have lower variable cost
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Break-Even Quantity
Point at which special/general purpose equipment would give you same returns. Under this quantity is general purpose, over is special-purpose On plot of relationship between process cost and product volume
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Break-Even Quantity Formula
F = Fixed; V = Variable | F1 - F2)/(V2-V1
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Capital Intensity
Mix of equipment and human skills in a process | Greater the cost of equipment relative to cost of labor, the greater the capital intensity
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Automation
Replacing human operations/control of machinery with programmed control Can happen in manufacturing or service processes
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Robot
Programmable machine capable of manipulating materials Suited for dangerous, tedious, dirty, and labor-intense tasks Flexible and don't get tired
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Economies of Scope
Economies that reflect the ability to produce multiple products more cheaply in combination than separately.
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Strategic Fit
The degree to which an organization is matching its resources and capabilities with the opportunities in the external environment
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Link between Competitive Priorities and Process Choice
Job/Small Batch - Quality, on-time delivery, flexibility | Large Batch/Line/Continuous Flow - Low-cost ops, consistency, delivery speed
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Link between Competitive Priorities and Inventory Strategy
Make to Order - Quality, on-time delivery, flexibility Assemble to Order - Delivery speed, variety Make to Stock - Low-cost ops, delivery speed
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High-Customer Contact Process Characteristics
More divergence and flexible flows More customer involvement More resource flexibility Volume-varying capital intensity
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Low Customer-Contact Process Characteristics
Less divergence and more line flows Less customer involvement Less resource flexibility Volume-varying capital intensity
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Low Volume, Make to Order Process Characteristics
More divergence and flexible flows More customer involvement More resource flexibility Less capital intensity
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High Volume, Make to Stock Process Characteristics
Less divergence and more line flows Less customer involvement Less resource flexibility More capital intensity
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Process Improvement
Systematic study of the activities and flows of each process in order to improve it. Involves continuous marginal improvements
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Process Reengineering
Coming up with a radical new design of business processes to dramatically improve costs, quality, speed, and/or service Key Elements: Critical processes, strong leadership, cross-functional teams, information technology, clean-slate, and process analysis
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Amazon
4 competitive priorities: Delivery speed (distribution centers, robots, inventory, direct shipping), variety, customization (many products in unique order per customer), and low-cost ops (high selling volume and logistic-oriented supply chain)
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Factors Spurring Supply Chain Improvement
Global competition, shorter product life cycle, low-cost distribution channels, better informed customers, internet/E-Business
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Global Competition Facts
Brazil is an expensive place to produce Chinese manufacturing is more expensive than Mexican and almost the same as American Manufacturing cost in Eastern Europe are similar to those of USA UK is lowest cost manufacturer in Western Europe
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Shorter Product Life Cycles
Need to replace products every few years to keep up with demand forces companies to streamline their supply networks Rapid and sharp fluctuations in demand also call for supply chains that are flexible
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Supply Chain Management
Efficient integration of suppliers, factories, warehouses and stores so that merchandise is produced and distributed in the right quantities, to the right locations and at the right time, and so as to minimize total system cost subject to satisfying service requirements.
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List of Competitive Priorities
Low-cost ops, quality, consistency, delivery speed, on-time delivery, development speed, customization, variety, volume flexibility
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Supply Chain Measures
Inventory measures and Financial measures
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Inventory Measures
Average Aggregate Inventory Value, Weeks of Supply, Inventory Turnover
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Average Aggregate Inventory Formula
(# of units)(value of A) + (# of units)(value of B) .....
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Weeks of Supply Formula
Average Aggregate Inventory Value/Weekly Sales (at cost)
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Inventory Turnover Formula
Annual Sales (at cost)/Average Aggregate Inventory Value

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