QHO532 Operations Management

1. To understand what operations management is and the principal elements of business operations management.
2. To understand the fundamentals for designing and planning processes and assess their performance impacts on organisational efficiency.
3. To understand ideas and techniques for managing materials flow and inventory efficiently.
4. Formulate an operations strategy.
5. Explain how to plan and manage an operations function and report on the optimum layout for specific types of process work flows and process technologies.
6. Evaluate methodologies that will assist with the management of change within operations management in order to improve the overall competitiveness of the business.

Select an international manufacturing organisation such as Caterpillar, Jaguar, Toyota, Samsung, Apple Volkswagen Group or any other appropriate organisation and prepare an individual 2500 words report in which you review and design an improved operations strategy for the Company applying the operations strategy concepts and issues that have been covered in the module

1. You are a new operations manager at the chosen company, and you are required to apply operations management methodologies that will assist with an improved operations strategy for the organisation in the current global business environment. You are tasked with writing a plan in the form of a report to the selected company's Board of Directors and senior executives.
2. The new strategy needs to incorporate the topics covered in the module: including operations performance, design, layout and flow; control and capacity management, inventory planning, lean operations and supply chain management.
3. Develop a plan and illustrate an operations strategy that will integrate with the resource requirements and relevant other business functions..
4. Critically assess managerial skills and competencies required for management of operations in a rapidly changing commercial and technological environment for the company. You need to identify and analyse the new operations management roles that will be needed in the company's Head office to cope with the competition..
5. Evaluate and make appropriate recommendations to the board in your plan methodologies that will assist with the management of change within operations management in order to improve supply chain, quality and lean management of operations and improve the overall competitiveness of the business.

(Tips consider manufacturing/operation process, operations performance, design, layout & flow, control & capacity management, inventory, lean operations and supply chain management,).

(NB: Use relevant theoretical and conceptual models as covered in the module to support your analysis).