CRITICAL DECISIONS OF PRODUCTION OR OPERATIONAL MANAGER
1.
Course Title: Production& Operations Management
BBA 7th
Semester
Sessions Title: Introduction to Production & Operations Management
Gul e Faris Zaman
2.
Learning Objectives
• Definitionof Production & Operations Management
(POM)
• Organizational Functions
• Why Study POM?
• Goods Versus Services
• Career opportunities in Production/Operations
Management
3.
What Is Production& Operations
Management?
Production is the creation of goods
and services
Production & Operations
management (POM) is the set of
activities that create value in the
form of goods and services by
transforming inputs into
outputs
4.
Organizing to ProduceGoods and
Services
• Essential functions:
1. Marketing – generates demand
2. Production/operations – creates the
product
3. Finance/accounting – tracks how well
the organization is doing, pays bills,
collects the money
4. Human Resources – provides labor, wage
and salary administration and job
evaluation
Why Study POM?
1.POM is one of four major functions of any
organization, we want to study how people
organize themselves for productive
enterprise.
2. We want (and need) to know how goods
and services are produced
3. We want to understand what operations
managers do
What Production &Operations
Managers Do
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Leading
Controlling
Basic Management Functions
10.
Ten Critical Decisions
TenDecision Areas
1. Design of goods and services
2. Managing quality
3. Process and capacity
design
4. Location strategy
5. Layout strategy
6. Human resources and
job design
7. Supply-chain
management
8. Inventory, MRP, JIT
9. Scheduling
10. Maintenance
11.
The Critical Decisions
1.Design of goods and services
– What good or service should we offer?
– How should we design these products and
services?
2. Managing quality
– How do we define quality?
– Who is responsible for quality?
12.
The Critical Decisions
3.Process and capacity design
– What process and what capacity will these
products require?
– What equipment and technology is
necessary for these processes?
4. Location strategy
– Where should we put the facility?
– On what criteria should we base the
location decision?
13.
The Critical Decisions
5.Layout strategy
– How should we arrange the facility?
– How large must the facility be to meet our
plan?
6. Human resources and job design
– How do we provide a reasonable work
environment?
– How much can we expect our employees to
produce?
14.
The Critical Decisions
7.Supply-chain management
– Should we make or buy this component?
– Who should be our suppliers and how can we
integrate them into our strategy?
8. Inventory, material requirements planning,
and JIT
– How much inventory of each item should we
have?
– When do we re-order?
15.
The Critical Decisions
9.Intermediate and short–term scheduling
– Are we better off keeping people on the
payroll during slowdowns?
– Which jobs do we perform next?
10. Maintenance
– How do we build reliability into our
processes?
– Who is responsible for maintenance?
16.
Characteristics of Goods
Tangible product
Consistent product
definition
Production usually
separate from
consumption
Can be inventoried
Low customer
interaction
17.
Characteristics of Service
Intangible product
Produced and consumed at
same time
Often unique
High customer interaction
Inconsistent product
definition
Often knowledge-based
Frequently dispersed
18.
New Trends inOM
• Global focus
• Environmentally sensitive production
• Rapid product development
• Empowered employees
• Supply-chain partnering
• Just-in-time performance
Entry-Level Jobs inOM
– Purchasing planner/buyer
– Production (or operations) supervisor
– Production (or operations) scheduler/controller
– Production (or operations) analyst
– Inventory analyst
– Quality specialist
– Others …
Editor's Notes
#13 Using this and subsequent slides, you might go through in more detail the decisions of Operations Management. While greater detail is provided by these slides than the earlier one, you may still decide to have the students contribute examples from their own experience.