Production and Operations Management
Production and Operations Management
Production and Operations Management
OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT
Chapter 2
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENET
Chapter 2
Strategic Operations
Management
Steps
Step 1 : Select the corporate mission and major corporate
goals.
Step 2 :Analyse the opportunities and threats or
constraints that exist in the external environment.
Also analyse the strengths and weaknesses that
exist in internal environment.
Step 3 : Formulate strategies that will match the
organisation's strengths and weaknesses with the
environment's threats and opportunities.
Step 4 : Implement the strategies.
Step 5 : Evaluate and control activities to ensure that the
organisation's objectives are achieved.
Elements of Production\Operations
Strategy
Operations strategy comprises six components :
1. Positioning the production system,
2. Focus of factories and service facilities,
3. Product/Service design and development,
4. Technology selection and process development,
5. Allocation of resources to strategic alternatives,
and
6. Facility planning.