production and operations management concepts
The purpose of this discussion exercise is to provide you with a forum to discuss your newly discovered production and operations management concepts in light of current issues and real world situations. In essence, it is a practice ground for ensuring that your reasoning and foundation of these concepts are secure. This portion of the course requires you to interact with your fellow classmates and critique their submissions.
After completing the textbook assignments, lectures, and other materials above, select at least one of the unit concepts below. Then find a current event in an article at the online periodical listed to illustrate that concept. Compose an analysis of that event or situation using the unit operations concept that you selected. Review the grading rubric if necessary to understand how your postings are scored.
Unit Learning Outcome: CLO 1,2,3,5
Directions:
The unit textbook concepts for our discussion this unit are
- Competitive priorities (select one) and Operations strategy:
- Cost or Price--Make the product or deliver the service at the lowest cost.
- Time--Make the product or deliver the service quickly
- Flexibility--Produce a wide range of products.
- Differences between manufacturing and service operations.
- Supply Chain Management decisions.
- Sustainability and Green Management decisions in Operations.
- Productivity in the Operations function.
Notice that all of these topics refer to the Operations function of a business, to manufacture a product or create a service. We all know that these topics may be used in other business functions, such as in marketing or finance, but for the discussions in this course please focus on Operations examples and articles.
Select one of these concepts and find a current related article that describes it at Manufacturing.Net: http://www.manufacturing.net/ (Links to an external site.) or at the Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com (Links to an external site.) (you can use the Wall Street Journal every unit in this course).
You’ll find one (or several current articles) to analyze. Remember to focus upon your selected operations concept in your analysis. After reviewing and analyzing one of the current events articles, post your analysis and comments to your classmates below.
Try to choose the concept that has been addressed the least by your classmates. Your analysis post is due by Midnight (Central Time) Thursday.
Next, respond to at least three classmates’ posts by Midnight (Central Time) Sunday. Remember to focus upon the unit concept and their conclusions and do not merely repeat your view of the article content.
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