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Inputs Outputs
• People
•Technology •Goods
•Capital Transformation
•Equipment Process •Services
•Materials
•Information Quality Maintenance Process
Management Management Improvement
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Basic Organizational Linkages
● The Basic
Organizational
Functions and
Linkages:- Finance
Operations
Marketing HRM
Operations Function and its
Linkages in an Organization
● Operations Management Linkages Operations Support Layer
•Marketing
Inside & Outside the Organization:- •Maintenance
•Quality
Customer Layer •Costing
• Ultimate Customers •Planning
•Dealers •Tooling
•Retailers •Material
•Information Technology
•Design
•Industrial Engineering
Core Operations
Layer of Layer
Innovation •Testing
•Innovation •Assembly Supplier Layer
Strategy •Fabrication •Sub-Contractors
•Research and •Matching •Suppliers
Development •Service Delivery •Other Service Providers
System
Operations Management;
A Systems Perspective
● The basic inputs in an operating system are labour,
material and capital
● Processing includes the various activities that an
operating system undertakes to convert the raw
material into useful products for the consumers
● An important aspect of operations management is
estimating the demand for your “Product/
Services”. This is done through a process of
“Forecasting”
Operations Management (OM)
Functions
● The important OM functions can be understood
by:-
1) Categorizing them as “Design Issues” and “Control
Issues”
2) Classifying them as “Long Term Issues” and “Short
Term Issues”, based on the “Planning Horizon”
Design Issues (Long Term) Operational Control Issues (Short Term)
Product Design and Development Demand Forecasting
Process Design Production Planning & Control
Quality Management Supply Chain Management
Location & Layout of Facilities Maintenance Management
Capacity Planning Continuous improvement of Operations
Challenges in Operations Management