4M’s of OPERATIONS

Objective
Describe the 4Ms (Manpower, Method, Machine, Materials) of operations in relation to the business
opportunity
Develop a product description
Create a prototype;
Test the product prototype
Video Presentation
Crazy food processing machine
Retrieved via: youtube.com
PRODUCTION
The economic process of converting raw materials into products suitable for exchange
example
Honey Manufacturing
Mushroom Manufacturing
Ham Manufacturing
4M’s of OPERATIONS
What are those?
MANPOWER
Refers to the WORKFORCE, whom will help a business to produce more products.An entrepreneur
needs to hire good and competent people to produce quality products
Refers to the devices and equipment used to perform specific type of work and usually uses energy
(electricity) to perform a task.
i.e: in food industries, food processors are indispensable in producing products.
Pertains anything used as inputs to production or manufacturing.
It can be a finished product or unprocessed raw materials
Raw materials are first harvested, extracted and processed to produce semi-finished materials.
METHOD
Refers to the ways of producing a particular product from raw materials.
This may refer to traditional method, such as producing the product manually, or it may be machine-
assisted and automated
Group Activity
Group 1 and 2 are rivals
Watch the following video
Identify the type of manufacturing
Identify the manpower, material, method and machine: BRAINSTORMING
Write the output in 1 whole sheet of paper; present the output.
Video Presentation
How it’s made; retrieved via: youtube.com
Product Description
8 rules to write Product Description
1. Know who your Target Audience is:
What are his/her interest, generally.
How would this person be interested in your product, specifically?
What features or benefits would interest this person the most?
2. Focus on the Product Benefits
The content of your product should convince the potential buyer
3. Tell the full story
Who originally made this product?
What inspired you to make this product?
Whow was this product look in the buyers day to day life?
4. Use Natural Language and Tone
The product description uses natural language that you might use in real conversation with a friend.
Tone sounds natural and is in line with the general tone of the brand, overall.
5. Use Power Words that Sell
Examples: Amazing, Audacity, Eye-opening, Grateful, Delicious, Miracle, Stunning, Uplifting, Breath-
taking, Mind-Blowing, Victory, Spectacular, Sensational, etc..
. Make it Easy to scan
Make your product description easy to scan by including bullet point, short paragraphs made up of a
just few sentences each, lots of white space, and different size fonts.
7. Optimize for search engines
Optimization begins with keywords, which are usually the search term that buyers use to find the
product that they are shopping for.
Use Good Images
Product must have quality images to go with it. Why? Because 63% customers think that a product
image is more important than the description or even the reviews.
Sample Product Description
Group Activity
Go to your own respective groups
Create a brief description of your chosen product and develop a prototype according to its features
Write your sentences in a 1 whole sheet of paper and present your prototype
Output will be evaluated through rubrics
References
Referralcandy.com
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