LAHORE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

Operations Management
Final Group Project Outline (Weightage 15%)
BBA – IV
Instructor: Dr. Saba Fazal Firdousi
Requirements
• Pick any one Pakistani company either from manufacturing or service sector.
• Apply all concepts from each chapter (mentioned below) and develop a report by implying
all the concepts to score full percentage.
• Report should not be more than 30 pages, excluding references and tables.
• No plagiarism. Final project report will be checked on Turnitin. Less 10% plagiarism is
acceptable.
• Font Style: Times New Roman, Font Size=12, Line Spacing=1, Paragraph=Justified.
Provide proper Table of content.
Deadline: 30th November 2021
Presentations: December 1st week
Outline
Chapter 1
• How the concept of operations management is relevant to your organization?
• Is your selected organization producing goods or providing services? Support your answer
with the distinctive features discussed in class.
• If possible, compute the organization productivity both the total factor productivity and
single factor productivity. Is there any productivity challenge faced by the selected
organization?
• How ethics, social responsibility and sustainability issues are catered in your selected
organization?
Chapter 2
• What is the relevance of operations and effective supply chain management in your
selected organization?
• How your selected organization is achieving competitive advantage through operations?
• Does your selected organization have any issues in their respective operations strategy?
• What is strategy development and implementation process in your selected organization?
• What is strategic planning, core competencies and outsourcing features of your selected
organization?
• Does your selected organization have any global operations strategy options? If, yes make
the graph to show in which quadrant does it fall.
Chapter 3
 • How does the concepts of project planning, scheduling and controlling relevant to your
selected organization?
• Make a work break down structure, list down all the set of activities involved and
accordingly prepare the network diagram. Compute PERT, CPM and project variance.
Chapter 4
• What is the strategic importance of forecasting to your selected organization?
• Which forecasting approaches: Qualitative or Quantitative is most suited for your selected
organization? Apply any of three forecasting techniques to justify your answer.
Chapter 5
• What is the design of goods and services of your selected organization?
• How should your selected organization generate new products?
• What are the issues for product design or service design of your selected organization?
• List down documents required for production in your selected organization.
• Apply the concept of decision trees to product design of your selected organization.
Chapter 6
• How your selected organization applied the concept of quality and strategy?
• Identify the TQM tools applied by your selected organization.
Chapter 7
• Which process strategies are applicable in your selected organizational context. Justify
with rationale.
• Conduct a process analysis and design of your selected organization. Is process redesign
required in your selected organization? If yes, the propose the new process design and its
possible favorable implications.
Chapter 8
• Which factors where take into consideration by your selected organization while deciding
where to locate?
• Which methods of evaluating location alternatives were take into consideration by your
selected organization?
Chapter 9
• Which type of layout is relevant in your selected organizational context? Justify your
answer with reference to scope, objective and practical implications.
Chapter 11
• How supply chains are strategically important for your selected organization?
• Are there any sourcing issues in your selected organization?
• Which sourcing strategies is used by your selected organization?
• Are there any supply chain risks for your selected organization?
• How your selected organization has built the supply base?
 • Is there effective logistics and distribution management by your selected organization?
Which mode of logistics and distribution channels are used by your selected organization?
• Does ethics and sustainable supply chain management is taken into consideration by your
selected organization?
Chapter 12
• Does your selected organization manage inventory?
• Which inventory models are applied by your selected organization?
Chapter 13
• What is the planning process of your selected organization?
• Explain the sales and operations planning of your selected organization?
• What are the aggregate planning strategies applied by your selected organization?
• Which methods of aggregate planning applied by your selected organization?