Operations Strategy in

a Global Environment 2
PowerPoint presentation to accompany
Heizer and Render
Operations Management, Eleventh Edition
Principles of Operations Management, Ninth Edition

PowerPoint slides by Jeff Heyl

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 Reasons to Globalize

1. Improve the supply chain

2. Reduce costs (labor, taxes, tariffs, etc.)
3. Improve operations
4. Understand markets
5. Improve products
6. Attract and retain global talent

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 Improve the Supply Chain
▶ Locating facilities closer to unique
resources
▶ Auto design to California
▶ Athletic shoe production to China
▶ Perfume manufacturing in France

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 Reduce Costs
▶ Foreign locations with lower wage rates
can lower direct and indirect costs
▶ Trade agreements can lower tariffs
▶ Maquiladoras
▶ World Trade Organization (WTO)
▶ North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA)
▶ APEC, SEATO, MERCOSUR, CAFTA
▶ European Union (EU)

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 Improve Operations
▶ Understand differences between
how business is handled in other
countries
▶ Japanese – inventory management
▶ Scandinavians – ergonomics
▶ International operations can
improve response time and
customer service

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 Understand Markets
▶ Interacting with foreign customers,
suppliers, competition can lead to
new opportunities
▶ Cell phone
design moved
from Europe
to Japan
▶ Extend the
product life
cycle

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 Improve Products
▶ Remain open to free flow of ideas
▶ Toyota and BMW manage joint
research and development
▶ Reduced risk, state-of-the-art design,
lower costs
▶ Samsung and Bosch jointly produce
batteries

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 Attract and Retain Global
Talent
▶ Offer better employment
opportunities
▶ Better growth opportunities and
insulation against unemployment
▶ Relocate unneeded personnel to
more prosperous locations

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 Cultural and Ethical Issues
▶ Cultures can be quite different
▶ Attitudes can be quite different
towards
► Punctuality ► Thievery
► Lunch breaks ► Bribery
► Environment ► Child labor
► Intellectual
property

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 Companies Want To Consider
▶ National literacy rate ► Work ethic
▶ Rate of innovation ► Tax rates
▶ Rate of technology ► Inflation
change ► Availability of raw
▶ Number of skilled materials
workers ► Interest rates
▶ Political stability
► Population
▶ Product liability laws ► Number of miles of
▶ Export restrictions highway
▶ Variations in language ► Phone system

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 Match Product & Parent
► Braun Household
Appliances 1. Volkswagen
► Firestone Tires 2. Bridgestone
► Godiva Chocolate 3. Campbell Soup
► Haagen-Dazs Ice 4. Tata Motors Limited
Cream
5. Proctor and Gamble
► Jaguar Autos
6. Nestlé
► MGM Movies
7. Pillsbury
► Lamborghini Autos
8. Sony
► Alpo Petfoods

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 Match Product & Parent
► Braun Household
Appliances 1. Volkswagen
► Firestone Tires 2. Bridgestone
► Godiva Chocolate 3. Campbell Soup
► Haagen-Dazs Ice 4. Tata Motors Limited
Cream
5. Proctor and Gamble
► Jaguar Autos
6. Nestlé
► MGM Movies
7. Pillsbury
► Lamborghini Autos
8. Sony
► Alpo Petfoods

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 Match Product & Country
► Braun Household
Appliances
► Firestone Tires 1. Great Britain
► Godiva Chocolate 2. Germany
► Haagen-Dazs Ice 3. Japan
Cream
4. United States
► Jaguar Autos
5. Switzerland
► MGM Movies
6. India
► Lamborghini Autos
► Alpo Petfoods

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 Match Product & Country
► Braun Household
Appliances
► Firestone Tires 1. Great Britain
► Godiva Chocolate 2. Germany
► Haagen-Dazs Ice 3. Japan
Cream
4. United States
► Jaguar Autos
5. Switzerland
► MGM Movies
6. India
► Lamborghini Autos
► Alpo Petfoods

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 Developing Missions and
Strategies

Mission statements tell an

organization where it is going

The Strategy tells the organization

how to get there

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 Mission
► Mission - where is the organization
going?
► Organization’s purpose for being
► Answers ‘What do we contribute to
society?’
► Provides boundaries and focus

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 Strategy
► Action plan to achieve
mission
► Functional areas have
strategies
► Strategies exploit
opportunities and
strengths, neutralize
threats, and avoid
weaknesses

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 Strategies for Competitive
Advantage

1. Differentiation – better, or at least

different
2. Cost leadership – cheaper
3. Response – more responsive

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 SWOT Analysis

Mission

Internal External
Strengths Opportunities

Analysis

Internal External
Weaknesses Threats

Strategy

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 Strategy Development Process
Analyze the Environment
Identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Understand the environment, customers, industry, and competitors.

Determine the Corporate Mission

State the reason for the firm’s existence and identify the value it
wishes to create.

Form a Strategy
Build a competitive advantage, such as low price, design, or volume
flexibility, quality, quick delivery, dependability, after-sale service,
broad product lines.
Figure 2.6
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 Global Operations Strategy
Options High Global strategy Transnational
(eg, Caterpillar strategy Figure 2.9
Texas Instruments (eg, Coca-Cola, Nestlé)
Otis Elevator) • Move material,
people, ideas across
• Standardize product national boundaries
• Economies of scale • Economies of scale
• Cross-cultural learning • Cross-cultural
Cost Reduction

learning

International Multidomestic
strategy strategy
(eg, Harley-Davidson (eg, Heinz, McDonald’s
U.S. Steel) The Body Shop
Hard Rock Cafe)
• Import/export or • Use existing domestic
license existing model globally
product • Franchise, joint
ventures,
subsidiaries
Low
Low High
Local Responsiveness
(Quick Response and/or Differentiation)
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 Ranking Corruption
Rank Country 2012 CPI Score (out of 100)
1 Demark, Finland, New Zealand 90 Least
4 Sweden 88 Corrupt
5 Singapore 87
6 Switzerland 86
7 Australia, Norway 85
9 Canada, Netherlands 84
13 Germany 79
14 Hong Kong 77
17 Japan, UK 74
19 USA 73
37 Taiwan 61
39 Israel 60
45 South Korea 56 Most
80 China 39 Corrupt
123 Vietnam 31
133 Russia 28
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