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Operations Management: William J. Stevenson
Operations Management: William J. Stevenson
Operations Management
William J. Stevenson
8th edition
2-2 Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity
CHAPTER
2
Competitiveness, Strategy,
and Productivity
Competitiveness:
Flexibility
Inventory management
Services
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Mission/Strategy/Tactics
Strategy
Strategies
Plans for achieving organizational goals
Mission
The reason for existence for an organization
Mission Statement
Answers the question “What business are we in?”
Goals
Provide detail and scope of mission
Tactics
The methods and actions taken to accomplish strategies
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Mission
Goals
Organizational Strategies
Functional Goals
Strategy Example
Example 1
Rita is a high school student. She would like to have a
career in business, have a good job, and earn enough
income to live comfortably
Mission: Live a good life
Goal: Successful career, good income
Strategy: Obtain a college education
Tactics: Select a college and a major
Operations: Register, buy books, take
courses, study, graduate, get job
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Examples of Strategies
Low cost
Scale-based strategies
Specialization
Flexible operations
High quality
Service
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Distinctive Competencies
The special attributes or abilities that give an
organization a competitive edge.
Price
Quality
Time
Flexibility
Service
Location
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Strategy Formulation
Distinctive competencies
Environmental scanning
SWOT
Order qualifiers
Order winners
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Strategy Formulation
Order qualifiers
Characteristics that customers perceive as
minimum standards of acceptability to be
considered as a potential purchase
Order winners
Characteristics of an organization’s goods or
services that cause it to be perceived as better
than the competition
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Economic conditions
Political conditions
Legal environment
Technology
Competition
Markets
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Human Resources
Facilities and equipment
Financial resources
Customers
Technology
Suppliers
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Operations Strategy
Quality-based strategies
Focuses on maintaining or
improving the quality of an
organization’s products or
services
Quality at the source
Time-based strategies
Focuses on reduction of time
needed to accomplish tasks
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Time-based Strategies
Planning
Designing
Processing
Changeover On time!
Delivery
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Productivity
Productivity
A measure of the effective use of resources,
usually expressed as the ratio of output to input
Productivity ratios are used for
Planning workforce requirements
Scheduling equipment
Financial analysis
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Productivity
Partial measures
output/(single input)
Multi-factor measures
output/(multiple inputs)
Total measure
output/(total inputs)
Outputs
Productivity =
Inputs
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Productivity Growth
Productivity Growth =
Current Period Productivity – Previous Period Productivity
Previous Period Productivity
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Measures of Productivity
Table 2.4
Example 3
Example 3 Solution
MFP = Output
Labor + Materials + Overhead
MFP = 2.20
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Capital Quality
Technology Management
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Standardization
Quality
Use of Internet
Computer viruses
Scrap rates
New workers
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Safety
Shortage of IT workers
Layoffs
Labor turnover
Bottleneck Operation
Figure 2.3
10/hr
Machine
Machine #1
#1
10/hr
Machine
Machine #2
#2 Bottleneck
Bottleneck 30/hr
Operation
Operation
Machine
Machine #3
#3 10/hr
Machine
Machine #4
#4 10/hr
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Improving Productivity