Assignment 1: Vice President of Operations, Part 1
Scenario: Imagine that you are the vice president of operations at a production
or service organization. You have noticed that your organization’s current
operations strategy is not supporting the challenges that the organization is
presently facing. In order to maintain a competitive edge, you must address
these challenges with your Chief Executive Officer immediately.
Select an existing production organization. Analyze
the organization’s current vision, mission, business strategy, operation
strategy, supply chain, total quality management, just-in-time philosophy,
forecasting method, statistical technique, facility location, work design,
project life cycle, and project management. Note: You will need
this information in order to complete this and subsequent assignments.
As you collect the information for Assignment 1 and
Assignment 2, remember that in Assignment 3 you must prepare a presentation for
your Chief Executive Officer.
Write a five (5) page paper in which you:
1. Evaluate key elements of the selected production or
service organization’s operational efficiency with its operational strategy.
Determine three (3) tasks that do not align with the operational strategy.
Determine the weaknesses that are evident in each task.
2. Formulate a new operations strategy for the
selected organization based on the four (4) competitive priorities (i.e., cost,
quality, time, and flexibility).
3. Analyze both the structure of the competitive
priorities and infrastructure of the production process. Develop three (3) new
enablers that are aligned with the long-term plan of the selected organization.
Evaluate three (3) pros and three (3) cons of the new enablers.
4. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources
in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as
academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font
(size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must
follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
assignment page length.The specific course learning outcomes associated with
this assignment are:
· Analyze the differences between service and
manufacturing operations management to identify planning considerations.
· Formulate an operations strategy to conduct
production or service operations.
· Explain how an operations strategy impacts product
design and process selection.Use technology and information resources to
research issues in operations management.
· Write clearly and concisely about operations
management using proper writing mechanics.
