Chapter 1 Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management 1-1 Lecture Outline • Why do we need to study Production & Operations Management? • What Operations and Supply Chain Managers Do? • The Operations Function • Evolution of Operations and Supply Chain Management • Globalization • Productivity and Competitiveness • Strategy and Operations • Learning Objectives for This Course Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1-2 Why do we need to study POM? • It is not my major?!!
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Relief Operations Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Factors Influencing Service Process Design 5 2.1 Disaster Preparedness 5 2.2 Disaster Response 7 2.3 Collaboration during Disasters 10 3. Project Management and Humanitarian Logistics 10 4. Conclusion 12 Bibliography 13 Appendix 1 – List of figures 16 Service process design: Emergency Telecommunications Cluster during Humanitarian Disaster Relief Operations 1. Introduction On 8 November
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Solectron Supply Chain Management Best Practice Background Solectron was founded in 1977 as the as the “Solar Energy Company”, and originally produced solar energy products. Today it is a worldwide provider of electronics manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s). The company provides customized, integrated manufacturing services that span all three stages of the product life cycle, including pre-manufacturing, manufacturing, and post-manufacturing (see Table 1)
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Chapter !, What is “operations”? * Production and delivery of goods and services * What is “management”? * Plan * Implement * Control * Essential business functions * Marketing * Finance Operations * Important terminology * Tier, echelon * Customer versus consumer * Upstream versus downstream * Inbound versus outbound * Consumer demand versus derived demand All demand is derived from consumers
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Penn State University Press Historical Perspective of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Discipline Author(s): R. Neil Southern Source: Transportation Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Winter 2011), pp. 53-64 Published by: Penn State University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/transportationj.50.1.0053 Accessed: 08-10-2015 12:36 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms
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resulting lack of definition has led to confusion and fuzzy boundaries with other management concepts. Summarising the lean evolution, this paper comments on approaches that have sought to address some of the earlier gaps in lean thinking. Linking the evolution of lean thinking to the contingency and learning organisation schools of thought, the objective of this paper is to provide a framework for understanding the evolution of lean not only as a concept, but also its implementation within an organisation
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MBA 382: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Credit Units: 03 SESSION PLAN- SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT FACULTY: PROF.A.RAMASWAMY IYENGAR Marks: Hundred. Objective: The aim of this course is to develop the understanding of the various components of the integrated supply chain. The learning is focused on developing the supply chain to suit domestic as well as global markets. Session No | Topic | Pedagogy | Student name | evaluation | 01 | Introduction of
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Supply Chain Frameworks Customer-supplier relationship management models and frameworks can also be viewed within the context of the different types of supply chain models that exhibit customer-supplier relationship management. This will include a variety of supply chain models which address customer-supplier relationships such as HP, SCOR, GSCF, and IUE-SSC model. These models identify customer-supplier relationships by adopting two differing views; product and service supply chain view. Product
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Describe how the purchasing function and the evolution of supply management has changed over the last 20 years (1995 - 2015)? Purchasing in the mid 90’s began as a process used to carry out an organization’s mission within the workplace. Since then, the purchasing function has grown to include supply management used largely throughout the world. Early on when the purchasing process was identified and defined, people began to notice that the acquisition of goods and services was more difficult
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APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional Exam Content Outline I. Supply Chain Management (SCM) Fundamentals (30%) A. Overview of supply chain management 1. Supply chain management process overview 2. Definitions of supply chain, supply chain management, including reverse supply chain 3. Value and benefits of supply chain management (using the supply chain to improve profitability and decrease
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