Lecture 1 Introduction to Operations Management

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Summary

TLDRThis introductory lecture on operations management explains fundamental concepts such as the production of goods and services, the supply chain, and the transformational process involved in creating value. It highlights the distinction between goods (tangible products) and services (intangible activities) and elaborates on the supply chain's role from suppliers to customers. The transformational process is explained as converting inputs (like raw materials and labor) into outputs (goods/services) with feedback loops for continuous improvement. The lecture further discusses why operations management is crucial for various sectors, underlying the dependencies and collaboration between operations, marketing, and finance in an organization. Key topics such as the historical evolution from craft production to the Industrial Revolution, scientific management, and the human relations movement are covered. It touches upon the impact of Japanese influence on modern operations management focusing on quality and just-in-time production. Current challenges in operations management, including economic conditions, innovation, quality management, risk management, global competition, and sustainability, are also explored. Lastly, it addresses the ethics of operations management and supply chain management’s role in efficiently managing resources, fostering innovation, and aligning with environmental and ethical standards.

Takeaways

  • 📦 **Operations management** involves managing processes responsible for producing goods or providing services.
  • 🔄 **Supply chain** encompasses all activities and organizations from production to delivery of goods/services.
  • ⚙️ **Transformational process** converts inputs into goods/services, adding value with feedback loops for improvement.
  • 🔧 **Goods vs Services** - Goods are tangible, services are intangible activities providing value through various factors.
  • 🌍 **Global dependencies** - Understanding operational impacts on business success and global interrelations.
  • 🏭 **Historical evolution** - From craft production, Industrial Revolution to scientific management and quality innovations.
  • ♻️ **Sustainability** - Emphasizes ecological balance, incorporating social and environmental criteria in operations.
  • 🔍 **System approach** - Systems perspective showcasing interrelated business parts working together for greater outcomes.
  • ⚖️ **Ethical considerations** - Managing operations with a focus on ethical issues like safety, quality, environment.
  • 🛠 **Managerial roles** - Operations managers make strategic (design) and tactical (operational) decisions in organizations.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The lecture introduces operations management, defining it as managing systems that create goods or services. Goods are tangible items like cars, while services include activities like air travel. The supply chain involves suppliers producing goods/services, leading to distribution and delivery to customers. The transformational process adds value by converting inputs (e.g., raw materials) into outputs (goods/services) and includes feedback loops for improvements.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The transformational process entails converting inputs into outputs, like turning raw materials into a meal in a restaurant. Feedback from outputs (e.g., customer complaints about food) or inputs (e.g., rotten lettuce) can lead to adjustments in the process. The goods and services continuum shows products often blend both elements, like restaurants offering food (goods) and dining experience (services). Operations management is crucial for understanding business impact and global dependencies, integrating finance and marketing with operations.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Organizations have three main functions: marketing, operations, and finance. These areas overlap, affecting each other. Marketing informs operations about customer needs, while finance budgets operations. Understanding these intersections helps manage operations effectively. Operations management career paths include roles like Operations Manager and Quality Control. Professional bodies support these roles with resources and networking opportunities.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Operations management requires aligning supply with demand to avoid waste, exemplified by restaurants having more food than customers or vice versa. Process variation, from varied goods/services to unpredictable events, affects operations efficiency. Managing this variation is crucial for maintaining quality and efficiency, impacting cost, delays, and customer satisfaction.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Operations managers focus on both system design (strategic, long-term decisions like facility layout) and system operation (tactical, day-to-day decisions like scheduling and quality control). Decision-making involves model use, understanding its purpose, results, and assumptions. The systems approach views organizations as interrelated parts, emphasizing that the whole's performance surpasses individual components'. Strategic prioritisations, like the Pareto principle (focusing on critical elements), optimize resources and impact.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    The evolution of operations management includes various historical phases. The Industrial Revolution introduced manufacturing advancements, while scientific management focused on efficient work practices. Human relations emphasized worker motivation, as seen in the Hawthorne studies. Decision models brought mathematical efficiency, with Japanese influences advocating quality and just-in-time production. Modern challenges include managing economic, environmental, and ethical issues in a global context.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:36:41

    Operations management adapts to contemporary issues like economic fluctuations, innovation, and ethics, focusing on sustainability and global competition. Supply chain management highlights the importance of integrating operations beyond immediate suppliers, addressing challenges like inventory management and transportation costs. The lecture emphasizes operations management's role in enhancing business efficacy and adapting to modern demands.

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Video Q&A

  • What is operations management?

    Operations management is the management of systems or processes that create goods or provide services.

  • How do goods differ from services?

    Goods are tangible products while services are intangible activities that provide value, often involving time, location, or psychological factors.

  • What is the supply chain?

    The supply chain is a sequence of activities and organizations involved in producing and delivering a product or service.

  • What is the transformational process?

    The transformational process adds value by converting inputs (such as labor, capital, or raw materials) into goods or services.

  • Why study operations management?

    Studying operations management helps understand the global dependencies in business, success and failure of companies, and the importance of collaborative work.

  • What are the three basic functions of any organization?

    The three basic functions are operations, marketing, and finance.

  • What is the difference between system design and system operation decisions?

    System design decisions are strategic, long-term, and involve resources, while system operation decisions are tactical, concerning daily management of operations.

  • What is the systems approach in operations management?

    A systems approach recognizes the interrelated parts within an organization, emphasizing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

  • What are some key issues for operation managers today?

    Key issues include economic conditions, innovation, quality problems, risk management, global competition, environmental concerns, and ethical issues.

  • What is the significance of sustainability in operations management?

    Sustainability involves using resources in a way that supports ecological balance and incorporates social, economic, and environmental factors into decision making.

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    lecture 1 introduction to operations
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    management in this lecture we're going
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    to define operations management we'll
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    talk about the difference between a
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    goods or services we'll introduce you to
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    the supply chain we'll talk about the
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    transformational process will cover the
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    evolution of operations management and
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    we'll talk about environmental and
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    ethical issues and finally we're going
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    to talk about supply chain management
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    and issues so what is operations so
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    operations is really what you do as a
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    business it's the part of the business
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    organization that's responsible for
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    producing goods or services so if you
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    are a restaurant it is making and
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    serving food if you are a automobile
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    manufacturer it is producing a good
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    which is the car so how do we define
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    operations management it's the
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    management of systems or processes that
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    creates the goods or provides the
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    services so here's some examples of
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    goods versus services so goods includes
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    everything from raw materials to
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    partially assemble something to the
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    final product so an example is is your
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    car your car is a goods the computer so
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    the computer that you're using the
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    watches video that is a Goods an oven
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    where you bake something shampoo those
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    are all goods services are activities
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    that provide some combination of time
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    location form or psychological value so
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    for example air travel so the service of
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    air travel is to get you from one town
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    to another town you're actually using
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    goods which is the airplane to get there
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    but your purpose isn't you're not buying
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    an airplane you're just simply buying
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    the air travel education this class is a
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    great example of a service you are
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    learning something here
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    a haircut your hair grows you need to go
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    get a haircut your haircut is at a
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    specific time and location legal counsel
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    you need to go get a lawyer that's a
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    service so here's the supply chain it's
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    the sequence of activities and
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    organizations that produce or deliver a
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    goods or services so you start on the
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    left with supplier suppliers
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    that's someone that your suppliers get
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    stuff from and you have direct suppliers
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    then the producer you are the producer
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    you were making something now that that
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    product service whatever it is has to be
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    distributed so there's a distributor and
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    then you have the final customers so
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    that's the supply chain and we'll we'll
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    be covering this a lot throughout the
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    class well this is the transformational
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    process this is where you add value this
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    is this is really what you do so on the
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    left you have inputs could be land labor
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    capital information raw materials
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    whatever it is then you go through some
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    kind of a transformational process and
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    on the output is either a goods or
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    services now you have these feedback
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    loops where you're always looking to see
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    if there's something about your product
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    or service that needs to be improved in
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    your transfer transformational process
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    you
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    you also have feedback to your inputs to
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    say what is it that we need to do
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    different so so an example on an input
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    let's say you're a restaurant so your
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    input
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    are you're building your labor the the
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    cook the server's its and then it's your
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    food so you might get a delivery of
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    lettuce and tomatoes and beans and rice
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    those are all inputs so the
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    transformational concerted conversion
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    process it's where you take those things
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    a cook makes that into food and then a
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    server serves that to a customer and so
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    that's the transformational process in
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    the output now the the feedback is the
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    cook on the right hand side the customer
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    says this something's wrong with this
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    food it doesn't taste right or I don't
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    like it that's feedback goes back in and
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    they may say okay I'll make you
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    something different
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    I'll make you something better or try
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    again that would be feedback now you if
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    you've got a box of lettuce and the
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    entire box of lettuces rotten now that's
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    that goes back to feed back to your
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    lettuce supplier of your input so that's
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    sort of how the whole thing works this
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    transformational process so here's the
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    goods and services continuum a lot of
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    products are not purely a service or
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    goods they're they're sort of a
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    combination so for example automobile
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    assembly and steelmaking those are
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    mostly goods but there is a small amount
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    of service in there home remodeling
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    retail sales have a little bit more
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    service computer repair a restaurant
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    needle so in a restaurant meal it's
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    really half of it is the food you're
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    eating food which is a goods but you
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    have a server there they're transforming
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    this food for you there it's a certain
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    time that you're eating it which is it
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    which is the service side of it a
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    songwriting software development starts
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    getting into more
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    to services surgery teaching you start
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    getting into mostly services with just a
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    small amount of goods so why study
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    operations management so every aspect of
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    business affects or is affected by
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    operations so many service jobs are
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    closely related to operations so
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    financial services marketing services
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    accounting services information all
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    those are very closely related to
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    operations and so when you learn about
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    operations and supply chain you will
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    have a better understanding of where we
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    live the whole world global dependencies
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    of companies and nations you also
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    understand why companies succeed or fail
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    and the importance of working with
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    others so there's three basic functions
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    of any organization and that is
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    marketing operations and finance so
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    marketing is is the part that goes and
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    identifies customers brings customers in
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    operations is the part that actually
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    makes something or does something and
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    Finance is is collecting the money
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    managing the money all of those now
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    there's overlap between these three
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    areas for example under finance and
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    operation finance is responsible for
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    budgeting the operations they they
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    provide the economic analysis of an
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    investment proposal let's say that you
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    say well we should we should have a new
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    restaurant okay so that new restaurant
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    what how much is it going to cost what's
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    the return on investment those kinds of
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    things and then they provide the funds
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    so finance is responsible for providing
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    the funds to pay for your servers or
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    your cook pay for the food all of those
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    and then marketing has an impact with
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    operation
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    so marketing is responsible for
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    providing demand data so we're gonna
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    have this restaurant marketing us
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    responsible to analyze how many people
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    we think will come to that restaurant at
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    what time product and service design so
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    marketing is responsible to tell
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    operations the kinds of things that are
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    important to the customer marketing does
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    the competitive analysis so we look at a
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    restaurant we want to put a restaurant
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    over on Main Street
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    well marketing will go over there and
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    look and say well you know there's
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    there's another restaurant that does the
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    same thing as us and we'll have to
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    compete head-to-head that might not be
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    the best location they're looking at the
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    competitors lead time data so marketing
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    is responsible for promising customers
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    the product on a certain time but they
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    need to work with operations because
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    they that this thing it might be
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    normally when you place an order will
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    provide it in a week but maybe
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    operations has a backlog and they need
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    to go tell marketing you know the lead
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    time for this is really going to be two
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    weeks because we have too much to do
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    operations management and supply chain
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    career opportunities so here are some
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    jobs that you could have that are
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    directly related to operations
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    management can be an Operations Manager
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    supply chain manager production analysts
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    schedule coordinator production manager
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    Industrial Engineer purchasing manager
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    inventory manager or call quality
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    control all of those are very closely
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    related to operations management there's
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    some professional suppliers for
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    operations management apic s association
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    for operations management asq American
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    Society for quality Institute for Supply
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    Management then you have informs
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    Institute for operations research and
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    management science palms production and
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    operation management
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    society a PMI the project management
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    institute and then the Council of supply
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    chain management professionals so these
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    are some of the professional societies
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    so let's talk about process management
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    so there's three crowd categories of
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    business processes there's the other
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    upper management process these
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    government the govern the entire
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    operation of the organization
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    operational processes these are like the
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    core processes and then supporting
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    processes then supply and demand so the
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    operations and supply chain are
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    responsible for meeting the supply sales
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    and marketing is responsible for
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    identifying demand creating demand so if
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    you have way more supply than you have
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    demand that's wasteful and call costly
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    if you say well we're gonna have a
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    hundred people coming to the restaurant
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    we have to make a lot of food and then
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    you only have ten and all that all that
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    extra food some of it is is not going to
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    be able to be used used tomorrow so that
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    that becomes wasteful so that's where
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    you have way more supply than demand or
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    maybe you order a bunch of lettuce and
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    then it's rotten before you can serve it
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    and then the other one is where supply
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    is way less than demand I don't know if
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    you've ever walked into a restaurant you
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    see something on the menu say I'd like
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    to order this burger and there's like oh
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    we're sorry we ran out of that and so
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    then you go somewhere else on the menu
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    like okay I'll take my second choice
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    I'll take this as oh sorry we're out of
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    that too and and so here and you know so
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    the customers dissatisfied and maybe
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    they go down to a third item let's get
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    this instead it's like no we're out of
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    that too
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    so at that point the customer may
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    actually just leave it's like no I can't
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    get anything here so you've lost the
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    opportunity to sell anything to that
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    customer you have a dissatisfied
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    customer they might not come back next
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    time so on the bottom is the ideal where
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    supply equals demand so you have the
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    exact right amount of products or
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    services for the demand process
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    variation so there's four sources of
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    process variation so the first is the
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    variety of goods or services being
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    offered so when you have a large variety
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    that that creates variation in your
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    processes so if if you have louver
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    variety if you have like a cook
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    that's yours just making burgers and
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    they only have one kind of burger one
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    kind of topping the process is always
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    the same you make a burger by doing this
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    it's always the same but then if you if
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    you say we we offer everything then the
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    process to make the food is different
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    depending on whether they're making soup
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    or salad or a burger all of those have a
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    different process and then there's
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    structural variation in demand so these
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    are generally predictable variation so
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    an example is a restaurant restaurants
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    have a structural variation lunchtime
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    you have a bunch of people and supper
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    you have a bunch of people and there's
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    not so many people in between so those
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    are very predictable and maybe on Monday
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    night you don't have very many customers
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    on Friday night and Saturday night you
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    may have a whole bunch so those are
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    examples of structural variation then
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    random variation our natural variation
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    and you can't really manage that
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    sometimes a bunch of people just show up
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    and there's no way to
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    predicted no way to influence it it just
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    happens and then the the last one is
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    assignable variation this is variation
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    that has identifiable sources so this
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    type of variation can be reduced
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    eliminated by analysis and corrective
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    action so an example of this might be
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    the cook always does something and let's
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    see let's say that whenever he's making
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    a salad he has to walk to the
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    refrigerator get the lettuce bring it
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    out and so a salad takes a long time
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    well an example might be well let's put
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    a little refrigerator right next to the
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    preparation area where he can have some
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    stuff there so he's getting ready to
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    make a salad he just opens the door so
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    that's an example of assignable
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    variation where you know how long that's
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    going to take you you you actually
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    correct it so variations can be
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    disruptive to the operations supply
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    chain process they can cause additional
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    cost delays shortages poor quality any
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    inefficient work systems so this is the
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    scope of operations management
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    operations management runs across the
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    organization so it it includes a bunch
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    of inner elect related activities and
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    we're gonna go through all of these in
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    detail in this course but forecasting
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    capacity planning facilities and layout
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    scheduling managing inventories assuring
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    quality motivating customers deciding
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    where a location is for facilities and
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    more and more so it's a very broad topic
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    so the role of the operations manager so
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    the operations function consists of all
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    activities directly related to producing
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    goods or providing services so the
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    primary functions of an Operations
  • 00:17:46
    Manager is to guide the system by May
  • 00:17:49
    making system design decisions and
  • 00:17:51
    system operation decisions so here's
  • 00:17:56
    some system design decisions so how much
  • 00:18:00
    capacity do we have are we gonna have a
  • 00:18:04
    really large restaurant with a big
  • 00:18:07
    kitchen or we're gonna have a small
  • 00:18:09
    corner restaurant with just a small
  • 00:18:12
    kitchen so that's a capacity example
  • 00:18:15
    facility layout where are we gonna put
  • 00:18:18
    the refrigerator where are we gonna put
  • 00:18:20
    the stove where are we gonna put the
  • 00:18:23
    customers how how is the all of those
  • 00:18:30
    things Facility Location is are we gonna
  • 00:18:33
    put it on Main Street or out in the
  • 00:18:36
    country product and service planning
  • 00:18:39
    what is it that how are we gonna um
  • 00:18:42
    create this product or service
  • 00:18:46
    acquisition placement of equipment
  • 00:18:48
    that's similar to facility layout but
  • 00:18:52
    you know where are we gonna get big
  • 00:18:55
    equipment little equipment and so these
  • 00:18:58
    system design decisions there are
  • 00:19:01
    typically strategic decisions and they
  • 00:19:04
    often require a long-term commitment of
  • 00:19:06
    resources if you're gonna buy a all the
  • 00:19:11
    equipment to go in a restaurant you
  • 00:19:13
    might sign a long lease you might build
  • 00:19:16
    your own building of equipment and it
  • 00:19:20
    really determines the parameters of the
  • 00:19:22
    system operation what kind of restaurant
  • 00:19:25
    those kinds of things so the system
  • 00:19:29
    operation decisions they tend to be
  • 00:19:33
    tactical and operational it's the
  • 00:19:36
    management of people when our people
  • 00:19:38
    come in when are they going how many
  • 00:19:41
    people do we need is do we need to fire
  • 00:19:44
    someone do we need to hire someone
  • 00:19:46
    inventory management and control how
  • 00:19:49
    much lettuce are we gonna buy how many
  • 00:19:51
    tomatoes how much do we have on-hand how
  • 00:19:55
    much did we throw away because it got
  • 00:19:56
    rotten scheduling the scheduling of
  • 00:20:03
    people the scheduling of your hours the
  • 00:20:07
    scheduling if you're developing a
  • 00:20:09
    product the schedule to develop that
  • 00:20:12
    product project management if you're
  • 00:20:15
    going to try something new managing that
  • 00:20:17
    product project Quality Assurance making
  • 00:20:22
    sure that whatever it is that you're
  • 00:20:24
    providing is quality so operations
  • 00:20:29
    management tend to spend more time on
  • 00:20:31
    system operation decisions than on any
  • 00:20:34
    other decision area but they still have
  • 00:20:38
    a vital stake in system design so these
  • 00:20:44
    are the operation management
  • 00:20:45
    decision-making most decisions involve
  • 00:20:49
    alternatives and might have quite
  • 00:20:52
    different impacts on costs or profits so
  • 00:20:56
    the typical operations decisions include
  • 00:21:01
    what when where how who so the what what
  • 00:21:05
    resources are needed and what amounts
  • 00:21:07
    when when will each resource be needed
  • 00:21:10
    when should the work be scheduled wind
  • 00:21:12
    should materials and other supplies be
  • 00:21:14
    ordered the where where will the work be
  • 00:21:17
    done how will this product or service be
  • 00:21:21
    designed how will the work be done
  • 00:21:23
    how will the resources be out allocated
  • 00:21:26
    and then who who will do the work so
  • 00:21:28
    those are all decision-making questions
  • 00:21:34
    so here's a general approach to decision
  • 00:21:38
    making and that is to use a model so a
  • 00:21:42
    model is an abstraction of a reality or
  • 00:21:45
    a simplification of something let's say
  • 00:21:48
    that you you've never had a restaurant
  • 00:21:51
    and you want to try different layouts
  • 00:21:55
    you might go into your garage and you
  • 00:21:59
    say okay what if we put the server right
  • 00:22:02
    here we put the refrigerator over here
  • 00:22:06
    and you might practice making some
  • 00:22:08
    things that that would be a model if you
  • 00:22:10
    made like a cardboard cutout to the
  • 00:22:12
    table or maybe some folding tables and
  • 00:22:15
    chairs
  • 00:22:16
    that's a model it's a simplification of
  • 00:22:18
    reality you can have a computer model or
  • 00:22:21
    you actually analyze things with a
  • 00:22:26
    computer so the the features of models
  • 00:22:30
    they're simplifications of real life
  • 00:22:32
    they important they omit unimportant
  • 00:22:35
    details and they min mimic so that the
  • 00:22:40
    attention can be focused on the most
  • 00:22:42
    important aspects of the real life
  • 00:22:44
    system so that that's conceptually what
  • 00:22:48
    a model is so the keys to successfully
  • 00:22:53
    using a model is you have to ask these
  • 00:22:56
    questions what is its purpose how is it
  • 00:22:59
    used to generate real results how are
  • 00:23:02
    the results interpreted and used and
  • 00:23:04
    what are the models assumptions and
  • 00:23:07
    limitations if you don't understand that
  • 00:23:09
    if someone comes into a meeting and say
  • 00:23:12
    we ran the model and it said we should
  • 00:23:17
    not build a store on Main Street it's
  • 00:23:19
    like okay what was the purpose of the
  • 00:23:21
    model well the purpose of the model was
  • 00:23:23
    not location analysis it was something
  • 00:23:25
    else or how did you generate the results
  • 00:23:29
    so you can actually use a very good
  • 00:23:33
    model in the wrong way and get bad data
  • 00:23:35
    out of it so the benefits of the model
  • 00:23:39
    it's easier to use less expensive than
  • 00:23:41
    the real system requires users to
  • 00:23:44
    organize and sometimes quantify
  • 00:23:46
    information it really increases your
  • 00:23:49
    understanding of the problem it enables
  • 00:23:52
    managers to analyze what if questions it
  • 00:23:56
    serves as a constant tool for evaluation
  • 00:23:58
    and provide standardized format for
  • 00:24:00
    analyzing a program problem and it
  • 00:24:04
    enables users to brings the power of
  • 00:24:06
    mathematics so if you have a
  • 00:24:08
    mathematical model you can bring a lot
  • 00:24:12
    of power with that ok let's talk about
  • 00:24:17
    the system's approach so a system is a
  • 00:24:20
    set of interrelated parts that must work
  • 00:24:24
    together so the the business
  • 00:24:27
    organization is a system
  • 00:24:29
    of subsystems you have the marketing
  • 00:24:32
    subsystems at operation subsystem
  • 00:24:34
    finance subsystem so those three
  • 00:24:37
    subsystems are all working together the
  • 00:24:39
    systems approach emphasizes the
  • 00:24:42
    interrelationship among the systems the
  • 00:24:45
    main thing is that the whole is greater
  • 00:24:47
    than the sum of the parts the output and
  • 00:24:52
    objectives and over organization can
  • 00:24:54
    take precedence over any one subsystem
  • 00:24:58
    so marketing may say hey we got this
  • 00:25:02
    great campaign we'll bring in double the
  • 00:25:05
    customers and operation says we can't
  • 00:25:10
    manage that that number of customers so
  • 00:25:16
    let's scale back on the marketing and
  • 00:25:19
    marketing is like but we had this great
  • 00:25:21
    marketing campaign and it's like well
  • 00:25:24
    for us to be able to do that we would
  • 00:25:26
    need to increase capacity so then they
  • 00:25:30
    go to finance and say can we increase
  • 00:25:32
    capacity it's like well we don't have
  • 00:25:34
    the money to buy the system to increase
  • 00:25:38
    capacity so in this case marketing
  • 00:25:43
    cannot do their super marketing they may
  • 00:25:46
    do a little bit more maybe you could
  • 00:25:48
    operations could handle 50 percent more
  • 00:25:51
    so they they tweak that marketing to
  • 00:25:54
    bring in 50 percent more customers not a
  • 00:25:56
    hundred percent more then establishing
  • 00:26:01
    priorities there there's certain issues
  • 00:26:05
    or items that are more important than
  • 00:26:06
    others
  • 00:26:07
    so by recognizing these important
  • 00:26:11
    priorities you can focus on the efforts
  • 00:26:15
    that will do the most good there's never
  • 00:26:17
    enough time so you focus on what is the
  • 00:26:21
    most important so there's something
  • 00:26:23
    called the Pareto phenomenon some people
  • 00:26:28
    call it the 80/20 rule what it is is 80%
  • 00:26:32
    of your problems or offense comes from
  • 00:26:37
    20% of the sources so if you have ten
  • 00:26:42
    employees
  • 00:26:44
    80% of your problems with those
  • 00:26:48
    employees will come from two of those
  • 00:26:51
    employees so 20% of the problem of the
  • 00:26:55
    problems will come from now 80% of the
  • 00:26:59
    problems will come from 20% of the
  • 00:27:01
    employees so the critical few factors
  • 00:27:05
    should receive the highest priority this
  • 00:27:08
    is the concept that is appropriately
  • 00:27:10
    applied across all areas and levels of
  • 00:27:13
    management so here's the historical
  • 00:27:17
    evolution of operations management there
  • 00:27:19
    was the Industrial Revolution scientific
  • 00:27:21
    management human relations management
  • 00:27:24
    decision models and management science
  • 00:27:26
    and the influence of Japanese
  • 00:27:28
    manufacturers so the Industrial
  • 00:27:32
    Revolution we talked about this before
  • 00:27:35
    the Industrial Revolution it was really
  • 00:27:38
    a craft production systems you had a
  • 00:27:41
    blacksmith and that blacksmith would
  • 00:27:43
    make everything in his blacksmith shop
  • 00:27:47
    you had a dress maker who would make the
  • 00:27:51
    entire dress so then the Industrial
  • 00:27:55
    Revolution some key elements really in
  • 00:28:02
    the 1770 1776 1787 96 so it really
  • 00:28:10
    started in England he had division of
  • 00:28:13
    labor by Adam Smith
  • 00:28:15
    you had the rotative steam engine in the
  • 00:28:19
    19th 1780s then you had the cotton gin
  • 00:28:24
    and interchangeable parts by Eli Whitney
  • 00:28:27
    on the management theory and practice
  • 00:28:31
    did not really advance during this
  • 00:28:33
    period but there was this Industrial
  • 00:28:36
    Revolution then we got to this
  • 00:28:39
    scientific management and there was this
  • 00:28:43
    in efficiency engineer Frederick Winslow
  • 00:28:46
    Taylor he believed in a science of
  • 00:28:50
    management based on observation
  • 00:28:52
    measurement analysis improvement of work
  • 00:28:54
    methods and
  • 00:28:56
    economic incentives so management is
  • 00:28:59
    responsible for planning selecting
  • 00:29:02
    training workers and the find the best
  • 00:29:06
    way to perform each job so you have to
  • 00:29:09
    have the cooperation between management
  • 00:29:11
    and the workers and you separate
  • 00:29:14
    management activities from work
  • 00:29:15
    activities and the emphasis was to
  • 00:29:18
    manage or maximize output and we got to
  • 00:29:23
    that human relations movement this it
  • 00:29:27
    started with Gilbreth with the
  • 00:29:32
    application of psychology and then you
  • 00:29:36
    have Mayo who did the Hawthorne studies
  • 00:29:39
    on worker motivation this this was an
  • 00:29:44
    interesting one where they studied
  • 00:29:47
    productivity and lighting and they
  • 00:29:52
    increase the lighting and and
  • 00:29:58
    productivity went up and then they
  • 00:30:00
    decreased the lighting and productivity
  • 00:30:03
    went up even more and and it didn't make
  • 00:30:07
    sense but what they realized was it was
  • 00:30:09
    because management was paying attention
  • 00:30:12
    to workers that the productivity was
  • 00:30:15
    going up so that's the Hawthorne study
  • 00:30:18
    Maslow's you may have heard about
  • 00:30:21
    motivation theory his hierarchy of needs
  • 00:30:25
    and then the two-factor theory and then
  • 00:30:29
    Theory X Theory Y and then that in 1981
  • 00:30:34
    you had Theory Z now you have decision
  • 00:30:41
    models and management science so this is
  • 00:30:44
    where you start really modeling
  • 00:30:46
    mathematics so Harris in 1915 a
  • 00:30:50
    mathematical model for inventory
  • 00:30:52
    management and then you started having
  • 00:30:55
    statistical procedures for sampling and
  • 00:30:58
    Quality Control and 30s
  • 00:31:00
    Tippett had statistical sampling theory
  • 00:31:05
    1935 you have operations research
  • 00:31:10
    groups and then that operations research
  • 00:31:14
    got applied to warfare and then the last
  • 00:31:19
    one is linear programming in 1947 the
  • 00:31:26
    Japanese had a huge influence on quality
  • 00:31:31
    and they are credited with the quality
  • 00:31:35
    revolution and they also really started
  • 00:31:40
    this concept of just-in-time production
  • 00:31:44
    so some of the key issues for operations
  • 00:31:47
    managers today our economic conditions
  • 00:31:51
    is the economy going up is it going down
  • 00:31:53
    how do I use that to predict there's
  • 00:31:56
    innovating what's happening how are you
  • 00:32:00
    going to make something new quality
  • 00:32:02
    problems how do you make sure you have
  • 00:32:04
    good enough quality how do you manage
  • 00:32:07
    risk and then competing a global economy
  • 00:32:11
    you hear about that a lot where a my job
  • 00:32:14
    got exported to China or something that
  • 00:32:18
    is really the global economy how do you
  • 00:32:21
    how do you manage competition in that
  • 00:32:24
    environment environmental concerns so
  • 00:32:29
    sustainability and this is using
  • 00:32:32
    resources in a way that does not harm
  • 00:32:34
    that ecological systems that support
  • 00:32:36
    human existence and it can go way beyond
  • 00:32:41
    traditional environmental and economic
  • 00:32:44
    measures really to incorporate social
  • 00:32:49
    criteria and decision making in all
  • 00:32:52
    areas of the business can be affected in
  • 00:32:55
    this product or service design customer
  • 00:32:58
    education programs disaster preparedness
  • 00:33:00
    and response supply chain waste
  • 00:33:02
    management outsourcing decisions all of
  • 00:33:05
    those have sustainability implications
  • 00:33:09
    then ethical issue issues financial
  • 00:33:13
    statements you hear about CEOs going to
  • 00:33:18
    jail for lying about the finance
  • 00:33:20
    finances worker safety
  • 00:33:23
    maybe someone gets hurt and you have a
  • 00:33:28
    class-action lawsuit or you know how do
  • 00:33:33
    you how do you face a family member when
  • 00:33:37
    you intentionally ignored some safety
  • 00:33:41
    item in that that worker was killed or
  • 00:33:44
    hurt product safety what if you sell a
  • 00:33:49
    product and and someone gets hurt
  • 00:33:52
    hear a lot about airbags where there's
  • 00:33:55
    defective airbags that hurt people
  • 00:33:58
    quality is it is it ethical to sell
  • 00:34:05
    things that are low quality when you
  • 00:34:06
    know that it's low quality and you
  • 00:34:09
    pretend that it's high quality the
  • 00:34:12
    environment are you dumping things into
  • 00:34:15
    that that pollutes rivers that would if
  • 00:34:19
    you were caught would send you to jail
  • 00:34:23
    community maybe the how are you dealing
  • 00:34:28
    with the community hiring firing workers
  • 00:34:30
    are you Ethel they're closing facilities
  • 00:34:35
    closing a facility in one town and
  • 00:34:38
    moving it to another town what does that
  • 00:34:41
    do ethically worker rights all of those
  • 00:34:44
    are ethical issue issues so this the
  • 00:34:50
    supply chain management early on there
  • 00:34:53
    was little effort to manage this supply
  • 00:34:57
    chain beyond your own operations and
  • 00:34:59
    immediate suppliers which leads to
  • 00:35:02
    numerous problems you have oscillating
  • 00:35:04
    inventory levels inventory stock outs
  • 00:35:07
    late deliveries and quality problems so
  • 00:35:12
    the issues you need to improve
  • 00:35:14
    operations we have increasing levels of
  • 00:35:19
    outsourcing increasing transportation
  • 00:35:23
    cost you have competitive pressures
  • 00:35:26
    increasing globalization the importance
  • 00:35:29
    of e-business
  • 00:35:30
    so if you have a store and you're
  • 00:35:34
    selling a product you are directly
  • 00:35:36
    competing
  • 00:35:37
    against Amazon if Amazon can give that
  • 00:35:40
    customer that product in two days for a
  • 00:35:46
    cheaper price you're competing if unless
  • 00:35:50
    that customer needs it today you know
  • 00:35:54
    you're competing with ebusiness the
  • 00:35:58
    complexity of supply chains your
  • 00:35:59
    supplier may also be serving your
  • 00:36:02
    competitors excuse me the need to manage
  • 00:36:08
    inventories so there's different
  • 00:36:14
    strategies and we'll talk about this in
  • 00:36:16
    more detail where you might have your
  • 00:36:17
    supplier manager inventory and work
  • 00:36:21
    together with your supplier so a summary
  • 00:36:25
    we've talked about the definition of
  • 00:36:28
    operations management define the
  • 00:36:30
    difference between a goods or services
  • 00:36:32
    the supply chain the transformational
  • 00:36:36
    process historical evolution of
  • 00:36:38
    operations management
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