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BUS 506 Operations Management - Excelsia College

Assessment - Operations management plan

Learning outcome 1: Demonstrate critical understanding of the strategic role which operations management plays in an organisation's success.
Learning outcome 2: Analyse and evaluate the relationships between stakeholders, business strategies, organisational structures and social institutions from an operational management context.

Learning outcome 3: Analyse business operations using appropriate performance measures such as, but not limited to, flow time, throughput rate and capacity.

Learning outcome 4: Evaluate and model ways of effectively implementing state of the art theories of quality control and management activities in business operations.

Learning outcome 5: Assess and synthesise diverse information in order to apply appropriate techniques and tools to address modern operations management challenges faced by organisations and institutions including, but not limited to, logistics and supply chain management.
Learning outcome 6: Exhibit an advanced level of awareness of the ethical aspects of operations management within the organisation and across the value chain.
Learning outcome 7: Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the central theoretical and practical issues, decisions and processes involved in manufacturing and service transformations.

Assessment Task: The purpose of this assessment is to allow students take on a management perspective to analyse an organisational process and develop an operations management plan with the aim of improving the situation.

Students will be required to analyse on process in the company they work for or a company they are familiar with and develop a plan with solutions required to make improvements. The operations plan will cover the following:
1. An introduction to the organisation or supply chain
2. Description of the selected process
3. Analysis of the process using relevant concepts to identify shortcomings
4. Evaluation of the possible strategies for addressing the shortcomings
5. Recommendations of the most suitable strategies
6. Resource requirements for implementing the proposed strategies
7. Implementation plan for the proposed strategies
8. Conclusion

Attachment:- Operations management plan.rar