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Assignment: Company Analysis & Comparison
Objectives: To demonstrate the ability to articulate the scope and role operations management plays as a core functional area of a business by analyzing and explaining how operations impacts and integrates with the other core functional areas of a business. Explain the elements of operational process design and describing the tactical functions that are critical to a supply chain operation, applying key terms, concepts and theories associated with operations and supply chain management. Utilizing research of contemporary issues and trends affecting supply chain operations.
Read the following directions and guidelines to complete your project:
Analyze and compare the operations management of the three organizations you have researched. Use Dunhams Sports, Bahama Bucks, and Amazon as the three companies.
Prepare a written document to include the following:
I. Introduction: A written summary that presents:
An overview of each organization
II. Analysis: A written summary that compares and contrasts the following organizational and operational aspects of the two/three organizations (dependent on group size) that addresses the following:
1) Type of organization
2) Public, Private, Not-for-Profit
3) Corporate Strategy
4) Business Scope of the Organization - What do they do?
5) Organizational Structure (Formal)
6) Leadership Style
7) Corporate Culture
8) Approach to Technology and Innovation
9) Organizational and Functional Teams
10) Cross Functional Decision Making
11) Business Processes
12) Response to Emerging Trends
13) Key Customers
14) Performance Metrics and Measurement
15) Uses of ERP/MRP
16) Sourcing Process
17) Inventory Management Approach
18) Distribution and Logistics Approach
19) Fiscal Management and Accountability Expectations
20) Quality Management and Performance Improvement Approach
III. Conclusions and Recommendations: As part of your written document, be sure to include a conclusions and recommendations section to describe:
1) Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats you perceive may exist for each organization
2) What the organizations could learn from each other?
3) Lessons learned from your organizational review of the two/three organizations
4) Recount insights that you have gained from this experience and that you have found to be of value
5) Limitations that may have existed for you and/or you and your project partner as you developed this project or in drawing conclusions.