Assignment:
PROJECT 1: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
This assessment has two parts; part one is project based and part two is scenario-based. Present your responses in a report drafted in word.
Using an organisation of your choice, evaluate the organisation's supply chain and quality management areas, using the framework below; also provide a brief overview of the organisation being studied and why it was chosen.
PART 1
Using an organisation of your choice:
Broad area of focus Specific area of focus Mark allocation
Supply Chain
• Introduction
• Outline the supply chain of an organisation, preferably your 3 organisation or part of it, by focusing on how Physical distribution is handled ;and
• How materials management is handled.
• How IT is used to supply chain management.
• Outline how the supply chain can be improved.
• Summary
NOTE. DO NOT BE TEMPTED TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS USING COMMON SENSE.
PART 2
Broad area of focus Specific area of focus Mark allocation
Quality Management
• Introduction
• Discuss the costs of quality as they apply in your chosen 3 organisation
• Discuss how quality problems are diagnosed?
• Does the organisation have a formal quality system?
• Discuss whether it is appropriate.
• Outline how the quality system can be improved.
• Summary.
NOTE. DO NOT BE TEMPTED TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS USING COMMON SENSE.
You are required to demonstrate achievement through understanding and application of theory, tools and techniques covered in lectures and material presented in the module plus extra readings.
All your work must be clearly referenced using the Harvard referencing system.