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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of operations management. International issues changing the face of OM are explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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isolated context. Certainly this is indicated by the increase in multinational expansion over the last decade, with even small to medium enterprises engaging in overseas markets as part of the
ongoing struggle to secure and maintain a competitive advantage. In short, even the smallest operational decisions now have some degree of international impact, as globalization has increasingly eroded barriers between
international organizations, as well as the countries themselves. Therefore, any organization which hopes to be competitive must adopt an international perspective before making operational decisions, or risk making an undervalued
decision which overlooks some critical factor. This paper will explore why international issues are now critically important in operations management. This paragraph helps the student begin to introduce the
idea of international operations management. Traditionally speaking, operations management has primarily concerned itself with matters such as scheduling, the control of inventory, aggregate planning, management of capacities, the layout of
facilities, "quality of work life", and management of individual projects (Prasad & Babbar, 2000). Clearly, all of these concerns are quite internal in nature, and involve primarily different aspects of
how an organization is run and managed from the inside, with little appeal to external factors (even if these must be considered, in at least some capacity, they are not
the focus) (Prasad & Babbar, 2000). By way of contrast, more contemporary operations management approaches adopt an international concern and focus on areas such as "distribution, strategy, purchasing, facility location,
and quality management" (Prasad & Babbar, 2000). Clearly, these aspects are all external in nature, and involve the organizations relationship with the external market more so than the organizations internal
management (Prasad & Babbar, 2000). This shift in focus indicates how important international considerations have become in recent years. A number of case studies further explore the extent to
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