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This 7 page paper looks at the role of operations management and the transformation process. The paper starts with an overview of the operations management based on readings provided by the student. The paper then looks at a company that is having problem on their payroll due to departments filling and sending in forms late. Using operations management ideas the paper looks at the current system, the key success factors for an improved system and then suggests changes that could be made to improve the process used. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEmanoper.rtf
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services industry from accountancy to tourism. The way that this process controlling the way inputs take place, the way the transformation process is undertaken and how outputs are created are
the result of the operations management of the organisation and the level of tangibility may impact on the way the process is seen, but not on the fact this process
take place. It is by understanding the operations and the processes then seeking to improve them with design control and implementers of the changes that the competitiveness of the operations
can be increased. By controlling the processes the operations can become more effective. Those that design and control operations may not be called operations managers, but they fulfil this
task. There are many examples of efficient operations. For example, Ikea use showrooms out of town where real estate is cheap and where bulky goods are bought they are collected
by the customer from the warehouse. Not all customers will be external. Inside any operations there will be numerous smaller processes which are part of the larger whole, these
tasks or subtasks are also transformation processes as every part of an organisation has some transformation process taking place. This may also be physical or intangible, such as the transformation
of information, for example, accountants will transform financial data into reports for a range of users. In all cases there will also be support operations that enable the transformation process
to take place as well as having their own processes, such as human resources management (HRM) where the internal customers may be the employees who received the process information that
is needed for the payroll or who are recipients of training. The concept is similar to the external customers, but in reality the relationship is far more complex and
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