International Operations and Project Management

This presentation provides an overview of international operations and project management, focusing on supply chain management, capacity analysis, metrics, project planning, and relevant issues. It discusses Vauxhall Motors Limited's strategies and challenges in managing its operations. The presentation concludes with references for further reading.

International
Operations and
Project Management

Content
• Introduction
• A detailed process/supply chain
• Capacity analysis of the process/supply chain
• Suggested metrics used to measure supply chains performance
• Project plan
• Relevant issues
• Conclusion
• References

The international operations of the business encompasses all the
different activities that will takes place to promote the products
and the services, resources, people, technologies, ideas all
across to the other part of the national boarder. The management
of the project is linked with the different manner under which
the all the individual of the project will get organise and
manages the resources in order to complete all the necessary
aspect to attain the better outcomes from the project.
Introduction

A detailed process/supply chain
The supply chain management is the overall process that get used
to make the effective and efficient flow of the products and
the services and it also includes the raw material storage,
inventory process and the consumption of finished goods.
Vauxhall Motors Limited must have used efficient supply
chain management process that will as described below as:

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Capacity analysis of the process/supply chain
The expectation of the customer demand is always be more important for the
Vauxhall Motors Limited and with that they have must always take care about
their need. But with it is also be more needed that the company must have
make some of the different strategies to get manage with the capacity analysis
of the supply chain.

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• Make-to stock: It is the process under which the products and
services will get placed in timely manner by the finished goods
inventory of the business as per the order of the customers. In
this the Vauxhall Motors Limited must get provide the product
to the customer as per their need and demand. As in this the
Vauxhall get forecast the demand and as per that ready-to –sale
products and then manufacture as per same rate.

Metrics used to measure the process or supply
chains performance
There are some of the different metrics that get used by the
Vauxhall Motors Limited to get measure the different factors
through which they get the standardised outcomes with more
affordability

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• KPI: It is known as the key performance indicator through which the
Vauxhall Motors Limited must get measure the growth rate of the
company by setting the standardised performance. In this the Vauxhall
Motors Limited must measure the setting the adequate objectives and
try to get achieve that within the certified period of time. These
objective are a like to increase the sales with the 30% within the 6
months and try to capture the larger market share with more flexibility.

Project plan with associated schedule and
budget
The newer project of the Vauxhall Motors Limited is to get expand the
business in Asian country and for that they have chose India that get
need to make the schedule budget by which more adequate result will
get achieved. The overall schedules of the project need the resources,
time, quality, cost, communication, location, salary of the employee.

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Particular
s
January February March April May June
Sales 3500 4600 4700 5200 6200 6500
Other
income
1500 2500 2600 2650 2000 2200
Total
inflows
5000 7100 7300 7850 8200 8700

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Cash Outflows
Variable cost
Materials 450 500 530 650 740 830
labour 490 540 580 750 820 940
Other
variable
cost
200 250 260 340 420 520

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Fixed cost:
Rent 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Salaries 800 800 800 800 800 800
Other
fixed cost
200 250 250 360 320 320
Net cash
flow
1860 3760 3880 3950 4100 4290

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Particul
ars
July August Septemb
er
October Novemb
er
Decemb
er
Total
Sales 8900 14000 18500 20000 21500 24500 138100
Other
income
2250 2050 1300 2600 2750 2850 27250
Total
inflows
11150 16050 19800 22600 24250 27350 165350

Other relevant issues
There are some of the different issues that get associated with
the expand business of the Vauxhall Motors Limited that are
as defined below as:

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• Quality Management issues: It is the most acquired issues for that the customer always
demand the better quality with no consideration of prices while there are some customer as
well that need the better quality with affordable prices. Thus in this the Vauxhall Motors
Limited always try to make the continuous check at each and every segment by which all the
quality will get maintained and managed. In this the company ensure that each individual part
of their vehicle must have gone through with the different quality check-up and from that
standardised outcome will get developed.
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• Process or SCM issues or concerns: The supply chain management
is the biggest issue or the major concern of the Vauxhall Motors
Limited and with this they have maintain the better interaction with
the lot of people that will get associated with the business. It is more
needed that the business must get worked with the different
department by which more effectual outcomes will get induced as
from the warehouse department to the logistic.

Conclusion
It has been concluded from the above presentation that
international operation and project management is being more
important by which the working range and the ability of the
business will get more extended. It is more needed that the
company must get choose the appropriate method to make more
success in appropriate manner.

References
• Aubry, M. and Lavoie-Tremblay, M., 2018. Rethinking organizational design
for managing multiple projects. International Journal of Project Management,
36(1), pp.12-26.
• Dykstra, A., 2018. Construction project management: A complete introduction.
Kirshner Publishing Company.
• Ivanov, D., 2018. Structural dynamics and resilience in supply chain risk
management (Vol. 265). Berlin: Springer International Publishing.
• Um, K.H. and Kim, S.M., 2018. Collaboration and opportunism as mediators of
the relationship between NPD project uncertainty and NPD project performance.
International Journal of Project Management, 36(4), pp.659-672.

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