Report on Significance of Business Processes

Managing Business Activities
to Achieve Results

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Interrelationship between the different functions and process of the organisation...............1
1.2 Methodology to be applied to map processes to the organisation’s goals............................3
1.3 Output of the process and the quality gateways....................................................................4
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Plans which promote goals and objectives for own area of responsibility...........................5
2.2 Three SMART objectives to operational plan. ....................................................................6
2.3 Two appropriate system to achieve objectives in the most efficient way, on time, to budget
and meeting standard of quality associated with BMW. ............................................................6
2.4 Activities for meeting the operational plan with help of monitoring and control.................9
TASK 1 .........................................................................................................................................10
3.1 System to manage and monitor quality standard specified by organisation. .....................10
3.2 A quality culture to ensure continuous monitoring, evaluating and developing of the
process.......................................................................................................................................11
3.3 Recommend improvement which align BMW Objectives and goals.................................11
3.4 The wider implication of proposed changes within BMW company.................................12
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................1
4.1: Risk assessment as per the legislation, regulation and organisational requirements to
ensure appropriate action............................................................................................................1
4.2: Health and Safety regulations and legislations for effective application in certain specific
scenarios......................................................................................................................................1
4.3: Systematic review of health and safety policy and processes for assessing if they are
effective.......................................................................................................................................2
4.4: Plan how to carry out practical application of health and safety policies and procedures in
the workplace for BMW Company.............................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Managing business activities and functions so as to accomplish the desired outputs, it is a
critical process in the business entity. In this business manager play vital and essential role in
order to coordinating all functions and process of company. Considering and evaluating the
internal and external factor of the environment also become an important part of handling
business activities (Allee, Schwabe and Babb, 2015). In present assignment, given organisation
is BMW, it is a Bayerische Motoren Werke company which presently produces motorcycles and
automobiles and also delivered aircraft engines until 1945. This report is divided into different
parts included significance of business processes in achieving long term goals and objectives of
company. Development and implement of operational plans which is also covered in this project.
Appropriate systems are also used to enhance organisational performance. Along with them
different kind of health and safety related legislation also analysed in this project.
TASK 1
1.1 Interrelationship between the different functions and process of the organisation
BMW is a German multinational organisation which currently produce motorcycles,
aircraft engines until 1945 and automobile. This business was established by Karl Rapp in 1916
headquartered in Munich, Bavaria. According to case BMW sets tendency in production
technology. With Effective Dynamics, the company consistently apply the principle of
sustainable mobility and is steadily eradicating its vehicles fuel emissions and consumptions. In
order to describe business process at BMW, its manager apply Input-Output business model.
IPO(Input-output model): It is identified as a functional graph that analysis the outputs,
inputs and needed processing tasks in order to modify inputs into outputs in a proper manner
(Input and Output Business Model, 2017). This model includes different data and information
related to BMW products and services. Input of the business entity that describe the flow of
material and data into the procedures from the outer (Carroll and Buchholtz, 2014). Apart from
this, outputs includes materials and information which is following out the alteration activity. For
example: BMW Group believes there are some issues with its selecting and recruiting process.
Some peoples that have been recruited stay at the organisation for less than 1 year. It includes
cost of the business, since hiring new can candidates is expensive and time consuming.
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(Source: Input-output business model at BMW, 2017)
Key functions of BMW: In the organisation there are different functions such as manufacturing
and production, sales and marketing, human resource, finance and accounting. All these
departments are work with each other in the production process related to automobile and
motorcycles. Main aim and objectives of all departments is to achieve long term goals and
objectives of company in given time period (Davis and et. al., 2016). These functions also help to
arrange sufficient amount of money for doing business activities and functions in proper manner.
Sales and marketing team is responsible for providing basic information related to model of car,
motorcycles and many other by using promotional mix. Human resource department also
responsible for recruiting and hiring best candidates who can easily accomplish business
objectives and targets in limited time duration. In the BMW company, there are different
department are work which have their own roles and responsibility for example: human resource
department of the company play vital role in recruiting and hiring knowledgeable candidates
which is only the responsibility of HR department. In cross culture, in which marketing
department also help the human resource department while providing accurate information about
customer choice.
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Illustration 1: Input-output business model at BMW

Business activities or production of Toyota vehicles IN Fiscal 2014: With the global economy
continuing to find moderately, in 2013, the lift truck market posted a mild maximise in revenue
in Europe, Japan and some other emerging nations while displaying drastic year-on-year
development in North America as well as China also. In Japan, an improvement in firm earnings
pushed up capital finance, and we active developed different activities of sales expansion. In
North America, they reinforced its ability in order to accept large number of orders screening
expansive geographical field by leveraging the request of the TOYOTA as well as RAYMOND
brands. They also emphasised on expanding revenue in Europe chiefly through the improvement
of our revenue networks in Russia and many other countries.
1.2 Methodology to be applied to map processes to the organisation’s goals
The business functions and process of different team within the enterprise should be
mapped in order to achieve objectives and gaols of BMW. It can be performed via value stream
or process mapping which can be considered as a visual and hierarchical correspondents of the
transaction or proceedings within a process. Due to this approach the management of the BMW
group can obtain a clear thought regarding the implementation of the process such as Gantt
charts. These approach render systematic process for each and every activities of the business
entity with aim to attain its goals.
While considering the BMW case study, it has different departments as well as process
mapping which is important for including the output of each and every procedures and to
accomplish its objectives or goals for making profit, attaining competitive benefits and many
other. Above mentioned Gantt chart described the business process of BMW starting from
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Illustration 2: Business process mapping Gantt Chart