Operations and Project Management in Uk - Corus

Operations and Project
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
P1: Operation management principles....................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2: Continuous Improvement Plan.........................................................................................4
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................6
P3) Stages of PLC..................................................................................................................6
Task 4 ............................................................................................................................................10
P4) Review and critique at effectiveness of PLC with the help of waterfall model............10
A) Review and critique the effectiveness of the PLC..........................................................10
B) Importance of designing and implementing PLC ...........................................................11
C) Cost saving techniques ...................................................................................................11
D) techniques to ensure the quality, scope and tenure in project implementation...............12
E)Usage of different theories and concepts for small-scale and large-scale project............12
F) Evaluation of PLC ...........................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Operations management is process used for administration and control of business
practices for creating and developing highest level of efficiency in an organisation. This process
is concerned with conversion of raw material and labour into finished goods and services in a
most efficient way to maximize the profit of an organisation (Crispim, Silva and Rego, 2019).
This project is divided into two parts. First part of this report is based on Corus which is a steel
making company of UK headquartered in London. This part of project includes operations
management principles and a continuous improvement plan. Lean principles and
recommendation are also included in this part. Second part is based Portakabin which is a
leading modular innovator of UK, operating in 6 countries and employing more than 1300
people. This part of report includes Project life cycle and its applications for the efficient
completion of project.
TASK 1
P1: Operation management principles
Background -
Corus group is a steel making organisation headquartered in London, UK and mainly
operating its business in United kingdom and Netherlands. Corus group was formed through the
merger of British Steel plc and Koninklijke Hoogovens in 1999. it was a part of FTSE 100 Index
and acquired by Tata company in 2007 and renamed as Tata steel Europe in 2010. Corus has
planned for success program the main aim of which is to reduce the gap the between Corus and
its European competitors to gain higher profits (Davies and Alpanis, 2019). The main objective
of Corus is to cut out pointless activities and making products and carrying out processes more
efficient to make Corus more competitive and to uninterrupted flow of business activities at the
times of economic difficulties.
Difference between operations management and operation is provided below:
Operation Operations management
Operations mainly represent the actions and
decisions made by directors and top authorities
of an organisation for deciding the function
Operation management is an area og
management that is concerned with developing
and controlling different processes and
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