Operations and Project Management: Review and Critique of Sainsbury's Plc Operations Management Principles

Operation and project
management

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Review and critique of the implementation of operations management principles in
Sainsbury's Plc........................................................................................................................3
M1. Review and critique the implementation of operations management in relation to Six
Sigma methodology and Lean principles...............................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P2. Prepare a continuous improvement plan based on the review and critique of operations
management principles within an organizational context......................................................7
M2 Analyse the effectiveness of a continuous improvement plan.......................................10
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
P3 Apply each stage of the PLC to a given project, producing necessary supporting
documentation for completing the project............................................................................11
M3 Analyse the rationale for the project methodologies, tools and leadership within the PLC
for the given project..............................................................................................................12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................13
P4. Review and critique the effectiveness of the PLC in application to the chosen project
using appropriate theories, concepts and models.................................................................13
M4. analyse appropriate theories, concepts and models in PLC .........................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
References .....................................................................................................................................15

Introduction
Operational management is the practice that performed by the companies in order
to manage their operational working to create high efficiency functions. It plays a major role in
planning, organising and execution of their operational activity of company in effective manner.
Through effective implementation of such management in operations companies tries to balance
their cost in order to encourage their profit maximization. In relation to this operational working
of Sainsubury's which is an retail supermarket giant in UK is being taken into consideration.
Sainsbury's is one of the largest retail chain in UK. It stores established in various
location in United kingdom with diverse number of customer base (Mou, Robb and DeHoratius,
2018). The mentioned company deals in large variety of grocery and consumer products that
shows their diversity in operations. In this given report the evaluation of respective
company operational management will be reviewed as well as relation with methodology and
principle will be reviewed in the report. Further, a plan will be developed in order to review the
company operations as well as their effectiveness will also discussed. Further, some supportive
document will be provided according to the completion of company project as well as their
rationale regard to the company functions will also analyse. At last the efficiency of such project
will be deployed with the support of related theories in relation the project size
Main Body
TASK 1
P1. Review and critique of the implementation of operations management principles in
Sainsbury's Plc
Sainsbury's is one of the largest supermarket chain in United Kingdom. It was founded in
year 1869 by John James Sainsbury in London, United Kingdom. This supermarket chain
operates with a market share of 16% in supermarket sector of industry. It operates with over
1400 outlets within domestic boundaries of United Kingdom. Sainsbury's is providing living to
over 1,80,000 employees making up its workforce for carrying out operations and activities. The
company is listed in London Stock Exchange and is a component of FTSE 100 index. Respective
company is an parent organisation to various brands such as Argos, habitat, Tu, nectar, etc.
Sainsbury's is aimed at providing best quality grocery and food products at reasonable and fair
prices. Own brand food products and online shopping with delivery services results in being the

reason for success for the respective company (Malyar and et.al., 2020). Major market
competitors of the company are Asda, Tesco, Boots, Walmart, etc. operating in the supermarket
sector. The company focuses on maintaining environmental sustainability using high-quality
certified plastic for packaging of their food products. Sainsbury's is aimed at long run with
appropriate consideration of being fair to suppliers as well as customers in carrying out their
operations.
Differentiation of Operations and Operations Management
Operations Operational Management
 The term operations includes all the
activities and practices involved in
converting input into final product and
providing it to customers.
 Operations management is meant by
managing the process of operations for
betterment and providing additional
value to the functioning of the
company.
 Production / manufacturing and sales
activities is majorly included in the
process of operations.
 Operational management includes
designing tasks, managing inputs,
maintaining quality in final output, etc.
as major elements.
 This process provides value to the
company by regulating production and
delivering final products to markets for
sales to customers (Hong and et.al,
2021).
 This management practice provides
additional value by enhancing this
process for increasing efficiency and
completion of task on time.
 Decision-making in operation process
is derived with considerations of
increasing output and sales.
 Decision-making in Operational
management is derived with
considerations of enhancing quality in
the whole process for attaining
additional values and increasing sales.
Principles of Operations management in Sainsbury's
 Reality: This principle of operation management determines that management of a
company must consider and focus on the real and actual problem rather than considering