Operations and Supply Chain Management: PDF
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................1MAIN BODY ......................................................................................................................1THE FIVE PRINCIPLES OF LEAN...................................................................................2CAUSES AND TYPES OF WASTES................................................................................6COMPETITION POSITION...............................................................................................8RECOMMENDATION........................................................................................................9CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................9REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTIONSupply chain management can be defined as the services and good flowmanagement process which consist of storage and movement of raw material, finishedgoods along with work-in-process from the consumption and origin part. Interrelatedwith the channels, networks and business mode combine in the service and productsprovision needed by consumer end in the supply chain. Operation management canalso referred as the administration concerned with the controlling and designing theproduction procedure and redesigning operations business in the service and goodsproduction. Both of these activities are managed within the Ryedale Group's Hortipakwhich is one of the largest UK producers of plastic pictorial labels and plants. Using theNOVA image library, entire stock of plant and bespoke features stunning imagessupported through detailing care reverse instruction. Expertise in the horticulturaldesign, marketing and print, this products the products involving POS, labels, trolley,packaging, websites and dressing for the UK's leading and Irish Growers and gardencentres (Ahi and Searcy, 2013). This report will evaluate the five principles of leanmanagement along with the wastes types and causes in order to understand thecompany's operation and supply chain management. It will evaluate competitionposition of enterprise along with suggesting some recommendation to enterprise. 1
MAIN BODY Ryedale Group can be referred as the European leader at market in plastic andprint technologies. The organisation values-driven family business and is sustainingwithin the organisation from past 55 years in the expert printing onto marketing support,plastic production and management of supply chain etc. The company has beenfeatured in Printweek, Sky News, The Financial Times, BPIF in Print, HTA news etc.The organisation, Hortipak brand is one of the biggest and largest market leader inproduction, horticultural design, distribution of labels of plants and solution of point-of-sale. Lean production and manufacturing can be termed as 'lean' which can be definedas a systematic technique for the waste elimination “Muda” within a proper framework ofmanufacturing (Christopher, 2016). Lean can be undertaken into the waste account byoverburden “Muri” as well as creation of waste by unevenness in the pressure at work“Mura”. The manufacturing of lean depends on the tenant’s number, principles and toolsof lean complying the Japanese techniques called Kaizen. The Hortipak accommodatethis method within their working organisation in regard of managing their proceduremore productive along with optimum utilisation of accumulated and available resource inthe production of their products and services within the organisation. In order to criticallyimplement some major authentic principles of lean development to Hortipak's operation,this is essential for organisation to consider basic concept of lean management and itsmajor principles which is briefed below: THE FIVE PRINCIPLES OF LEANDan Hones and James Womack has given the lean enterprise concept originatedin 1996 within the Toyota production framework. There are several values which ispromoted by lean production i.e. value, perfection, pull, flow and value stream which isconstantly used as the major concept of production in Hortipak as it assists enterprise tocarry out their business operations and manage supply chain in more efficient wayleading organisation toward the benefits and loss in wastage (Hajmohammad and et.al., 2013). Here are elaborated the major lean production principles in the followingreport: 2
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