Operations Scheduling Techniques and Layout Planning for Work System Processes

OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Operations scheduling techniques and layout planning for work system processes...................3
Importance of inventory management policies...........................................................................8
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Operations management is the business practices that help in increasing the highest level
of efficiency within the organisation as it is concerned with the transforming of raw material in
to final product by using various production technique so that nest product can be product to sell
in the large market(Yuhua and Qianyun, 2017). Nissan is the chosen organisation for this essay
as it is the Japanese auto mobile company which is established by Masujiro Hashimoto and its
headquarter is in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is the multinational company which is dealing in
vehicles under Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands. This essay will cover the explanation about
the operations scheduling techniques and its layout planning and work system in organising
various task. More over, It will analyse the importance of inventory management and its policies
for controlling various cost.
MAIN BODY
Operations scheduling techniques and layout planning for work system processes
Operation scheduling is the formation of both effective utilization of resources and the
time line within the company. It is important to schedule the usage of equipments and facilities
so that it will be easy to schedule the human activity and material. It differentiate the use of
various equipment and machine that will be use in long run and also help in making the right use
of various activities. In relation to this, planning and scheduling of various operations helps in
getting the work done with in the set time and leads to enhanced the productivity and
profitability of the business. It become the challenge that assigned task is not completing within
the given time. In context to Nissan, It may face various challenge regarding enhancement of
technology as this issue is affecting an organisation. They can use the suitable process for
assigning the jobs and also choose suitable machine and workforce. Effective operation
scheduling will results the better use of resources within a set time frame.
In context of Nissan, they can make the better use of operations scheduling and set all the
task-to-do so that each product process can be effectively accomplished in order to maximized
profitability. Scheduling techniques like production, manufacturing, use of available resources,
potential employees and so on that will contribute in the smoothing running of an enterprises. In
terms of Nissan, It can be said that one aspect is leading to incur e the high cost due to poor use
of available resource and keeping the machine for a longer period of time. Hence it will impact

negatively on the overall functioning of the business and affects the supply chain, logistics and
manufacturing of the firm.
Nissan manufacture the products on time to eliminate he inventory so that it can be seen
that they have less work-in-progress inventory and client have to wait for the further production
and availability of raw material. On other hand, strong production of Nissan, tends to have the
superior quality of products so that they can have the good brand image in the market and
company will able to learn the new ways of manufacturing the goods and services. Effective
production tends to reduce the production cost and results in increasing the profitability and
productivity of the business.
Functions of operations scheduling in organising work Maximum use of plant: It is important to use the various resources so that they can
effectively use the resources of the company to get the better results. If the resources of
the company is not fully utilized then it will leads to negatively impact on the
functionality of the business. This method enhanced the overall schedule of operation and
leads to have the effective results by focusing on the aspects that is contributing on
effective operations( Zejun, 2019). In context of Nissan, It is suggested that organisation
must use the suitable resources in the production process for up-streaming and down-
streaming of the operations so that they can effective get the good quality product that
will full fill the needs and wants of the customer in the large market.
 Sequence of jobs: It is concern with the determination of actual sequence of job that is
performing with the resources that are being offered by the company. Common
techniques that enhance and help the grouping job collectively so that it will easy to
minimize the setup cost and prominent charges which are required for the setup of heavy
machines and this will help in eliminating the various conflicts from the workplace due to
misunderstanding among the staff and the easy implementation of various new technique
that will give good output.
 Resource allocation: It is the main concern of the scheduling operations to allocate the
various resources at the right place so that man, material, machine can be effectively sued
in the business operation with the consideration of achieving the higher profitability in
the business. In context of Nissan, clear assessment of their production will tends to have
the rough ideas of their efficiency in their business. It will directly help the company to