Business Operations and Ford Motor Company

This assignment analyzes the business operations of Ford Motor Company. It explores various aspects like strategic business models employed by Ford, the impact of IT infrastructure flexibility on their mass customization strategies, and how Ford interacts with businesses within global networks. The analysis draws upon relevant theories and real-world examples to understand the complexities of Ford's operational framework.

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Executive Summary
The business operation provides the better mode of practices that helps in the growth of business
in the systematic manner. The Ford Motor Company has focused on the best practice techniques
that help to develop the business operation. The organization could able to improve the
performance through the approaches in the quality management and techniques used in order to
carry out the business.
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Q 4 Case Study- Individual Report..................................................................................................4
4. Applying a variety of practices in the techniques and analytical framework used by the
manager to enhance the effective business operation......................................................................4
4 a. Identify the two practice techniques used in the Ford Motor and demonstrate practice
practices can be applied in the company......................................................................................4
4b. Discuss one analytical framework on the company that has increased the effectiveness of
the business operation..................................................................................................................6
5. Justifying the approaches in the quality management and techniques used to improve the entire
operations in business......................................................................................................................7
5 a. Discuss one quality management approaches that helps to improve the operation of
business........................................................................................................................................7
5b. Describe one technique that can be applied to improve the operation of the chosen
organization..................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11
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Introduction
The business operation is the most important measures that the organization needs to follow at
the time of carrying out of business. The outcome arises in the business operations includes the
investing of values from the owned assets in a business. These assets might be tangible or
intangible depending on the situation. The business operation follows three forms of fundamental
in management that help to increase the required value in the development of a business. It lies in
the generating the recurring income, securing the exact value of a business and increasing the
maximum assets in the value of the business. The main aim of this assignment includes in
applying best techniques and analytical framework that is used by the manager of the company at
the time of enhancing the effective business operation. It provides the approaches followed by
the quality management and suitable techniques used to deliver a better mode of operation in the
company of Ford Motor (Ford Corporate. 2017).
Q 4 Case Study- Individual Report
4. Applying a variety of practices in the techniques and analytical framework
used by the manager to enhance the effective business operation
4 a. Identify the two practice techniques used in the Ford Motor and demonstrate practice
practices can be applied in the company
The Ford Motor Company operation management has been reformed by taking certain changes
at the time of developing a better form of business. The entire team of the Ford Motor Company
has been capable of addressing ten areas in the strategic decision to enhance a better operation
management. The organization has been the biggest global automotive sectors and needs to
provide the effective business operation. The Ford Motor firm has been developed in the year of
190, having a proper design, manufactures, develop service trucks and cars lying across six
major continents with the brand name of Lincoln and Ford. The organization also delivers
products as well as service in the maintenance areas, vehicle accessories, collision and extended
services in warranties with the various brand names. These brand names include with Motorcraft,
Ford Custom accessories and Genuine Ford parts (Castellanos et al. 2015).
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In order to carry out the better business operation, the Company Ford Motor has been adopted
two major techniques that help to enhance a better business to sustain in the market of U.K.
These two techniques are followed as:
i. Six Sigma
The six sigma strategy helps to involvement on the regular form of analysis to focus on the
performance trends. It helps to address environmental problems as well as reduce the cost. It
provides the certain uncovered region with the unexpected solution that has been shifted from
robotic mechanisms into a completely manual process. The Ford Motor Company’s management
has taken initiatives for starting a Six Sigma Black Belt project. The team members of this
project have been predicted the various degree of impacts from each set goals by getting the
advantage of the earning maximum profit. This project has helped to reduce the cost reduction
and chances of impacts. There lies with the medium impacts from the satisfaction of the
consumers. The impacts of the environment have been lowered down as compared with the
previous data (Håkansson and Ford, 2012).
ii. Using of DMAIC Model
The DMAIC model provides the define, measure, analyze, improve and control on the team
members at the time of improving the quality of the products used by Ford Motor Company.
From this model, each team members are segregated as per the knowledge and enhances skills. It
is important for the company to analyze the team members at the starting of the project work.
DMAIC provides the framework for the improvements in the applications to stabilize various
process used in business and designs.
The best practice techniques are used in the manufacturing firm to provide a guidelines, ideas
and ethics that help the growth of a business. In this case, the Ford Motor has effectively used the
DMAIC Model and Six Sigma to increase the performance of the business. The quality could be
easily maintained through the improve techniques. The best practice techniques are the
completely different process that helps the organization to compare the entire business and
highlight the main areas that could be improved. The effective form of techniques helps in the
growth of the firm and meets the demand of the consumers (Ford, 2012).
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4b. Discuss one analytical framework on the company that has increased the effectiveness
of the business operation.
The analytical framework provides the arrangements of the required process in the development
of the entire business operation. The Ford Motor Company has chosen Aligned Business
Framework that helps in the effective mode of business operation. The organization has been
solidifying the collaboration of the suppliers through the effective Aligned Business Framework
which provides the major analytical framework for the development of a business.
As stated by Wilkins and Hill (2011), Aligned Business Framework provides the name on the
Ford’s strategic in the purchasing business model. This analytical framework has been
established in the year of 2005 with the formed agreements that can enhance an effective
business model for the suppliers as well as for the company Ford Motor. This agreement has
provided better practices in the business that helps to design in the increase collaboration in
future aspects. It includes the better form of business practices that lies with the development of
costs and data transparency. The organization has increased the maximum volume of business
with the efficient suppliers that can provide all the required raw materials in the manufacturing
of vehicles. From this framework, the organization could easily identify minimum 66 production
and 22 non-production suppliers. The Aligned Business Framework provides the better
agreements which assist to seek the enable partners of Ford Motor that can take the responsibility
to ensure good working conditions and environmental systems in management in the entire value
chain. In the macro form of approaches, the suppliers can able to develop the management
systems and develop a better process which allows the company to monitor the working
condition. This activity provides the managing of the entire supplier's performance through the
effective mode of monitoring and training upon the suppliers. As opined by Chung et al. (2015),
Aligned Business Framework provides the evolutionary steps to encourage the suppliers in
adopting the aligned same codes of practices that help to maintain the entire business operation.
Various conditions help to meet the expected suppliers to implement the better working
conditions. The suppliers could able to improve the performance through the effective forms of
training and compliance systems in the supply chain and internal facilities. The suppliers can
identify the used process and development of codes at the time of providing of better modes of
operation in business. There lies with the responsibility to report the entire progress report
against the formed metrics. There lies with the various phases of the supplier development that
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provides the assistance, materials and contacts to enable a better program and implement the
proper way of business operation that can yield a maximum amount of profit. The Ford Motor
Company provides the better way of facilitating the commitment provided through the Aligned
Business Framework. This helps to become responsible for the management of supply chain with
the three main process with the suppliers. These are three main processes are followed as:
i. There lies with the clear form of expectations with the followed standards to implement a
better working condition. It helps to establish the code of conduct that is suitable for covering the
environmental responsibility and working conditions in the entire value chain.
ii. Another process includes with the promotion on the standards in the working conditions that
provide the facility on the own or collaborates in the joint venture and suppliers in the value
chain by carrying out the compliance process and conducting of training (Betz, 2012).
iii. The drive environmental performance can be entirely facilities as the whole. There includes
the joint venture partners and suppliers by maintaining the value chain with the responsibility in
the environmental management systems.
From the ABF leverages, the efforts required in the Ford Motor Company could be easily
manage through the environmental responsibility and human rights to meet the problem in the
collaborate supply chain in the aligned manner.
5. Justifying the approaches in the quality management and techniques used
to improve the entire operations in business
5 a. Discuss one quality management approaches that helps to improve the operation of
business
Quality management helps to ensure the consistent products or services delivered by the
organization. The quality management are been classified into four main forms that includes with
the improvement of quality, quality control, quality assurance and quality planning. It helps in
focusing on the better service quality as well as the products that could be manufactured by the
Ford Motor Company. The assurance of more consistent quality of products can be easily
obtained through the quality management practices. The Ford Motor Company has focused on
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the total quality management practices to deliver a better quality of services or products among
the customers. The entire quality can be maintained by following the procedures and policy with
the adapted international standards in the quality management. At the time of planning and
implementing the total quality management provides the better form of practices to enhance the
business operation. The Ford Motor Company has focused on various modes of quality
management approaches at the time of developing the better business operations. The six sigma
has been the project management methodology with the satisfaction of the consumers with the
better quality of services delivered by the Ford Motor Company (Kauppinen et al. 2017).
The quality management practices is the most important tools that needs to focus by the
management to increase the performance of business. There lies with certain standards that need
to followed in the quality management to achieve the success in the present and future aspects.
The quality management helps to provide a better approach in the business process to foster the
improvement in the performance. DMAIC is the effective quality management tools that helps to
analyze on the quality required to manufacture the vehicles to deliver a better products upon the
customers. The quality management is the important decision process that helps to implement a
better operation in the management. It helps to provide the satisfaction upon the consumers
through implementing of better quality products in the market. The Ford Motor Company
follows the standard practices to assure the better quality supplied among the existing consumers
in the market. The organization tries to conduct a random batch in testing on the particular
products to ensure the quality. As referred by Chatterjee et al. (2017), the evaluation in the
quality helps to involve information regarding the acquiring things existing in the company of
Ford Motors. It can be acquired through by conducting of market research that helps to identify
the consumer expectations on the quality of vehicles.
The new systems in monitoring process and procedures in the standard form of operating are the
most vital things in the Saarlouis plants to make a better sustain in the gaining of results in order
to carry out the new projects work. All the plants follow the standards procedures in the
operating fields to enhance a better quality. The ISO 9001to implement a better form of
operation with the routine audit can follow this (Lee and Tsai, 2015).
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5b. Describe one technique that can be applied to improve the operation of the chosen
organization
The Ford Motor Company has adopted the continuous improvement techniques to improve the
business operation. The continuous improvement approaches help in the ongoing efforts in
improving the services, products and process to deliver better products to the customers. This
provides the improvement on the entire process required in the manufacturing of the vehicles
products. The management of the Ford Motor Company tries to focus on the continuous
improvement techniques to increase the better business operation in the market. There lies with
the objectives and policy that helps in increasing the efficiency of the firm by the better quality.
This helps in the improvement in the business strategy by enhancement of better business
outcomes that develop the relationship with the consumer as well as among the staff members
(Yamaguchi et al. 2016).
The organization has adopted various forms projects in the implementing of quality through the
continuous improvement techniques. The entire services or products manufactured by the Ford
Motor can be easily analysis through the continuous improvement techniques. The continuous
improvement techniques help the organization to adapt the necessary changes for improving the
quality of products. This helps in the implementation of better strategy in the decision-making
process to enhance a better operation management to provide the support for the set goals. The
Ford Motor Company has adopted the assembly line methods to increase the production
capacity, in order to meet the demand of the customer. The continuous improvements techniques
help to improve the capacity by developing the new facilities in the supply chain and maintaining
the production on a network. The organization has focused on the implementing of better areas in
a decision in the operation management. The main objectives include with the maximization in
the resources and workflow process. Ford Motor Company has helped to address the set
objectives that exist with the automation in the manufacturing or production process. The
company assists to ensure the continuous improvement and personnel development in the fixed
strategy. Ford motor has focused to maximise the effective human resources management and
personnel development in the fixed strategy (Moribe and Fujioka, 2017).
The organization has managed in the effective working of the human resources by managing the
staff members and providing of efficient training. The supply chain management provides the
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strategy in the decision areas in the managing the operation management on the streamlining and
effective cost by delivering the products. Ford Motors Company provides the inventory forms of
management to support the entire manufacturing process with the continuous monitoring to
reduce the extra cost and adjust the inventory. The inventory management helps to deliver a
better performance based on the decisions taken from the inventory. The continuous
improvement techniques help to maintain the adequate process in business through meeting the
set goals in a systematic manner. The scheduling of the operations is noted down by the
management of the company. However, the necessary changes are delivered trough the
continuous improvement. This technique helps in implementing the overall services and
maintains the better quality of products among the consumers (Tun et al. 2016).
Conclusion
It has been concluded that the business operation needs to be maintained in a proper manner to
meet the achieved goals of the company. The Ford Motor firm has carried best practices
techniques to increase the manufacturing the vehicles products and could satisfy the demand of
the consumers. The organization has focused on the analytical framework to increase the
effective form of business operations. The management of Ford Motors has focused on the
approaches in the quality management to improve the business operations. A continuous
improvement technique has been considered by the firm to maintain the better quality of
products.
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