Operations and Project Management: Review and Critique of Operations Management Principles in Tesco PLC

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Unit Number and Title Unit 187 –
Operations and
Project Management
Title Review and Critique
of Operations
Management (Part
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Table of Content
Part 1: Business Report
1. An introduction to chosen organization p
2. An explanation of operation vs operations management p
3. A review and critique of the implementation of operations
management principles within the chosen organization p
4. An analysis of the extent to which the operations management of
the organisation in the case study meets the requirements of the
organization p
5. Discussion of continuous improvement as a philosophy and
describe the Lean principles p
6. A continuous improvement plan, including your justified
recommendations for improvement, based on your review and
critique of operations management principles within your
organization p
7. Conclusion p
References p
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1. An introduction to chosen organization
Tesco PLC is the multi national organization of the British company. It is
headquartered in the Welwyn garden city in the England. Company considered it the
third biggest super market in the world. It has the highest company to be measured
in terms of the revenues. It was founded by the Jack Cohen in the the year 1919 in
the UK country (Santa Cruz, Torres, and Ibañez, 2019). This company trades in
various products such as the groceries, furniture, clothes, toys and furniture,
applications, financial services and the telecommunication networks.
2. An explanation of operation vs operations management
Operation means to utilize the resources of the businesses efficiently. It is related to
plan, arrange, manage the balance between the cost and the income to achieve the
maximum profit. It refers to convert the inputs like materials, labor and applications in
to the outputs. It is related with managing the executions of the company to operate
the activities of the businesses efficiently. It is the process of by considering the
small tasks to run the operations of the entity. The objective of any company is to
satisfy the wants and needs of the customer to provide the maximum satisfaction to
the customers. It means to assure the good product quality to the clients. It means to
define the strategy for the production, identify the plans to engage the persons in
businesses.
Operation management is related to the direction of the company structure, policies
, strategies to increase the effectiveness and enhance the profit. It is used for
organizing the day to day functions of the businesses. It monitor and supervise the
works of the several departments to achieve the targets. It oversee the work on the
manufacturing or the supply departments. The operational manager is required to
maintain the performance to convert them in to profit (FAN, and et. al., 2022). The
manager check that the process of operations are efficient and to recruit the correct
staff of employees, equipment should not be wasted. The manager of the operation
is coordinated with the various departments like purchase, sales and the
manufacturing department.
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3. A review and critique of the implementation of
operations management principles within the chosen
organization
The principles of operation management is the arrangement of the planning,
controlling, managing and supervising for achieving the higher profits and helps to
sustain efficiency in the producing the products. The prime target of operation
management is to fully optimize the resources such as the material, Labor and the
machinery.
1. Reality- The manager needs to focused on the problems in quick manner
because instruments and methods worked in the broad manner. There is
never a same solution to all the troubles. Thus management of operations in
businesses is very specific. The company should concentrate on the larger
problems as against with the small tools (Wang, and Wang, 2018).
2. Humility – Manager must understand the limitations and has to ignore the
error and trial in the respect of cost. It will helps to save the money and time
and has favorable outcome in the longer run. It is observed that no person
wants to complete the work with an aggressive environment. In that case
managers will position themselves as the normal people and they will commit
mistake and has not knowledge of everything.
3. Success- It is necessary for the manager that company can accomplish
success and it has the boundaries to work in that to achieve the objectives.
The company can maintain the stability in the long run by providing the good
quality product and services to the customers. The owner can maintain the
success by furnishing the maximum satisfaction to the customers. It is the
major priority of the businesses (Xiang, and Liu, 2021).
4. Accountability- The fundamental prospective to run the operations of the
businesses smoothly is to communicate the information to the subordinates.
The message should be flow from top to bottom and lower to senior level.
There should be proper allocation of the roles and the responsibilities and
evaluates the metrics to ensure that all the staffs work together.
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