Operations Management in Tesco: Challenges, Approaches, and Supply Chain Management

OPERATION MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
PART 1............................................................................................................................................2
introduction for Tesco..................................................................................................................2
Function of operation management and its impact......................................................................2
input-transformation-output process of Tesco.............................................................................3
Roles and importance of the operations management and their challenges................................3
Role of operation management....................................................................................................4
challenges faced by the organisation in operations management................................................5
How different organisations are measuring their operations performance and evaluate the
effectiveness of each measure.....................................................................................................5
Recommendations of new and emerging technologies...............................................................6
PART 2............................................................................................................................................6
Different approaches to quality management adopted and comparing the benefits and
limitation......................................................................................................................................6
Different approaches of quality management and continuous improvement on the basis of
philosophy....................................................................................................................................7
Role and scope of supply chain management in supporting different organizations and
difference between supply chains and supply networks..............................................................7
Organisation’s supply chain performance objectives, and consider their use of lean vs agile
supply networks...........................................................................................................................8
Critically evaluate effective supply chain management options and recommendations.............9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Operation management refers to the practice which is related to business administration in
order to create the highest level of efficiency possible within an organization. This is also
related to converting raw material and labor into goods and services in an efficient manner in
order to maximize profit for the company (Dankeieva, Solomyanyuk and Koval, 2021). Present
report based on Tesco that is a multinational company which operates more than 8000 stores in
the world. The study is also based on two parts in which part 1 includes the core and support
function of the organisation and its impact in the competition market. Also review and critic
input transfer National output process and analyzing role and importance of operational
management for choice and organization. Further explain various challenges that are faced by
the company regarding operation and recommending for the same. Moreover part 2 is to
evaluate the different approaches regarding quality management in respect to comparing with
benefit and limitation also considering different approaches of quality management and role of
supply chain management in order to meet customer needs. In addition, this report will explain
organization supplies in performance in order to consider clean versus agile supplier networks
and lastly critically evaluate the effective supply chain management among competitors and
recommendation for the same.
PART 1
Introduction for Tesco
Tesco is known for British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer
headquartered in England. This is one of the third largest retailers in the world that measured
growth revenue and 9th largest in the world measured by revenues (Evans and Mason, 2018).
The production of Tesco is related to service oriented activities in which operation can be
second upstream opportunity which help the service and product to be provided for opening
everyday in accordance with trading hours maintaining the stock and selves.
Function of operation management and its impact
The functions of operation management are interrelated with each other regarding core and
support functions such as Tesco using the functional structure in order to separate all the
departments such as marketing production operation information technology and research and
development (Nunes, Causer and Ciolkosz, 2020). The main head of the department are
responsible for managing all the sub departments and their function. Marketing is responsible for
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assessing the needs of consumers and selling and promoting the goods and services of the
company and then operation is responsible for producing goods and according to the needs of
consumers in support of the marketing function. In addition to this the finance department is
responsible for securing financial resources for the favourable prices and allocating it according
to the budget and analysing the providing fund of operation. In Addition to this operation the
supply chain is interestingly linked according to all the activities and functions performed by the
company (Zhao, 2021.) . This also includes all the facilities which include warehouse processing
centre factories offices retail outlet distribution centre etc.
The impact of operation and process with other functions in Tesco are to help the operation
manager in order to ensure about all the departments and how it can be managed in the one
direction also it helps to ensure about the planning and management professionally in all the
directions. For example, the financial department works with the operational function of the
company in order to make budgetary considerations including all the planning and oversight
regarding actual manufacturing and process related to distribution of the product and services
and help to identify the competitors of the company such as Sainsbury and how it operates all the
functions (Son, Park and Kim, 2018.).
input-transformation-output process of Tesco
Roles and importance of the operations management and their challenges.
In order to review the input transformation output process of Tesco is related to that operation
management transform input such as capital labour equipment material land building information
etc are held to provide value to customer in order to summarise the transformation process also it
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