Understanding Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Understanding Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Essay Planning Form
You need to read the Assessment Brief which is available on Moodle before filling this
form.
 Student Name:
 Date:
 Which organisation (s) would you like to choose? Please write the name of
organisation of your selected option. Answer is missing.
Which of the two areas would you like to investigate? Answer is missing.
 New product/ service development and process
 Managing quality
 Location and Layout
 Managing people in operation and supply chains
 Logistics mix: Channels, networks, transportation, managing inventory and capacity
 Managing business relationships in supply chains
 JIT and Lean
Give a brief outline of how you are going to tackle the essay in view of:
1. The context of the essay (e.g. Private company, successful company, any specific companies,
Pioneer companies, ...) including examples that you intend to use:
Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for
Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of
Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital is the largest centre for child heart surgery in the UK and one of the largest centres for heart
transplantation in the world. In 1962 they developed the first heart and lung bypass machine for children.
With children's book author Roald Dahl, they developed an improved shunt valve for children
with hydrocephalus, and non-invasive (percutaneous) heart valve replacements. They did the first UK
clinical trials of the rubella vaccine, and the first bone marrow transplant and gene therapy for severe
combined immunodeficiency.[1]