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Understanding Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Assignment (Doc)

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ContentsContents...........................................................................................................................................2INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1Managing people in operation and supply chains........................................................................2Location and Layouts..................................................................................................................4Triple bottom line........................................................................................................................5Recommendations........................................................................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTIONEvery companies has different operation to perform, manager applies different tools tomanage operations. Operation management is the process related to planning, organising andsupervising all business activities that help in improvement and increasing profitability ofbusiness. In business world, logistic is defined as the management of flow of goods form thepoint of manufacture to the place of consumption. In general supply chain is related to themovement of goods and services this process includes storage of raw material, goods in processand finished product from one point to another (Beske and Seuring, 2014). To understand theimportance of operation management Royal Berkshire is selected which is one of the biggest UKhospitals. The hospital is providing operational services since the 1830s, this take especial pridein their of dementia patients and with more than 800 beds. In this essay report two topic related to areas of operation, logistic and supply chainmanagement two selected topic are Managing people in operation and supply chain and Locationand layout. Different theories and techniques that are applied in operation management arediscussed. MAIN BODY.The Royal Berkshire Hospital is also one of the National Health Services Hospitallocated in Berkshire UK. The hospital was opened in 1839 on side of London road and in 1993the hospital becomes a trust a NHS Foundation Trust which was commonly known as RoyalBerkshire NHS Foundation Trust. Recently, a data disclose a special feature about hospital thatthe accident and emergency department is one of the most effective unit of hospital as comparedto any other hospital of country. The hospital is famous for its services and hygienicenvironment. There are approximately 813 inpatient these are further categorise such as 627acute. 66 paediatrics and 120 maternity. There are more than 5000 staff working to providevaluable services to needy people, but recently it was reported that number of jobs will bereduced by 600 that help to reach a saving of £60 million.The location and layout are the main decision taken by the management of hospital.Location judgement is consider to be most strategies decision that requires huge financialinvestment an these are permanent in nature (Christopher and Peck, 2012). There number ofmodels and techniques that help manager of Royal Berkshire NHS in making location decision1
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