Operations Management Report: Leaders, Managers, and Efficiency

This report delves into the realm of operations management, providing a concise overview and highlighting the crucial roles of operations managers within the Aldi group. It begins by defining operations management and then proceeds to outline the key responsibilities of an operations manager, encompassing areas such as control and distribution, raw material transformation, process design, and capacity management. The report subsequently explores various approaches to operations management, including Six Sigma, lean theory, and queuing theory, and elucidates the distinct roles of leaders and managers. Furthermore, it examines how these leaders and managers can enhance operational efficiency to achieve business objectives, emphasizing the importance of clear goals, aligning tasks with skills, and delegation. Finally, the report analyzes the internal and external factors that influence the Aldi group's operations, such as value systems, mission and objectives, and financial factors, concluding with a summary of the significance of effective management and operations for organizational development and profitability. The report references several academic sources to support its findings.

Management and Operations

INTRODUCTION
In this report, Operations Management has been described briefly with
the inclusion of the roles and duties of an Operation Manager.
Operations management is a part or area of business that focuses on the
production of the goods and services.

TASK 3 - Key approaches to Operation's Management and Role of
Managers and leaders.
• Six sigma – The Aldi use this set of management techniques to analyse
the performance of the organisation. This helps in improving the
business process and increasing the profitability
• Lean theory – This theory or approach is used by an organisation in
order to eliminate waste from production process.
• Queuing theory – This is a mathematical study which determines the
queues and waiting lines. The Aldi group develop their operations on
the basis of queuing and priorities(Hildebrand,2014).

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Leaders Role
• Motivating or inspiring employees
• Setting up clear vision and mission
Managers Role
• Planning
• Organising
• Controlling

The importance and value of Operations
Management within the Aldi to achieve the business
objectives
• The Operations Management plays an important role in
an organisation to achieve the organisational objectives.
The Aldi group has an effective management system
which manages the operations of the business
effectively.
• The operation management focuses on the planning,
organising, staffing and controlling in the organisation
which helps to build effective coordination within the firm.
There are various roles and responsibilities an
operation's manager performs within the Aldi
group(Jamaludin and Yusof,2016).

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• The different roles and duties performed by the Operation manager
are as follows -
• Control and distribution – The Operation Manager distribute the
operations or functions of the organisation among the employees
and various departments within the organisation with regard to the
skills and abilities of the employees. This helps in proper distribution
of task and increasing the effectiveness in the organisational
operations.
• Transformation of raw materials – The Operation's management
focuses on the conversion of the raw materials or resources into the
finished goods or products. The operation's management ensure
that the operations in the production are effective and
efficient(Lim,2015).

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• Process Design – This refers to the
development of the process which will be used
by the various departments of the organisation
to produce the products and other functionality
of the firm.
• Capacity Management – The Capacity
management refers to the effective use of the
resources and technology within the various
operations of the organisation.

How leaders and mangers can improve efficiencies of
operation management to obtain business objectives
There are various aspects through which the leaders and managers
improve the efficiency of operation management in order to achieve
the business objective or goals. The different ways in which the
leader and managers improves the efficiency in the operations of an
organisation are as follows -
• Keeping goals clear – The managers and leaders in the Aldi group
helps the employees and teams to clear their vision and mission.
They ensure that each and every employee within the organisation
understand the goals and objectives of the organisation so that he
or she can work effectively in achieving it(Miyanabe and et.al.,
2015).

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• Match to task with skills and abilities - The leaders and
managers while developing teams or assigning the task
and roles to the other members make sure that a task
will be performed by the best person, this is done by
giving the right task to the suitable person.
• Don't be afraid to delegate – The leaders and managers
inspire and motivate the employees and teams by
delegating different roles and responsibilities to the
employees. They motivate the employees to perform the
roles and duties by giving them responsibilities to be
fulfilled. This helps the employees to feel motivated and
increase their abilities and skills.

Analysing various factors affecting the business
environment
• There are many factors both internal as well external which have an impact on the
operation's of the Aldi group. The operation's management gets affected by these
factors in both positive and negative ways. The management needs to focus on these
factors in order to overcome the negative impacts they have on the organisation. The
various factors affecting the operation's management are as follows -
• Value System – The value system is completely based on the culture and norms of a
company. The polices and regulatory framework of every organisation has a major
impact on the functionality of the organisation.
• Mission and objectives – The objectives of the Aldi may change according to the
changing business environment and competition in the market which has a great
impact on the organisations operations.
• Financial factors – These factors also affect the business operations as each and
every operation or business activities requires finance and availability of finance can
affect the functions of an organisation.

CONCLUSION
• From the above report, it can be concluded that
management and operation plays a significant role for
development of an organisation. It includes various
aspect which need to be followed by manager and leader
of the enterprise to develop profitability at workplace. In
this context, present report demonstrate comparison
between roles and characteristic of leaders and manager
on the basis of vision, orientation, focus and many more
aspects. Furthermore, it summarised situation of the Aldi
group in which leader and manager make effective
participation to achieve goals.

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