Lean Operations and Scheduling: Comparative Analysis Report

This report provides an analysis of lean operations and scheduling strategies, focusing on the practices of Pepsi and Coca-Cola. It explores production processes, including the use of technologies and promotional strategies like social media and internet marketing. The report examines customer...Read More

Lean Operations and Scheduling

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Production process and technologies...............................................................................................1
Customer interaction........................................................................................................................2
Technologies used in production ....................................................................................................2
Six Sigma and its impact..................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Companies uses different types of strategies that helps to increase overall performance
and productivity in the world. Pepsi and coco cola follows social media and internet to promote
their products and services in the market. There are different types of technologies of production
system that helps to identify the issues in the system and a manger can easily take appropriate
decision for the improvement. Management of the entities gives appropriate training and
development to the employees to improve a quality of an item and also helps to innovate the
products and services to increase a sales revenue in the market. This report includes production
system and their techniques six sigma, inventory methodologies.
Production process and technologies
Pepsi and coca cola is the famous company in the world and they provide good quality
products and services to the consumers. It uses different types of promotional strategies to sell
their products in the market. There are various technologies and approaches that helps to increase
overall productivity in the market. Social media and internet is the best method to promote the
firm product and increase a productivity in an industry. It sells their products internationally and
provide good quality products to the customers. Based on the client needs company innovate
their products to the client to attract the customer and helps to increase a productivity in the
world (Lee, Bagheri and Kao, 2015).
Both companies follow different types of promotional strategies and approaches such as
social media and internet that helps to attract a client in the world. It also uses different types of
production process and technologies that helps to identify the issues in production system and
then a manager can easily improve a quality of an item. Production system is the process to
identify the issues in the system and they can easily improve the quality of an item in the
company. It helps to increase a productivity and performance in the world. For the increment in
the productivity and performance both firms uses different types of promotional strategies and
pricing approaches. Coco cola uses the production life cycle that helps to create good quality
product in a market (Lee, Hwang and Yoe, 2013). It includes different types of stages such as
water treatment, production, filling and packaging. The manager continuously monitor the
process of products so that they can easily find out the barriers and then they can easily take
appropriate decision for the improvement.
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Customer interaction
There are different types of technologies and approaches that helps to interact with the
customer and also helps to connect huge number of customers in the market. Manager of the
coco coal provides the training to the employees to innovate a products and services to the
clients. For the interaction to the customers it conducts the interviews and feedback so that they
can easily know the client needs and then they can easily produce innovative items to the
customers. Client interaction is very necessary because by knowing the client needs a company
can easily provide good quality items and services to them. It helps to increase a satisfaction
level and also helps to increase the overall productivity in the market (Murphy and Pazzani,
2017).
Pepsi takes feedback and organize the events so that they can easily know the customer
needs and their opinion so that it helps to innovate the item to increase a sales revenue in a
market. By interact with the customer company can easily identify the actual consumer needs
and they can easily take appropriate decision and apply advanced strategy which helps to
increase a productivity in the world.
Technologies used in production
There are various technologies of the production system that helps improve a quality of
the product and also helps to increase a level of performance in the world. Coco cola and pepsi
uses advance system and machines which helps to improve the quality of the product in the
company. For the effective production, a manager monitor the process of the production and if
they found any problem in the system then they need to follows enhanced technologies and
strategies that helps to improve a quality of the products (Pal, Sana and Chaudhuri, 2013).
Inventory methodologies and model
Coco cola uses perceptual methods to mange their firm inventory. Manger of the firm
gives the training and development to the employees so that they can easily manage their work
and get higher performance in the world. It has good brand image in the market because it gives
good quality items and services to the consumers. This method helps to track all the traffic using
a scanning system on the daily basis.
Pepsi uses LIFO and FIFO methods that helps to mange the products demand and supply.
Manger has a responsibility to identify the consumer needs and based on the demand they need
to give appropriate items to the customers (Sarkar, Cárdenas-Barrón, Sarkar and Singgih, 2014).
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Six Sigma and its impact
Six Sigma approach is a technique that is used to improve the process of production. It
helps in reduction of the defects in the overall output. It also ensures that effective quality of
product is delivered to the consumer with no defects. It demands adequate amount of attention on
the production process of the organization. In order to adopt this function, it is important for
Coke and Pepsi to set standards with respect to quality management. Moreover, empirical
statistical methods can also be used to serve the purpose. Creation of special infrastructure is
required to be identified so that adoption of six sigma method is easy. A team of experts can
easily inculcate it in the process. There is a significant impact on the working of these soft drink
producing companies, such as, reduction in time of process cycle, reduction in pollutants from
manufacturing, reduction in wastage or rejected material or final output, increased customer
satisfaction level, etc. It has direct contribution on increase in the profits of the company as well
(Sarkar and Sarkar, 2013).
There are certain doctrines of six sigma approach which are directly beneficial to Pepsi and
Coca cola both. These are as follows:
 To put continuous efforts so as to achieve stable and desired results.
 Manufacturing process must be defined, measurable, analysed, improved in
appropriate manner and controlled as well.
 Achieving sustainable quality products which has direct impact on the finances
of the companies as well.
 A strong leadership and management approach for better output.
 Use of verifiable data and statistical methods for perfect on near perfect
assumptions.
Adoption of this approach will help the companies to reduce its waste and have better
management of the produced products. Further, it will also have direct implications of the profits
of the company as well. The cultural benefits of this approach are that it will help to increase the
customer satisfaction level as well. Moreover, reduction in the waste can help in sustainable
development of the entity without compromising with the needs of future generation. Moreover,
the approach will also assist in increasing efficiency level of the entity as well (Scheer and et.al.,
2014).
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CONCLUSION
Both companies follow different types of promotional and pricing strategies that helps to
increase overall firm performance and productivity in the world. Both firms applies production
life cycle and six sigma to improve the quality of the products in the company. By using the six
sigma the manager can easily know the factors that affects the quality so that it helps to improve
a quality of the product in the world. For the customer interaction the firm takes a feedback and
takes review from the consumer so that by knowing the needs they can easily produce innovative
items which helps to increase a satisfaction level of client and also helps to increase overall
performance in the world.
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Sarkar, B., Cárdenas-Barrón, L. E., Sarkar, M. and Singgih, M. L., 2014. An economic
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Scheer, C. and et.al., 2014. Impact of nitrification inhibitor (DMPP) on soil nitrous oxide
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