Management and Operations Report: Sainsbury's Performance Analysis

This report provides an analysis of Sainsbury's management and operations. It begins with an introduction to management and operations, defining its role in transforming raw materials into final products and achieving profitability. The report then introduces Sainsbury's as a case study, emphasizing the importance of quality products in a competitive market. Key operational functions like planning, organizing, directing, and controlling are identified. The report also explores operational management approaches, including total quality management and lean manufacturing. It examines the impact of external business environment factors such as political, economic, and social influences. Furthermore, the report discusses operational efficiencies and concludes with recommendations for future improvements, such as effective planning and environmental factor analysis. The report includes references to support its findings.

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Table of Content
■ Introduction
■ Introduction of the chosen company
■ The main key operations of the chosen company
■ Main operational functions
■ Approaches to operational management
■ Effects of external business environment factors
■ Operational efficiencies
■ Supported recommendations for future improvements
■ Conclusion
■ References

Introduction
The management and operations is refers to management of raw materials into final
products to attain the maximum profits of the company. It also includes the designing and
manufacturing process according to the company by performing their rules and regulations
efficiently with in the organization. This will help the organization to achieve the
satisfaction level of customers which enhance the business of the organization.

Introduction of the chosen company
The various type of company has to perform their different activities. Sainsbury is the
clothing, groceries and retailing organization that gives their wages around the world. It is
very important to render the quality bases products or to satisfy their demands or
requirements of customers. They makes the quality good and their results is very aidful to
increase competition in at market place.

The main key operations of the chosen company
There are several main operations of
company are consider as below:
Controlling
Directing
Organizing
Planning

Main operational functions
The administrator has to execute the different
kind of roles and responsibilities to
handle the all function in the company as
well as it perform the several
responsibilities that is needful for
Sainsbury to obtain their targets and
goals.
Production
Marketing
Distribution

Approaches to operational management
There are different kind of approaches to the operation administration which helps to the
company, accordingly whole team members execute their roles as per their demands.
 Total quality management: According to this, to maintain in the quality is very
important for company.
 Lean manufacturing: The corporation must accent to get rid of the waste material so that
non useful outlays can be minimize.

Effect of external business environment factors
The Sainsbury produce PESTEL examination for the recognition of their threads and opportunities. External
or internal features effects the company or its productivity. So that the supervisors required to make their
strategies to maintain factors. These features are as follow below:
Political factors
Economic factors
Social Factor

Cont.…

Operational efficiencies
The operational efficiency can be built that meet objectives of business or management
leadership approaches is helpful to get their Success.
Approach of Management- As per this approach the supervisor has to control or handle
the activities efficaciously or create plans that helps the administration to get their
objectives.

Supported recommendations for future improvements
The future recommendations as follow below:
 The schemes or plans can be create effectively so that the objectives of company
could be execute.
 The leader and manager can examine the environmental factors effectively that is
external so that they can save their occupation from the negative effects.

Conclusion
From the above discussion this can be determined for the company, it is important to
execute the operational functions and identify the roles or responsibility of managers. The
operation administration approaches is aidful to decrease the defect or improve the product
quality. Through the effect of external factors the supervisors can take helpful or needful
decisions for the development of corporation.

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