Analyzing Operational Management Approaches and Leadership at Aldi

This report discusses the operational management approaches and the role of managers and leaders at Aldi. It examines approaches such as Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Six Sigma, Lean Strategy, Total Quality Management (TQM), and Just-In-Time (JIT) and how these impact the functionality and profitability of the company. The report also highlights the importance of operational management in creating efficient management practices, motivating employees, and ensuring smooth operations across production, sales, and marketing. It emphasizes how effective leadership and management contribute to increased productivity and the achievement of Aldi's market goals. Desklib provides access to this and similar solved assignments for students.

Management and
Operations

 P4: Approaches of operational management & role of
managers & leaders at functional areas of Aldi.
The operational management of the Aldi will be affected by
approaches that will affect the functionality of the
company. This approaches will help the authority to decide
the functionality of the organisation & make a better
business or operational plan to achieve its target goals.
Also, this approaches will help the managers & leaders to
develop a better assessment process to improve the quality
of services & product by the employees. The employees
will work with more motivation & loyalty to meet the
criteria decided by the company. Few of the approaches
that will affect the operational functionality of the company
will be:

BPR approaches:
This approaches stands for 'Business Process Resource'
which is based on the efficient execution of the processes
& management of business resources at the Aldi. Apart
from this, the BPR process states that the work or
procedures that are been done in the company gives rise
to its better profitability. It considers that the processes ha
s to be accurately executed to have an efficient work done
to achieve better profitability for Aldi. This process will
allow the leaders & managers to perform an assessment
that will help the company to decide better policies &
business plan to meet the Aldi's targeted goals (Gomez,
Kennedy, Manchester and et. al., 2014).

Six Sigma Approaches:
The Six sigma approach will ensure that the company
follows a better criteria of business operational
planning to meet the demands of the customers on a
wider level. It is a very disciplined, data based,
sequential & on the point method which help the
manager's & leaders to analyse & remove any
drawback or performance affecting factors at Aldi.
This is done to meet the quality standards that are been
decided by the company to maintain its profitability &
customers satisfaction. It includes following phases:

Cont....
Define: In this phase, the problem or the
drawback that is occurring at Aldi will be
identified & defined.
Measure: This phase consists of all the
approaches & measures that are been taken by
management of Aldi to get the defined problem
solved.
Analyse: Once the measure are been taken, its
consequences are been discussed to find out the
effect & outcomes of the measures on Aldi.

Cont....
Improve: The consequences analysed will give
the Aldi an idea to make improvements in its
products & services to meet the standardization.
Control: Once the process is been improvised,
it is controlled by the management to attain a
consistent productivity (Pyzdek and Keller,
2014.).

Lean Strategy:
This strategy includes the process of creating a 'Lean' in
which high quality services & products are been created by
the Aldi for its customers, implementing very few
resources. In this complex services & processes are been
introduced for te customers. In this approach, customer
value is been assessed by the managers or leaders of the
company. The ultimate goal of this approach is that
complete value of a product or service, manufactured by
Aldi, is provided to the employee with zero wastage. It is
also known as transformational approach which help the
company to reduce the waste generation & utilize the
resources available to it, completely (Premer, Froese,
Webster and et.al., 2016).

Total quality management (TQM):
This approach helps in the effective handling
of the various operations that helps in the
effective management of quality of various
products and services manufactured by Aldi.
This lead to better productivity and
profitability of the company. The managers and
leaders will look after the effective handling of
various operations leading to TQM.

Just In Time (JIT):
It helps the company to carry out its various
operations effectively, in a given time
constraints and are required to be taken into the
effective consideration that helps in meeting
the better productivity and profitability. The
managers and leaders will collaborate to get a
better idea of fulfilling the various operations
at Aldi.

 P5: Importance & value of operational
management & role of leaders &
managers at functional area of Aldi
Operational management is the method of applying certain
business practices to create high level of efficient management at
Aldi. This practices will look out that the work is been done
effectively at the company & the employees are well motivated
to meet the targeted goals of the company. The operational
manager will look after all the functionality of the company &
will check that the operations of the company such as
production, sales, marketing etc. are been carried out well & in a
very smooth manner to meet the customers demand & market
goals. All the managers & leaders at Aldi will manage the
business processes & practices that ensures the rise in
productivity (Pinson, 2013).

Cont...
First, the operations which the operational manager or leader is
governing is executed in a very efficient & precise manner
without any hassle. This can be done by giving the employees
necessary motivation & trainings to improve their skill set &
knowledge to do work at Aldi. This will also improve an
employee's motivation level & self esteem (Dufosse, Patry and
Reiner, 2014.).
Second, once the operations or processes are been executed in a
very precise & efficient manner, it should lay a positive effect on
the overall functionality & productivity of the Aldi. The rise in
the production & increase in profit share of the company will lay
an positive impact on the functionality of the company. Also,
this approach will give the operational manger a brief idea to
decide the future business policies & plan to meet the market
demands.

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