Operations and Project Management Report: Toyota and PLC Analysis

This report delves into the realms of operations and project management, offering a comprehensive analysis of these critical business functions. The report begins with an introduction to operations and project management, highlighting their significance in achieving organizational objectives. It then presents a case study on Toyota, examining the company's operational challenges and the application of various management principles. The report explores continuous improvement plans based on Toyota's operations, analyzes their effectiveness using relevant theories, and justifies strategies for enhancing efficiency. Furthermore, it applies the Project Life Cycle (PLC) to a specific project, including supporting documents like business cases, project plans, work breakdown structures, and Gantt charts with critical paths. The rationale behind these tools is analyzed, along with the effectiveness of PLC application, and a critical comparison of its use in large and small-scale projects is provided. The report concludes with an evaluation of the practical and theoretical effectiveness of the PLC in the context of the project, using appropriate theories and concepts.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
ACTIVITY 1: ..................................................................................................................................4
Covered in PPT...........................................................................................................................4
ACTIVITY: 2...................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Introduction: briefly explain the concept of continuous improvement.................................4
2.2 Prepare a continuous improvement plan based on your review and critique of operations
management principles within Toyota. Additionally analyses the effectiveness of the plan
using appropriate theories, concepts and/or models...................................................................5
2.3 Following from your answer to 2.2; justify strategies for achieving continuous
improvement of improved efficiency at Toyota by applying appropriate theories, concepts
and/ or models. ...........................................................................................................................7
ACTIVITY 3:...................................................................................................................................8
3.1 Apply each stage of the PLC to the given project; include the following supporting
documents: business case, project plan, work breakdown structure, Gantt Chart with Critical
Path..............................................................................................................................................8
3.2 Analyses the rationale for use of WBS, Gantt Chart & Critical Path, and leadership for the
Project.......................................................................................................................................10
3.3 Review and critique the effectiveness of the application of the PLC in the project using
appropriate models, concepts and theories................................................................................11
3.4 Critically analyse and critique how the use of appropriate theories, models and concepts
will be applied differently for large and small scale projects...................................................12
3.5 Critically evaluate the practical and theoretical effectiveness of the PLC in application to
this project using appropriate theories, models and concepts’..................................................12

CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Operations and project management in which operations management deals with the day
to day as well as strategic business concerns or issues in systematic manner. On other hand
project management majorly deals with the planning, organising, motivating and control various
works and activities in order to achieve organisational goals and objectives. It proved beneficial
for organisation by analysing design and control to bring improvement in operations, projects,
logistics and supply chain management issues in order to remain competitive in the marketplace.
This report covers the two case studies one on Toyota which faces some management issues and
other section of report based on Paul and Penny that aimed to expand their business and related
activities to remain competitive in the marketplace. This report cover the significance of
operations and project management by evaluating and implementing principles of operation
management. Then review and critique implementation of operations management with help of
six sigma and lean principles to gain optimum outcomes. For an organisation continuous
improvement is very much necessary by using methods and strategies to amend performance.
Further it explains Planning phrase with help of project life cycle and other supportive
documents. Also review and critique the effectiveness of PLC with help of models, concepts.
ACTIVITY 1:
Covered in PPT.