BTEC HND Management and Operations Report: Sainsbury's Analysis

This report analyzes Sainsbury's operations management, focusing on key approaches such as Just-in-Time production and its impact on efficiency. It examines the roles of leaders and managers in resource allocation, communication, and achieving organizational goals. The report identifies internal and external factors affecting operational decision-making, including business ethics and values, and how they influence corporate objectives. It also explores strategies to improve operational efficiency, such as empowering employees, providing flexible working conditions, building open communication, and fostering relationships with partners. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of operation management for organizational growth and profitability. The report is supported by references to academic sources, providing a comprehensive overview of Sainsbury's operational strategies and management practices.

MANAGEMENT
AND OPERATIONS

INTRODUCTION
• Operation management can be defined as
management of the organization practices for
organizing high level of efficiency within business.
• OM transforms raw material and labour into
products and their services for leading high profit in
the company.
• In this report Sainsbury is taken as an organisation
which is retail MNC of UK.

1. KEY APPROACHES TO OPERATION MANAGEMENT
• Approach helps in analysing the situation in the organization and in taking corrective actions
accordingly. Some of the important approaches are explained below:
• Just in Time: In this, production process is required to be completed on time with the set targets which
helps in achieving the desired results. Sainsbury has implemented production system that helps in
reducing wastage and optimum utilization of resources has made the process become just in time.
Sainsbury has taken care of its machinery and other production system that helps in achieving desired
results.

Role of leaders and managers in operational management
Role of manager:
•To manage and allocate resources according to
the requirement.
•To look after the activities performed in order to
achieve output and compete the task on time.
•To effectively communicate the relevant
information related to production, procurement
etc.

IMPORTANCE AND VALUE OF OPERATION
MANAGEMENT
Every organization has to understand the importance and value of operation management in an
organization.
•Maximizing profits: Operation management helps in increasing the revenue of the organization
which in turn helps in increasing the profits of the organization. This profit helps in expanding the
business and target new market segment.
•Satisfying customers: For the growth of the organization, it is essential to make the customers
satisfied by meeting with the needs of the customers and highlighting core benefits of it.

2.Key factor impact on operational management decision-
making
• There are two type of factors i.e. internal and external factor which impact on operation management decision-making by leader
and manager.
• Business ethics: It is one of the major factor which is affecting the decisions made by management of Sainsbury. It has become
really important for the company to carry out its business by maintaining the ethics. For example management have to be fair with
their employees and with customers in order to carry out their business in an ethical manner. So, company have to take decisions
on how business can be carried out in an ethical manner.
• Business Values: This also another factor which can impact the operational management decisions for examples is the business
value of the company to offer the quality products to its customers. So, company has to take decisions related to the how company
can keep on improving the quality of its products and services.

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Corporate objectives
•Sainsbury is a supermarket company which offers wide variety of products to
customers. The main goal of the company to give the values of the customers by
meeting their objectives.
•Vision of the company to differentiate brand from other brands in the competition
market (AL-yasar, Hussein and Barrak, 2019). Manager creates strategy and
impalements them within company.
•Corporate objectives guides organisation to choose necessary resources or operation
management approach for achieving those objectives. The decision making process
depends upon the complexity and necessity of corporate objectives.

3. Ways to improve operational management efficiencies to meet
objectives of organization
• Efficient leaders and managers must empower their staff to work more
productively. They should encourage their employees to produce most from
their sides when working alone. This is considered one of the efficient way to
empower staffs and employees.
• Sainsbury's managers should provide flexible working hours and should give
freedom in choosing desired location to work for employees.This will also
help in operation management, as workers are enjoying freedom of flexible
working hours and also to work at their desired locations.

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• Leaders and Managers of Sainsbury should build open and flexible environment, so that there is nothing to hide from employees,
and also a flexible environment will enable employees to accept changes whenever needed easily.
• They should also lift barriers of communication within the organization. Because effective communication will help Sainsbury's
employees to clearly understand goal, objectives and their process of achievement, which results in improving their operational
management efficiency.
• Lack of proper communication may get resulting in loss of interest of employees in work.
• Also, through these viewpoints of lower class employees will also be considered by top management, resulting in smoothly
achievement of organizations goals.
• Sainsbury's leaders and managers should also encourage effective and efficient relations with partner companies, suppliers and other
ventures. Having good relationships and effective relationship will help in easing the operations of Sainsbury, This also contributes
in improving operational management efficiencies to meet organization objectives.

CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that Sainsbury has analysed and understood the importance of operation management
and the role of leader and manager in the organization. It has been also analysed that operation
management approaches are vital because it helps organisation to make correct decisions which results in
growth and profitability of the organization. At last, the relationship between manager and leader affects
the business environment.

REFRENCES
• Cachon, G. P., Girotra, K. and Netessine, S., 2020. Interesting, Important, and Impactful Operations
Management. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 22(1). pp.214-222.
• Paulevich, S. V., Alex, K. and Mikhailovna, P. Y., 2019. Change from Economic analysis to Operational
analytics and corporate analysis in Innovative Entrepreneurship. Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal.
• Anastasia, 2016. Operations Management: Definition, Principles, Activities, Trends. [Online]. Available
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