MAN515 Operations Management

This assessment should be written using a report style.Over recent years, a number of key challenges have become very significant to Operations Managers. Six of these concepts are:
? Changing Technologies
? Continued Globalization of markets including 1st and 2nd world entrants.
? Changing customer expectations
? Changing job designs
? Quality management
? Global manufacturing
Your task is to:
1. Identify a business you think is interesting and briefly discuss how each of the above challenges might impact that business in the future.
2. Choose a minimum of three of the following areas of Operations Management that you think are likely to most impact the success of your chosen business and justify your selection of each.
o Goods and Service design
o Process Selection, Design and Analysis
o Facility and Work Design
o Supply Chain Design
o Capacity Management
o Managing Inventories
o Resource Management
o Quality Management