Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Most of us take for granted what we wear and what we eat. Little do we realize that for those shoes you’re wearing, the coffee you drank this morning, and that shirt comfortably resting on your body, made a long and arduous journey [...]
Operations Management – Design and Management of Products, Services, Processes, and Supply Chains
Operations management is an area of business concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resource as needed, and effective in terms of meeting customer requirements. It is concerned with managing the process that converts inputs (in the forms of materials, labor and energy) into outputs (in the form of goods and services).
Operations traditionally refers to the production of goods and services separately, although the distinction between these two main types of operations is increasingly difficult to make as manufacturers tend to merge product and service offerings. More generally, Operations Management aims to increase the content of value-added activities in any given process. Fundamentally, these value-adding creative activities should be aligned with market opportunity (see Marketing) for optimal enterprise performance.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, Operations Management is the field concerned with managing and directing the physical and/or technical functions of a firm or organization, particularly those relating to development, production, and manufacturing. Operations Management programs typically include instruction in principles of general management, manufacturing and production systems, plant management, equipment maintenance management, production control, industrial labor relations and skilled trades supervision, strategic manufacturing policy, systems analysis, productivity analysis, operations research, and cost control, and materials planning.
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I’m interested in how goods and services flow from the source to the customer. In an earlier post, we traced the supply chain of the White Truffle. Today, we’ll see what the supply chain looks like for pharmaceutical drugs. The pharmaceutical supply chain [...]
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Ubiquitous in fulfillment and warehousing is the information technology that runs it all – Warehouse Management System. Below is a table of the current WMS vendors and the Warehouse Management Software they provide and WMS Reviews. Warehouse Management System | WMS Software Vendors [...]
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn There are several things to consider when thinking of expanding your supply chain distribution network for your warehousing and fulfillment functions. This post isn’t an attempt to answer that question because it really depends on your business, the profile of the products you [...]
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Oracle is a leader in almost every enterprise software category. The foothold of Oracle WMS is good, but it finds many other competitors in its space. Luckily for Oracle, they have also actively acquired many of their direct and close competitors and folding [...]






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