Write a college-level reflective essay based on your work or life experience. The essay must contain the correct number of subtopics and real-world experiences with sufficient examples of your own experiences. Support your experiences with theories from scholarly articles (only scholarly articles).

Subtopic 1: Describe the role of operations management in the firm and how this role can lead to competitive advantage and profitability.

Subtopic 2: Discuss systems to take advantage of capital, location, and labor differences so that profits are maximized.

Subtopic 3: Outline how planning the operations system takes place and how international considerations are integrated into planning.

Subtopic 4: Describe some of the quantitative tools and techniques of operations management and how these are applied to formulate solutions to business problems.

Subtopic 5: Discuss business situations for which tools of operations management can be effectively applied.

Subtopic 6: Explain how control of operations must respond to changes in the international economy.