Overview:

The main assignment for this course is the development and written submission of a production

and operations management plan. As a group of $2$ or $3$managers$,$ you will design a template

for the production and operations management of a consumer or B$2$B product or service that

MUST be approved by the instructor.

$($Important Note: If it is a service, it must involve the use of products in delivering the service.$)$

The project will follow the course schedule and each topic covered will be a component within

your project:

Part $1(10\%)$

$$ Product Selection

$$ Product Development Strategy

$$ Operations Strategy

$$ Manufacturing Design

$$ Quality

Evaluation Criteria $$ Part $1$ Marks

$1.$ Product Selection:

$$ Detailed explanation of product or service idea including:

o Features

o Benefits

o Unique Selling Points

$$ Support this description with evidence from the textbook or other scholarly sources

o Creative and realistic concept

$10$

$2.$ Product Development Strategy:

$$ Complete a SWOT Analysis or another strategic analytical tool to analyze your

product.

o Identify critical areas within the analysis that must be addressed and will be

focus points for the project

$$ Identify the areas which are the most challenging related to operations

management and why

$10$

$3.$ Operation Strategy: $($Refer to Chapter $2)$

$$ Create an operations mission statement

o Explain what your company$$s overall choice of operational strategy is from

the three main choices.

o Why was this strategy chosen?

o How does your product strategy support this choice?

$10$

$4.$ Manufacturing $($or Services$)$ Design: $($Refer to Chapter $5)$

$$ Explanation of how the product$/$service will be created to add value to the customer

o Use diagrams where appropriate

o Explanation must be clear; the reader has no prior information about the

product$/$service$.$ Outline each step in the creation, how it generates value,

and use terms from the textbook.

$5$

$5.$ Quality $($Refer to Chapter $6)$:

$$ What overall definition of quality is your management team using in your approach

to this product or service, and why?

$$ Document the anticipated quality issues with your product.

$$ Create two significant strategies to mitigate quality issues using methods explained

in the text and$/$or other sources.

$$ What is your $$quality standard$$ for this product or service?

$$ How are you going to measure quality to ensure standards are being met?

$20$

$6.$ Document Presentation:

$$ Document is visually appealing

$$ Document is free from spelling and$/$or grammatical errors

$$ Supports this description with evidence from the textbook or other scholarly source

$$ Cites sources $($course textbook$)$ in APA format.

product i have taken is project management software.A tool will help other business to manage there project $,$different tasks and team. plss provide references also.