There is no specific required format for your answer, but you should provide clear and easy-to-follow answers. The approach is similar to completing the two case study analyses in your Operations Management (OPMT-505) course.

Imagine that you have been hired by the company to review its operations and provide answers to all the questions in the five parts below for the company's management. Your answers will include identifying three key operations management issues/challenges, five objectives, analyzing the identified issues, and then providing improvement suggestions/recommendations. Your work should help with planning a sustainable business through overcoming key operations issues. Draw on the case method you used in the Operations Management course to look at Apple's operations to better understand how to improve the performance of the business areas with the identified issues. Focus on key success factors that would help improve the operations aspects of the business.

Part 1 (15%)

Identify three operations management issues the company is facing that you will investigate in this report.

Part 2 (10%)

Suggest five objectives (key result areas) the company would achieve after implementing the recommendations you will provide in this report.

Part 3 (35%)

Use at least three tools, frameworks, or analytics tools that have been covered in the Operations Management course to analyze the three issues you identified in Part 1.

Part 4 (30%)

Develop at least three main recommendations with action plans for the company to consider that are directly related to overcoming all three issues identified in Part 1.

Part 5 (10%)

Suggest three further tools, frameworks, or techniques associated with operations management that could be used to help the company further improve its operations management in general. Just mention the tools and briefly explain what they are, where you see them adopted, and what benefits the company is likely to gain from adopting them (in a brief manner).