Week 8 Assignment: Operations Management Presentation

Assignment:

Throughout this course we will be examining the 10 strategic operation management principles. Week 8 you will be submitting a narrated PowerPoint presentation analyzing your current or previous employer's alignment with 8 of these principles. For each principle, you should focus on and include examples and research to support your observations/recommendations:

• What is the current approach utilized?
• Give a recommendation on how the company could reduce costs.
• Give a recommendation on how the company could enhance their approach.

The principles you are looking at (choose 5) are:

• Design of goods and services
• Managing quality
• Process and capacity strategy
• Location strategy
• Layout strategy
• Human resource and job design
• Supply chain management
• Inventory management
• Scheduling
• Maintenance

Assignment format:

• The assignment is presented as a narrated PowerPoint presentation. Supporting research should be presented.
• One slide per principle.
• Ensure professional presentation with proper spelling, grammar, etc...
• Must have proper citations and reference slide.