Operation Management

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Louis PERROT

Avril 2011 |

Subject

There have been many significant changes in Operations Management during the past few years, involving such aspects as quality, reduction in inventory and costs, improving delivery and lead times. 

In your own words discuss these changes and the implications for Operations Management today.

Summary

Introduction

I) The reasons of the evolution of operation management

1) The causes of the evolution

2) The new tools

II) What is the implication of these changes in Operations Management?

1) What is Operations Management today?

2) The new goals of Operations Management

Conclusion

Bibliography

* Introduction

Nowadays our modern society is always changing, the whole world is changing every seconds, demand is always evolving so as the offer thanks to innovations, way of production, new technologies, competitors, markets etc… That’s why companies’ ways of management have to adapt it selves very fastly to be competitive and to keep the place they have in the market. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, or the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin’s quotation resume very well how operations management must be, which is actually defined as “the combination of different activities creating value the form of goods and services by transforming inputs into outputs”. Moreover operations management have seen many important changes recently involving the environmental approach, reduction of costs, quality of the products and services and the delivery times.

I) The reasons of the evolution of operation management

Management is changing and evolving with time, that’s why today management method’s are different as the one used during the Fordism at that time.

1) The causes of the evolution

According to Nietzsche,...