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SECTION 8.1 – OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Operations Management Fundamentals
OM in Business
IT’s Role in OM
Competitive OM Strategy
OM and the Supply Chain
SECTION 8.2- SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Supply Chain Fundamentals
IT’s Role in the Supply Chain
Supply Chain Management Success Factors
Supply Chain Management Success Stories
Future Supply Chain Trends
Transformation process - the actual conversion of inputs to outputs
Value-added - the term used to describe the difference between the cost of inputs and the value of price of outputs
Operations strategy addresses broad questions about using major resources to achieve corporate objectives
Major long-term issues addressed in operations strategy include:
-How big to make the facilities?
-Where to locate the facilities?
-When to build additional facilities?
-What type of process(es) to install to make the products?
