Operations Management Plan
This assignment assesses your knowledge about OM and the implementation of its different
practices and strategies. Choose a product to introduce into the market. The product can be a new
re-designed version of an existing product, or a completely new product. You will be an Australian
manufacturing-based company. Develop a comprehensive OM management plan (strategy) covering
the following topics in the context of your new product:
1. Define the operational performance objectives your firm wants to compete with: There
must be consistency between your performance objectives and your OM plan (strategy)
2. Product design: Describe the different stages associated with your product.
3. Process strategy and layout design: What (manufacturing) process strategy and layout
options are more relevant for your product and why? Propose a process layout including
important indicators such as cycle time and number of stages.
4. Capacity and planning: How will you measure capacity, and what capacity strategy is more
appropriate and why?
5. Inventory management: What inventory management strategy is more appropriate and
why?
6. Quality management: How would you implement a quality management strategy?
7. Supply chain management (SCM): What is an appropriate SCM strategy and why?
8. Sustainable operations: What operational strategy can you implement that contributes to
sustainable operations.
Specifically, explain each of the topics above and describe how can these be implemented for your
product. For this, a literature review is required, including academic material to provide justification
and academic discussion on why each topic is relevant and why is relevant for your product
(minimum 1 academic reference per each topic).
Report guidelines:
– Use Times New Roman 12-point font and 1.5-line spacing
– Use the MS Word default margin (Normal)
– Expected structure and contents are:
• Title page
• Table of contents
• Introduction – description of the product selected, justification of selection, and how
OM can contribute to its success.
• OM plan including all relevant topic and literature review (9 topics above)
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendices
– Word count: 3.000 words (The word count does not include cover page, table of contents,
tables, graphics, references or appendices).
