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In managing manufacturing or service operations, several types of decisions are made including operations strategy, product design, process design, quality management, capacity, facilities planning, production planning and inventory control. Each of these requires an ability to analyze the current situation and find better solutions to improve ...
A concept of operations (abbreviated CONOPS, CONOPs, [1] or ConOps [2]) is a document describing the characteristics of a proposed system from the viewpoint of an individual who will use that system. Examples include business requirements specification or stakeholder requirements specification (StRS) .
Operational planning (OP) is the process of implementing strategic plans and objectives to reach specific goals. [1] In an Introduction to Management and Organizational Behavior , Barbara Carlin and Marina Sebastijanovic suggest that operational planning is one of the four basic types of planning involved in organizational management.
The business strategy defines what business the firm is in, for example, the Walt Disney Company defines its business strategy "as making people happy." A business strategy also defines the target market, competitors, financial goals, new products, how the company competes, and perhaps some aspects of operations.
There are different ways of defining the elements that make up an operating model. People, process and technology is one commonly used definition, [1] process, organization and technology is another. [2] An organization is a complex system for delivering value. An operating model breaks this system into components, showing how it works.
Distribution settings determine process time executions. Examples of distribution strategies include: constant values, event list, constant interval spacing, normal distribution, exponential distribution, and so forth. Priority determines the processing strategy if two inputs reach a process at the same time.
The Sales and Operations planning process has a twofold scope. The first scope is the horizontal alignment in order to balance the supply and demand through integration between the company departments and with suppliers and customers. The second aim is the vertical alignment amid strategic plan and the operational plan of a company. [2]
A clear correlation between processes and vision supports the company in planning strategies, structuring business and using sufficient resources to achieve long-term success. [ 2 ] From a process perspective, an organisation regards its business as a system of vision-achieving vertical processes rather than specific activities and tasks of ...