Project Guidance MGMT 3060
Operations Management
This project has two parts:
1. The Written Paper part
2. Outline paper part
1.The written portion (16 pages):
16 pages include 1 flowchart and one of mentioned materials such as graphs, tables, lists (these materials should be only 1 page in total).
The project for this course is for your team to analyze a local business or do the online searching about a business you interested in, either service or manufacturing. Your analysis is to include the various operational aspects that we will be discussing throughout this course. Your progress on this project will be monitored via team updates at the checking points. Some of the key deliverables will come directly from in-class discussions. Your task will be to introduce your company in general and to identify the use of or absence of THREE various operations and supply chain management concepts/technologies/chapters we discussed in class, following with your analysis of how these impacts the company. At the end, conclusion and suggestions are expected. Much of this project is to help you understand how various operational and supply chain concepts and methods work in the ‘real’ world and / or how they might be utilized to help solve real problems. It will also help you see how different techniques may work in some situations but not others.
All the following items are required in your outline:
2. Outline portion (2 pages):
1. Introduce this company: including history, product or service provided, and the reasons your team selected this company.
2. Term project plan: including three concepts/(choose only 3 concepts from below and bring them in the paper), work breakdown (To do list)
Concepts that only 3 of them should be chosen:
– Sustainability
– Six sigma
– Green sourcing:
• Becomes a business imperative
• Looking to their supply chains to deliver “green” results
• Financial results can often be improved–Reduce waste
– How to manage a project:
• Break down and control projects
• Determine “critical path” for a project
Process of New Product Development
• Phase 0: Planning
• Phase 1: Concept development
• Phase 2: System-level design
• Phase 3: Design detail
• Phase 4: Testing and refinement
• Phase 5: Production ramp-up
This course is Operations and supply chain management.
The grade is so important to me so please pay attention to the attachment and follow the requirements
This paper must have no plagiarism
It is to be double-spaced, typed in 12point font Times New Roman, with margins of no more than 1 inch and no less than .8 inches. Pages are to be numbered.
