Trade Strategy
Trade Strategy
Outline • Global Company Profile: Hard Rock Cafe • What Is Operations Management? •
Organizing To Produce Goods And Services • Why Study OM? • What Operations Managers
Do • How This Book Is Organized
Learning Objectives When you complete this chapter, you should be able to: Identify
or Define: • Production and productivity • Operations management (OM) • What
operations managers do • Services
Learning Objectives When you complete this chapter, you should be able to: Describe
or Explain: • A brief history of operations management • Career opportunities in
operations management • The future of the discipline • Measuring productivity
The Hard Rock Cafe • First opened in 1971 • Now – 110 restaurants in over 40
countries • Rock music memorabilia • Creates value in the form of good food and
entertainment • 3,500+ custom meals per day in Orlando • How does an item get on
the menu? • Role of the Operations Manager
Why Study OM? • OM is one of three major functions (marketing, finance, and
operations) of any organization • We want (and need) to know how goods and services
are produced • We want to understand what operations managers do • OM is such a
costly part of an organization
Finance/ Marketing Accounting OM Option Option Option Increase Reduce Reduce Sales
Finance Production Current Revenue 50% Costs 50% Costs 20% Sales $100,000 $150,000
$100,000 $100,000 Cost of Goods – 80,000 – 120,000 – 80,000 – 64,000 Gross Margin
20,000 30,000 20,000 36,000 Finance Costs – 6,000 – 6,000 – 3,000 – 6,000 Subtotal
14,000 24,000 17,000 30,000 Taxes at 25% – 3,500 – 6,000 – 4,250 – 7,500
Contribution $ 10,500 $ 18,000 $ 12,750 $ 22,500 Options for Increasing
Contribution
Ten Decision Areas Chapter(s) • Service and product design 5 • Quality management 6
6 Supplement • Process and capacity 7 design 7 Supplement • Location 8 • Layout
design 9 • Human resources, 10 job design 10 Supplement • Supply-chain 11
management 11 Supplement • Inventory management 12, 14, 16 • Scheduling 13, 15 •
Maintenance 17 Ten Critical Decisions Table 1.2
The Critical Decisions • Service and product design • What good or service should
we offer? • How should we design these products and services? • Quality management
• How do we define quality? • Who is responsible for quality? Table 1.2 (cont.)
The Critical Decisions • Process and capacity design • What process and what
capacity will these products require? • What equipment and technology is necessary
for these processes? • Location • Where should we put the facility? • On what
criteria should we base the location decision? Table 1.2 (cont.)
The Critical Decisions • Layout design • How should we arrange the facility and
material flow? • How large must the facility be to meet our plan? • Human resources
and job design • How do we provide a reasonable work environment? • How much can we
expect our employees to produce? Table 1.2 (cont.)
The Critical Decisions • Intermediate and short–term scheduling • Are we better off
keeping people on the payroll during slowdowns? • Which jobs do we perform next? •
Maintenance • Who is responsible for maintenance? • When do we do maintenance?
Table 1.2 (cont.)
The Heritage of OM • Division of labor (Adam Smith 1776; Charles Babbage 1852) •
Standardized parts (Whitney 1800) • Scientific Management (Taylor 1881) •
Coordinated assembly line (Ford/ Sorenson/Avery 1913) • Gantt charts (Gantt 1916) •
Motion study (Frank and Lillian Gilbreth 1922) • Quality control (Shewhart 1924;
Deming 1950)
Eli Whitney • Born 1765; died 1825 • In 1798, received government contract to make
10,000 muskets • Showed that machine tools could make standardized parts to exact
specifications • Musket parts could be used in any musket