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The Production and Operation Management of Supply Chain Excellence

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Introduction. 3

Discussion. 3

Conclusion. 7

References. 8

Introduction

Supply chain excellence means the method of achieving key supply chain strategies to move ahead with the competition in the marketplace. The appropriate strategy is required to be taken by the operational management in achieving supply chain excellence.

Discussion

In achieving supply chain excellence management operational management plays a crucial role. As operational management helps a company in achieving operational excellence it is an ongoing process and helps a company in obtaining better results soon. Many companies are not taking the benefit of supply chain excellence. The researches of sustainable supply change management improve economical outcomes of social change (Koberg & Langoni, 2019). The reason for this is they are not familiar with the benefit of supply chain excellence. The process of supply chain excellence can also help companies to identify the precise service levels and also this process helps the company in creating the supply chain tailored to the service needs of particular customer segments. A proper operations management helps a company in achieving competitive advantage, future success and better quality of services. Operational management is mainly those parts of a company that are connected with the overall operation of the company. The benefit and the role of operations management in the context of supply chain excellence.

Operational management helps a company in ensuring effective compliance and also helps in assessing the activities of the operational management. Meanwhile, the management exercises many functions to ensure that task is performed as per the rules and regulations of the companies overall supply chain process. In achieving supply chain excellence the role of operational management is big as the operations management system of a company finds many new techniques and ideas to increase sales. The increase shown in the number of sales is a signal for a company in achieving profitability in near future. This process of overall operational management also helps a company in assessing the manufacturing edge as the manufacturing edge assists a manufacturer through the prevention of affordability debt. The debt portion of a company must get reduced at an early stage.

So, the understanding of overall operational management helps the board of directors and managers and the higher authority of the company in achieving the goals and objectives of the company. The internet sector is responsible for classification of supply chain processes (Ben-Daya & Bahroun, 2019). The operational management takes such suitable steps as they deem fit in the overall development of the supply chain management process of a company and achieving supply chain excellence.

Figure 1: Supply chain excellence

Source: (Koberg & Longoni, 2019)

As globalisation increases the complexity of the supply chain process is also developed it improves the overall decision making of the company and efficiency in supply chain process .A smooth level of functioning of a supply chain process ensures supply at the current times and also satisfies the customer satisfaction as per changing time .a proper and appropriate production of production management plays a vital role in the supply chain excellence process. The production management deals with the production departments and many areas associated with the supply chain process and certain market segments. The production management ensures the supply chain operations with the company that include logistics solutions. The business of a company can predict more demand as it may deliver to them. It is also necessary for the production management of supply chain management to kept in mind that they have a proper backup plan as because in the case of any problems and issues regarding inventory and others . The challenges of the company are also solved with the help of a company. Supply chain processes have another major area to look for that is delivering the appropriate goods and services at the correct time to the consumers.

Production management of supply chain excellence also assures better risk assessment and management to achieve excellence in the context of supply chain management. Production management has also taken many corrective actions in the purview of quality control of a product. The quick assessment of risk analysis predicts the demand more accurately and avoids the bullwhip effect in the supply chain process. Another aspect to look forward to in the supply chain process by the production management is to build a strong relationship with the distributors and suppliers. Development in the communication process is also shown with the improved relationships with clients and customers. This process also helps in reducing the overall costs and to enhance productivity. In the last few years improvements have been noticed in the supply chain management of the company. The main reason behind this is the quality improvement of products and services.

Mainly this includes delivery by the supplier of the products and the services at the perfect times and conducting quality assessment and many more. The quality assessment process also ensures the products and services are delivered in a condition of proper quality without any dispute; the overall supply change management also analyses the appropriate intelligence involved in the overall process (Toorajipour et al., 2021). Supply chain excellence is also achieved by reducing legal liabilities and also avoiding negative publicity. In achieving supply chain excellence operational excellence plays a vital role (Mangla et al., 2020). As the production manager is responsible to deliver appropriate products and also developing necessary infrastructure in the promotion of supply chain management.

Delay in delivering services and delivery of the product reduces many mistakes and difficulties at the time of distribution logistics reports and shipment related issues. The supply chain process is mainly dependent on these factors and the development in these sectors will give a boost to a company in achieving supply chain excellence. The technology of the supply chain management process has a big and effective role. Another major aspect of supply change management is that green supply chain management mainly deals with future challenges (Tseng et al., 2019). Supply chain management also helps the managers to get connected if they are on a move they also keep connected with the activities of the company. Production management manages many days to day activities of the company and takes appropriate steps to achieve excellence in the field of supply chain management.

Conclusion

So, from the above discussion, it concludes that production and operation management is a very important factor of a company and they also play a vital role in the process of supply chain excellence.

References

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