As A Supermarket Manager In A Large Family-Run Supermarket On The High Street: Operations Management Assignment, TCD, Ireland

QUESTION 1

(a) As a Supermarket Manager in a large family-run supermarket on the High Street, using the Harvard Referencing System and examples to demonstrate your understanding: describe the impacts the 4 Vs (Volume, Variety, Variation in Demand and Visibility) will have on your layout and flow, your process and product design and your HR and training management

(b) Consider how these impacts (in part (a), above) might differ from your previous location of employment – a small, family-run grocery corner shop in a built-up residential area.

QUESTION 2

Describe 4 key activities of operations management. Use the Harvard Referencing System and examples to demonstrate your understanding.

QUESTION 3

Describing what a ‘Supply Network Perspective’ is in Supply Chain Management, discuss the three important reasons for taking a supply network perspective. Use the Harvard Referencing System and examples to demonstrate your understanding.

(a)Explain each of the five stages of Product Design.

(b)‘Design is important to an organization, discuss, using a minimum of 5 reasons to illustrate your point. Use the Harvard Referencing System and examples to demonstrate your understanding.

QUESTION 5

A fast-food restaurant is deciding which applicant for the role of Operations Manager has the best understanding of three key strategic priorities:

The challenge of understanding:

1. 8 categories of waste in the system;

2. 5 Performance Objectives that customers demand;

3. issues facing a decision about a location for a news outlet.

Demonstrate your suitability for the role by explaining how each of these three challenges should be considered in the context of a fast-food restaurant.