Decisions and Success in Operations Management

📚 Operations management is the study of how organizations transform resources into goods or services.

💼 Operations management plays a critical role in the success of any organization.

🔑 Operations managers are responsible for making decisions in eight key areas.

🔑 Strategic operations management involves long-term planning and aligning operations with business strategy.

🚀 Product design focuses on making decisions about the features of a product or service.

⛓️ Supply chain management involves managing the flow of goods and services from suppliers to customers.

📲 Operations managers make decisions in supply chain management to guarantee timely and cost-effective acquisition of inputs and delivery of outputs to customers.

🔍 Quality management involves measuring, maintaining, and resolving quality problems in products or services.

💡 Strategic decision-making in these areas can enhance an operations manager's effectiveness and contribute to overall organizational success.