Applied Business Project

Requirements:

1) The assignment should be written in 3000 words +/- 10% (the word count excludes the cover page, table of content, reference and appendix).

2) Provide personal judgmental methods (Unaided judgment, structured analogies, and interaction) to support your ideas and suggestions about the best strategy.

3) Support all arguments with relevant reasons to any target situation.

4) Organise, develop and express your own ideas.

5) In-text referencing and list of references must comply with Harvard Referencing

System (minimum 10 journals/articles).

Assignment Task:

Operations management is one of the most important functions in an organisation which plays an important role in producing goods and services for its customers. The current study focuses on operations in manufacturing or service organisation.

Using relevant theories and practices in the operations management module and your own reading, you are to compare these theories with the practices.

The student can select an organisation (e.g.: a small business entity in Singapore or whichever the student has access to) and work on their operations management function within the organisation.

The student is expected to discuss on:

- operations strategy, product and service design

- planning and controlling function

- the processes involved in supply chain and quality management

- the operations performance

- making recommendations for improvement

Assessment

Your work will be assessed against the following criteria:

1. Knowledge - your work should show knowledge of the module content.

2. Understanding - your report should demonstrate an understanding of operations management.

3. Insight - your report should show an ability to analyze the operation in the light of the module content and your own reading.

4. Clarity - your report should be well structured and clearly presented.

This assignment is intended to give you an opportunity to show that you are capable of applying your knowledge of operations  management, not only in describing the issues faced by the organisation, but also in explaining them and justifying your proposed actions to
improve the operations performance of the selected manufacturing or service organisation.

You are invited to review all the models and concepts that we have discussed during the lectures.