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Present Day Operation Management
University of Phoenix
OPS/350 Operations Management
06:36:04 GMT -05:00
, Present Day Operation Management
This week, I am tasked to define operation management, the key factors that have
contributed to its evolution and how is the management’s role is applied to achieving the
organization’s strategy.
An operation is resources performing all or part of one or more parts of the process. A
process is an activity that takes one for more inputs and makes them into products for the
customers. And this process linked together makes a supply chain, which in collaboration
produces a product that fits consumer demand. Operation management is a systematic design,
direction, and control of the process that produces the inputs and makes tangible and intangible
products. Like making breakfast in the morning or manufacturing a car or painting a nail for a
customer. This process includes planning, making the product, and redesigning to get the
desired outcome with the lowest cost, maximizing its profits.
Evolution of Operation Management
The focus of operation management in the 1770s is labor in manufacturing, where
workers focused on doing one specific task and division of labor instead of doing multiple tasks.
In 1799 changed focus to interactable parts that fit multiple types and functions. And cost
accounting which is to account for the cost to make or provide the product. In the 1830s, it
focused on the division of labor by skill, labor would be assigned based on qualifications and
experience. In the 1900s it prioritized time management and the study of developing your work.
It also started the idea of inventory control, human relations, product quality, product sapling,
and inspections. In the 1940s shifted the focus on products to support WWII. In 1946, the
integration of computers in the workspace, and in the 1950s mathematical programming. The
1960s prioritized the study of organizational behaviors and the people that make up the
organization. And the 1980s where robotics entered the world of operations management.
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