Learn what e-Operations can do for you
Operations Management is the set of activities that creates goods and services by transforming inputs into outputs (Source: Jay Heizer, "Principles of Operations Management 4th Edition", 2001).
4 simple reasons about Operations Management: 1. How people organize themselves for production
2. How goods and services are produced
3. Understand how to manage a production facility
4. Because production is such a costly part of an organization
"e-Operations opportunities are uses of Web technology that are directed at strategic change in the way a business manages itself and its supply chain, culminating in the production if its core product or service." (Source: MIT Sloan Management Review Winter 2001)
In other words, e-Operations automates administrative processes, changes the supply chain to be more resourceful and integrates various systems. It also re-engineers your company's infrastructure, streamlines your procurement and increases your parenting value.
There are three main roles that you as the manager must examine. First, the Information Content of your product. If your information is high you can drive product availability, functionality and costs.
Second, Information Intensity refers to the supply chain, where it is can either intensify your procurement or reconfigure the supply chain.
Third, Information Dispersion (distribute information) is highly effective when your company have many geographic locations.
So What?
e-Operations seemlessly move data and information over open and closed networks, bringing together previously separate groups (suppliers, subcontractors, third party where outsourced, manufacturing, production and customers) both inside a company and outside.
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