Pick a business with which you are familiar and explain the role of Operations Management in this business’s functions. This business can be a restaurant in your neighborhood, a retailer you made a purchase from before, or a company you worked for. Refer to “The Role of Operations Management” in the textbook, and write an essay answering all the following questions:
What is the business name and products they produce? A physical good or a service? It is for-profit or not-for-profit?
What is the reason you choose this business in the exercise?
Do you know how that business involves managing people, equipment, technology, information and other resources? Write as much as you know about the business.
What are the inputs, and the outputs in their operations?
What is their transformation process?
Does customer feedback and performance information can help to continually adjust the inputs, the transformation process and characteristics of the outputs?
What are the roles of Operations Management in this business?
