...Over recent years, a small number of key concepts have become very significant to Operations Managers. Over recent years, a small number of key concepts have become very significant to Operations Managers. Four of these concepts are: Customer Care Kaizen Just-in-Time Total Quality Management Your task is to compare and contrast each of these four concepts, clearly describing each. Your work should help the reader to understand how each interrelates to the others and how, if properly applied, they will help any organisation to be a success. In order to understand the four concepts of customer care, kaizen, just-in-time and total quality management, there is a need to understand operations management and what this entails in the relationship between the four concepts and operations management. It is vital to the task to understand the meaning of each of the concepts in relation to operations management as well as to the business in which it is situated. Operations management is the area of business practice which is associated with the production of goods and services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient through the use of as little resources as possible and also that the customer requirements are met in and effective and efficient manner. According to Bartol et al (1998: p. 53), operations management Is the function, or field of expertise, that is primarily responsible for managing the production and delivery of an...
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...structure. Most responsibility lies at the top and there is more staff at the bottom with less responsibility. There is a hierarchy, and staffs know their position within the organisation. Hierarchies have tall and flat structure Tall organisation Tall organizational structure is one which has many levels of hierarchy. In these organizations, there are usually many managers, and each manager has a narrow span of control, they are in charge of only a small group of people. Tall structures tend to be more complicated and complex, and may be slower to respond to market changes than organizations where managers have a larger span of control. Employee satisfaction may be lower in a tall organization because of the many layers of bureaucracy and rigid rules. Tall organizations may face higher costs than in other types of business structures. One reason for this is the large number of managers and supervisors required in a tall structure. Advantages: There are various advantages of tall organizations. * Firstly, within tall organizational structure there is a close supervisory control because of the low span of managers. * Secondly, it is a more authoritative structure as a consequence; the roles and responsibilities are clearly defined. * Thirdly, in a tall structure the responsible person is other accountable to the higher authorities. * Fourthly, this structure enhances the...
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...Executive Summary One of the main challenges facing independent pharmacies is competition from larger chain pharmacies and mail order services. Apex Care Pharmacy is an independent pharmacy seeking to become more competitive with chain retailers and increase revenue by partnering with Mental Healthcare facilities. Market research has revealed that client intake at these Mental Health facilities has spiked in recent years with an average of 150 clients per facility. Obtaining business from these facilities would be a tremendous opportunity for Apex to increase customer volume and company revenue. Deliverables for this project include establishing a long-term partnership with at least three Mental Healthcare facilities. This endeavor will also increase pharmacy revenue by servicing the monthly medication needs of facility clients. Since Apex is a relatively small establishment, the project team will consist of the Project Manager who is the Pharmacy Owner, the Pharmacy Manager, the Marketing Representative, the Pharmacist, and the Pharmacy Techs. The Project Manager will oversee the entire project and serve as the final decision maker on all project details. The Marketing Rep will locate and recruit Mental Healthcare facilities, the Pharmacy Manager will handle administrative aspects, the Pharmacist will process and fill client prescriptions, and the Pharmacy Techs will support the Pharmacist in these tasks. The project will consist of a three phase process....
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...Me: Make suggestions for that IDL could make for their external customer. First, Management should take more responsibility. Maria and Kimberley are lack of attention about the IDL's business, in contrast, Maria pa more attention to the dramatics, and Kimberley more care about the business of another organization which she as a consultant in there. On the other band, Maris always impolite to the staffs and lack of respect of them, which could cause the staffs dissatisfied easily Face to this situation, both Maria and Kimberley should engage more into IDL business, as for Maria, she has to treat her staffs as internal customers, respect for them, help them recognize them value and interact with them, enhance them satisfaction thus make sure they can provide high service quality for customers. Secondly, Management should learn related knowledge. As for Maria, who is only focus on the dramatics, but never care about the IDLs business, as a manager, know about the related knowledge is a prerequisite, which can make sure she can guide and support the staffs, on the other hand, know about related knowledge could make the manager handy to their work, and then interesting in their job thus love their job. Next, staff should be empowered to deal with customer problem or complains. Although Kimberley Tess care about the IDLs business, usually come to IDL once a week, but she also controls most of the authority of IDL, which cause the company work low efficiency. Face to this situation...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch company, with a history of grand operation, Today it owns most of the world's consumer product brands in food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Unilever Bangladesh Ltd is one of the world’s most successful consumer goods manufacturing companies with local manufacturing facilities. Unilever brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, they've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, in over 190 countries, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product. Unilever Bangladesh Limited has five departments to carry out all their organizational functions. This report is designed in six chapters. Initially the opening words about the report were described in the first segment titled “Introduction”. The next segment “Overview of Unilever” contains the history of Unilever, Unilever Bangladesh Ltd, and Organizational structure. The next chapters are on firm organizing, Industry Analysis, CSR Activities, Innovative Managerial Practices And at last is the conclusion of this report Table of Contents Contents | page | 1. Introduction…………… | | 1.1. Unilever Global | 1 | 1.2. History of Unilever | 1-2 | 1.3. Unilever Bangladesh Limited | 2 | 1.4. Unilever Today | 2-3 | 1.5. Mission | 3 | 1.6. Vision | 3 | 1.7. Strategies followed by Unilever | 3-5 | 1.8. Consumers | 5-6 | 1.9. Products offered | 7-9 | | | 2. Firm...
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...REPORT ON ORGANIZATION’S HR MANAGER INTERVIEW Presented by: Acknowledgement Any accomplishment requires the effort of many people and there are no exceptions. The report being submitted is a result of collective effort. Throughout the semester our respected instructor has given us advices and helped us for this project execution. I on behalf of my team members convey our sincere gratitude to our competent instructor (Miss Umm-e-Sumaya). Without her help and guidance and with the help of my team members it wouldn’t have been possible to accomplish this report and project. Executive Summary Stancos (Private) Limited, the name emerged on the cosmetic industry of Pakistan in 1991 and is now synonymous with excellence and innovation by setting new standards of quality and creating new trendy products. HR manager believes that profit is not only focused but the aim to provide satisfaction and happiness. In Asia, Pakistan (Karachi), Mr. Haider is the president who looks after all the affairs of the organization and manages it. As an HR manager his mission is to provide better services to customers and all around the world. Table of Contents:- I. Company Description II. Strategic Focus and Plan III. Mission/Vision IV. Goals V. Core Competency and Sustainable Competitive Advantage VI. Situation Analysis VII. Company Policies and Rules/Regulations. VIII. Questions discussed with the HR manager Company Description:- Stancos Private Limited...
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...competing for business and which many were successful (n.d., Our Past). This left customers with many stores to choose from. Walgreen decided on beating the odds with changing the layout of the store and broadening the merchandise at feasible prices. Unlike the other drug stores Walgreen store was attractive and brightly lit, had wider aisles, and provided pots and pans, which was unheard of as well as products for health and wellness. Walgreens insisted on a wonderful customer experience, himself and his colleague personally greeted each customer. Always thinking of ways to grow a customer base, Walgreen also provided hot food during the cold season. Walgreens competition only served cold items ((n.d., Our Past). Like Walgreen, management today consistently keeps new ideas going to satisfy their growing customer base. Today Walgreens is continuing to provide a well experience for customers. Besides upgrading the physical store, management trains employees on how to provide exceptional customer care. Management continues to provide the right products and solutions in every neighborhood store in America. Upon the stores success, Walgreens has expanded the number of stores incorporating its well experience concepts from 400 at the start of fiscal 2013 to 600 today ((n.d., Our Past). Like the past Walgreens carries products from home care products, to medications. This makes it easy for customers to shop and get everything they need. Doing this expands retail and health...
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...Customer care 1. Is the customer care important for the center? And was it benefit for business, staff and customer? Yes, it is extremely important for the center. Customer care is regarded as a series of activities to meet or exceed the expectation of customers which will improve the customer satisfaction and service quality to make the customer like coming again. Additionally to build the customer loyalty that will cut the cost of attracting new clients and make more profits for business. Certainly it also enhances the company competitiveness and increase the efficiency of working process. Then when the company obtains more business as well as profits, the commission of staff must be raised which will make the employees happy, meanwhile they will offer higher quality service for customers to make them more satisfy. All of which will build a positive circulation among the business, staffs and customers. Therefore the importance of customer care expressed anywhere in the firm. 2. There exist different types of customers, how to satisfied the varied clients? To begin with, there are two types of customers which involved internal customer and external customer. Then the main distinguish between them should be weather it is directly connected to the firm. If it is not directly connected to the company, these parts of customer belong to the external customer such as visitors and bus-tourism for this center. Contrarily they pertain to the internal customers for example all of the...
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...NHS Public Limited Company The NHS is an organisation which operates in the Private Sector, and is owned by the government. The NHS is one of the world’s largest publicly funded health care providers. The NHS stands for the National Health Service which provides healthcare for all UK citizens based on their needs rather than their ability to pay for it. It is funded by taxes. As the NHS is funded by taxes and the government, if a hospital were to overspend, it would not close. Instead, funding would be cut back for a suitable period of time. The NHS provide many different services for all UK citizens, such as emergency and urgent care, general practitioners (GP’s) or dental services. Urgent and emergency care * Call NHS 111 if you urgently need medical help or advice but it’s not a life-threatening situation. * Call 999 if someone is seriously ill or injured and their life at risk. * Visit A&E in a genuine life-threatening emergency. Pharmacy services * Pharmacists play a key role in providing quality healthcare. They are experts in medicines and will use their clinic expertise together with their practical knowledge to ensure the safe supply and use of medicines by the public. * A pharmacist has to be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and have worked for at least a year under the supervision of an experienced and qualified pharmacist, either in a hospital or community pharmacy such as a supermarket. * 20% of pharmacists...
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...and major role for a manager. There is a continue flow of information and process run through and achieve the right Decision. Here I am going to mention and analysis of the two decisions that my manager has taken. How the decision will help her and meet the organisational benefits. Also I would like to demonstrate how all the learning process of decision making will reflect my own work and practice as a assistant manager. 2.1 Overview of Organisation My company name is Housing & Care 21, established in 1964. It’s the UK’s largest non-profit care provider and a national leader in providing innovative, affordable housing for older people. Also it works closely with local communities to develop new services that meet the needs of older people and neighbourhoods. It has over 28,000 customers and delivers more than 80,000 hours of home care by 6500 members of staff. It has turnover £200m and chairs the national Housing and care Dementia research Consortium. It acquired Claimer Care Group Plc. in 2009.The company invests in A* rated vocational qualifications centre so our staff can fulfil their potential and giving them the skills to provide the best possible services to the residents and service users. Housing & Care 21 promotes choice and independent for older people through a range of care, health and housing services and accommodation. Its expertise includes retirement housing, care and support services, dementia services and partnerships with customers, commissioners also...
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...Introduction The department I chose to study is the customer care department of a wireless carrier located in Michigan. This is a call center environment and the company employs 250+ representatives at this particular location. In the customer care department there are representatives, supervisors, four associate directors and one head director of the overall department. Each supervisor has 12-15 representatives that they must oversee. The duties of each representative consist of retaining customer business by renewing contracts, present data solutions, offer accessories, demonstrate equipment functions and network capability and answer customer billing questions. The supervisors’ job is to monitor daily team results to ensure performance, retention and objective compliance, complete monthly reporting, provide effective feedback, supervise, educate and motivate their team to exceed all performance measures. I have worked for this same wireless carrier for 4 years and I currently work in their financial service department but I have a few close friends who work in the customer care department who don’t be satisfied with their jobs. I found this quite interesting because we all worked for the same company but there seemed to be a huge difference in job satisfaction from department to department. In order to find out what this difference is from our department to theirs I did an hour of side by sides with some of the customer care representatives and gave my friends from the department...
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...Prepared By: ?????? Date: April 21, 2013 Authorized by: ?????? Project Description: A day care center that will provide day care services for a maximum of 100 children from the age of three months to six years old. |Stakeholder Name/Title |Project Role | |Mr. & Mrs. Webster – Owners |The customers who will open and operate the day care center and who will also do the final walk-thru | | |and sign off of the project. | |Project Manager |The project manager is responsible for planning, execution and the completing the project. | |Construction Manager |The construction manager is responsible for the planning, coordination, budgeting and supervision of | | |the construction site from early development to completion. ...
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...Introduction This report evaluates various aspects of customer care that the supermarket ASDA employs. I have chosen to base this report on ASDA as I have worked there for three years and have had plentiful experience is differing roles within the business. ASDA is Britain’s second largest supermarket by market share at 17.2% [1].behind Tesco, whom rests at 28.7%. Although ASDA is behind Tesco in terms of market share, it performs better in the Customer Satisfaction aspect. In 2013, ASDA had a customer satisfaction percentile of 53% whereas Tesco had a percentile of 45%. [2] ASDA employs roughly 165,000 employees throughout Britain and Ireland and serves over 18 million customers per week [3] As a result, customer care is a key-stone in ASDA’s core values, as its position as one of the market leaders in the retailing industry increases pressure to maintain that position. This report will be compromised of a detailed examination of the different aspects of customer care such as; their mission statement, their standards in care, role of feedback and any methods of improving care. Asda.com outlines this in more detail. Mission Statement A mission statement is a presentation of a company’s goals and values. Like any other business, ASDA needs a mission statement to show staff and customers what ASDA strives for, an objective to help to achieve. ASDA’s mission statement is; ‘To be Britain's best-value retailer exceeding customer needs always’ ASDA Employee Handbook (Page 8) ...
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...Lawn Care Services Business Plan 10TH - June - 2015 Muhammad Nouman Javaid BBA Group “E” Batch 2014-2018 Condition: This business plan will not be copied, printed, faxed or implemented without the permission. It is issued with the purpose to attract investors. If not accepted should be returned on the above address. Phase 3 chowk,Near Marco polo wedding hall Peshawar, Pakistan. Contact: 03139002035 Table Of Contents 1. Vision statement ………………………………………………………......... 03 2. Mission Statement …………………………………………………………..... 03 3. Our Belief ………………………………………………………........ 03 4. Executive summary …………………………………………………………... 04 5. Introduction to venture……………………………………………………….. 05 a. Introduction to industry .……………………………… 05 b. Services We Offered ………………………………. 05 c. Introduction to the Concept of our business........................... 05 d. Growth and entry strategy ………………………………. 05 e. Our Need in Market ………………………………. 06 f. Objectives ………………………………. 06 g. Keys to Success ………………………………. 06 6. Marketing Plan ………………………………………………………….... 07 h. Promotion ………………………………. 07 i. Sales Strategy ................................................ 07 j. Pricing ………………………………. 07 7. Operational...
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...Employees 6 Ownership Structure 6 Product and Services 8 Levels of Customer Service 11 Customer Profile 12 External customers of Victoria’s Secret 13 Internal Customers 15 Satisfaction of Customers Five Needs 20 Appropriate Market Research 21 Best seller product 21 Product range information 22 Product information and specifications 23 Delivery, warranty and return or cancelation policy 24 Sample promotional materials 24 Management and Leadership qualities 26 Leadership qualities 26 Management skills 27 Position description of CS manager: 31 Types of customer service training 35 Schedule for training 37 Example of customer service training policies 38 Feedback from customers 42 Survey 43 Managing customer service reports 46 Conclusion 47 Referencing 48 Business profile and interview Interview With alshaya CS Officer 1. What is great customer service in your understanding? You should always smile and greet the customer with good morning sir / mam or which part of the day it is. After that the query should enter the system for any follow up or feedback. Always make sure the customer ends the call as satisfied as possible. 2. How would you handle an awfully irritated customer? I understand it’s hard to satisfy all customers but it depends on the customer if he/she is reasonable then I’m sure he/she will end the call satisfied, but If the customer escalates we would send it to the operation team then they will tell us...
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