1- Why study operation management

Operation management is the core producing of all enterprises, we come in contact with products and services everyday or every minute, that are produced with a certain level of efficiency and quality control to assure customer satisfaction and other standards that are ethical or required by legislations and regulation. Operation management deals with the supply of materials which are needed for production, production processes, and delivery of the final product to the consumer who might be a house hold, a person, or a business entity. Managing this operation process and the machinery or human labor required is all called operation management that deals with quality and efficiency; it is the real field of production working side by side with HRM, Marketing, and Finance departments to satisfy the firm strategic plans.

2- How does the function of an operation manager differ from of a marketing manager or a finance manager? And how are they similar?

Operation management is more in the real production line than in offices and gathering data or performing analysis or forwarding questionnaires, but operation management take the inputs from marketing for setting the standard of customer expectations and take the financial inputs from financial department for funding the required products and within the operation management is setting the standard and sending outputs to HRM for the required work forces to achieve the strategic goals. But they are all similar since they work geared to the same direction of achieving the strategy set by executive management.

3- What is the difference between operations management and supply chain management?

1- Operations management focuses primarily on activities that happen within a company's walls to industry a product or service. This guaranty formulating policies, managing the