ops 510 week 8 portfolio

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Please make sure that everything is properly formatted according to APA guidelines and that a plagiarism check is completed before submission.

Thank you very much for your help. I really appreciate it!Instructions

The final Portfolio Project is structured to help demonstrate your understanding of the course material and the implications of new knowledge gained from outside research. The subject organization might be your workplace, an organization you are familiar with, or an organization discovered in your research. Information about the subject organization must be publicly available and referenced correctly in your work.

As part of the initial Portfolio Project Milestone due Module 4, you must secure instructor approval for the organization selected for your Portfolio Project in Module 3.

Based on your analysis, you will write an assessment of the subject organization's OM strategy and practices. When writing the assessment, assume the role of a highly regarded operations management professional commissioned to review, analyze, and describe the organization's OM for achieving increased sustainable business value. Your assessment should address the following key elements:

1. Subject Organization: Name and briefly describe the subject organization in this section, including its mission. In this section, at least one in-text citation must refer to a source in your reference list that the reader can access to learn more details about this organization.
2. Operations Management: Define OM and relate the subject organization's mission, operational strategy, and productivity measurements; compare and contrast OM with project management.
3. OM Forecasting: Define forecasting in the context of OM; identify the subject organization's forecasting methods and practices; relate the Seven Steps in the forecasting system to the subject organization; highlight potential ethical considerations related to the subject organization's forecasting; recap applicable lessons learned based on your Forecasting Simulation experience and describe how they apply to your subject organization.
4. Define Operations: Define the design of goods and services and relate them to the subject organization; highlight OM process, location, and human resource strategy in the context of the subject organization.
5. Quality Management: Define quality and identify common OM quality management best practices; identify the subject organization's quality management methodology; recap applicable lessons learned based on your Quality Management Simulation experience and describe how they apply to your subject organization.
6. Supply Chain Management: Define supply chain management (SCM); designate the subject organization's SCM strategy and explain the basis for determination; describe the subject organization's use of technology for SCM; identify potential SCM risks and SCM ethical considerations related to the subject organization; recap applicable lessons learned in your Supply Chain Management Simulation experience and describe how they apply to your subject organization.
7. Inventory Management: Define inventory management, its importance, and common inventory models; identify the subject organization's inventory management practices; identify potential ethical considerations related to the subject organization; recap applicable lessons learned in your Inventory Management Simulation experience and describe how they apply to your subject organization.
8. Aggregate Planning: Define sales and operations planning (SOP) and relate to the subject organization; define materials resource planning (MRP) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) and relate to the subject organization; describe the subject organization's use of technology for aggregate planning.
9. Lean Operations: Define lean operations; identify the subject organization's lean operations practices; relate the strategic importance of maintenance and reliability to the subject organization; identify an OM innovation to improve the subject organization's operations for competitive advantage.
10. OM Information Technology: Describe the role of information technology in operations management. Describe three technology Innovations that have significantly transformed operation management practices.
11. Operations Manager Job Description: Assuming you are responsible for creating a job description for this company - describe in 10 bullets the job responsibilities of the operations manager.
12. Conclusions: Describe how various OM decisions/activities are interrelated to each other (in other words, what information should be shared across various activities and how it is helpful)

Guidelines, Requirements, and Submission

• Your well-written OM assessment essay thesis should be 6 pages long, not including the title, reference, and appendix pages.
• Format your paper according to APA guidelines in the CSU Global Writing Center. Your paper must include a title, reference page, introduction, and conclusion. The CSU Global Library and Writing Center can be accessed from the left side course navigation panel. In the CSU Global Writing Center, you can access sample papers to help with formatting sections of your paper.
• In addition to your course textbook, cite at least six current (less than 5 years) peer-reviewed or professionally published sources to support your assertions and conclusions.
• Include an appendix for tables and figures.
• Please write clearly, concisely, and cohesively; use section-level headers to organize the key elements of your thesis.
• Submit your Portfolio Project paper as a single text or Microsoft Word document to the Module 8 submission area established for this purpose.

  Option #1: Product-Based Operations Management Assessment

  The purpose of the Portfolio Project is to apply your synthesis of current research about operations management (OM) to a global product-oriented organization. For your Portfolio Project, you are required to select a global organization that has a predominately product-oriented mission as the subject for your OM assessment.