Description
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is for students to learn how to develop an operations consulting proposal.
Choose a business in the media having difficulties with its operating model or one which is struggling in your community.
Evaluate how all or some of the items from the Operations Consulting Tool Kit in Operations and Supply Chain Management could help this business get back on track.
Determine the resources and data you will need to deploy an operations consulting engagement with this business.
Develop a business case including financial benefits on how operations consulting can have a positive impact on the business.
Develop a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation of an operations consulting engagement proposal to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the target firm.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
Explanation & Answer
Here is the presentation.
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Introduction
Toyota Motor Corporation is a well known
international business.
The corporation has operations issues.
For example, recalled products and
management issues (Chiarini & Vagnoni,
2015).
The operations consulting toolkit would
come in handy to help the corporation deal
with these issues.
Operations Consulting Tool Kit
Problem Definition
➢ Customer surveys
➢ Gap analysis
➢ Issue trees
➢ Employee surveys
➢ five forces model
Data Gathering
➢Plant audits
➢Flow charts
➢Work sampling
➢Organizational charts
Data Analysis and Solution
Development
➢Bottleneck Analysis.
➢ Computer simulation
➢Statistical tools
➢Problem analysis
Cost impact and Payoff Analysis
➢ Balanced scorecard
➢ Decision trees
➢Stakeholder analysis
Implementation
➢ Responsibility charts
➢Project management techni...