Question

Explain operations management and the nature of production coordination. What are the major activities involved in producing fashion goods . Discuss the impact of globalization and offshore production on the impact of producing value In this changed environment.

Answer 1

Let's first analyse the given question:-

-As many sub questions are asked here,those are:-

•explanation of Operation management

•Nature of production coordination(i.e nature of coordination)

•Major activities involved in producing Fashion goods.

•impact of globalisation and offshore production on the impact of producing value in this changed environment.

• OPERATION MANAGEMENT

Field of business concerned with the, administration of business process or operation is known as Operation management.unlike financial management or or any other management field in business it is something that is cross sectional work,where over all operation ,process or each operation is administered properly.

Every operational manager is responsible with checking every process properly,so more revenue can be generated with the process of cost cutting.Main purpose here is to have a proper check on the operation or processes weather they are taking place in a right manner or not,,so any deviation can be avoided in its initial phase.This helps in avoiding defeciencies or losses.

As like any other Management it also involves cunctions of:-

- planning

-organizing

- administering business processes

- coordinating activities

Operation management helps in:-

- cost cutting

- proper utilisation of available resources

- avoiding wastage

- avoiding any kind of big defeciencies

- profit maximization

Operation manager however must have to:-

- coordinate activities

- check on Supply chain management

- have check on product design

- forecast sales.

Operation management requires following qualities:-

- Technological knowlege

- management skills

-Logistic knowlege

- other organisational abilities

• PRODUCTION COORDINATION ( nature)

Production coordination:-

Integrating the activities or one can say efforts of different departments together is known as production coordination,it's synchronisation or unifying the activities of department with the purpose of achieving common goal of the business.

Nature of the coordination can be understood as follows:-

(1)Essence of management:

Coordination is the heart or essence of management,as no manager can avoid this.Should be perform at Avery level of management.As combining the activities of all the department is necessary to achieve the common objective of business.

(2) Continuous in nature:

Coordination is a continuous activity,as long as the organisation exists , activities are required to be coordinated in order to get the desired result.

eg.production made by the production department require to be sent to packaging departmen,then toarketing department,financial department must be sent with proper knowledge of goods sold,so the proper profit can be calculated.

(3)group activitiy:

Coordination requires unifying the activities of differents,here it requires to have a proper team building,as it's a group activity in nature.

(4)does not arises by force:-

Coordination is not a thing happening spontaneously or by using force,as it requires lot of concrete efforts made by the management by the way of making teams,identifying and grouping activities,and then coordinating or joining each activity chronologically.

(5)Balances resources of different departments:-

Aa it include passing output from one department to another,it means it have to tackle resources available to different department.Sometimes the output one department becomes the resources of another department.

(6)Brings unity:

Production coordination synchronises,joints or unifies the different small efforts made by the differents,it heads towards achieving common organisational organisational purpose.

• MAJOR ACTIVITIES INVOLVED IN PRODUCING FASHION GOODS:-

Fashion goods are those goods which changes or becomes out of use rapidly as the fashion , style or preferances changes rapidly with change in fashion,oftenly made by style icons or celebrities.

It includes clothing,jewellries,sports wear, accessories,watches,and other items.

Fashion product have shorter bell shaped life cycle, because we all how fashion products changes,if tomorrow is plazzo in fashion another morning pleated skirts can grab the market,another morning can good morning you with high pants.

• major activities involved in producing Fashion goods:-

As per the above diagram it has 6 most common steps involved in producing Fashion goods.

(1)fashion forecasting:-

First of all its very necessary to forecast the fashion.Fashion is related to time,place climate as well.So a producer before making any decision of prodding certain fashion good must go for proper study of the area,taste preferance of the desired or targeted group,then only one can forecast the fashion properly.

eg:- Aan apparel making industry without forecasting the fashion made a decision to produce turtle neck tops,now in the era of off shoulders who is going to buy those turtle neck?

(2)Design development:-

After forecasting the fashion or making a proper study about the taste and preferences of targeted audience it becomes necessary to come up with aunique,and beautiful design.As design is the layout or blue print of product that how it will look.

eg:-A company producing accessories decided to come up with new bags made with leather,having embroidery,and teasels hanging on corner with beaded belts,,here company should layout this idea in a design format whether on paper or system,so it will be easy for workers to produce exact same output.

(3)Sample planning:-

The designed layout is now needed to be convert in few first samples,in order to get whether it will look good in actual or not,what proper care can be taken or what improvement can be made to make the actual product more efficient.

eg:-Company after laying out the design on paper of the leather bag in step 2,now made with first 5 to 10 samples,in order to get approval from the authorities to make proper batch of product.

Here the sample product can be get approved from quality control department or a fashion expert.

(4) product specifications:-

It's simply a document having full information available for the working department.i.e for those who are going to produce those products.

It's actually made by quality department or by the fashion expert here.

eg:-after getting the sample checked in step 3,fashion expert made a document of product specs including:

- there is a need to change in colour

- bag should have a leather belt along with the beaded one so one can change it as per the requirement.

(5) merchandise planning :-

Here the product is actually built and now there is a need to go on marketing,the product,selecting proper channel of distribution, proper outlet selection is required,, Here some industry also organises fashion shows,adopts different marketing strategies,i.e. planning of merchandise planning.

(6) Buying:-

After selecting outlets now buyers can directly go forr buying those fashion product.

eg.now the leather bag is available on nearby outlet,I went to the market and bought that beautiful bag madebuo of leather,having emvu,with beaded belt,now I'm ready to go to my office with my new bag,,to make a fashion statement :)

• impact of globalisation and offshore production on producing value in the changed environment:-

Globalisation is a process of integration of all the markets around the world, now one can easily buy product from around the globe.Here globalisation given the benefits in the form of

- Technological improvement

- improved standard of living

- aqaring each other about each other's tradition,that's why making a feeling of bond with a country with other.

Offshoring product is also related with globalisation as affshoring includes product assembling jn one country and importing to the host country,this helps in making cheap rate goods available in the market.

Positive impact of globalisation on values in changed environment:-

1) made a feeling of respect for each other by making each other aware about the difference and similarity in the tradition of individual.

2) enriched a tradition or we can say helping in removing the bad social evils from the society,eg:- with exposure to western tradition now Indian tradition of treating widows differently is changed positively now.

Negetive impacts:-

1)main traditions of some countries are now totally lost with the exposure with other developed nations tradition.

eg:- Many South African people now loving bollywood movies,now black women love to bleach their skin to look like white lady,and instead wearing beautiful turban with ankara dresses at wedding they are preffering Indian shararas.

2) family values in the form of not calling elders by name,touching feets of elders,kissing on hands of elders etc also changing now.

3) The traditional wear ,cousine,jewelleries,all get affected or replaced with other as a result many beautiful tradition lost.

eg:- after getting in exposure to other tradition who knows to cook authentic parsi cousine,mughlai cuisine,or authentic Italian pasta?

So globalisation and offshore production have a mixed like impact on the values of nations,with changing the environment.