production management

What is production and operations management?

Production and operations management has been defined as an organizational strategic management
 which is concerned with attaining the main objectives of the company, starting with the 
selection of the assets required together with human and financial resources. It covers all 
the way to the manufacturing process till getting the product in its final form to the target
 audience. 

The term also includes monitoring the product quality and overcoming problems related to it,
 while raising its efficiency, increasing its production, and creating other successful 
projects alongside it.

The tasks of production processes management can be summarized in five basic stages as follows:

1. Design

2. Resource planning (equipment, funding, and human).

3. Resources planning.

4. Revealing of productive activities.

5. Monitoring production activities.

Objectives of production and operations management:

The short-term objectives of production and operations management can be summarized as follows:

1.Determine the product specifications (goods or -services).

2. Determine the processes requirements.

3. Delivering the required products to customers through:

a. Production quantities in accordance with the market demands.

B. Ensuring the required products at the right time to the customer.

4. Producing products (goods or services) with the quality that suites customers need.

In the long term, production and operations management aims to use available 
resources in a way that enables the organization to meet demand in the long term.
 Assuming this goal is achieved, this will lead to providing the necessary funds to obtain 
the additional resources necessary for the production process, develop new products,
 possess modern and advanced technology, and so on...

The importance of production processes management:

The importance of production and operations management is that:

• It helps in setting specific tasks for each production stage, which helps improve the 
production process and the flexibility of its performance.

• It works to provide all the needs required for the production process, which prevents
 obstruction or delay of the production process.

• It helps in evaluating the progress of the production process to come up with
 recommendations that help raise the efficiency of the company and manpower.

• It works on drawing future plans that help increase production.

• It works to develop employees’ performance and provide the necessary competencies to
 raise the company’s production capacity.

• It works to develop technological methods that serve the interests of the company and employees.

• It helps reduce the financial cost of outputs as per the budget allocated.