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Answer questions 1-4 in a 700-1050 word paper. Many people take the way goods and services are provided to them for granted. They do not think about the nature of the operating system that produces goods and services they receive. To improve your understanding of how OMM (Operations Materials Mgmt) processes work, complete the following questions.

Question 1. Choose three companies and observe how employees do their tasks. These can be three different fast food restaurants or three entirely different types of companies.

Question 2. Think about the differences in the operations involved in the input, operations, and output stages of these companies. Try to identify the nature of their operating system. Are employees organized in different ways? If so, why?

Question 3. What are the main kinds of OMM costs companies have? How does this affect their OMM operations?

Question 4. How do companies design their operating systems to give them a competitive advantage?

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Preview: ... e advantage. I will identify which five main components of operations and materials management costs and the methods companies use to reduce them. <br><br>The primary goal of the operations manager is creating happy and loyal customers. By effectively analyzing and managing their business's operations, they created the right products with the right features at the right cost. This can not be done without operations and materials management, it is vital function.<br><br>Barnes & Noble is a chain of bookstores that carries thousands of titles. They also offer the largest in-stock selection of in-print book titles for fast, easy, secure ordering and delivery on the Internet. To reduce plant cost they lease their buildings, rather than own them. Barnes & Noble OMM has developed an IT system. This IT system is the flexible production that allows mass production at a lower cost. They continually upgrade its storefront to create a better shopping experience for its customers. They also adopted new methods to allow it to control the way it stocks, and ships the thousands of their products it currently is selling. They use its materials management expertis ...

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