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Introduction
Operations management is the department responsible for overseeing the transformation process through which company resources (e.g. land, labor, capital, and/or customers) are converted into goods and services. It is the operation manager's responsibility to ensure that products being manufactured meet specifications of quality and design, that they are produced according to schedule, and that this done at minimum cost to the company. The magnitude of this task requires that the operations manager stay in constant communication with numerous other functional departments of an organization. There are six critical phases of production for which operations management is responsible: (1) service or product design, (2) product quality and process planning, (4) capacity planning and supply chain management, (5) material requirements and inventory planning, (6) facility location planning and (7) facility layout and job design. The nature of an operation manager's......

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