Production management

BCO214 PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Assignment 1 Task brief & rubrics

Task

Students are required to develop an individual report addressing the specific tasks set out in the guideline below.

Task briefing:

1) Choose a specific operations system and brand within a specific industry indicating the inputs, outputs and resources needed. (25 points)

2) Describe the main process and activities of this operations system. Identify the steps of this process and draw a flowchart. (25 points)

3) 3.1) Describe the lay-out or the physical space distribution of this process, tasks and inputs within the operations system. (15 points)

3.2) Identify the location of the different departments and warehouses and describe the process flow. (10 points)

4) Propose different measures and actions to take to enhance the productivity of this system. Justify your answer. (25 points)

Students are required to use the Harvard Referencing System. The report needs to be uploaded onto Turnitin on Moodle. The assignment hand-in will be created by the course tutor.

This task is worth 30% of your overall grade for this subject.

Formalities:

• Word document.

• Wordcount: 2500-3000 words.

• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

• Text alignment: Justified.

• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.

Submission:

Week 5– Via Moodle (Turnitin).

Deadline: 31st October 2021 at 23:59 CEST.

Weight: This task is a 30% of your total grade for this subject.

It assesses the following learning outcomes.

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Understand the production management within operations management.

2. Describe operations processes design and their management to contextualize and improve production performance.

3. Assess lay out design and evaluate facility location.

4. Understand productivity control components and measures.

Rubrics:

Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge & Understanding

(20%)

Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary.

Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.

Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.

Application (30%) Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident.

Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident.

Critical Thinking (30%)

Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors.

Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors and references.

Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant.

Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not quote appropriate authors, and does not provide valid sources.

Communication (20%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident.