1. Copyright 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Chapter 1 Operations Strategy and Global Competitiveness

2. 1-2 Overview

3. 1-3 Apple’s Comeback Since 2007, Apple’s share price has risen 500 percent Apple’s market capitalization is almost a trillion dollars –Largest company in the US Shows how important operations capabilities are to an organization’s global competitiveness

4. 1-4 Coke vs. Pepsi Coke and Pepsi compete in the same industry From January 2007 – January 2012… –Pepsi’s stock price was down –Coke’s stock price was up 51 percent In terms of market capitalization… –Pepsi remained flat at $101 billion –Coke increased $153.5 billion What accounts for these different outcomes?

5. 1-5 General Motors Market share of GM declined from 45 percent in 1980 to 20 percent in 2008 In 2008, extreme gas prices killed the truck and SUV markets Sudden credit crisis and recession killed the rest of the market High cost caused it to ask government for a bailout –GM got $50 billion

6. 1-6 GM Results In 2011, GM had the largest annual profit in its history –$7.6 billion –Up 62 percent from 2010 Revenues were up 13 percent Sold 1.37 million cars Hired 100,000 workers a month for five months straight

7. 1-7 Toyota in Trouble Toyota has been plagued with problems for several years –Multiple quality complaints –Global recalls Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011 plus flooding in Thailand crippled production capacity Yen going from 120 yen to the dollar to 80 Had a 6 percent decrease in sales in 2011

8. 1-8 Flat Panel TVs Large profit margins ($8 billion 2004) Asian manufacturers spent $35 billion adding capacity in 2004 and 2005 North America’s Dell attempted to leverage its supply chain to lower cost By 2007, flat screens overtake CRT sets Market jumped from $11 billion in 1998 to $102 billion in 2007

9. 1-9 Two Central Themes 1.Customer satisfaction 2.Competitiveness Apple obtained a competitive advantage with innovation, their production process, and supply chain Pepsi example showed that organizations that focus on a few things outperform those that lack focus Toyota showed how losing your focus on your strengths can damage competitiveness

10. 1-10 International Marketplace Consumers purchase their products from the providers that offers them the most value for their money Many of our products are produced overseas Most of our services are provided domestically

11. 1-11 Operations Heart of every organization Organizations exist to create value Operations are the tasks that create value Operational innovation can provide organizations with long-term strategic advantages

12. 1-12 The Production System Figure 1.1

13. 1-13 Operations Defined Production system: the conversion process System: a purposeful collection of people, objects, and procedures for operating within an environment Operations: concerned with transforming inputs into useful outputs according to an agreed-upon strategy and thereby adding value to some entity

14. 1-14 Systems Perspective Inputs Transformation System –Alter –Transport –Store –Inspect Outputs Environment

15. 1-15 Inputs Inputs include facilities, labor, capital, equipment, raw materials, and supplies. A less obvious input is knowledge of how to transform the inputs into outputs. The operations function quite frequently fails in its task because it cannot complete the transformation activities within the required time limit.

16. 1-16 Transformation System The part of the system that adds value to the inputs. Four major ways 1.Alter: changed structurally 2.Transport: located somewhere else 3.Store: kept in a protected environment 4.Inspect: understand its properties

17. 1-17 Outputs Two types of outputs commonly result from a production system –Services (physical goods) –Products (abstract or nonphysical) Any physical entity accompanying a service that adds value is a facilitating good Pure service: if there is no facilitating good Services are bundles of benefits –Some are tangible and others intangible –May be accompanies by a facilitating goods

18. 1-18 Characteristics of Products and Services Table 1.1

19. 1-19 The Range From Services to Products Figure 1.2

20. 1-20 Examples of Production System Components Table 1.2

21. 1-21 Major Subject Areas in Operations Table 1.3

22. 1-22 Major Subject Areas in Operations Continued Table 1.3 Continued

23. 1-23 Customer Value Value = perceived benefits / costs Perceived benefits can take a wide variety of forms Costs… –Upfront monetary investment –Life cycle costs, such as maintenance –Hassles involved in obtaining the product or service

24. 1-24 Customer Value (Continued) Efficiency = output / input Productivity: output per worker-hour –This is a partial factor measure of productivity –Only includes one productive factor Multifactor productivity: uses more than a single factor Total factor productivity: uses all the factors of production

25. 1-25 Research Pure research: working with basic technology to develop new knowledge Applied research: attempting to develop new knowledge along particular lines Development: attempting to utilize the findings of research and expand the possible applications

26. 1-26 The Development Effort Figure 1.3

27. 1-27 Mortality Curve of Chemical Product Ideas Figure 1.4

28. 1-28 Two Alternatives to Research 1.Imitation of a proven idea –Second-to-market strategy 2.Outright purchase of someone else’s invention –Eliminates risk –Popular when bringing a new product to market has high costs –Also popular when technology advances rapidly

29. 1-29 Quality Dimensions 1.Conformance to specification –Extent to which the product matches the design 2.Performance –Customers equate quality with performance 3.Features –Options that a product or service offers

30. 1-30 Quality Dimensions Continued 4.Quick response –Time required to react to customers’ demands 5.Reliability –Probability that a product or service will perform as intended for a period of time 6.Durability –How tough a product is

31. 1-31 Quality Dimensions (Continued) 7.Serviceability –Ease with which maintenance can be performed 8.Aesthetics –Factors that appeal to human senses 9.Humanity –How the customer is treated

32. 1-32 Quality’s Benefits Customers are more pleased with a high- quality product or service More likely to encourage friends to patronize the firm Gives firm a good reputation Allows firm to charge a premium price Increases market share Makes follow-up products more attractive

33. 1-33 Quality’s Costs 1.Prevention costs –Including planning, training, design, maintenance 2.Appraisal costs –Measuring, testing, test equipment, inspectors, reports 3.Internal costs of defects –Extra labor and material, scrap, rework, interruptions, expediting 4.External costs of defects –Ill-will, complaints, correction, warranties, insurance, recalls, lawsuits

34. 1-34 Evolution of Quality: Japan vs. America Japanese techniques developed in the US After WWII Japan had reputation for poor quality W. Edwards Deming helped Japan improve quality Deming says major cause of poor quality is variation Deming stressed improving quality was the responsibility of top management

35. 1-35 Evolution of Quality: Japan vs. America (Continued) Japan followed Deming’s advice Japan’s reputation for producing shoddy goods was totally reversed A more recent concept that the Japanese have embraced is called total quality management (TQM) –Quality at the source –Statistical process control (SPC)

36. 1-36 Customization Customization: offering a product or service exactly suited to a customer’s desires –Low customization is called standardization Customization demands flexibility Flexibility: the ability to change or react with little penalty in time, effort, cost, or performance

37. 1-37 Continuum of Customization Figure 1.5

38. 1-38 Competitive Advantages of Flexibility Faster matches to customers’ needs Closer matches to customers’ needs Ability to supply needed items as markets develop Faster design-to-market time Lower cost of changing production Ability to offer a full line without large inventories Ability to meet market demand even with production delays

39. 1-39 Mass Customization Seek to produce low-cost, high-quality outputs in high variety Not all products lend themselves to being customized –Sugar, gas, electricity, and flour Is applicable to products characterized by short life cycles, rapidly advancing technology, or changing customer requirements

40. 1-40 Four Mass Customization Strategies 1.Collaborative customizers –Help customers articulate their needs 2.Adaptive customizers –Offer a standard product that customers can modify themselves 3.Cosmetic customizers –Produce a standard product but present it differently to different customers 4.Transparent customizers –Provide custom products without customers knowing they are customized

41. 1-41 Benefits of Modular Design 1.Components that differentiate can be added during the later stages of production –Called postponement 2.Production time can be significantly reduced –Simultaneously producing the required modules 3.Facilitates the identification of production and quality problems

42. 1-42 Dependability and Speed The competitive advantages of faster, dependable response to new markets or to the individual customer's needs have only recently been noted in the business media Americans spend more time and money on marketing, whereas the Japanese spend five times more than the Americans on developing more efficient production methods

43. 1-43 Prerequisites for and Advantages of Rapid Response Table 1.4

44. 1-44 Prerequisites for and Advantages of Rapid Response (Continued) Table 1.4 Continued

45. 1-45 Cost Reduction with Decreases in Response Time Figure 1.6

46. 1-46 Strategy and Competitiveness Competitiveness… –Long-term viability of a firm –Market share or profitability Can also talk about competitiveness of a nation –The degree to which it can, under free and fair market conditions, produce goods and services that meet the test of international markets while simultaneously maintaining and expanding the real incomes of its citizens

47. 1-47 Global Trends US imports have grown for more than 30 years Exports have increased, but not as fast as imports Resulted in exploding trade deficient US now largest debtor nation in the world Cumulative deficit is about ½ GDP

48. 1-48 Global Firms Global firms Joint ventures Partial ownerships Foreign subsidiaries Other types of international producers

49. 1-49 Strategy Business strategy: set of objectives, plans, and policies for the organization to compete Specifies competitive advantage –How achieved and sustained Key is defining core competencies and focus

50. 1-50 Strategy Formulation Figure 1.7

51. 1-51 Vision and Mission Statements Vision statements used to express organization’s values and aspirations Mission statements express organization’s purpose or reason for existence Some organizations may choose to combine the vision and mission statements into a single statement

52. 1-52 The Life-Cycle Curve Figure 1.9

53. 1-53 The Life Cycle Strategies often tied to product life cycle Length of life cycles shrinking Business strategy should match life cycles stages

54. 1-54 Categories of Business Strategies 1.First-to-market 2.Second-to-market 3.Cost minimization (late-to-market) 4.Market segmentation Slide on each of these

55. 1-55 First-to-Market Strategy Products available before competition Strong applied research capability needed Can set high price to skim market or set lower price to gain market share

56. 1-56 Second-to-Market Strategy Quick imitation of first-to-market companies Less emphasis on applied research and more emphasis on development Learn from first-to-market’s mistakes

57. 1-57 Cost Minimization or Late-to- Market Strategy Wait until market becomes standardized and large volumes demanded Compete on basis of costs instead of product features Research efforts focus on process development versus product development

58. 1-58 Market Segmentation Serving niche markets Applied engineering skills and flexible manufacturing processes needed

59. 1-59 Common Areas of Organizational Focus Table 1.5

60. 1-60 Order Qualifiers and Winners Order qualifier: a characteristic of a product or service that is required to be considered –Prerequisite for entering the market Order winner: a characteristic that will win the purchase

61. 1-61 Product Life Cycle Stages and Emphasis Figure 1.12

62. 1-62 The Sand Cone Model Figure 1.13

63. 1-63 Reasons to Produce Offshore Circumvent governmental regulations Avoid effects of currency fluctuations Avoid fees and quotas Placate local customers

64. 1-64 Core Capabilities Core competencies: the collective knowledge and skills an organization has that distinguish it from competition Core capabilities: organizational practices and business processes Should be used to gain access to a variety of markets Should be strongly related to key benefits provides by products or services Should be difficult to imitate

65. 1-65 Outsourcing Subcontracting out production of parts or performance of activities Activities and parts fall on a continuum ranging from strategically unimportant to strategically important Activities not strategically important are candidates to be outsourced

66. 1-66 Hollowed Out The extent that most of a firm’s complex parts and production are outsourced Often when complex parts outsourced, engineering talent follows Supplier may become competitor