Week 8 Assignment: Operations Management Presentation

Render, B., Heizer, J., & Munson, C. (2018).Principles of operations management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management.

Assignment:

Throughout this course we will be examining the 10 strategic operation management principles. Week 8 you will be analyzing JPMorgan Chase's alignment with 6 of these principles. Select one area of the bank to focus on.For each principle, you should focus on and include examples and research to support your observations/recommendations:

• What is the current approach utilized?
• Give a recommendation on how the company could reduce costs.
• Give a recommendation on how the company could enhance their approach.

The principles you are looking at (choose 6) are:

• Design of goods and services
• Managing quality
• Process and capacity strategy
• Location strategy
• Layout strategy
• Human resource and job design
• Supply chain management
• Inventory management
• Scheduling
• Maintenance