Based on your analysis, write an assessment about the PepsiCo’s OM strategy and practices. When writing the assessment, assume the role of a highly-regarded operations management professional commissioned to review, analyze, and describe the PepsiCo’s OM for achieving increased sustainable business value. Your assessment should address the following key elements:
Organization: Name and briefly describe PepsiCo, including its mission.
Overview: Provide an overview of this paper so the reader gets familiarity with the purpose, content, and overall organization of the paper.
Operations Management: Define OM and relate PepsiCo’s mission, operational strategy, and productivity measurements; compare and contrast OM with project management.
OM Forecasting: Define forecasting in the context of OM, identify PepsiCo’s forecasting methods and practices, relate the Seven Steps in the forecasting system to the subject organization, highlight potential ethical considerations related to the subject organization’s forecasting, and recap applicable lessons learned based on your forecasting simulation experience.
Define Operations: Define design of goods and services and relate it to the subject organization, and highlight the OM process, location, and human resource strategy in the context of PepsiCo.
Quality Management: Define quality and identify common OM quality management best practices, identify PepsiCo’s quality management methodology, and recap the applicable lessons learned based on your quality management simulation experience. Additionally, build a house of quality to show five customer requirements and product/service characteristics to meet them. Explain the process of product characteristics selection and how these customer requirements are met.
Human Resources, Job Design, and Work Measurement: Define the role of human resources, job design, and work measurement in ensuring competitiveness and high productivity for PepsiCo.
Supply Chain Management: Define supply chain management (SCM), designate the subject organization’s SCM strategy and explain the basis for determination, describe the subject organization’s use of technology for SCM, identify potential SCM risks and SCM ethical considerations related to PepsiCo, and recap the applicable lessons learned in your supply chain management simulation experience.
Inventory Management: Define inventory management, its importance, and common inventory models; identify PepsiCo’s inventory management practices; and identify potential ethical considerations related to the subject organization.
Operations Manager Job Description: Imagine you are hiring an operations manager for PepsiCo. Prepare a comprehensive job description with clearly articulated bulleted duties that describes what is expected for this role (no more than two pages).
Conclusion: Provide key lessons learned from various sections and a summary of the paper (less than one page).
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