BCO 214 PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Task brief & rubrics

Assessment 2

Task

· This is an individual task.

· The task focuses on areas studied to date, requiring you to show knowledge and application in the parts stated.

· You should upload a single, correctly formatted document which may also include any relevant tables and diagrams

1. Describe carefully all the tasks of a Production Manager

2. How do these tasks fit with the rest of the Organization?

3. How can Production Management help to reduce costs?

4. Explain what productivity means. Main factors impacting productivity

5. What are the set-up times? Which is the impact of set-up times in the ratio selling price/order size

Formalities:

· Wordcount: 2.500 words

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

· Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

· Text alignment: Justified.

· Harvard style in-text citations and bibliography

Submission: – Via Moodle (Turnitin). Week 5 October 10thth by 23.59 CEST

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

It assesses the following learning outcomes:

· understand the production management within operation management;

· describe operations processes design and their management to contextualize and improve production performance;

· productivity. Set up times