OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT AND LEAN MANAGEMENT

Operations Management and Lean Management

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Lean Management

Introduction

This paper discusses about the concepts and theories on Lean Management. The need to understand the important phenomena of the importance of Lean in the management sciences needs a practical example. DBA Software Inc. is a diversified manufacturing operation founded in the year 1992. The principles of lean management are observed and assessed in this small firm. The recognition of problem statement with need analysis of lean in this firm is the succeeding discussion of this paper. The manuscripts and secondary data are used to evaluate the literature review. It will extend to finally discuss the project plan for this firm in the case of lean management.

QI Introduction to Organization

DBA Software Inc. is a diversified manufacturing operation firm that was established in the year 1992. It was a joint venture of father Mike Hart and son Warren Hart. The father develops this company with his sheer experience and market expertise. His son managed and operates the company for next thirty years. This diversified set of manufacturing operations includes extrusion, machining, fabrication, injection molding, metal fabrication, and assembling.

This company pride to be the pioneer and owe excellence in the computer automation and access MRP first in-house system with respect to its margin and size. Material Requirement Planning is the acronym of MRP system which is an inventory control and product planning zone to manage all the manufacturing processes. The lineage of Hart decided to sell their business in the middle years of 1980 (Çakici, 2011). They deal in the representation of five software packages with different degree of complexity and different levels of price sensitivity. DBA Classic was the first generation product of the company which marks a landmark of success. The formation of DBA Software Inc. in the year 1992 is the cause of the failed software packages. The success formula of DBA is the development of common sense software to sell products to the end user with a significant reasonable price (Dhaini, 2011). This strengthens their flagship of the company. The lean management and stock inventory system will determine the degree of lean required for all the work process in the organization. Following are the key products and offerings of the company:

DBA Manufacturing Next-Generation

ERP system

DBA Web-store

Module Features:

Sales Order

Inventory

Financial Transfer

Taxation

General Ledger

Material Requirement Planning (MRP) system

Purchasing

Bills of Materials (BOM)

Module Features:

System Customization

Data Import and Export

SQL Database

Data Views

Free Evaluation System (self help sales model)

The order qualifier of the DBA Manufacturing is the self-implementation manufacturing system for customers. This is a business to business (B2B) market where any company with time and effort can apply for Implementation Planner of company. This will get the system running and upgrading for the support of company. The order winner of the DBA Manufacturing is the premium sales model with the pioneer automation system. It is a worldwide global market offering low cost, 180-day return policy, and single package pricings which is must winner agent for ...