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“… the decisions which shape the long- Reconciliation
Demand
CUSTOMERS
Segmentation on:
•Age - youth
•Purpose - general
Customer
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES Needs
MARKET POSITION
•Dependability Differentiation on:
•Speed of delivery •Innovative products Market
•Product mix flexibility •Time to market Performance
Positioning
•Speed to market •Product range Objectives
•Coordinated launches
Competitors’
COMPETITORS Actions
Traditionally weak in:
Required Understanding
•promotion performance markets
•design innovation
1
Resources
Tangible
•Equipment
•Staff Tangible and
Intangible
•Reputation Intangible
•Relationships Resources
(internal and external)
•Experience
Operations Operations
Operations Strategy Capabilities Strategy
Capabilities Decision Areas
Decisions
• Application of leading- •Location
edge lighting and •Virtual reality technology
sound technology •Supplier development Operations
•Equipment tracking system Processes
• Articulation of client
requirements •Organizational structure
•Staff meetings Understanding Strategic
resources and decisions
processes
Processes
• Integration of equipment
supply and client The operations resource perspective on operations strategy
requirements
• Design process
• Supplier liaison process
The operations resource perspective analysis of the lighting company
Tangible and
Operations has to cope with the clash
Customer
Intangible
Resources
Needs between the nature of external markets and
the nature of internal resources
Operations Operations Market
Performance
Capabilities Strategy Positioning
Objectives
Decision Areas
Operations
What you What you What you What you
Operations Performance Market
Competences
Strategy Objectives Positioning HAVE DO WANT NEED
Decisions
2
Existing
Operations can kick-start two virtuous cycles ‘effective’
Internal and capability
External
wide
Lafage
Understanding of Cosmetics’
the processes
narrow
margin
Capabilities enhance customers
innovation and
improvement Investment small large
Number of items per order
Developing the resources Developing customers’
which let the operation’s competitors’ and Hagen Style – Comparison of new demands placed on the order
performance stay ahead of the stockholders; perceptions and
competition fulfilment processes by potential new business opportunities
expectations
Strategic
Reconciliation
Operations Resources Market Requirements
competitiveness
• discount Align resources with
• fast throughput Level 1 - Fit
Performance
fluctuations? requirements
objectives
stores Market
Develop sustainable
Level 2 - Sustainability
competitive advantage
Include impact of
Level 3 - Risk
Hagen Style – Operations resources and market requirements Decision areas
uncertainty
3
Positive
Order-winners
Quality Being RIGHT
Competitive benefit
Less important
Speed Being FAST
Neutral
Dependability Being ON TIME Qualifiers
Negative
Low High
Cost Being PRODUCTIVE
Achieved performance
The operations function can provide a competitive advantage Order-winners and qualifiers
through its performance at the five competitive objectives
Priority of
performance Output Output Fixed assets Capacity
= x x
objectives Total assets Capacity Total assets Fixed assets
The priority of performance objectives is influenced by Operations strategy Capacity Supply Process Development and
what is regarded as important by customers and how decision areas network technology organization
the operation performs against competitors
Resource Deployment
4
Operations strategy is defined by the intersections
of performance objectives and Operations
Process Development and
decisions Resource Usage
Capacity Supply Network
Technology Organization
Market Competitiveness
Competitive Objectives
Quality
are prioritized by
CUSTOMERS and
Structural issues
COMPETITORS
Speed
Infrastructural Dependability
issues
Flexibility
Cost
Operations strategy decision areas are partly structural and
Development
partly infrastructural Supply Process and
Capacity Technology Organization
Network
Resource Usage
7-Eleven Japan Largest retailer in Japan
Sells 1.5X as much per store as nearest rival
History of cautious expansion and technical and
Performance objectives
Operations
Dependability strategy Expansion by territory to reduce disn costs
Flexibility Early use of TIS (total information system)
TIS controls stock replenishment twice a day
Cost delivery (sales analysed twice a day)
Supply Process Development New system not internet-based
Capacity Network Technology and
Organization
New services include,
Decision areas
Banking terminals
Downloading games
The operations strategy matrix
Downloading music to MD
Internet ordering and collection
Resource Deployment
5
Market requirements
Market requirements
Extension of market
requirements
Alignment
between market
and operations
capability
X
Improvements in
operations capabilities
In operations strategy ‘fit’ is the alignment between market and Sustainable improvement implies simultaneous extension/improvement
operations capability of market requirements and operations capabilities
Quality
(specification)
Market requirements
Delivery X X Speed
flexibility
Nissan X
X X
Volume Dependability
flexibility
Customization
Current products
Level of operations resource capability New products
Market Competitiveness
Performance objectives
** * *** * ***
**Quality (conform) * * ** ***Quality (conform) *** ***
Speed Speed * **
**
Dependability
** * ** * * Dependability **
Delivery flex * * Delivery flex *
* *
Volume flex Volume flex *** *
**
* ** Customization ** * *** Customization
Cost * * Cost *** **
* Capacity Supply Process Development
*** Capacity Supply Process
*
Development
Network Technology and Network Technology and
Organization Organization
*** very important Lab style 50% of Low R&D, Mfg. and *** very important May need to New Needs R&D, Mfg. and
** medium importance manufacture activities in- process Sales all share ** medium importance adjust quickly supplies will investment Sales less
* some importance easy to house technology common * some importance depending on be needed / in volume interdependent.
change (but high knowledge demand developed processes Faster time-to-
capacity product base. market needed
incrementally technology) Incremental
new product
development
Decision areas Decision areas
6
‘Fit’ is concerned with ensuring comprehensiveness, Resource Usage
correspondence, coherence and criticality
Market Competitiveness
Resource Usage Issues include:
Quality • Capacity levels
Performance
objectives
Speed • Number of
Dependability sites
Performance objectives
Competitiveness
Correspondence
Flexibility
Speed • Location
Cost
Market
Dependability Critical
Flexibility Critical
Issues include…..
Forecast
Availability level of
of capital NUMBER OF
demand
SITES
Cost structure Changes in
of capacity future
increment demand
OPERATIONS Overall level MARKET CAPACITY OF LOCATION OF
RESOURCES of capacity REQUIREMENTS EACH SITE EACH SITE
Uncertainty
Economies
of future
of scale
demand
Flexibility of Consequences
capacity of over/under
provisions supply ALLOCATION LONG-TERM
a
OF TASKS CAPACITY
TO EACH SITE CHANGE
Some factors influencing the overall level of capacity STRATEGY
7
Questions:
“Who should be involved in these decisions?”
“How does the company make this type of decision?” Why is capacity strategy important?
Questions Options
Many small sites?
NUMBER OF SITES and
CAPACITY OF SITES
Without an appropriate capacity
Few larger sites?
strategy operations will always
Supply side dominated?
be struggling to supply markets
LOCATION
OF SITES Demand side dominated?
in a competitive manner
ALLOCATION OF TASKS
All sites make all products/services?
TO SITES Each site focuses on a few products/ Getting capacity strategy right is
services?
the starting point for developing
LONG-TERM CAPACITY Capacity leads demand? competitive operations
CHANGE STRATEGY
Capacity lags demand?
Capacity
What
performance
Volume
Volume
CAPACITY OF LOCATION OF Demand Demand
EACH SITE EACH SITE measures will
Capacity
all these
decisions ?
have a major
ALLOCATION LONG-TERM impact on ?
OF TASKS CAPACITY
TO SITES CHANGE
STRATEGY Time Time
Capacity
12
Forecast demand = 9000 units
10
Costs / Revenue ($)
Time Time
8
Demand Cost
Capacity 6
4
Revenue
Time 2
Demand 0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Capacity Volume in thousands of units
Time
Cost, volume, profit illustration
8
Cash flow with
extended physical
capacity
0 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Time
Volume in thousands of units Volume in thousands of units
(a) (b)
Expanding physical capacity in advance of effective
capacity can bring greater returns in the longer term
Unit cost curve
Resource Required
costs service level
Land and
Economies Required Suitability
facilities
of scale service level of site
investment
Size and
OPERATIONS MARKET OPERATIONS Location of MARKET
number of
RESOURCES REQUIREMENTS RESOURCES sites REQUIREMENTS
sites
Geographical
Supply Resource Image of
distribution
costs availability location
of demand
Community
factors
Some factors influencing the number and size of sites Some factors influencing the location of sites
$US
4m Revenue
3m
Revenue
Revenue 3 Brayford
facilities
Costs Costs
2m 1 Bi-line 8 facility &
1 Brayford facility
(a) (b)