FUNCTIONS OF
PRODUCTION OPERATION
MANAGEMENT
FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
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What is production/operation
management?
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Who is production/ operation manager?
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What are the responsibilities of
production/operation manager?
FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
Functions of POM
Being the component of the organization,
POM is concerned with the organizational
goal.
 Production/operation manager seeks to
optimum utilization of the resources
(inputs).
 The most functions of the POM is
decision making concerned with the
production function.
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FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
Functions of POM
Production/operation management is a
component of organization which concerned
with the creation of utility in raw materials
through conversion process.
 As a part of management, it has following
functions:
 Planning:
Organizing:
Controlling:
Behaviour:
Models:
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FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
General Functions of POM
Random Fluctuations
Conversion Process
Models
Behaviour
FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
Contd…..
 Functions
of
production
operation management can be
enclosed in a frame of general
management function.
 PO managers are concerned with
planning,
organizing,
and
controlling the activities affect
human
behaviour
through
models.
FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
Model Behaviour Controlling Organizing Planning
PLANNING
Activities that establishes a course of
action and guide future decision-making
is called planning.
 POM defines the objectives for the POM
subsystem of the organization
 It defines the policies, and procedures for
achieving the objectives.
 This stage includes clarifying the role and
focus of POM in the organization’s overall
strategy.
 It involves product planning, facility designing
and using the conversion process.
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FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
Model Behaviour Controlling Organizing Planning
ORGANIZING
Activities that establishes a structure of tasks
and authority is called organizing.
 POM establish a structure of roles and the flow of
information within the POM subsystem.
 POM determine the activities required to achieve
the goals and assign authority and responsibility for
carrying them out.
 It includes:
 Job design
 Work Measurement
 Project Management
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FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
Model Behaviour Controlling Organizing Planning
CONTROLLING
Activities that assure the actual performance in
accordance with planned performance is called
Controlling.
 To ensure that the plans for the POM subsystems
are accomplished, the PO manager must exercise
control by measuring actual outputs and comparing
them to planned operations management.
 Controlling costs, quality, and schedules are the
important functions for POM.
 Material Control
 Material requirement planning (MRP)
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FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
Model Behaviour Controlling Organizing Planning
BEHAVIOUR
Human aspect on the job is called
behaviour.
 PO managers are concerned with how their
efforts to plan, organize, and control affect
human behaviour.
 They also want to know how the behaviour of
subordinates can affect management’s planning,
organizing, and controlling actions.
 The behaviour is affected by the leadership,
motivation, communication, inter-intra
personnel relationship and their attitudes.
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FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
Model Behaviour Controlling
Controling Organizing Planning
MODELS
The techniques which are used for problem solving is
called Models.
 As a process of plan, organize, and control the conversion
process, PO manager encounter many problems and must
make many decisions.
 S/he can simplify their difficulties using models.
 The models are:
 Aggregate planning models for examining how best to
use existing capacity in short-term.
 Break even analysis to identify break even volumes.
 Linear programming and computer simulation for
capacity utilization.
 Decision tree analysis for long-term capacity problem
of facility expansion.
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FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
Contd…..
…………POM is a part of general
management and it performs
Planning, Organizing, Controlling
the production process by the
affecting
human
Behaviour
through different mathematical
and quantitative Models in
decision making……..
FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC
FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC