Operations management

Production Management (english operations management ) is an operational leadership task and at the same time a scientific discipline. Production management is a fundamentally important component of corporate management in manufacturing companies.

The production management includes planning, organization, implementation and control of industrial value added and industrial service processes. Here are the processes of decision-making (planning ) and will enforce ( command and control ) in the foreground. The term " industrial" is thus less " in the industry" as " using industrial methods."

Production Management as a scientific discipline

As part of the development of business administration from an object- oriented science to a real interdisciplinary science of the management of social institutions, the production economy and the industrial management grow together to form a new discipline: the production management. This provides production management in addition to Marketing Management and Financial Management one of the three main organizational functions dar. Under the premise of the definition of organization as a goal-directed action systems with interpersonal division of labor every organization has a production.

Has been scientifically as the essential approaches the Scientific management, situational approaches, decision-oriented approaches, system- oriented approaches (picture) and now also used Evolutionary management.

Regarding the significance of the impacts and the period are distinguished three levels:

• The strategic production management is concerned with the long-term nature and objectives of production and the production system of a company. These include the creation and maintenance of efficient and competitive production capacities and the definition of manufacturing standards.
• The tactical production management is concerned with the implementation of the medium-term strategic decisions. These include the determination of the production technology and the adaptation of production structures and work organization to the changing processes and products, taking into account legal requirements and collective bargaining.
• The operative production management deals with short-term planning and preparation of all necessary measures to provide services to meet customer orders. For this purpose, inter alia, includes the creation of the production program and the appointment of its own production and the supplier. However, it is not responsible for the physical rendering of services which are allocated to the production planning, production control and logistics.

Production Management as a function of corporate governance

The tasks of production management can be bundled in a person, such as a plant or production manager. In large companies, there is a hierarchical or team -bound task sharing. Under an operating line, it may for example give the following functions within a business organization:

• Manufacturing and Assembly
• Materials Management
• Planning and production control
• Tools and equipment
• Engineering and Maintenance

Production Management may occur from the product, essentially pursue the questions of how ( new ) products for example

Can be finished.

Production management can also start from the possibilities of a given production to a certain extent, with questions:

With production management includes tasks that are concerned with the cost accounting, business administration and their numbers, for example, cost center accounting, cost accounting. This is in practice in the task field an intersection between engineering science and management-oriented tasks.