Study on ZARA, Australia’s JIT & Lean Operation

 

 

For this business report, you are required to study operations practices of real company and write a report on the chosen topic with a 3200-3500 word limit.Attached to this order is a full guideline on how the paper should be written and as well as the chapter from the relevant book in regards to the topic chosen.Academic Level: Bachelor Degree Subject/Unit: Operations Management Company: ZARA, AustraliaTopic: JIT & Lean OperationsFor this business report, you are required to study operations practices of real company and write a report on the chosen topic with a 3200-3500 word limit.On the chosen topic and company you are required to:• Provide background information regarding the company including size, business type, areas of operations, competitors etc.• Provide detailed information about the chosen topic. For example, if you choose ‘quality’ you need to discuss about the type of process used in the company, quality practices used in the company, commitment level of different organisational levels toward quality, is there any detection, prevention or improvement processes in the company, how company measures its quality etc. The company should be based in Australia or have branch or affiliation in Australia.• Collect real data for the chosen topic and then show the current status of the company in the chosen topic. For example, if your topic is Material Requirement Planning (MRP) you need to discuss about bill of material, master schedule, inventory status file, lot size, lead time, and more important cost of MRP etc. You must contact the company for the data collection. The collected data must consist both qualitative and quantitative data.• Provide solution to improve the performance and also efficiencies of the operations in the company.Please be advised that the report must contain a comparative analysis and not just describing the current practices in the company. In other word you need to compare the existing and current practices with the model/practices that you are proposing in your report.CRITERIA FOR THIS REPORT• Company Information: Detailed background information of the company including size, business type, areas of operations, competitors etc. Company must be based in Australia (2 marks)• Identify the problem: Clearly explain about the problem and assumptions. Explain why the problem is chosen. Clarity and comprehensiveness of the problem identification should be addressed. (5 marks)• Topic: Review the relevant and similar studies on the selected topic. How previous research address the problem you identified. Use Harvard system for referencing. (5 marks)• Data Collection: The comprehensiveness of the data collected required for the project analysis. You are required to collect both primary and secondary data for the chosen topic. You must use different sources for collecting data such as interview, company reports, etc. (8 marks)• Analysis:  Provide  both  quantitative  and  qualitative  analysis  for  this  assignment.  Show    allanalyses based on the collected data. Compare the current situation and your suggested model in terms of the cost, profit, sale etc. (4 marks)• Discussion: Discuss about the analysis. Explain about the areas of improvement based on yoursuggested model. Discuss about the implications of the solution• and how to improve the overall performance (4 marks)• Overall presentation of the assignment: Clarity of presentation and the sequence of the topics, Executive Summary, Table of content, List of Figures/Tables, List of References, Page numbering, Cover sheet, Appendix (if any), Compliance with the word limit (2 marks)BUSINESS REPORT FORMAT/SECTIONSEXECUTIVE SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS1. INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVES2. COMPANY INFORMATION2.1. Size2.2. Business Type2.3. Areas of Operations 2.4. Competitors3. IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM3.1. Problem3.2. Assumptions4. TOPIC5. DATA COLLECTION5.1. Primary Data5.2. Secondary Data6. ANALYSIS6.1. Quantitative Analysis6.2. Qualitative Analysis7. DISCUSSION8. CONCLUSION9. REFERENCES10. APPENDICES