FUNCTIONS OF

PRODUCTION OPERATION
MANAGEMENT
What is
production/operation
management?

Who is production/
operation manager?

What are the responsibilities of

production/operation manager?
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.
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:
General Functions of POM

Random Fluctuations

Conversion Process
Models Behaviour
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.
Model BehaviourControlling 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.
Model BehaviourControlling 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
Model BehaviourControlling 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)

FUNCTIONS OF POM- By Birodh Adhikari SSMC

ntrolling 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
C
actions.
Model Behaviour

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The behaviour is affected by the
leadership, motivation, communication, inte
r-intra personnel relationship and their
attitudes.
Model BehaviourControllningg 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.
Contd…..
…………POM is a part of general
management and it performs
Planning, Organizing, Controllin
g the production process by the
affecting human Behaviour
through different mathematical
and quantitative Models in
decision making……..