4 page professional report, 12pt Times New Roman on implementing global operations and supply chain infrastructure changes

GLOBAL OPERATIONS & SUPPLY CHAIN IN MAINLAND TOOLS
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Value & Priority of the Recommendations    3
Global Operations & Supply Chain Management    3
Quality Assurance Practices    4
Implication for Production & Inventory from Planned Closure    5
Implication of Time Constraint    5
Implication of Cultural Differences    6
Conclusion    6
References    8
Introduction
Mainland Tools is an experienced provider of products and technical support. The company was started in 1981, and after forty years, they have not changed many of their processes and are using aged equipment. They currently generate about $6 million dollars per year, but with an update in how they do operate their business, they could make more.
Thompson Tools is a leader in supply-chain efficiencies and they have recently acquired, and become the parent company to a smaller business in China named Mainland Tools. Mainland Tools is an experienced provider of products and technical support in North America, however they are using older equipment and operating out of an older building. Because of this Thompson Tools would like a complete evaluation of their processes and infrastructure to ensure that Mainland Tools is operating at maximum functionality and can be a successful part of the supply chain.
Value & Priority of the Recommendations
The recommendation of the implementation of ERP system is an effective aspect to structure the processes that every employee has a clearly defined role and can carry out their duties effectively. It allows for the implementation of a centralised software that gives capability for bringing all the different processes together to create one integrated system. This profile of each department creating and updating it's on separate spreadsheet and allows to ensured higher integrity and security. The most vital aspect of the implementation of ERP system is better management and enhanced customer service. The ERP system also as value in terms of long-term planning by assessing the number of raw materials needed to produce and the required amount of end product that enables be company to talk to their suppliers and the plan inventory at the right time and price.
The facilities in the organisation enhances the potential prospects of the business and encompasses the multiple disciplines to ensure functionality by integrating people, place, processes and technology. Properly managed facilities are inherent for the organisation and attracts the stakeholders by allowing the business to recognise and predict problems. The recommendation mainly focused on the storage facilities in order to ensure value for the opportunities that direct towards and efficient storage prospects. As indicated, this has a link with the supply chain and ensures are smooth functioning. A proper facility management in the organisation is valued in terms of the cost method that is used.
Cost management in the organisation allows the business to predict the future expenses and reduce the chances of budget overrun. This can effectively provide practicing managers with a thorough understanding of various dimensions of cost and value in the projects along with the factors that impact them and the managerial approaches that would be most effective for achieving cost efficiency and value optimisation. This adds value to the businesses by effectively benchmarking because and financing those recommendations for the organisation in order to avoid debt. 
Global Operations & Supply Chain Management
Mainland tools has a considerable values stream map that has been reported to be quite scattered due to the manual processes that are outdated and time consuming. In this prospect it is effective to consider the implementation of global operations and connecting efficiently with that of the supply chain management. System theory can be coherently used for understanding and simplifying the relations among the components of the systems in order to get better understanding an analysis of the values that are generated by the supply chain. This approach in the supply chain management is currently one of the most dominant theories in the prospect of identifying the stakeholders (Wamba et al., 2019). This can be related to the prospect how Thomson tools can effectively illustrate the businesses in the smaller business of mainland tools of China.
System theory has consequently provided a general approach to determine the complex aspects within the organisation in terms of the decisions and actions in the organisation. So, the Global operations of acquiring North American organisation has been a prospect of expanding the customer base by reaching out to the new customers and security a diverse selection of new workers materials and products. The prospect of global operations and supply chain management can inherently improve the productivity and the competitive positioning of the businesses in terms of the Global market.
The appreciation of the operations and the supply chain processes is of the essence to create a...