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Yi! } DUIMO||04 ay ‘uoisnpuon ° PPe nok ysiym ui podai e IIA Sjuswalinbay 22e|d ¢ b 6 Implementing Global Operations and Supply Chain Structure Changes OPS-FPX5620 Capella University Gina R. Williams Introduction 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 centralized 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 on a separate spreadsheet and allows to ensure 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 adds 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 the company to talk to their suppliers and to plan inventory at the right time and price. The facilities in the organization enhance the potential prospects of the business and encompass the multiple disciplines to ensure functionality by integrating people, place, processes and technology. Properly managed facilities are inherent for the organization and attract the stakeholders by allowing the business to recognize and predict problems. The recommendation mainly focused on the storage facilities in order to ensure value and efficient storage prospects. As indicated, this has a link with the supply chain and ensures smooth functioning. A proper facility management in the organization is valued in terms of the cost method that is used. Cost management in the organization 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 optimization. Global Operations & Supply Chain Management Mainland tools has a considerable value 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 and 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 of how Thomson tools can effectively integrate their businesses practices in the smaller business of Mainland Tools. System theory has consequently provided a general approach to determine the complex aspects within the organization in terms of the decisions and actions in the organization. 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 competitive advantage through the operations within the market place. This also offers for a data driven approach and analytics which are responsible for the success of the supply chain in order to form efficiently (Tönnissen, 2020). The elements of information infrastructure can be a cohesive way that can be helpful to implements new software as opposed to the building of a relationship with a supplier in 30 days. When the consequent information about the various suppliers is available then there are enough windows to get an exposure for the materials limited time frame. In terms of the skilled development and staff recruitment facilities, Global operations can inherently provide an expanded base of talent through effective relationship management. The prospect of globalization enhances the opportunity to reach out to the new talent and new economy which dramatically transforms the capacity of the organization and exposes new means of competitive advantage. This is also relevant in terms of expanding the sourcing opportunities that increase the production by securities of workers and can result in significant labor cost. Global operations and supply chain have a significant increase of marketing needs as it provides an expanded customer base. Globalization simplifies the communication between the business owners and customers and makes it easier to reach new markets and stay connected with the customers no matter where they are in the globe (Shams, 2020). The other prospects that need to be taken into focus are the financial management and the cost of implementation of the various process that significantly influence the competitive advantage and the Global operation in line with the supply chain management. Implementation of the considerable aspects of the financial management enhances the productive capacity of the business. Quality Assurance Practices The context of quality benchmarking has been a purposive method used within top management and enables the Enterprises to accepts the fact and the figures that needs to in the organization. The team members are to be selected according to the benchmarking conditions of the professional statistics, and relate to the wider studies that confirm the strategies and determine the compliance with the professional benchmarking discourse. It is essential to validate the objectives and applications in order to identify the motivations for the employees in terms of improving the comparative advantage and the company performance (Shams et al., 2020). Quality Assurance is one of the most important prospects that determines the comparison processes in the preparation phase and subsequently when the entire process is realized. The executives need to bring in new conditions which can overcome the new approaches and focuses on the prospect of continuous improvement. It is also important to identify better prospects and establish the processes with native methods that can give better results for the realization of a process and elimination of stereotypes in terms of reducing the subject activity in the decision making (Helo, 2019). Promotion of new ideas and the prospect of Total Quality Management along with continuous development ensures to contemplate how the organization evaluates its priorities. The quality assurance is determined by the frequency of the quality checks after the production. It is also contemplated with the errors and the productivity prospects in terms of measuring the proportion of errors in each production aspect. Planning for a collective action plan along with the contemplated continuous development are the major prospects of the Quality Assurance. Implication for Production & Inventory from Planned Closure Impact of the supply chain resilience has turned out to be an important context that has been stimulated by the businesses in terms of understanding the performance and the resistance of the organization. The desertion impact on the supply chain performance has been found to be proactive in terms of the resilience measure and the recovery contingency plans. The organization effectively focusses on developing inventory control policies and analyze the inventory system performance in the multi-source supply chain in the presence of lead time uncertainty from each resource. It can be a recommended in terms of studying the impacts of production capacity disruption on the supply chain performances in terms of the demand structure and the Limited expiration dates (Koberg et al., 2020). The objectives of the model focus to determine the production and shipment quantities and times for the production capacities. Production capacity is limited and lock sizes are fixed. This option in the production capacities is also random in regards to their appearance time and duration. Planning Horizon must be content within 7 weeks and the inventory dynamics must be contemplated with the segmented according to their freshness requirements. The supply and delivery chain algorithms focus on shipments and other disruptions that can be viewed as a uniform distribution in terms of concentrating on the implementation of the productivity and inventory management practices. Implication of Time Constraint The time that will be taken for the implementation of the recommended actions in terms of enhancing the continuous development and in focusing on the primary objectives of the Mainland Tools will be determined by the effective speed in which the entire organization is focused at. It is also contemplative to consider that the plan to implement the previously mentioned recommendations must be contemplated and must be functional within 3 months. This requires lump sum initial investment which needs to be asked on the basis of the changing economies of scale. It must be effectively considered that the changing efficiencies must be contemplated with the Global exchange rates because the considerable aspects of investment are considering the implementation processes in the Global markets. Leadership must also consider the international exchange rate because this is not concentrated within a domestic scale. So, the time constraint must be facilitated with the intent to facilitate the global supply chain. Implication of Cultural Differences Cultural difference is one of the major concerns of the Global business operations. It is effective to mention that the cultural differences are static concerns that have always been in terms of the international trade. International businesses have to compete with the issues of logistics needs and consider the management of the cultural differences with people. In particular it is effective to consider that the United States is one of the major powers of North America and makes money as the goal for most of their decisions. On the other hand, in some parts of China it is said that that keeping more people and making more products is one of the most effective goals (Holmström et al., 2020). Companies setting up operations in China must verify the production capacity and worker quality to ensure the company has set up an efficiently skilled labor force and that everyone has a meaningful job. This can help in terms of understanding the business scenario in terms of the Global operations. The parent company Thompson Tools needs to consider the possible cultural differences between North America and China in order to make potential decisions and take into consideration those strategies that are applied in terms of the implementation process in global markets and supply chain. Conclusion The context of boosting the productive capability of an organization by acquiring small firms can be a smart approach to supplies in which they are assigned with. The organizations’ manufacturing capacity has shifted abroad when it takes up the Global operations and the corporate leaders take into consideration labor and energy costs where products could be made inexpensively. At the same time the organizations manufacturing capacity needs to be considered on the basis of the overall output and the declining context of depending on a single supplier. The production and the distribution system must effectively concentrate on working to create solutions in terms of supplies and security. Concerns are more inherent in terms of understanding the division options that are caused by the alterations which have led to the calls for a greater domestic manufacturing capability through on shoring or near shoring. In recent years most of the organisations have been facing the economic shocks that have disrupted the supply chains and generated delays with and increased cost. A changing demography is also connected to the coherent aspects of the Global operation and are