St. Mary’s Hospital- Lindo Wing Maternity

The essay focuses on the main topic of the Understanding operation logistics Supply chain management that evaluates the key operation, logistics, and supply chain management challenges encountered by the managers in St. Mary’s Hospital- Lindo Wing Maternity. Moreover, you have to pay importance on the following factors mainly:

• the introducing of the hospital and services

• the service delivery system used by the hospital

• the infrastructure used to manage the manufacturing process

• TQM tools and approaches used

• Economic, Environmental and Social approaches of the hospital

Instructions 

The Lindo Wing delivers the uppermost quality of care for medical, health and obstetric patients. As well as our world-famous maternity services, the unit also specialises in a variety of difficult and cold surgeries including trauma, weight loss, vascular, gynaecology, urology, ear, nose and throat, and overall surgery.

Understanding operation logistics Supply chain management.

St. Mary’s Hospital- Lindo Wing Maternity

-      2,500 WORDS

-      14 relevant sources HARVARD REFERENCES STYLE.

 As this is to be written as an essay there is no need to have sub-headings, i.e. you do not need to have “Introduction,” “Theory 1,” etc.  Do use paragraphs and spaces to help with the presentation and signpost the sections so that the reader can follow the structure. However, it does help in indicating the weighting of the different sections. The You need to produce an essay elaborating on the key operation, logistics and supply chain management issues faced by the operations and supply chain manager(s) in this particular organisation/business. By focusing on the operational and supply chain issues, you should seek to identify and clarify how the operation functions and supports the market that it serves. What service delivery system (s) or manufacturing process (es) does it use? What infrastructure does it use to manage these delivery systems? And how, together, do these support the market (s) that it serves? A critical, detailed and relevant analysis should be made of the various components.

Introduction to Operations Management, logistics, etc. This is to demonstrate to the reader that you have an understanding of what operations management, logistics, etc. are about and that this is the subject of the essay. (About 200 words)

Introduction to the company and introducing the chosen topics hospital.  Here your choice, hospital, basic information about the company is presented and the two topics clearly stated: total quality management (TQM) and just-in-time (JIT), lean and agility) (About 250 words)

First choice of topic and corresponding theories/concepts.  Setting out the main theories/concepts related to the chosen section i.e. TQM tools if you have chosen quality.  A critique of these, application as to how the hospital uses them and a critique if applicable and where information is available compare with other company(ies) i.e. compare with how the hospital applies TQM compared to Arnold Palmer. (About 750 words)

Same for second choice: JIT, Lean and Agility of corresponding theories/concepts. (About 750 words)

Triple bottom line. Economic, Environmental and Social approach/considerations of the organisation. (About 300 words)

Recommendations.  Is the company/organisation doing a good job, could they do better, how are they using or not using the concepts/theories that have been discussed.  (About 150 words)

Conclusion.  A summary of the work to neatly wrap it all up.  (About 100 words)