Operations management highlights one of the important processes that ensure that a firm’s profitability goals and sustainability in the long run are accomplished by ensuring the processes involved in the production of goods and services are running smoothly. In any organization, there are three basic functional units that encompass all the activities that are collectively the scope of any business firm; operations, finance, and marketing. Critical thinking plays an important role in the operations management to ensure that all the independent units that are involved can harmoniously operate to the achievement of a single goal. For instance, some of different concepts involved in operations are initiated from the time that supply chains for resources are sourced, to product and service design, quality control, facility management, work scheduling, and competition strategies to ensure that the firm stands above competitors in the market.

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