Nissan Operation Management

In this crazy world, disaster can happen at a moment’s notice. Some of our own doing and some like natural disasters we have no control over. But for the Nissan Motor Company; a disaster that could have easily wiped them out put them in a position to respond, and that they did. Nissan’s operations management team acted quickly a devised a plan that not a tsunami, earthquake, or even a nuclear disaster could stop.
After evaluating the Nissan case study, it is apparent that they utilize several methods when generating value and providing products to their customers. For one, Nissan has adopted technology that allows them to simplify their products in the operations process. The system which is allows Nissan to do this is known as Toyota Production

Manfacturing looked to service to assit with logistics and supply chain functions. Service was able to do this because of their ability to quickly adujust to any disaasters that may present itself. The Nissan service side was already built to operate in international operations. Because of this the process was in place when manufacturing needed reach out to beyond their local established supply lines. These two areas of the compnay helped to addvalue when suppporting their customer base.With the manufacturing side devolping inovative and quality products they are able to maximize on the service operations side delivering customer service that is unfailing. While the two sides essientially have different functions they are able to work together to amplify the entire brand and bring the most value to their

Material requirement planning is a production planning and inventory control system. An MRP integrates data from production schedules with that from inventory and the bill of materials to calculate purchasing and shipping schedules for the parts or components required to build a product (Cole, 2014). Where MRP helps Nissan is that it helps to improve shipping and production performance while at the same time reducing the amount of on hand inventory or any shortages as well. If this process is implemented correctly then Nissan can significantly reduce cost related to manufacturing. Additionally, Nissan could cut out any unnecessary expenses as well. However, Nissan would first need to have specific data available to insure accuracy when using MRP. Some of the information needed would be accurate records of current inventory, projections for project end dates, and a list of any materials needed for production just to name a few. Having accurate dates and projections in your system for sales order and purchase orders is a necessity (Sikich, 2017). MRP runs on accuracy so the more correct information you feed it the better it