What are some characteristics of operations management that make it a core business function?

• The characteristics of operations management are:
• Flexibility
• The quality
• Coordination
• Effectiveness
• Profitability
• Measurable
• The watching
• Evaluating
• Concentration
• Analysis
• The speed of execution
• Rapid reaction capacity
• Structural organizational flexibility

The basic functions of business management are:

1. development
2. marketing
3. production
4. management

The Characteristics of operations management of a core business are:

1. Understand customer needs
2. Understand the organisations financial performances
3. Great Planner (Either on time Delivery or Business Development or New product development )
4. Effective communicator
5. Perform under pressure
6. Tracks & Measures Staff Performance
7. Be realistic
8. Focuses on Quality
9. P & L Management
10. Safety Conscious
11. Effective Supply chain management

OM is the business function responsible for managing the creation of goods and services.

Operations management is the core function of every company, regardless of its size and what industry it is in. As without it there would be no product to sell to customers.

Here are some of the main characteristics that makes it the core function 

1) Designing

2) Planning

3) Managing

4) Coordinating

 Volume, Variety, Variation and Visibility.

Basic characteristics of Operations Manager is he/she make sure the company provides the best service/ products to its customers/consumers by producing the best of his employees and the machineries.

To be a Leader, strong character, easy adaptable, flexible 

Development

Marketing 

Production

Management

Concentraton

Analaysis

Execution

Measurable

Profitability 

Some characteristics of operations management that make it a core business function are

1: Leadership Skills (Situation Leadership, Inspiration, Motivation, Education, Direction and Production Leadership attributes)

2: Caoching and Mentoring Techniques

3: Transparency (E2E)

4: Quality and Health and Safety

5: Efficiency

6: Cost conscious - Awareness of cost and non conformance cost, Cost of poor Quality.

7: Team building attributes (Rewards and Recognition)

8: Continuous Learning and Improvement

9: Passionate, Positive and Pragmatic

10: Supply Chain Management

The ability to reactify the cost incured during any operational activities and try to minimize the cost to incur more profitbiliity and fexibility.

basic functions of business management:

• development
• marketing
• production
• management

characteristics of operations management:

• Flexibility
• The quality
• The watching
• Effectiveness
• Concentration
• Profitability
• Coordination
• The speed of execution
• Evaluating
• Measurable
• Analysis

Characterstic of Operations Manager

Flexibililty

Quality

Effectivness

Profitability

Coordination

Measureable

Process Knowledge

Observation