“Critically evaluate the impact of increasing environmental considerations and legislation, on an organisations operations. (You should consider the whole product life cycle from design and sourcing, through transformation and delivery to the end customer, including disposal at the end of the products life. You should illustrate your points with reference to specific companies or industry sectors.) BM203 Assignment – 2nd Year Undergraduate, Accounting. Mark: 61%”

Operations managers make a variety of decisions which support and implement the strategic priorities of an organisations strategy with regards to cost, quality, service, flexibility and speed on a routine basis. Naylor (1999) states that the role operations management is to plan, operate and control a transformation system that takes inputs from a variety of  sources and produces outputs of goods and services at times and places defined by the internal or external customers. This is demonstrated in the diagram below (Figure 1.1) by Vonderembse & White (2004).

However, with the decline in the natural environment because of global warming organisations are under a lot of pressure from their customers, the government and the public to become more environmentally friendly. Organisations of all sizes, processes and industries face the same issues of pollution, excess packaging and ch…(short extract)