The operational management evolution and its role in the industrial enterprise

Abstract

The topic introduces within the field of operational management from the standpoint of its historical-evolutionary definition context. The essential aspects are clarified, and the levels of operational management are presented. The principles of operational management are formulated in a short, systematized form. The nature and types of production systems are clarified, as well as their main elements. Definitions regarding the production process, organization of the enterprise and its main subsystems, forms of organization of the production process, forms of arrangement of the production units in space are clarified, too. The recommended fields for identifying good practices in the organization of the production process are also defined. It has been presented the main links that need to be made in terms of good practices, derived in theoretical terms and their main contributions to the enterprise to achieve the desired results by applying the good practices.