BYD Company Milestone One.docx OM21E-W4 BYD Company Business Department Operations Man

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BYD Company Milestone One.docx OM21E-W4 BYD Company Business Department Operations Management 21EW4 The BYD Company was created in 1995 in China, originally for manufacturing batteries, with Wang... Chuan-Fu as the founder of the company. Wang Chuan believed that he could develop a better and cheaper option for electrical battery™s after studying at Beijing Non-Ferrous Institute (Rarick, 2011). Wang was able to analyze how Japan builds their batteries, by doing this; he was able to come up with a cheaper way to make the same type of batteries. Wang™s goal was to make it less expensive for people to buy and use electric cars. Understanding how operations management plays an important roll in the success of the company by continuing to improve its efficiency™s and provides outstanding customer service. The operations management has many steps like œinvolves planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling all the resources needed to produce a company™s goods and services (Operations Management Defined | Defining Operations Management | InformIT, 2014) of which are vital to a company™s success. Byd believed that there were many benefits to building an electric car per (Rarick, 2011) article; these cars have no œengine, muffler, gasoline tank, air and fuel filter (Rarick, 2011) that are needed to run a regular gasoline car. By building an electric car, it reduces emissions and this is better for the environment. Some shortcomings for owning an electric vehicle is the mileage range is small compared to. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Show More]

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