QSO 300 Final Project Milestone One
Krista Kern
1/14/17
Introduction:
Nissan is a wide known motor car company. They have overcome
a lot of di)culties such as the financial difficulty of 1999 and the
massive earthquake and tsunami. Their risk management and
operations management has been born due to these “near death”
experiences. This paper will show how proper operations management
practices will help Nissan recover from almost any natural disaster.
I. Generating Value A. Evaluate how the company in the case study
uses operations management functions to provide products and
generate value for its customers. Support your claims with examples
from the case study or outside sources.
Nissan is a leading producer in cars. Cars are a necessity to
consumers each day. Nissan has already been planning for things like
natural disasters. This was way before the earthquake and tsunami.
They made their own disaster plan. By doing so, they were prepared
for just about anything that would happen to in a sense hurt their
company from getting their parts that they needed to make their cars.
Having a disaster plan in place is important for companies and once
they do then this will help them survive. Nissan recently has put in line
a Green Program starting in 2016 to set targets in all lines of their
