MBA503 The BGC Division of Australia

The investigation and Assessment brief Students should note that the scope of their investigation need not include the entire organisation under examination. Instead the group may focus their investigation onto a particular business unit or operation. If in doubt discuss the issue with your lecturer prior to commencing your research. The report must be correctly referenced and plagiarism and academic integrity policy will apply.  

Answer:

BGC construction operates through the BGC division of Australia. This is one of the largest private companies and group turnover exceeds 3 billion dollars per annum and employs more than three thousand employees. The construction has been operational since 1971. This is one of the biggest builder companies and manufactures building materials all throughout the Western Australia. The company has been using following risk management frameworks- AS/NZS 4801: safety management and occupational health systems. The company has also been credited as the division 5 through the state government. 

BGC (Australia) is a private company operating in Australia and its revenue comes through the manufacture of buildings, industrial projects, construction services, investment and management, and transport and property services. The Company operates through its Australia and New Zealand offices and administered through Western Australia, Perth. The companies offer various products and services- Residential and homebuilding property services, Commercial construction, transportation, construction materials, building products and services, civil and mining construction contracting services (Erik Eriksson, 2010). 

Operations Strategy

BGC Australia Private Limited is a differentiated contracting and construction company that is based in Perth, Western Australia. The company has its operations in New Zealand as well as Australia. BGC has been known for providing the leadership and expertise strategy from the scratch for the manufacture of the building materials. This is a largest residential builder of Australia and provides residential and commercial construction services (An, 2008). . 

Decision-Making Processes and Innovation

The construction company BGC has been exploring the Energy Demand Smart at its major facilities in Australia and also at office buildings. Some of the suggested energy users are associated with this group. The company is interested in adding more facilities to its group and searching for information to access the Demand Smart information for its facilities. The company’s Board of Directors works closely with BGC operations and has integrated Demand Smart and Ener NOC. These are comprehensive programs that find applications towards the demand energy responses. All the strategy programs are made to work closely with the BGC operations and new emphasis has been made towards the energy consumption. 

Product & Service Design

organizations behave according to the surroundings. The BGC contracting company has an aim of delivering the goods and services to its customer, but the efficient processes of manufacturing, designing, analyzing and finally getting it delivered are some of the driving forces behind the success if a company. These are smaller work processes that can serve for the big purpose. The effectiveness of an organization is largely dependent over the given operations or processes, and this will make the business profitable and productive. 

The BGC corporate development team has been involved with creating patterns since 1990s and this has been done across geographies and industries. The large focus has been on the large cap firms. This company is involved with the analysis of more than 2000 companies across 30 different industries.

Planning & Control

In present scenario, the business environment is undergoing through huge changes. This is mainly due to the globalization as well as proliferation of multiple facilities. The companies need to plan the strategies and identify the success factors for complementing the lean manufacturing, agile manufacturing and just in time practices. The company needs to have a strong plan and control over its manufacturing processes. The BGC contracting company may undergo through the technological changes and this may happen due to the transaction costs. The company needs to ensure the communication amongst the supply chain networks.

Quality Management

The company must focus that a particular structure May or may not fit for a given hierarchical level or a market. The performance impacts must be clearly defined and coordination conditions must be enhanced among th existing players.

Conclusion

The BGC Company is a construction company which runs its centers all over the globe. The company needs to focus on strengthening its supply chain management activities and implement an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system that is aligned with the different facilities. This enhances the attainment of goals to a maximum possible extent.

References

An, H. (2008). The Construction of Green Supply Chain Management System. International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, 1(3), pp.70-79.

Erik Eriksson, P. (2010). Improving construction supply chain collaboration and performance: a lean construction pilot project. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 15(5), pp.394-403.