Introduction to Operational Planning
by: sourceecommerce
The Operational Plan is the third part of your completed Strategic Plan. It defines how you will operate in practice to implement your action and monitoring plans – what your capacity needs are, how you will engage resources, how you will deal with risks, and how you will ensure sustainability of the project’s achievements
Operational planning is the process of assuring that specific tasks are carried out effectively. An operational planning is a subset of strategic work plan. An operational plan is the basis for, and justification of an annual operating budget request. Therefore, a five-year strategic plan would need five operational plans funded by five operating budgets.
Like a strategic plan, an operational plan addresses four questions:
- Where are we Stand now ?
- what do we want to Achieve?
- How do we get there?
- How do we measure our progress?
Operational plans should be prepared by the people who will be involved in implementation. There is often a need for significant cross-departmental dialogue as plans created by one part of the organisation inevitably have implications for other parts. A operational planning allow us:
- Achievement of Goals
- Concentration of effort
- Clarity around cost/expenditure issues
- Confidence of staff
- Enhanced partnership working
- Assurance of success for Health
- Improvement/Development for Leads/Managers
- Clarity around cost/expenditure issues
Key components of Operational Planning
Human Requirements
The human capacity and skills required to implement any project, and your current and potential sources of these resources. A good and quality human resource give power to achieve any goal within the timelimit.
Financial Requirements
finance is always needed for any planning and project. With operational planning we able to find the way of manage finance resource
Risk Assessment
What risks exist and how they can be addressed. calculate your all the risk available.
Exit Strategy
In exit strategy you plan when and how you will exit your project
Guidelines for Operational Planning
Following are the Guidelines for Operational Planning:
1. what is the optimal operational plan (row material acquisition, product sources, inventory levels, distribution, system configuration, route and mode of distribution etc.) to meet the specific system objectives, consistant with some long term plan, with existing facilities in the next planning period.
2. what is the best operating plan on which, to base plan for production
3. what specific operations or sequences of operations should be performed with existing facilities or meet specific output requirement in the next operational period.
