Operational+Plan

I’d like to point out that an operational plan should be specific to your business. Not all businesses require the same level of complexity when it comes to the operational plan. The topics that I cover here will not all apply to your particular business. In your own plan, you do not necessarily need to address each topic. Rather, limit your operations section to those issues that are needed and considered essential to the nature and success of your business. If your business is a manufacturing business in which product distribution is often a major difficulty, you may want to include a couple of paragraphs clarifying your company’s approach to improve this difficulty. However, if your business is a retail operation, distribution may not be a problem and you might not have to discuss it. On the other hand, if you business is an operation that develops or relies on a lot of new technology, you need to explain those aspects thoroughly. You need to explain who will be using that technology and what the implications are. Basically, you want to explain to your reader how you are going to deliver your product. What are you and/or your employees going to be doing on a daily basis from the time you open up to time you close. This is what your reader wants to know.