GMS 401 Chapter 5: Process Strategy and Sustainability
16 Oct 2016
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An organization"s approach to transforming resources into good and services. The objective of a process strategy is to build a production process that meets customer requirements and product specifications within cost and other managerial constraints. A production facility organized around process to facilitate low-volume, high variety production. The vast majority of global production is devoted to making low- volume, high-variety product in places called job shops. Widely used in the assembly of virtually all automobiles and household appliances, it has more structure and consequently less flexibility than a process-focused facility. Modules - parts or components of a product previously prepared, often in a continuous process. A facility organized around products; a product - orientated, high- volume, low-variety process. They are also called continuous processes, because they have very long, continuous production runs. Combines the flexibility of a process focus with the efficiency of a product focus ices me, sed ften ties.
