Management and Organizational Studies 3330A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Workflow, Temporary Work, Lastminute.Com

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3330A/B
• Professor: Rick Burjaw

Document Summary

Note this is part of mrp but it was a separated chapter so i divided the notes accordingly. Overall strategy is to provide the framework for making decisions in many operational areas. Companies differentiate themselves based on product volume. This differentiation affects how the company organizes its and product variety operations. Process designed to handle high-volume, standard products. Can be repetitive operations for discrete products like automobiles, appliances, or bread, or services like license renewals. Or can be continuous operations for goods produced in a continuous flow (gasoline or waste treatment services) Have smaller profit margins, so cost efficiency is important. Routing provides info about the operations to be performed, their sequence, the work centers, and the time standards. Want to achieve a balanced line done through similar. Workstations dedicated to single product or limited family of processing times products: low-volume. Material flow through workstations may be automated. Well-designed minimizes wip inventory and reduces time.