MGTA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Woodworking, Materials Management, Critical Path Method

• School: UTSC
• Department: Management (MGT)
• Course: MGTA01H3
• Professor: Chris Bovaird

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They must bring raw materials, equipment, and labour together under a production plan that effectively uses all the resources available in the production facility. In other words, we can describe goods according to the kind of transformation technology they require, or according to whether their operations process combines resources or breaks them into component parts. We can describe services according to the extent of customer contact required: all goods-manufacturing processes can be classified in two different ways: Type of transformation technology that transforms raw materials into finished goods. Analytic or synthetic nature of the transformation process: 1. For this reason, transit managers must worry about the cleanliness of the trains and busses and the appearance. This is usually not the case in low-contact systems. Low-contact system: a system in which the service can be provided without the customer being physically in the system (ex.