BU121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Electronic Data Interchange, Iso 9000, Mass Production
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Planning - producion processes, locaion, facility layout, resource planning and supply chain management. Producion process - way in which a good is made. Making idenical goods at once, canned goods, over-the-counter drugs, household appliances, idea is to keep manufacturing costs low by using standardizaion, mechanizaion and specializaion. Goods are produced by mass producion up to a point then custom tailored to it customer needs, ie. furniture, Customizaion - producion of goods/services one at a ime according to each customer needs. Job shop - manufacturing company that produces goods in response to customer orders. Basic input is broken down into one or more outputs. Basic inputs are combined together to form the output. Uses producion runs that last a long ime without equipment shut downs. Used for high-volume, low-variety products with standardized parts. Short producion runs are used to make batches of diferent products. Machines are shut down to make diferent products at diferent imes (low-volume, high-variety products)
