Strategic Capacity Management - Operations Management Review Notes Capacity is the ability to hold, receive, store, or accommodate. In a business sense, it is viewed as the amount of output that a system is capable of achieving over a specific period of time. Strategic capacity planning has as its objective, to determine the overall capacity level of capital-intensive resources - facilities, equipment, and overall labor force size - that best supports the company's long-range competitive strategy
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(from chapter 6 on capacity planning; pages 223-224) 1. Utilization would be the method I would use to measure the where you would need to add extra capacity or eliminate extra space. In this case we would see that cardio is reaching maximum capacity. Fitness plus has not reached its capacity but it is time to start doing something about space. Capacity could soon be met since the area is growing so fast. January is also going to get busy so it is time to act. 2. The capacity strategy that would
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| |D) |Scheduling employee shifts | |2 |Which of the following is NOT a measure of the capacity of a restaurant? | | | | |A) |number of tables
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Niraj Varia MS 792 Dr. Polak Assignment 5 1. This case is aiming to analyze relevant root causes and associated counter-measures of the amplification phenomenon in service supply chains in order to improve the quality and flexibility of service processes because of that their study has a broader perspective. Based on their study, Akkermans and Vos confirmed the occurrence of upstream amplification of workload in the service supply chain, workload being a more appropriate measure for amplification
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Simulation What blocks organization from achieving more? MICSS Smart Industries made heavy losses during the past year. They have maintained high reputation in the market, meaning all the deliveries were made as per the plan. Also they have excess capacity. The company has four major functions, Marketing, Production, Procurement and Finance. One of the reasons for poor perforce could be the limited information sharing between various functions. Marketing can increase the demand through price reduction
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Flexible Facility Decision” case analysis Due to the fierce competition in pharmaceutical industry, Elli Lily has to change its product development process to retain its situation in the market. Steve Mueller, manager of strategic facilities planning, must suggest the company what type of manufacturing facilities to construct. These new facilities were needed for three new products (Alfatine, Betazin, and Clorazin), which the company expected to launch in 1996. His decision will be based on decreasing
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have adversely affected economic growth and development in Nigeria. Other problems of the economy include excessive dependence on imports for both consumption and capital goods, dysfunctional social and economic infrastructure, unprecedented fall in capacity utilization rate in industry and neglect of the agricultural sector, among others. These have resulted in fallen incomes and devalued standards of living amongst Nigerians. Although the structural adjustment programme (SAP) was introduced in 1986
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Capacity Needs Biddy’s Bakery was started as a hobby for Elizabeth and her friends and not with the intent to be a big business. Elizabeth’s business had a slow start and operated at a loss for the first few years. When Elizabeth moved her business into a larger building, she did not consider decreases in future profits and customers. When business started out to be slow and then increased slowly, Elizabeth should have taken that as a sign not to be too aggressive in her approach to obtain
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iQuest Solution +91 (124) 4253488 +91 (124) 4294239 www.iquestsolution.com Contents CURRENT STATUS – POWER INFRASTRUCTURE IN INDIA . 3 GROWTH EXPECTED ................................................................ ........................................ 3 Generation ................................................................................................ ...................................... 3 Transmission & Distribution ......................................................
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don’t you describe the problem we are facing?” “Well,” José said, “business is very good right now. We are booking more orders than we can fill. We will have some new equipment on line within the next several months, which will take care of our capacity problems, but that won’t help us in April. I have located some retired employees who
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