Pregunta | Respuesta |
Operations planning | Preparing input resources to supply products to meet expected demand |
Operational flexibility | The ability of a business to vary both the level of production and the range of products following changes in customer demand |
Process innovation | The use of a new or much improved production method or service delivery method |
Job production | Producing a one-off item specially designed for the customer |
Batch production | Producing a limited number of identical products - each item in the batch passes through one stage of production before passing on to the next stage |
Flow production | Producing items in a continually moving process |
Mass customisation | The use of flexible computer-aided production systems to produce items to meet individual customers' requirements at mass-production cost levels |
Optimal location | A business location that gives the best combination of quantitative and qualitative factors |
Quantitative factors | These are measurable in financial terms and will have a direct impact on either the costs of a site or the revenues from it and its profitability |
Qualitative factors | These are non-measurable factors that may influence business decisions |
Multi-site location | A business that operates from more than one location |
Offshoring | The relocation of a business process done in one country to the same or another company in another country |
Multinational | A business with operations or production bases in more than one country |
Trade barriers | Taxes (tariffs) or other limitations on the free international movement of goods and services |
Scale of operation | The maximum output that can be achieved using the available input (resources) - this scale can only be increased in the long term by employing more of all inputs |
Economies of scale | Reductions in a firm's unit (average) costs of production that result from an increase in the scale of operations |
Diseconomies of scale | Factors that cause average costs of production to rise when the scale of producton is increased |
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