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Therefore, the quality level must be established in accordance with customers' requirements and purchasing power.
One of the most important factors that customers take into consideration when making a purchasing decision refers to the speed of delivery. Several studies have revealed that profits and market share are determined by speed of delivery.
Flexibility refers to the company's processes design, on the one hand, and to the company's ability to modify its facilities in order to produce new goods and services, on the other hand. This factor's importance is related to the duration of a product's life cycle.
Regarding service as a new competitive priority, companies provide value-added services, because this helps them gain competitive advantage.
3. The activity-based costing techniques consists in allocated overhead costs in actual proportion to the overhead consumed by the production activity. Activity-based costing technique was created from the need for a more clear costing technique.
Due to activity-based costing techniques, the allocation process has been generally refined. In other words,...
Such factors usually include: machine hours, beds occupied, computer time, flight hours, and miles driven. These factors are very important, since their selection influences the accuracy of overhead allocation.
Also, the activity-based costing technique is able to identify each activity and transaction as a cost driver. This way, overhead costs are assigned to products or jobs based on the number of separate activities required by the production process. This is why activity-based costing technique is also called transactions costing technique.
In addition to the advantages mentioned above, the activity-based costing technique, or the transactions costing technique, is able to identify overhead costs in a more accurate manner, which leads to a more accurate unit cost data for management.
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The name chosen for the new product must have no negative connotation in any language. After all these have been established, it is time for the new product to be tested. Testing represents the final and most important filter the product must go through before being manufactured on a large scale and launched. The test's objectives are connected to the elimination of any uncertainties emerged in the technical production phase
" [Michael E. Thorn p.4] IMPACT OF Management FUNCTION ON OPERATIONS Management This section analyses the impact that the previously discussed functions of management has on the operations management. Planning is the most important pillar of operations management. When an organization plans its goals and sets down its strategies, it then becomes easier for the managerial level to decide and distribute the work load. Without any plan of action, the organization or company
Operations Management Production and operations management is not an elusive term used to describe some vague concepts; instead it simply refers to management of all the processes and systems that help in the production of goods. As we all know that production requires efficient and organized use of human capital, materials, resources and machines. However all these components of production need to be supervised and they must work in an efficient
Operations Management: Managing International Operations One of the modes of business today is international operation. The reasons for entering international markets may come to an organization because of many reasons; some are a reaction to the situations in the domestic market like competitive pressures, over production, declining domestic sales, fully filled up domestic markets, excess capacity of production in the domestic market, etc. even when a foreign competitor enters a market,
Operations Management To the Organizers of this Major Sporting Event: At this present juncture of your endeavors, of course all of you are experiencing the inevitable pre-event jitters -- do we have enough sponsors, will all of the athletes 'come through' with their major commitments, etc. Perhaps you are even worried about prospective wardrobe failures of the event's halftime show. However, although good publicity and cooperation from all the necessary parties concerned