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| production of goods by highly skilled and specialized artisans |
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| high volume production of standardized products |
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| a measure of the productivity of money invested in a business, typically a ratio of net income to some input such as set sales or total assets |
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| the amount a customer is willing to pay for a product of service sometimes thought of as benefits divided by cost |
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| the means by which a company positions itself for future profitability |
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| the abilities a business has that result from its processes, capabilities create value |
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| organized tasks accomplished by grouping resources together |
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| the expenses associate with ownership |
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| meeting customer expectations |
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| the speed at which a business completes tasks and the degree to which it completes tasks on schedule and as promised |
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| a productive system that functions with little waste or excess, usually with low inventory levels |
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| a framework for managing the constraints of a system in a way that maximizes the systems accomplishment of its goals |
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| materials used in the production of products and services ex. RM, inventory, W-in-P, F Goods |
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| The level of productive output of an organization in a specified period of time |
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| The building and structure that house various aspects of a business |
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| the employees required to produce a product or service |
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| globalization, technology, natural environment, regional pressures |
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| a new technology that displaces and existing technology |
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| the difference between the market value of a product or service and the cost of creating it |
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| a measure of how well inputs are used by a business, typically the ratio of an output to the input of interest |
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| profit per $ of sales (income/Sales) |
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| profit per dollar of assets (net income/total assets) |
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| profit per dollar of equity (net income/total equity) |
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| Net sales – COGS – S&A costs – Depreciation – Interest Paid – Taxes |
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| EVA= net operating profit after taxes- (average cost of capital x total capital employed) |
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| a measure of inventory productivity computed by the dividing sales by the average value of inventory |
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| a productivity measure for machines that is equal to actual running time divided by time available (actual run/ time available |
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| the ratio of actual output to standard output |
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| the percent of orders satisfied from existing inventory |
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| an instance when demand cannot be satisfied by existing inventory |
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| additional inventory used to help meet demand uncertainty |
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| a performance measurement system that combines financial and nonfinancial measures of business performance |
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| a manufacturer that extracts raw materials from natural resources |
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| the second stage of product value creation, whuch refines natural resource inputs |
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| the third stage of product value creation, which takes inputs from converters and transforms them into components used by assemblers |
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| the final step of the four stages of product value creation which puts together the outputs of fabricators |
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| the path of value creation, from basic producer through consumer, including all transportation and logistics services that connect them |
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| Value Attributes Consumers |
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| cost, quality, convenience, timeliness, personalization, ethical issues, style/fashion, technology |
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| Value Attributes Businesses |
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| cost, quality, dependability of delivery, flexibility, response time |
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| the management of supplier customer relationships, must have agility, adaptability, alignment |
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| a short statement of what a business does, what its values are, who its market is and why |
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| defines the businesses that a corporation will engage in and how resources will be expended |
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| defines the range of activities for a business setting priorities so that it accomplishes the overall corporate strategy |
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| a strategy that establishes the link between functional decision making and business strategy |
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| a strategy that seeks to produce goods and services at lower costs than competitors |
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| a strategy that seeks to create products and services that are different from those of competitors |
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| a strategy that targets a small segment of the market with products or services |
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| those capabilities that form a firms strengths |
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| examining the environment for potential effects on strategic decisions |
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| capacity, facilities, process technology, vertical integration/ supplier relationships |
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| human resources, quality, production planning/inventory controls, new product or service development, performance/reward systems, organizational systems |
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| key value attributes that are highly influenced by operations management: cost quality, dependability of delivery, flexibility, and response time |
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| the capacity a facility is designed to accommodate on an ongoing basis |
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| a layer of capacity above that which is absolutely required to meet known demand, providing the firm with the ability to handle occasional problems and enabling them to handle special requests |
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| the ability to customize in high volumes |
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| a product or service characteristic that is most important to a particular customer and results in the customer ordering |
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| product or service characteristics that are necessary but not sufficient to result in winning the order |
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| capabilities added by all members of a supply chain |
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| a layout that provides the necessary resources in a fixed sequence that matches the sequence of the steps required to product the product or service |
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| a layout that is organized by the function of each resource, allowing steps to be done in any sequence |
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| a layout in which products whose processes require similar resources are grouped into product families. Each cell contains all the resources necessary to produce products in that family |
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| a set of activities aimed at meeting a goal, with a defined beginning and end |
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| a manufacturer, typically a process oriented layout that is able to produce custom tools and equipment for others because of its flexibility |
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| a type of production in which identical products or customers are processed through on step and then the entire batch goes on to the next stop |
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| the time required to change equipment from producing one product or service to another aka setup time |
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| a narrowly defined manufacturing assembly process made up of equipment with little flexibility in a product-oriented layout |
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| this is any equipment or workstation that is dedicated to one product or service, yielding high levels of efficiency aka repetitive processing |
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| producing a product when an order is received |
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| producing a product before an order is received and string the product |
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| producing major components of a product prior o receiving an order and assembling the product to meet a specific order |
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| Quality function deployment |
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| a widely used approach that translates customer needs into product and service designs that guide the corresponding process requirements |
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| a set of matrices used to guide the quality function deployment process |
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| product planning, part deployment, process planning, production planning |
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| including logistics and transportation concerns in the product design process, usually involving effective packaging |
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| the inclusion of environmental concerns in the product design |
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| performing product and service development engineering functions in tandem to reduce time and improve communication |
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| a diagram of the steps in a process |
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| a type of process map used for services that identifies decision points failure and the line of visibility |
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| Business process analysis |
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| a productivity improvement approach that focuses and the transitions between different departments |
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| starting from a clean slate to improve a process |
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| a device that makes it impossible or nearly impossible to do something incorrectly |
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| define, measure, analyze, improve, control |
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