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Documenting the existing resources and costs allocated to
the process including staff skills and training, business
systems capacity and quality, machine asset utilization and
bottlenecks, and physical space available for growth.
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Implementing tools to record and report demand and
predict future (model) demand.
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Building a database to record appropriate capacity utiliza-
tion measurement information develop reports to measure
and report historical trends.
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Determining the timeliness and accuracy of management
information to determine capacity planning strategy. This
includes monitoring external influences such as market
demand, competitor activity and initiatives, ...