Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition
by Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Chuck Munson
Summary
Managers tie equipment selection and capacity decisions to the organization’s missions and strategy. Four additional considerations are critical: (1) accurately forecasting demand; (2) understanding the equipment, processes, and capacity increments; (3) finding the optimum operating size; and (4) ensuring the flexibility needed for adjustments in technology, product features and mix, and volumes.
Techniques that are particularly useful to operations managers when making capacity decisions include good forecasting, bottleneck analysis, break-even analysis, expected monetary value, cash flow, and net present value.
The single most important criterion for investment decisions is the contribution to the overall strategic plan and the ...
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