Product Overview

This workbook on manufacturing management gives an insight into the complex and ever-changing world of manufacturing management. It explores the evolutions of manufacturing in order to better understand the principles and application of manufacturing management today.
It assesses the use of manufacturing management techniques within manufacturing organisations and service organisations, where appropriate.

Target Audience

• Middle and Senior Managers
• Post Grad and/or Post experience Managers

Anybody wanting to develop skills and knowledge in a particular management field at postgraduate or post experience level.

Objectives

• Identify the three process elements that define manufacturing operations inputs, transformation and outputs.
• Critically review how an organisation's manufacturing strategy is formulated and how it links into the rest of the organisation.
• List the various types of operations and processes in manufacturing environments, taking into account that the type of process selected depends primarily on demand volume and degree of product standardisation.
• Distinguish the main differences between the manufacturing and service operation.
• Recognise the need for a customer/design interface strategy for new product development and the importance of innovation, value engineering and value analysis in new product development.
• Apply the product design process and product life cycle to your own organisation, taking into consideration the effect of technology and quality on the design process.
• Apply a layout strategy for manufacturing plants of service organisations, recognising the relationship between layout and flow.
• Describe different aggregate planning strategies and demand management approaches
• Define capacity and evaluate what decisions have to be taken in determining capacity.
• Recognise why different capacity planning strategies work and how demand and capacity are managed.
• Contrast the three most well known business planning and control systems with the Just-In-Time and lean manufacturing system of production planning and improvement.
• List the definitions of quality and use their applications.
• Apply a quality management system to your own organisation.
• Apply the concept of Continuous Improvement and recognise its impact on an organisation.
• List the basic forms, functions and control systems of inventory.
• Use the application of the various inventory models.
• Examine the costs of inventory and their impact on a company's cash flow and use cost controls to reduce inventory.
• Identify the traditional elements and role of purchasing within the Supply Chain.
• Evaluate the factors that need to be considered in Make or Buy decisions.
• Recognise the global nature of SCM in the 21st century

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