Shaherah Glaspie
BUS 307: Operation Management & Quantitative Techniques
Instructor: Joseph Wiltrout
August 13, 2017
Case Study Although with a master production schedule in established, the capability to adjust rapidly to deviations in production can have a damaging effect on the total schedule, the MPS (master production schedule) is an efficient tool for scheduling time lines for making supplies. This proposes the quantity of inventory guaranteed to suppliers, as well as applying ideas and controlling material size in supplies to meet customer demands, and estimates a projection system for on the job targets to guarantee correct scheduling and the total of inventory that ought to be produced. The purpose of this …show more content…
I believe providing the supplier a fragmented promise of delivering an order that is not in inventory just to achieve an order of purchase is worse than declining the order due to deficiency in inventory. The base of any company should be to make sure they provide the customers with product in a time frame that suits them. There may be difficult times in business when orders can come in during a time where the manufacture is booked with extra production contracts. This business may not want to tell the client they can not take an order since a company’s main objective is to develop profits. However, to connect to the customer that they can complete the order in an acceptable timespan favorable to the sureness of when the company think the manufacture can complete the order is preferable. It keeps the company honest and the relationship between company and customers in tact. Although this may be a reason for the customer to find an alternative vendor, the rapport has not become conceded by money. For a business to do well in the long run it is important for them to be committed to meeting deadlines and to their product efficiency. It is extremely serious that companies understand how time-consuming production start and finish periods are with the manufacturer. If they are cognizant of …show more content…
The disadvantage the Japanese encountered after the earthquake and tsunami was a planned incident to guard the supply chain from this kind of catastrophe. The absence of prediction results to create a excess of inventory of vehicle parts was not thought of in the start stages of the engineering development procedure. While watching what the Lean production philosophy signifies this idea is appealing regarding avoiding waste of inventory. Later the Japanese experienced the loss of business because of a natural disaster, their unfailing strategy was to apply a security blanket to guard flexible manufacture alongside a seclusion plan that will withstand any forthcoming disturbances in respects to flexible manufacture if this disaster were to occur