Mass Production
Mass Production
A business system developed early in the 20th century to organize and manage product development, production operations, purchasing, and customer relations. Typically: • The design process is sequential rather than simultaneous.
• The production process has a rigid hierarchy with jobs divided into thinking/planning and doing.
• The product is taken to the process rather than the reverse.
• Suppliers work-to-print after selection through bids for piece prices rather than total cost to the customer.
• Materials are delivered infrequently in large batches.
• Information is managed through high-level systems instructing each production step what to do next and pushing products downstream.
• Customers often are subject to push selling to meet quotas and clear inventories produced to erroneous forecasts.
A business system developed early in the 20th century to organize and manage product development, production operations, purchasing, and customer relations. Typically: • The design process is sequential rather than simultaneous.
• The production process has a rigid hierarchy with jobs divided into thinking/planning and doing.
• The product is taken to the process rather than the reverse.
• Suppliers work-to-print after selection through bids for piece prices rather than total cost to the customer.
• Materials are delivered infrequently in large batches.
• Information is managed through high-level systems instructing each production step what to do next and pushing products downstream.
• Customers often are subject to push selling to meet quotas and clear inventories produced to erroneous forecasts.
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