GMS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Automatic Identification System, Radio-Frequency Identification, Mass Customization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 401
• Professor: Kalinga Jagoda

Document Summary

Process strategy: an organizations approach to transforming resources into goods and services: process focus, repetitive focus: product oriented production process that uses modules. Modules: parts or components previously made for a product: product focus: a facility organized around products; product oriented, high volume, low variety process, mass customization: rapid, low cost production that caters to constantly changing unique customer desires. The requirements to achieve mass customization are repetitive focus, product focus, and process focus. Built to order: producing to customers orders rather then forecasting it. Postponement: the delay of any modifications or customization to a product as long as possible in the production process. Challenges: product design must be imaginative, process design must be flexible and bale to accommodate changes in both design and technology, inventory management requires tight control, tight schedules, responsive supply chain partner. Process focus: a production facility organized around processes to facilitate low volume, high variety production.