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What is the main focus of strategic capacity planning?
What is the main focus of strategic capacity planning?
- Achieving a match between long-term supply capabilities and predicted levels of long-term demand (correct)
- Achieving a match between short-term supply capabilities and expected demand
- Achieving a balance between equipment and employee skills
- Achieving the maximum output rate in a short time span
What is design capacity?
What is design capacity?
- The expected demand for a product or service
- The upper limit of an operation's capacity, considering allowances like personal time and maintenance
- The maximum upper limit or ceiling that an operating unit can handle
- The output rate or service capacity for which a process or facility is designed (correct)
What is a bottleneck operation?
What is a bottleneck operation?
- An operation that is not subject to capacity constraints
- An operation with higher capacity than the other operations
- An operation that does not limit the performance of a process or system
- An operation with lower capacity than other operations in a sequence (correct)
What are economies of scale?
What are economies of scale?
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What are the long-term capacity needs concerned with?
What are the long-term capacity needs concerned with?
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What is the capacity cushion?
What is the capacity cushion?
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What is a constraint in capacity planning?
What is a constraint in capacity planning?
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What is effective capacity?
What is effective capacity?
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What are diseconomies of scale?
What are diseconomies of scale?
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What are short-term capacity needs mainly concerned with?
What are short-term capacity needs mainly concerned with?
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