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Agribusiness
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Operations Management | processes used by food and agribusiness firms to produce goods and services |
| Enterprise requirement planning(ERP) | connecting manufacturing systems with finance, CRM(Customer Relationship Management), human resources, and supply chain management |
| What are some operations management issues? | Growing service sector, time-based competition, productivity, global competition & sourcing, and quality |
| What are the costs of maintaining quality? | prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, external failure costs |
| Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) | basic premise is to prevent food safely problems rather than control them |
| Food Safety Modernization Act | new safety regulations from farm to store |
| What are some Ag issues with operations management? | Seasonality, perishable, and variability |
| Production Planning | aspect of operations management covering the following activities |
| What are six factors that affect location decision during production planning? | Proximity to raw materials, location of markets, labor climate, agglomeration, taxes and incentives, and proximity to other facilities in the company |
| What is capacity as it relates to production planning? | activities that are undertaken to determine the appropriate size of a manufacturing plant or service location |
| What is layout as it relates to production planning? | specific design of the physical arrangement within a facility |
| What is process design as it relates to production planning? | selecting specific inputs, operations, and methods to produce the good or service |
| What is job design as it relates to production planning? | broad set of activities that determine the tasks and responsibilities of each employer's job, their work environment, and their tasks |
| What are the production planning capacity factors? | economies of scale, flexibility, seasonality, fluctuations in demand |
| What are the types of layouts for production planning? | process layout, product layout, hybrid(mix of both) |
| What is process layout? | arranging everything by function |
| What is product layout? | produces one product at a time, step-by-step |