Production & Operations Management Case Study

Headquarters

Eugene duct Manufacturing Eugene and Paris ducts Hand held barcode readers, high speed position industrial scanner, and retail check out scanner
Employees Pr Pr

1200 worldwide

Product Utility

To control entire supply chain there are : 1. Suppliers 2. Production 3. Warehousing 4. Distribution 5. Retail sales and service 6. Customer

Operations
Forecasting- Forecasting is not a significant activity in PSC due to many reasons. High standardization of the product Short lead time Small order Product design- Adopted a Taguchi approach Layout- Production layout consist of assembly line and work centre Production process- Combination of assembly line and batch processing

Next Phase
Scheduling- It is done to generate materials requirement plans. An update master schedule is distributed daily to management Inventory- Variety of methods for inventory management uses by PSC, and always try to reduce the inventory cost. Suppliers- 40 vendors supply parts and materials to PSC, vendors performance is tracked on product quality, delivery and service Quality- quality is strongly emphasized at PSC, they trained employees on quality concept and quality control technique.

Lean Production
PSCs emphasis on High level of quality Production flexibility Low levels of inventories Flat organization structure workers are multi-skilled Pay for skill enhancing program

Business Strategy
Includes. I. Anticipating customer demand II. Expansion III. Acquisition