Product-Oriented Layouts Tend to Have High Levels of Work-In-Process Inventories

question 270

True/False

Product-oriented layouts tend to have high levels of work-in-process inventories.

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Improve Operations

Strategies or actions undertaken to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of business operations.

Operations Decisions

The strategic decisions of OM are goods and service design, quality, process and capacity design, location selection, layout design, human resources and job design, supply chain management, inventory, scheduling, and maintenance.

Goods and Services

Products and activities that fulfill the needs or wants of consumers, with goods being tangible items and services being intangible offerings.

Operations Strategies

Plans and policies designed to achieve the efficient and effective production and distribution of a company's products or services.