| Under construction Manufacturing
Internal vs outsourcing
Ø Trade-offs of initial capital investment vs. long term control of margin
Ø Is anything in the manufacturing process a core competitive advantage?
Capacity planning:
Ø Need to decide build to plan or build to order
Ø Complex issue involving questions of
o time to deliver,
o cost of excess capacity,
o cost of inventory
o perishability of demand
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Operations mangement |