capacity

Examples of capacity in the following topics:

• Capacity Planning

  • Capacity planning revolves around answering the question "How much?
  • When making capacity decisions, managers must answer the simple question, "How much?"
  • Long-term capacity decisions involve facilities and major equipment investments .
  • Capacity decisions are also required in short-term situations.
  • The question managers must answer for capacity decisions is simply "How much?"

• Capacity decisions

  • The question managers must answer for the capacity decision area is the same as the question for inventory: "How much?
  • " Determining the organization's capacity to produce goods and services involves both long-term and short-term decisions.
  • Long-term capacity decisions involve facilities and major equipment investments.
  • A large single airplane like the Super Jumbo may not be the right capacity decision for an airline that serves numerous medium sized cities.
  • Capacity decisions also involve short-term situations.

• The Five Cs of Credit

  • Capacity to repay, capital, collateral, conditions, and character, are referred to as the "Five Cs of Credit".
  • Capacity to repay is the most critical of the five factors.

• What is operations management?

  • In another example, the owners of a restaurant must make important decisions regarding the location, layout, and seating capacity of the restaurant, the hiring, training, and scheduling of chefs and servers, the suppliers of fresh food at the right prices, and the purchase of stoves, refrigerators, and other food preparation equipment.

• One of three strategic functions

  • For example, JetBlue locates ("location" is an operations decision area) its main transportation hub in New York City, a city of 19 million people that helps ensure that JetBlue's planes fly at full capacity.
  • The Airbus 330 has high passenger carrying capacity (to maximize revenue), provides good fuel economy and requires only two pilots (versus three) to operate.

• Reasons for entering international markets

• The economic environment

  • A nation's economic situation represents its current and potential capacity to produce goods and services.

• Strategic versus tactical operations decisions

  • Strategic operations decisions include facility location decisions, the type of technologies that the organization will use, determining how labor and equipment are organized, and how much long-term capacity the organization will provide to meet customer demand.

• Inventory decisions

  • Major operations decisions areas include inventory, capacity, quality, scheduling, process type, technology, location, layout, and supply chain management.

• The Freemium Model

  • Capacity limited (e.g. for an accounts package, can only be used to read a limited number of article, Harvard Business Review)