Success in operations drives better products and services, increased range of product capability, better supply relationships and heightened customer satisfaction due to high quality performance. All of these attributes

A company has redesigned their packaging and saving tons of plastic annually. This is best understood as an example of

A company has decided to redesign a product＇s overall value chain to eliminate some cost producing activities. This product is currently within their broad differentiation strategy product group. This product is likely moving to

A company with a product differentiation strategy is focused on

Technology advances frequently increase competitive circumstances compete with enhanced features and functions, this typically leads to

Locating a customer＇s operation within a supplier＇s facility will

Once a company has identified a cost-based competitive advantage using value chain analysis and benchmarking

A new facility designed to be dictated to providing just one family of product

A steel manufacturer changed their process from using a few large coke-fueled ovens to using many small electronic arc furnaces. Thus reducing product costs considerably. The is an example of

A company has researched expanding capacity by designing and acquiring the largest machine of its type in the industry even though there is thought to be excess capacity already. A new facility is also scheduled, rather than an expansion of the existing building, to house business teams and marketing, this is an examples of

Successfully incentivizing employees in a labor paced environment to exceed scheduled output within scheduled time is an example of an employee wage policy