Essays Tagged: "product structure"

MRP (Material Requirements Planning) in the Third World. Article first refers to different manufacturing environments and the difficulties posed by them.

lourish, both in the literature and on the shop floor. It was quickly recognized that a MPS (Master Production Schedule) must drive the material plans generated by MRP. In its most simplistic form, MP ... the configuration of a matched set of parts that MRP would subsequently plan at lower levels of the production system. MPS therefore managed independent demands on the production system while MRP mana ...

(7 pages) 138 1 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Wal-Marts organizational structure consists of a divisional structure

sists of a divisional structure. A divisional structure has three different categories in which are product structure, market structure, and geographic structure. Wal-Mart falls under market structure ... sign of Wal-Mart both helps and hinders its organizational goals. Its strengths are that they offer products of all different types to satisfy a vas array of customers or you could call it a one-stop ...

(2 pages) 355 1 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management