Chh 8 Vocabulary

The resources----such as labor, money, materials, and energy---that are converted into outputs.

• inventory

• inputs

• operations

• routing

The making of identical, interchangeable components or products

• routing

• supply chain

• Standardization

• purchasing

The maximum load that an organizational unit can carry or operate

• customizing

• routing

• capacity

• inputs

A technique usoing smaller quantities of material for use in the transformation process and therefore require less storage space.

• material requirements planning

• opoerations management

• process layout

• Just-iin-time

The activities and processes used in making tangible products; also called production.

• Just-in-time

• material requirements

• Manufacturing

• process layout

The buying of all the materials needed bny the organization also called procurement

• Scheduling

• Routing

• Purchasing

• Supply Chain

The process an organization uses to maintain its established quality standards

• Quality Control

• Routing

• Scheduling

• Production

A layout that organizes the transformation process into departments that are group-related

• function

• process

• product

• fixed-position

A layout that brings all resources required to create a product to a central location

• fixed-position

• process

• product

• functional

The assignment of required tasks to departments or even specific machines, workers, or teams

• routing

• scheduling

• purchasing

• manufacturing