Defined OM as is a body of knowledge, experience and techniques covering such topics as process design, layout, production planning, inventory control, quality management and control, capacity planning and workforce management’

Hospitality MPOs job shops include

Identified that a hotel as a largely a CPO

1. refers to a single, fixed position at which the product is assembled or service is processed by workers who move to that position to carry out their work.

Has machinery dedicated to a particular product, usually laid out in a sequence, with distinct stages in manufacture. Workers are usually required to perform relatively simple tasks at one particular stage in the process.

has machines or activities grouped together non-sequentially to allow a range of different products to be made. Products move to a particular location for processing according to need.

Theory that proposed that there should be a trade-off between the volume of production or the variety as illustrated

This Theory holds that the swifter and even the flow of materials through the process, the more productive

Materials processing operation MPO