Strategic Planning for Production Capacity
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
ISSN: 0144-3577
Article publication date: 1 May 1993
Abstract
Capacity is generally considered only in one sense – to provide the means for producing a product or service. Defines capacity as serving two functions – to provide the means for producing a long‐run, stable level of a good or service, and to provide the means to adapt to fluctuations in demand over the short run and intermediate runs. Given this definition, develops the implications for strategic capacity planning and offers a model for firms to carry out this planning. Presents examples of where this model has been followed and discusses the implications.
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Citation
Jack Hammesfahr, R.D., Pope, J.A. and Ardalan, A. (1993), "Strategic Planning for Production Capacity", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 13 No. 5, pp. 41-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443579310028166
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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