Agile production management: an analysis of capacity decisions and order-fulfilment time

Resource management is an important part of any production system, especially when building agility in the manufacturing of the company. Cost accounting systems drive the resource decisions between capacity and order-fulfilment time. The analysis shows that all unused capacity is not non-productive capacity. The managerial implication is to analyse the costs and value of lead-time.

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