Briefly describe a business you are familiar with and explain how it might use each of the five ways to adjust its short-term capacity levels.
The capacity of an operation is the maximum level of value added activity over a period of time that the process can achieve under normal operating conditions. In the short term, capacity planning concerns issues of scheduling, labor shifts, and balancing resource capacities. The goal of short-term capacity planning is to handle unexpected shifts in demand in an efficient economic manner. The time frame for short-term planning is frequently only a few days but may run as long as six months.
I just want to give an example of a hospital. Here are the five ways to adjust short-term capacity levels.
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Briefly describe an organization with which you are familiar. Describe a situation when a manager in that organization could use cost behavior information and how the manager could use the information.
1.Briefly describe an organization with which you are familiar. Describe a situation when a manager in that organization could use cost behavior information and how the manager could use the information
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