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Can you please give me a three reasons why the flow of materials and the flow of control information should be analyzed together, at the same time.

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Can you please give me three reasons why the flow of materials and the flow of control information should be analyzed together, at the same time?

Flow of material means flow of material to the manufacturing process to convert the raw material into the finished product. Flow of material contains four parts:
a. Plan for every part of material.
b. Finding out the market for the every part of material.
c. Designing the delivery routes.
d. Integrating the material handling system with the flow of control information system.

Flow of control information means information about the requirements of material, labor, machinery and equipment and other resources for the production and the availability of those resources to ensure that the material is supplied at the right place, at ...

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