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1. How does capacity planning differ in service and manufacturing organizations?

2. What is value stream mapping and how can it be applied in your organization?

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This solution discusses capacity planning and value streaming within an organizational setting.

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1. How does capacity planning differ in service and manufacturing organizations?

Before discussing the service and manufacturing organizations, one needs to define capacity planning. This is used as a means in which to keep track of supply and demand through this particular strategy. When management does this, they are able to find the balance between how goods are delivered, production of the product that is going out on the market, how labor is hired, and the output from all the employees. These do help the business to run smoothly, and prevent it from having any kind of issues from the market and non-market.

Capacity planning, however, does differ from one organization to another. For example, in an education setting, we use this by means of the human resource department, and having each discipline categorized in order to ...

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