Balancing Demand & Productive Capacity in Service Operations
Helps service companies to gain a competitive edge over others
Description
Balancing Demand & Productive Capacity in Service Operations helps service companies to gain a competitive edge over others in the market as if there is anything that makes a customer move on to your competitor, then it is poor and slow service, having to wait in queue, and being disappointed at not getting served.
For efficient, effective, and economical operation of services of an organization, it is essential to integrate the demand management and productive capacity planning system. Managing demand and productive capacity planning follow adaption of service features and finalization of a price strategy, resource planning during changes in demand.
Managing demand and productive capacity planning addresses a fundamental problem of low service throughput, inventory management, and resource utilization. Managing demand and productive capacity planning are essential for customer delight and overall success of a service organization.
Productive Capacity Planning is required for service delivery, quality management, inventory management, resource management, and equipment management. Productive Capacity Planning ensures that service team can meet the required demand levels through optimum utilization of resources, quality management, and cost savings.
Services may require more than one step to be delivered to the customers. Also, many times, this sequential delivery places a constraint on the service provider’s capacity to deliver services to multiple consumers who may arrive at once.
It is obvious that the profitability of a service company depends upon its productive capacity or the number of consumers it can serve. Thus, it is crucial that’s service companies should learn to manage elements of its productive capacity such as its physical facilities, equipment, personnel, or the number of services provided in order to fulfil the demand.
What You Will Learn!
- Describe Managing Demand in Service Operations
- Explain Factors Affecting Day-to-Day Service Operations
- List Causes of Variations in Demand
- Explain Patterns of Demand
- List Benefits of Managing Demand in Service Operations
- Explain The Excess Demand to Excess Capacity Continuum
- Explain What is meant by Productive Capacity
- Describe Functions of Demand Management
- Explain Steps for Managing Demand in Service Operations
- Explain Strategies to Manage Demand
- Explain Waiting Line (Queue) Management
- Describe Problems of a Waiting Line
- Explain Characteristics of a Queue System
- Describe Role of Aggregate Planning in Managing Demand
- Describe Role of Manager in Managing Demand
Who Should Attend!
- Service operations staff
- Analysts
- Managers
- Operations managers