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Production Management: It's Meaning, Definition, Function and Scope
Production Management: It's Meaning, Definition, Function and Scope
(ii) Essentially stems from the first, namely, the development of the large
corporation with many owners and the necessity to hire people to operate the
business,
(iii) Stems from the work of many of the pioneers of scientific management who
were able to demonstrate the value, from a performance and profit point of view,
of some of the techniques they were developing.
Definition of Production Management:
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It is observed that one cannot demarcate the beginning and end points of
Production Management in an establishment. The reason is that it is interrelated
with many other functional areas of business, viz., marketing, finance, industrial
relation policies etc.
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It is evident from above definitions that production planning and its control are
the main characteristics of production management. In the case of poor planning
and control of production activities the organization may not be able to attain its
objectives and may result in loss of customer’s confidence and retardation in the
progress of the establishment.
(ii) Product design and development to determine the production process for
transforming the input factors into output of goods and services.
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(iii) Implementation of the plan and related activities to produce the desired
output.
selection of location,
acquisition of land,
constructing building,
purchasing and storing raw materials and converting them into saleable
products.
Added to the above are other related topics
maintenance management,
Outputs: Outputs are the products or completed parts resulting from the
conversion process. The output generates revenue.
Storage: Storage takes place after the receipt of inputs, between one operation
and the other and after the output.
Transportation: Inputs are transporting from one operation to another in the
production process.
Information: It provides system control through measurement, comparison,
feedback, and corrective action.
Production Manager:
8 Major Responsibilities of a
Production Manager
Some of the major responsibilities of a production manager are: (1)
Production planning (2) Production control (3) Quality control (4) Method
analysis (5) Inventory control (6) Plant layout (7) Work measurement and
(8) Other functions:
(1) Production planning:
Production planning is the first function performed by the production
manager.
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