Ops 571 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection, Week 3

Team D

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Learning Team Reflection, Week 3: Team D

Production planning is a critical component in a restaurant industry to ensure the business has the items on the menu ready and available for the customers. The customer will place a food order with a resource working for the company, the chef will prepare the meal, and the server will serve the customers the food. In fast food restaurants, the organization prepares and serves from a little different. The customer still picks an item from the menu, but the customer service representative will take the order and give the food to the customer (Jacobs & Chase, 2010, Chapter 16).

These types of companies us a chase strategy, which continuously matches capacity with changing levels of...