- After listening to me, read chapter 11 and apply the textbook material to my lecture?
From your lecture, I have known more fully to the concept of strategic capacity planning.
- to be able to have successful strategic capacity planning you have to be concern all aspects of production factors which include, resources, facilities, equipment and labor force. Moreover, to have the best operating level in your industry you need to understand the level of economies and diseconomies of scale by using the average unit cost of output curve, if you are able to reach the best operating level that’s mean you are able to produce and increase capacity and manage according to the pull demand of your customers needs.
- Firm should improve their production method by having more experience and manage more about waste also reduce their cost. Furthermore, to be competitive in the near future firm should have a good decision making this also involve three steps of determining capacity requirement. Facility Location site also an important factor to have competitive advantage to service and delivery product to customers in time to achieve customer satisfactions, improve product cycle and speed, this also reflect the product to have reasonable prices because you could save your cost of transportation when the facility location is reasonable.
- Applying to Thailand
As we know Thailand main export product is agriculture product and earn lots of money for the country, however at this very moment we are losing our competitive advantage due to the lacks of technology and quality of human capital ( Thai’s farmers are lack of specific knowledge). This include the ability to use the resource as the highest efficient which we might fail in this because of the limited knowledge. In my own opinion from learning strategic capacity planning I think we should improve our human resources which this will also improve the infrastructure or manage resource better, to be able to use in long term and substantial. Moreover,the government should support more about education. Determine capacity requirement is also an good strategy to apply to Thai agricultural; to forecast sales or in another word to forecast our resources to meet customer demand, to use labor efficiently by adopting technology to eliminate waste of production and to plan ahead in long term.