Manufacturing Planning and Control Strategy & Design. As a member of the Mars Corporation Operations Team...

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Manufacturing Planning and Control Strategy & Design. As a member of the Mars Corporation Operations Team you have been asked to put together a plan for a new line of customized M&Ms. Customers can pick the color combinations, have words and or even photos printed on one side of the individual candies. The traditional method of manufacturing the M&Ms product line is a continuous flow process with a make-to-stock manufacturing strategy. Your job is to figure out for this new product line whether or not Mars Corporation will need to change their operations focus for this new product. Use the following questions to guide you in your analysis. A) Where in the process are customer orders placed? Based on this, what would be the ideal manufacturing method? B) Based on the manufacturing method chosen in part a, what ingredient(s)/product(s) would be forecasted? C) Based on the manufacturing method chosen in part a, what ingredient(s)/product(s) would require demand to be calculated via MRP? D) Explain the major advantages and disadvantages of this manufacturing strategy? Manufacturing Planning and Control Strategy & Design. As a member of the Mars Corporation Operations Team you have been asked to put together a plan for a new line of customized M&Ms. Customers can pick the color combinations, have words and or even photos printed on one side of the individual candies. The traditional method of manufacturing the M&Ms product line is a continuous flow process with a make-to-stock manufacturing strategy. Your job is to figure out for this new product line whether or not Mars Corporation will need to change their operations focus for this new product. Use the following questions to guide you in your analysis. A) Where in the process are customer orders placed? Based on this, what would be the ideal manufacturing method? B) Based on the manufacturing method chosen in part a, what ingredient(s)/product(s) would be forecasted? C) Based on the manufacturing method chosen in part a, what ingredient(s)/product(s) would require demand to be calculated via MRP? D) Explain the major advantages and disadvantages of this manufacturing strategy?

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