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Learning Team-D Reflection
Operations Management, OPS/571
Introduction
The reflections for this week’s class as well as team discussions were to select a manufacturing (Jos A. Banks) the team member are familiar with. Team D reviews the company's website and other available information and answer the following: What type of process design do they use: Make to Order, Make to Stock, or Batch? What are two items regarding the manufacturing process related to the organization that the team finds unique or interesting?
Jos A. Banks Manufacture
The last of the Jos A. Banks Company's in the United States plants closed in the 1990's; however, they have been able to continue to grow and expand the business by opening retail locations across the country in virtually every state by now. They outsource their manufacturing to plants across the world and the products are shipped into the United States. Jos A. Banks is known for men’s-dress suits of high quality, tailored and casual menswear to choose from their collection, such as suits, sportswear, and dress shirts (Banks, 2013).
Make-to-Stock
The process design of Make-to-Stock products and services are designed and produced for "standard" customers in anticipation of demand. Shelves are prestocked with the items, and customers choose from among the products or services that are available for purchase. Further, Banks manufacture design and produce products that are sold into a marketplace.
This manufacturer creates their own engineering drawings, maintains quality systems for their process design product they produce, such as stock raw materials, work in progress, and finished sub-assemblies, and finished products (Banks, 2013). However, all inventories have value, and finished goods are made only from customer orders. Bank's manufacturing process as it seems they have stepped out of the nuts...